[Jerusalem Post] Abe Selig - The chief site engineer for the Western Wall tunnels, Ofer Cohen, declared on Thursday that Israeli archeological excavations were not being done under the Temple Mount, were in no way detrimental to the structural stability of the mount or its surroundings, and were actually improving such stability "tenfold." During a tour of the tunnels, participants saw a series of huge steel beams that had been set up to prevent the walls from caving in. "To those who say that our work here is causing structural instability, the exact opposite is true," Cohen said.
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