Caption transcript for This Is Israel: “A Place of Opportunity” (3/12)

• 00:02 HELLO, I'M ZOLA LEVITT.
• 00:04 ON THIS PROGRAM, WE ARE   GOING TO ISRAEL'S LARGEST,
• 00:06    MOST MODERN CITY, THE BIG ORANGE.
• 00:08 AND THEN TO A SETTLEMENT HOUSE
• 00:10  WHERE JEWISH AND ARAB CHILDREN COME TOGETHER IN PEACE.
• 00:13  ALL THAT AND  MORE ON OUR PROGRAM.
• 00:18    [ music playing ]
• 00:54  SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 00:56  WELL, WE'RE GOING TO    THE BIG ORANGE AS I SAID.
• 00:59    THAT'S THE SISTER CITY TO  NEW YORK CITY, THE BIG APPLE.
• 01:01 AND, OF COURSE, IT'S TEL AVIV.
• 01:03   ISRAEL'S CENTER FOR BUSINESS AND COMMERCE,
• 01:05  A VERY MODERN  HUSTLE, BUSTLE CITY.
• 01:08  WE'LL FIRST GO DOWN TO JAFFA
• 01:10 WHICH IS ON THE   SOUTH OF TEL AVIV,
• 01:12  AND WE'LL LOOK ACROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN SEAS,
• 01:15 SINCE THESE ARE COASTAL CITIES AT THE BEAUTIFUL SKYLINE
• 01:19   OF MODERN TEL AVIV.
• 01:29    WELL, ISRAEL IS A PLACE OF REAL OPPORTUNITY.
• 01:32   A MODERN COUNTRY.
• 01:33    YOU KNOW, ISRAEL >> AND THE BIBLE ITSELF
• 01:35    ARE CONSIDERED BY SO MANY   AS ANCIENT AND IRRELEVANT.
• 01:40 THERE ARE CHURCHES THAT CONSIDER THE OLD TESTAMENT OUT OF DATE.
• 01:44 REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY IS TAUGHT.
• 01:45   AND GOD IS FINISHED   WITH HIS HOMELAND.
• 01:49   CNN SHOWS THIS PLACE AS DUSTY STREETS AND SMALL TOWNS
• 01:54   AND LITTLE VILLAGES   THAT DON'T COUNT FOR MUCH.
• 01:56  THE TRUTH IS IT IS A   MODERN AND BEAUTIFUL PLACE.
• 01:59 AND THAT'S WHAT  THIS SERIES IS ABOUT.
• 02:01   YOU KNOW, WHEN THE  GREAT ZIONIST WROTE HIS BOOK,
• 02:06   [ speaking Hebrew ]
• 02:09  THEODOR HERZL, THAT'S   TRANSLATED "OLD/NEW LAND."
• 02:14 THAT'S A FUNNY   WAY OF PUTTING IT.
• 02:16 ISRAEL IS AN OLD LAND,   NATURALLY ONE OF THE OLDEST
• 02:20  AND IT IS A NEW LAND    BECAUSE IT'S BEEN REBUILT
• 02:22  IN A GENERATION, SINCE 1948,
• 02:25   AS ONE OF THE MOST  MODERN UP-TO-DATE COUNTRIES.
• 02:28   AND THESE WORDS FOR  THE NAME OF THE CITY TEL AVIV
• 02:32  ARE OLD AND NEW ALSO.
• 02:34 A TEL IS AN  ARCHAEOLOGICAL MOUNTAIN.
• 02:36  THAT'S A VERY OLD THING.
• 02:37    AVIV IN HEBREW   IS THE WORD FOR SPRING.
• 02:39   THAT'S A RENEWED THING.
• 02:42 SO TEL AVIV IS OLD AND NEW ALSO LIKE,
• 02:46   [ speaking Hebrew ]   THE BOOK BY HERZL.
• 02:48 AND THIS IS THE >>   NEW YORK CITY OF ISRAEL.
• 02:51 TEL AVIV IS A MODERN METROPOLIS OF SKYSCRAPERS AND EXPRESSWAYS
• 02:56   AND HUSTLE, BUSTLE, PEOPLE   RUNNING EVERYWHERE.
• 03:00 AND IT IS NOT A VERY OLD CITY.
• 03:02  ON OUR TOURS,    WHICH ARE BIBLICAL TOURS,
• 03:03 WE REALLY DON'T SPEND MUCH TIME  IN TEL AVIV BECAUSE THE PLACE
• 03:07   DIDN'T START UNTIL >>   ALMOST THE 20th CENTURY.
