Welcome to Moskoff-Media News & Information. We will be adding posts with information of interest regarding the Temple Mount and the progress of the Mapping the Ark docufilm.

A Jewish Tribune Article, Written by Josh Green, featured Hirshel Moskoff’s new docu-drama, Mapping of the Ark –The Ultimate Quest. The Ark of the Covenant, the most treasured, sought-after ‘prize’ of all time is has not moved in over 2,500 years. The new docu-drama explains the issues, reveals the location of the Temple, and demonstrates how the secrets beneath the earth hold the key to Jewish sovereignty. Harry Moskoff, patent attorney by day, and archeological researcher by night, is creating this film to show clearly the evidence behind the exact location of the Ark.

Mapping the Ark - Where is the Temple Ark?

The article discusses how Moskoff has compiled compiling topographical, archaeological, historical and biblical information about the whereabouts of the Temple Ark. The information Moskoff gathered became the evidence that helped him form his theory. He has written a highly technical research paper, complete with maps and diagrams.

To read this artlicle, see Ark seeker develops theory, works on docudrama

by Hillel Fendel, Arutz 7

Dr. Gabi Barkai, senior lecturer at Bar Ilan University and recipient of the Jerusalem Prize for Archaeology, says Israelis must demand that Israeli antiquities law be enforced at Israel’s most important archaeological site– the Temple Mount.

“It is the most important site in the world for the Jewish people,” Barkai told Benny Tucker of Arutz Sheva’s Hebrew newsmagazine in a Jerusalem Day interview, “as well as the most important archaeological site in Israel, and despite all this, Israel has abandoned it. Over the past ten years, the Waqf has taken control, making major changes in the status quo: It has conducted illegal digs, built mosques and the like, and the situation has changed from one extreme to the other.”

Islamic digging on the Temple Mount

“Some years ago,” he said, “they took 400 truckloads of dirt from the Temple Mount and dumped it into the Kidron Valley – totally illegally. This is dirt that is filled with Jewish history from many periods: the Canaanites, the First Temple, the period of the return to Zion [from Babylonia], the Second Temple, including the Hashmonaim period and King Herod, and up to now. Over the past several years, we have been sifting through the dirt. This is of course not the optimum way to perform archaeology, because you need context, layers and the like, but this is the best we can do in light of these barbaric digs, and we are trying to get the most out of it. Jerusalem is filled with archaeological digs, but the most important site has never been done; this dirt is the only source we have.”

Barkai explained that despite the conditions, “We have made thousands of amazing finds that have changed the way we understand that period.”

Asked later to elaborate, he told Israel National News, “For instance, we have found many small floor tiles, of different colors, which confirm the Talmud’s description of the floor of the Second Temple as being reminiscent of the ocean.”

Other finds have included fragments of stone decorated with ornaments known to be from the Second Temple Period, arrowheads from Nebuchadnezzar’s army and also from the Romans, as well as coins and decorations from many periods. Among the most exciting finds were bullae (seal rings), ostracons written in ancient Hebrew script, seals, and more.

The “Screening the Waste” project is being carried out in Emek Tzurim, to where the dirt was transferred. Emek Tzurim is located above the Kidron Valley northeast of the Old City wall, part of the National Park around the walls of Jerusalem, and the project is being conducted under the auspices of the National Parks Authority, sponsored by the Elad (a Hebrew acronym of “To the City of David”) Association.

“We demand that the law regarding antiquities be enforced,” Barkai said, “and our sovereignty be activated there. These are cultural assets for which we have a tremendous responsibility towards future generations… I would like to see the removal of all the Waqf’s heavy equipment, and I would like to see the Waqf observe the law; the Israel Antiquities Authority must be allowed to always be on site to supervise, and not have to come in various disguises and the like.”

Barkai explained that in addition to building mosques on the site, the Moslems clearly have the goal of detaching Israel from its past and Holy Temple connections: “They wish to undermine Jewish ownership and bonds to the Temple Mount. They’ve built a giant mosque there in Solomon’s Stables [under the Temple Mount] and another one nearby – but aside from that, they have an ideological goal which is even making inroads to naïve circles in the west, and it is called ‘Holy Temple denial.’ They act as if there never was a Holy Temple. This is very very grave; regarding the Holocaust, there are living people who still remember it, but the same cannot be said regarding the Temple…”

“We must demand that Israeli law and sovereignty be enforced on the Temple Mount,” Barkai concluded. (IsraelNationalNews.com)

by INN Staff, Arutz 7

PM Benyamin Netanyahu at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva on Jerusalem Day 2010

(Israelnationalnews.com) Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu attended the annual Jerusalem Day celebration at the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva in Kiryat Moshe, Jerusalem. In his speech, which was accompanied by applause whenever he talked about Jerusalem, Netanyahu stressed the importance of Jerusalem and the unbroken connection of the Jewish people to the city, quoting the verse from Isaiah 62: “For Zion’s sake I will not be silent and for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be still, until her righteousness emerges as a shining light and her salvation burns like a torch.”

His warmly-received speech was silghtly marred when he said, “You wish to strengthen me, but there is really no need. I am very strong… Perhaps I can strengthen you.”

To the Yeshiva head, Rabbi Yaakov Shapira, who encouraged him to be strong in facing the pressure of other nations and be strengthened by the support he sees at the yeshiva, the PM answered: “I am grateful for your support and your desire to strengthen me, but it is not necessary. We come from the same roots. My grandfather was a close friend of Rabbi Kook, for whom the yeshiva is named. After all, our past is what molds our future. Let us strengthen one another.”

