The committee was founded in January 2000[1] by archaeologists Eilat Mazar of Hebrew University, Gabriel Barkay, and other prominent individuals in response to a protruding bulge discovered in 2000 in the Temple Mount's southwest corner.

[3] The committee filed a petition to the Israel Supreme Court in 2004 to prevent the Israeli government and Jerusalem Waqf from removing 3,000 tons of dirt from the Temple Mount site.

[3] In 2005, the group publicly criticized the Israeli government for not stopping Waqf construction on the Temple Mount.

[4] In 2018, Zachi Dvira, on behalf of the committee, shared video footage of a multi-date "beautification project" by Muslim volunteers removing earth and stones from atop the Temple Mount, which he claimed were dumped by the Waqf during unauthorized excavations since the early 2000s.

These include former mayor of Jerusalem Teddy Kollek, poet Haim Gouri, and the novelists Amos Oz and A.