• 03:10   IN 1889, PILGRIMS, PIONEERS  WERE ENCOURAGED TO COME HERE
• 03:15    BY THE ROTHSCHILD FAMILY >>  WHO SUPPORTED THEM.
• 03:18   AND THEY EKED OUT A  PLACE HERE ON THE EMPTY SAND.
• 03:22 THEY BEGAN WITH   JUST A WATER TOWER.
• 03:24  IN 1902, THERE WAS A   CHOLERA EPIDEMIC IN JAFFA.
• 03:29 I'M ACTUALLY STANDING IN JAFFA
• 03:31  WHICH IS THE    SOUTHERN END OF TEL AVIV.
• 03:33  AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE   WERE DYING OF THIS DISEASE
• 03:38  BUT THE ARABS WHO CONTROLLED   JAFFA WOULD NOT ALLOW THEM
• 03:42    TO BURY THE JEWS >>  THERE IN THE LAND.
• 03:44  I DON'T KNOW  IF YOU REALIZE THAT,
• 03:45    BUT MUSLIM COUNTRIES WILL  NOT BURY CHRISTIANS OR JEWS.
• 03:49    IN THE PERSIAN GULF WAR, >>SAUDI ARABIA SAID THAT,
• 03:53    WHAT IF A JEWISH-AMERICAN SOLDIER WHO IS THERE TO DEFEND
• 03:57    THE PLACE DIES IN BATTLE?
• 04:00    WHAT WILL WE DO?
• 04:01    WE HAVE TO TAKE HIS BODY,
• 04:02 AND WE DID THAT   QUIETLY BEHIND THE SCENES.
• 04:04    IF ANYBODY WAS KILLED AND   SHOULDN'T BE BURIED  AND WOULD CONTAMINATE
• 04:08    THE SOIL WE HAD TO CARRY >>  THEM OUTSIDE OF THE PLACE.
• 04:11    IMAGINE.
• 04:13   OF COURSE, WHEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE BURIED NORTH
• 04:14  OF THE CITY,  NORTH OF JAFFA, WHY,
• 04:17 THAT ATTRACTED THEM TO THAT AREA
• 04:19    WHEN THEY WENT TO   VISIT THE GRAVES AND SO ON.
• 04:22  IN 1909, 60 FAMILIES  DECIDED TO MAKE A SETTLEMENT.
• 04:27  AND THEY DID SOMETHING VERY UNUSUAL.
• 04:29 THEY WENT DOWN TO THE SEASHORE AND THEY GATHERED UP SEASHELLS
• 04:32 AND THEY WROTE ON THE SEASHELLS,
• 04:34  THE NAMES OF EACH FAMILY AND   THEN THEY WROTE LOT NUMBERS
• 04:38  FOR PORTIONS OF LAND  WITHIN THE CITY OF TEL AVIV.
• 04:41 AND THEN THEY SENT THE  CHILDREN TO CHOOSE A SEASHELL
• 04:45  OUT OF ONE HAT FOR THE LAND,
• 04:47    AND OUT OF THE OTHER HAT >> FOR THE FAMILY NAME.
• 04:49 AND THAT'S HOW THEY ORIGINALLY   GOT THEIR FIRST LOTS HERE.
• 04:53   AND NOW, OF COURSE,    AS YOU CAN SEE BEHIND ME,
• 04:56   IT'S A CENTER OF THE WORLD.
• 04:58    IT'S A POLITICAL CENTER.
• 05:00  A RELIGIOUS CENTER CERTAINLY.
• 05:02   A BIG STOCK MARKET,    DIAMOND EXCHANGE.
• 05:06  SO MANY WONDERFUL THINGS HAVE  HAPPENED TO TEL AVIV  OVER THE GENERATIONS.
• 05:10 WELL, IN 1936, THERE WAS AN ARAB  UPRISING IN JAFFA SO SERIOUS
• 05:16  THAT IT CLOSED THE JAFFA PORT  AND THAT GAVE AN OPPORTUNITY
• 05:20 FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO BUILD
• 05:21 THEIR OWN PORT   NORTH IN TEL AVIV.
• 05:25   IT OPENED TEL AVIV >>   TO SEA COMMERCE.
• 05:28   WELL, AS THEY SAID,   THE PALESTINIANS NEVER SEEM
• 05:31 TO MISS AN OPPORTUNITY TO MISS AN OPPORTUNITY.
• 05:34  THEY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY BACK  THEN TO KEEP THEIR PORT OPEN
• 05:38   AND KEEP THE JEWISH PEOPLE WITH THEM AND TOGETHER
• 05:40    CULTIVATE THAT INDUSTRY.
