Archaeology, Heritage and Ethics in the Western Wall Plaza, Jerusalem: Darkness at the End of the Tunnel

Cover\nHalf Title\nSeries Information\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nTable of contents\n1 Journey to East Jerusalem – an introduction\n	1.1 Inspectors, entrepreneurs and archaeologists: the ‘status meetings’\n	Notes\n2 Antiquities in the toilets – the Strauss Building\n	2.1 Introduction\n	2.2 The Israel Antiquities Authority does not want to excavate\n	2.3 The IAA pretends to request an excavation\n	2.4 Overcoming objections to the plan\n	2.5 Construction under ‘close’ inspection\n	2.6 The Antiquities are in the toilets\n	2.7 Summary\n	Notes\n3 Wild Western Wall Tunnels – The Davidson Centre and the Archaeological Park\n	3.1 Introduction\n	3.2 The legal status of the Davidson Centre\n	3.3 The IAA protects the Davidson Centre\n	3.4 The IAA introduces El-Ad to the Davidson Centre through a sewage tunnel\n	3.5 The IAA and El-Ad in a tunnel along the Western Wall\n	3.6 Additional projects: all the remains are ‘ours’\n	3.7 Summary\n	Notes\n4 A museum for Jewish prayer in a Mamluk bathhouse – the Ohel Yitzhak Synagogue\n	4.1 Ohel Yitzhak Synagogue and building plan 5480\n	4.2 Area C and the archaeological museum\n	4.3 A museum is not enough: we also need tunnels\n	4.4 Principles for the museum – not for the entrepreneur’s knowledge\n	4.5 The museum programme\n	4.6 Sensitive tunnelling\n	4.7 Second Temple or Early Roman?\n	4.8 A museum for no-matter-what\n	4.9 The entrepreneur tries ‘to make the bathhouse disappear’\n	4.10 Archaeology as background scenery\n	4.11 The ‘inspection mode’ of excavating\n	4.12 The sensory experience of perfect unity\n	Notes\n5 An archaeological site with depth – the Ha-Liba Building\n	5.1 Introduction\n	5.2 Advance assurance of construction\n	5.3 The fate of ‘late’ remains\n	5.4 The conservators excavate\n	5.5 Who took the finds?\n	5.6 Pillars or Cardo – what will the public see?\n	5.7 The IAA supports a maximal building\n	5.8 What is important to the IAA\n	5.9 Summary\n	Notes\n6 The comprehensive plan for the Western Wall Plaza\n	6.1 Comprehensive planning, or ‘throwing dust in their eyes’?\n	6.2 The ‘pilot’\n	6.3 Preparing for a mega-project, or tossing dust in the eyes?\n	6.4 The IAA mobilizes to approve the comprehensive plan\n	6.5 Archaeological implications\n	Notes\n7 Lingua Orientalis Hierosolimitanae\n	Notes\n8 Pilegesh at Givati – Little Tel Aviv in East Jerusalem\n	Notes\n9 The ethics of East Jerusalem\n	9.1 Legal aspects\n	9.2 Ethics and apologetics: the tunnelling\n	9.3 More apologetics\n	9.4 Professional ethics are human ethics\n	Notes\n10 Conclusions\n	Notes\nAppendix\nBibliography\nIndex