The Prime Minister continued: “The battle for Jerusalem is a battle for truth. With us is someone who was with me this evening and asked to come here with me, Professor Alan Dershowitz, who fights for our truth. our way of life, and is himself a yeshiva graduate.” After the ensuing applause, the PM continued:

“There can be no justice without truth and if there is a perversion of justice vis a vis our city and nation, it means the truth has been perverted, because the truth is that Jerusalem is our city and we never compromised on that,” he said, “not after the destruction of the First Holy Temple, nor after the destruction of the Second. We were a majority in the city until the 9th century and we returned 2000 years later and witnessed the city’s destruction once again.”

There is no other nation that feels this deeply about a city.  Yet there is no other nation that has allowed such complete freedom of worship to other religions in this city. We will continue to build Jerusalem, a city that is full of life.”

The packed audience, including hundreds on the street outside the yeshiva who watched the event on a large screen, burst into applause and song.

Since the first year of Jerusalem’s liberation and reunification 43 years ago, the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva holds a major event on the eve of Jerusalem Day. The Chief Rabbis, other prominent rabbis, Mayor, Ministers, MK’s and other public figures attend the evening. At the end of the speeches and song, the entire yeshiva sings and dances its way to the Western Wall in the middle of the night.

The Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Rav Sheer Yashuv Cohen, described the first minutes at the Western Wall in 1967 when a jeep carrying his father, the Nazir Hayerushalmi (ascetic Rabbi) and Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook zt”l rushed to the wall and Rabbi Goren zt”l blew the shofar there for the first time. Former MK Chanan Porat, who was in the paratroop corps and took part in the liberation of Jerusalem, told how religious and non religious soldiers shouted the “Shma Yisrael” (Hear O Israel) prayer at the wall..

The Speaker of the Knesset, MK Ruby Rivlin spoke at the start of the event, saying “Over the last year, Jerusalem has lost many supporters. It worries me that Jerusalem Day is becoming a holiday for the knitted skullcap crowd alone. Today, some Zionist political parties who spoke of united Jerusalem until a short while ago, are now seeing the city as a problem and obstacle to our continued existence here. The same politicians who voted laws protecting Jerusalem into effect are now looking for loopholes in those same laws that will allow them to raise their hand against Jerusalem.

“Today, Jerusalem doesn’t know who is on her side and who is against her, who are her builders and who are her looters, who is truly faithful to her and who is just using her for his own ends.”

“Today it is clear that a unified Jerusalem under Jewish sovereignty is not a given. We have reached the stage where the world claims that we have stolen the city and wants us to turn the clock back 43 years. It is clearer than ever that a people whose loyalty is fickle will find that its existence is limited, G-d forbid. Zionism without Zion, without Jerusalem, is an empty shell. Our ability to withstand attacks on Jerusalem depends a great deal on our  resolve and patience, on our ability to bide our time until the sword that is drawn over the city is removed.”

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By Ksenia Svetlova, The Jerusalem Post

A tour of the Temple Mount reveals the rumbling beneath the holy site’s deceptively calm surface

The Old City didn’t look any different the morning after the Annapolis summit. Religious Jews were praying at the Western Wall and groups of tourists were streaming through the narrow streets, snapping photos and looking for bargains. A couple of wedding processions came for a huppa at the Wall. A prayer call was sounded from one of Al-Aksa’s minarets. All in all, one of the world’s most contested and charged places, an area whose fate had been discussed just a few hours earlier in a remote city, was unbelievably peaceful and quiet. Even the presence of the police and security checks at the gates didn’t seem disturbing or alarming.

Preparing to enter the Temple Mount, I wondered how genuine and stable this quiet really was. And what was hiding behind the still water appearance?

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World renowned author and activist Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, took out full page ads in major American newspapers to express his views on the city of Jerusalem. Here are his words as published in The International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal on April 16, 2010 and in The New York Times on April 18, 2010:

“It was inevitable: Jerusalem once again is at the center of political debates and international storms. New and old tensions surface at a disturbing pace. Seventeen times destroyed and seventeen times rebuilt, it is still in the middle of diplomatic confrontations that could lead to armed conflict. Neither Athens nor Rome has aroused that many passions.

For me, the Jew that I am, Jerusalem is above politics. It is mentioned more than six hundred times in Scripture — and not a single time in the Koran. Its presence in Jewish history is overwhelming. There is no more moving prayer in Jewish history than the one expressing our yearning to return to Jerusalem. To many theologians, it IS Jewish history, to many poets, a source of inspiration. It belongs to the Jewish people and is much more than a city, it is what binds one Jew to another in a way that remains hard to explain. When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming. The first song I heard was my mother’s lullaby about and for Jerusalem. Its sadness and its joy are part of our collective memory.

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Advertising Standards Authority wants tourism ads showing holy site removed because it implies ‘occupied territories are part of Israel’

Ynet

The British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) criticized Israel for including pictures of the Western Wall in a tourism advertisement, claiming that the holy site is technically not located within the country’s borders, the Independent reported Wednesday.

“We told the Israeli Tourist Office not to imply that places in the Occupied Territories were part of the state of Israel,” ASA, which is a public organization but not government-funded, said in a statement.

It was not the first time the organization had been called upon by the British public to remove Israeli ads. One year ago ASA ordered the Israeli Tourism Ministry to remove posters displaying a map of Israel that included the West Bank and the Golan Heights within its borders from London’s Underground, after receiving 300 letters of protest.

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