Orly Binur

Orly Binur was a grad student in archaeology. As part of her studies, she worked on a long term project near the Temple Mount under Yoram Louvish. She had hooked-up with Eric Katz, a Jewish-American archeologist also working on the project.

Louvish quietly invited Binur and Katz along with Israeli-Arab Munir al-Nuwayhi to work on an irregular if not illegal dig under the Temple Mount. A hidden tunnel had been dug from a passageway to the Western Wall that went deep into the lower levels of the Mount. At the end of the tunnel Binur and Katz noticed something strange which turned out to be old stonework. Al-Nuwayhi identified the style as dating from before the Babylonian conquest making it from the period of the First Temple.