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Wednesday December 23, 2009
Human Rights Violations • Israel:

Security forces of Israel’s immigration service broke into an African church in Tel Aviv damaging the ceiling and detaining several worshipers, news reports said Tuesday, December 22.
Immigration officers gathered everyone on the premises and detained those who did not hold papers with a request for refugee status, Haaretz reported. It was not immediately clear how many people were detained.
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Thursday January 8, 2009
Israel:

Many people ask why there are so few Israeli casualties in comparison with the Palestinian death toll. It’s because Israel’s first priority is the safety of its citizens, which is why there are shelters and warning systems in Israeli towns. If Hamas can dig tunnels, it can certainly build shelters. Instead, it prefers to use women and children as human shields while its leaders rush into hiding.
And then there are the clarion calls for a cease-fire. These words, which come so easily, have proven to be a recipe for disaster. Hamas uses the cease-fire as a time-out to rearm and smuggle even more deadly weapons so the next time, instead of hitting Sderot and Ashkelon, they can target Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
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Thursday November 15, 2007
Israel • Religious Intolerance:
According to Daniel Rossing, former adviser to the Religious Affairs Ministry on Christian affairs and director of a Jerusalem center for Christian-Jewish dialogue, there has been an increase in the number of such incidents recently, “as part of a general atmosphere of lack of tolerance in the country.”
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Saturday August 18, 2007
Israel:
An American evangelical pastor and his wife who have been living in Israel for nearly two decades have been ordered to leave the country within two weeks, after their request for permanent residency was turned down, officials said on Thursday.
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Friday August 17, 2007
Israel:
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), which has almost five million members in the US, took a step toward a partial boycott of Israeli goods at its 2007 Churchwide Assembly in Chicago last week.
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Saturday July 21, 2007
Israel:
Israeli cable television is planning to drop a major Christian TV network which runs missionary advertisements directed at Jews. The move has prompted threats of legal action by the station’s representatives.
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Tuesday July 10, 2007
Israel:
The trend toward delegitimizing Israel’s existence as a Jewish state is growing not only in Europe, but also in the United States, according to Jewish-American academics and community leaders.
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Wednesday March 14, 2007
Israel:
Led by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, party proposes bill to completely forbid proselytism in Israel, sentence violators to one year in prison.
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Monday February 19, 2007
Islam • Israel:
An Israeli archaeologist said the site of an archaeological dig outside a disputed holy compound in Jerusalem might contain a Muslim prayer room, and the work drew renewed condemnation Sunday.
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Monday October 2, 2006
Israel:
Millions of Evangelical Christian supporters of Israel around the world are slated to take part in a “Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem” on Sunday.
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Wednesday August 16, 2006
Israel:
They are giving up their homes and leaving their extended families at a time of crisis. One hundred and forty
Jews, ranging from a three-month-old baby to an 80-year-old woman, will begin their new life when they get off a plane this morning.
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Monday July 31, 2006
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Monday March 20, 2006
Israel:
Dr.
John Hagee, the American evangelical pastor who last month announced plans for a
Christian-style AIPAC, says the organization is a "canopy group" encompassing Christian supporters of Israel from across America and is coming together "with a speed and harmony I never would have believed possible."
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Saturday March 4, 2006
Israel:
Nazareth - A distraught Israeli couple, joined by another woman, entered one of Christianity's holiest sites Friday and set off explosions, police said, sparking a large riot in this biblical town in northern Israel.
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Thursday February 16, 2006
Israel:
Jerusalem -- When workers broke ground on the $200 million Museum of Tolerance on the edge of Independence Park, they unearthed what bulldozers often dig up in a city whose history dates 3,000 years: the bones of the dead.
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Monday February 13, 2006
Israel:
The Jerusalem Municipality has authorized the temporary establishment of an
Evangelical Christian center for worship on the Mount of Olives for the benefit of those visiting the Holy Land, according to the city and the organizer.
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Tuesday February 7, 2006
Israel:
A leading US evangelist is forming an umbrella organization under which all pro-Israel Christians in America can speak as one in support of the Jewish state.
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Tuesday June 7, 2005
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Monday September 27, 2004
Israel:
(IsraelNN.com) Despite four years of political unrest, travel advisories and a prolonged slump in tourism to Israel, over 4,000
Christians from more than 80 nations will arrive in Jerusalem over the next week to take part in the 25th ‘Silver Anniversary’ Christian celebration of the
Feast of Tabernacles, sponsored by the
International Christian Embassy Jerusalem. They will pump at least $10 million into the local economy, accounting for over 15,000 hotel room nights, a boost for the Jerusalem tourism industry.
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Wednesday September 8, 2004
Israel:
Attorney General Menachem Mazuz may be asked to consider a criminal investigation of those involved in the private wedding ceremony of Yitzhak Rabin's assassin, Yigal Amir, and Larissa Trimbobler, a leading jurist believes.
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Tuesday August 10, 2004
Israel:
The Interior Ministry is investigating why forms tourists must fill out before entering Israel have begun requiring visitors to list their religion.
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Thursday July 29, 2004
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Tuesday July 27, 2004
Israel:
In a last minute turnaround, Jerusalem Police chief Ilan Franco decided Tuesday morning to close the Temple Mount off to non-Muslim visitors as the nation marks Tisha Be'av and the destruction of the ancient Jewish temples at the site.
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