JERUSALEM - Engineering tests conducted by the Antiquities Authority on the southern wall of the Temple Mount have proven conclusively that sections of the wall are in the intermediate stages of collapse, likely due to Wakf construction work over past years at Solomon's Stables just above the site.
The authority conducted the tests over the last six months after sections of the southern wall surrounding the Temple Mount were seen protruding. The center of the deformation, which extends 190 square meters, is 30 meters west of the southeastern corner of the wall, and 9.5 meters from the top of the wall.
"If not treated, the problem is a source of danger in the medium-term (in a range of a number of years), and its collapse may cause irreversible damage to the structure," states the Antiquities Authority's July survey obtained by The Jerusalem Post.
