made by several leading rabbis, including Hagaon Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv shelita . Excavations at the construction site produced many artifacts from four periods: the First Temple  (832–422 BCE), the Second Temple  (350 BCE - 70 CE) [6] , the Byzantine period (330–640 CE), and the Ottoman period (1516-1917). Three bedrock-hewn mikveot