• 05:42  BUT INSTEAD CLOSED THEIR PORT  AND SO THE JEWS TOOK IT OVER
• 05:47  AND NOW THEY HAVE THE BIGGEST MARINA IN THE WHOLE MIDDLE EAST.
• 05:52  NOW 40 PERCENT OF THE ISRAELI POPULATION OCCUPIES THE TEL AVIV
• 05:58   METROPLEX YOU MIGHT CALL IT
• 06:00  OR THE WHOLE GREATER   METROPOLITAN AREA REACHING
• 06:02 ALMOST TO JERUSALEM ON THE SOUTH    AND EAST AND UP THE COAST
• 06:09  QUITE A WAYS  TOWARD CEASAREA ON THE NORTH.
• 06:14    50 PERCENT OF THE    INDUSTRY IS HERE.
• 06:16 THE PLANTS, THE DIAMOND   EXCHANGE WHICH I MENTIONED.
• 06:19 IT'S INTERESTING THE JEWS HAVE  HANDLED THESE PRECIOUS STONES
• 06:23 FOR A LONG TIME, FOR CENTURIES.
• 06:26 AND THEY DO IT   ON TRUST, NOT ON CONTRACTS.
• 06:29  THAT IS, AND YOU SEE    IT IN THE MOVIES,
• 06:31   THE ORTHODOX JEWISH   PEOPLE IN NEW YORK,
• 06:34   THEY CARRY DIAMONDS IN AN OVERCOAT POCKET.
• 06:37 THEY TRADE WITH  EACH OTHER FOR CASH.
• 06:39  THEY DON'T NECESSARILY WRITE   THINGS DOWN OR SIGN THINGS   OR PROMISE THINGS.
• 06:44   ALL BILLS ARE PAID.
• 06:45 IT'S A MATTER OF HONOR   AND THEY KEEP IT HONORABLE.
• 06:50    IT IS JUST THAT CONTRACTS ARE A MATTER OF WHETHER
• 06:56   YOU CAN TRUST YOUR PARTNER.
• 06:58    THE PEACE PROCESS IS A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE
• 07:00    OF CONTRACTS THAT SIMPLY DON'T WORK OUT.
• 07:02    THE PROMISES ARE BROKEN.
• 07:05    PEOPLE DON'T DO WHAT THEY    SAY THEY ARE GOING TO DO.
• 07:07 AND THAT DOESN'T WORK.
• 07:09  BUT THE JEWS AND THE DIAMONDS   HAVE WORKED FOR CENTURIES.
• 07:11   THE EUROPEANS WELL KNOW IT.
• 07:13 THE DIAMOND EXCHANGE THERE AND NEW YORK CITY SIMPLY DEPEND ON
• 07:16  THE JEWISH SKILLS OF DIAMOND CUTTING AND DIAMOND APPRAISALS
• 07:20   AND ALL OF THE REST OF IT.
• 07:22  WHEN ARCHITECTS TEND  TO DESIGN A NEW CITY
• 07:25 WHICH THEY HAVE A CHANCE TO DO    HERE IN TEL AVIV,
• 07:27  THEY TEND TO USE THE DESIGNS >>   OF WHERE THEY CAME FROM.
• 07:30   AND SO THIS    IS A EUROPEAN STYLE CITY.
• 07:33  AT THE PRESENT TIME,  THEY ARE PRESENTLY RESTORING
• 07:37    THE OLDER BUILDINGS FROM >>THE 1920s AND SO FORTH
• 07:39   AND RESTORING THEM  IN THE STYLE THEY WERE MADE.
• 07:42  AND YOU HAVE SIDEWALK CAFES.
• 07:44 AND YOU HAVE --   THERE'S A STORY OF,
• 07:46   YOU KNOW, THE TOURIST COME  AND SIT IN THE CAFES
• 07:48 AND LOOK AT THE   PEOPLE PARADING BY.
• 07:50   AND THEN THE TOURIST GET UP AND THEY PARADE AND THE PEOPLE
• 07:53   WHO ARE WALKING SIT IN THE   SIDEWALK CAFE LOOK AT THEM.
• 07:56  AND SO THEY EXCHANGE.
• 07:58   BUT ANYWAY, IT'S A EUROPEAN STYLE OF LIVING AND THAT'S WHAT
• 08:00  THE EUROPEAN >>   IMMIGRANTS WERE USED TO.
• 08:02  THEY'RE COMFORTABLE WITH IT.
• 08:04   WELL, GENESIS 12:2, WAY BACK TO THE TIME OF ABRAHAM
• 08:08 GIVES A PROMISE    THAT'S BEHIND ME.
