page_title: The Temple Institute
section_title: References and footnotes
hierarchical_section_title: The Temple Institute / References and footnotes
caption_attribution_description: עברית: מזבח העולה במכון המקדש. האמן אסף קדרון
context_page_description: The Temple Institute, known in Hebrew as Machon HaMikdash, is an organization in Israel focusing on the endeavor of establishing the Third Temple. Its long-term aims are to build the third Jewish temple on the Temple Mount, on the site currently occupied by the Dome of the Rock, and to reinstate animal sacrificial worship. It aspires to reach this goal through the study of Temple construction and ritual and through the development of actual Temple ritual objects, garments, and building plans suitable for immediate use in the event conditions permit its reconstruction. It runs a museum in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in Israel. It was founded and is headed by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel. Its current Director General is Dovid Shvartz, and the International Department is headed by Rabbi Chaim Richman. New York billionaire Henry Swieca has supported the institute. The Israeli government has also provided funding.
context_section_description: "A House of Prayer for All Nations" Jerusalem Post, October 11, 2005
  Wright, Lawrence. "Forcing the End: Why do Pentecostal cattle breeder from Mississippi and an Orthodox Rabbi from Jerusalem believe that a red heifer can bring change?". Frontline at PBS. Retrieved 11 July 2014. The Temple Institute operates a small museum in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City.
  Rebuild Herod's Temple? A Few Israelis Hope The New York Times, April 9, 1989.
  Booth, William; Eglash, Ruth (December 2, 2013). "Jewish activists want to pray on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, raising alarm in Muslim world". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 15, 2016. The project was funded by Henry Swieca, the billionaire American investor, and his wife, Estee.
  Tobin, Andrew (August 12, 2016). "The third Jewish Temple is coming to your Facebook feed". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved August 15, 2016. The Israeli government provides some funding to the Temple Institute — though not reliably or significantly, according to its directors — as it does educational and research institutions, and allows women to do their national service as tour guides at its exhibition.
  "Report: State funds groups that advocate building Third Temple". The Jerusalem Post. April 8, 2013. Retrieved August 15, 2016. Over the course of the last decade, the Education Ministry and the Culture and Sport Ministry have transferred between NIS 300,000 and 700,000 to a non-government organization known as The Temple Institute. Just last year, the group received NIS 282,000 from the Education Ministry and another NIS 134,000 from the Culture Ministry.
  http://www.templeinstitute.org/vessels_gallery.htm
  http://www.templeinstitute.org/red_heifer/red_heifer_contents.htm Temple Institute: Red Heifer
  "Apocalypse Cow". The New York Times. March 30, 1997. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  Red Heifer born in Israel Temple Institute, 8 April 2002
caption: Model of the Sacrificial Altar from the Temple Institute Museum, by Assaf Kidron
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