This evening, there will be a gala event at the Roman amphitheatre at Beth Guvrin, in which the campaign to found an Institute of Biblical Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University will be inaugarated. There are plans to raise ca. $50 million dollars for this project, and hopefully, within the next 5 years this will be a reality. For those interested, there will be live web-tv broadcast of the event, which can be seen on the French language news page about Israel "Guysen" - go to this webpage and click on the advertisement on the right side.
And by the way - anybody who is interested in donating to this project, please do contact me … :-)
Aren