• 08:22 TEL AVIV, ISRAEL REALLY  IS A BLESSING TO THE NATIONS.
• 08:26  MEDIA CAN WRITE IT UP THE WAY  THEY PLEASE AND BE NEGATIVE.
• 08:30   BUT WHEN YOU SEE IT REALLY    AS IT IS;
• 08:33 BEAUTIFUL, MODERN, UP TO DATE,  TECHNOLOGICAL, VERY IMPROVED,
• 08:38    LEADING THE WAY INTO THE >>  MILLENNIUM YOU CAN SEE THIS
• 08:42   IS TRULY A >>   BLESSING TO ALL NATIONS.
• 08:57    "THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,   I SHALL GATHER YOU FROM THE
• 09:00 "PEOPLES AND ASSEMBLE YOU OUT OF THE COUNTRIES WHERE YOU HAVE
• 09:04    "BEEN SCATTERED AND I WILL   GIVE YOU THE LAND OF ISRAEL,
• 09:08   "THE WILDERNESS AND >>    DRY LAND SHALL BE GLAD.
• 09:11    "THE DESERT SHALL REJOICE     AND BLOSSOM AS THE ROSE.
• 09:15   "YOU SHALL KNOW THAT    I AM THE LORD WHEN I BRING
• 09:18 "YOU INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL."
• 09:30    [ music playing ]
• 10:09  WELL, WE HAVE MOVED WITHIN THE   CITY ONCE BUILT ON SAND DUNES
• 10:12   AND AS YOU CAN SEE BEHIND ME,
• 10:13  THEY HAVE BUILT    QUITE A CITY HERE.
• 10:15    CNN AND THE NETWORKS    DRIVE PAST PLACES LIKE THIS
• 10:18   EVERY DAY AND THEY NEVER SHOW THEM TO YOU.
• 10:21 THIS IS ISRAEL.
• 10:22    THIS IS TEL AVIV.
• 10:24    AND IT'S AVERAGE.
• 10:25  WE COULD GO A HUNDRED   PLACES IN THE CITY
• 10:28  AND HAVE WONDERFUL BUILDINGS   AND MODERN VIEWS LIKE THIS.
• 10:31  IT'S A PLACE  OF REAL OPPORTUNITY.
• 10:35  PEOPLE HAVE COME HERE >>   AND BUILT A MAGNIFICENT,
• 10:38    HUGE AND WONDERFUL CITY.
• 10:41  YOU KNOW, THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SAYS THIS.
• 10:54 THAT'S VERY SIGNIFICANT I THINK IN A TIME WHEN WE'RE DISCUSSING
• 10:58 DIVIDING THE LAND BETWEEN THOSE OF ANOTHER RELIGION AND JUDAISM.
• 11:05  WHEN BEFORE,   THE PALESTINIANS SO-CALLED,
• 11:08    HELD HALF OF JERUSALEM SAY,
• 11:11   THEY BLEW UP   THE SYNAGOGUES THERE.
• 11:13   TOOK GRAVE STONES AND  PAVED ROADS WITH THEM.
• 11:16   THEY REALLY DID NOT >>   ALLOW THE OTHER RELIGION
• 11:18   ANY BREATHING SPACE AT ALL.
• 11:21   IN FACT, JEWISH PEOPLE WERE SIMPLY FORBIDDEN TO GO TO THEIR
• 11:23   HOLY SITES AND THAT  WAS THE END OF THAT.
• 11:25 NOW THAT JEWISH  PEOPLE ARE IN CHARGE,
• 11:27   PEOPLE OF ALL FAITHS COME, CHRISTIANS AND MOSLEMS AND JEWS
• 11:32  A LIKE GO WHERE WERE THEY LIKE IN THIS LAND.
• 11:35  IT'S A RESTORED LAND.
• 11:37 IT'S A DIFFERENT LAND.
• 11:40  YOU KNOW WHEN YOU GO BACK TO  WHAT MARK TWAIN SAID
• 11:42 AND I HAVE A QUOTATION   FROM HIM WORTH LOOKING AT.
• 11:44 HE CAME AND TOURED HERE   AND HE WROTE A BOOK CALLED
• 11:47   "INNOCENCE ABROAD,"  AND WHEN HE TOURED IN ISRAEL,
• 11:51 THE THINGS THAT HE WROTE ABOUT   THIS PLACE ARE EYE OPENING.
• 11:54  HE FOUND IT A TERRIBLE LAND,    AN ABANDONED LAND
• 11:58 AND THIS WAS IN THE 19th CENTURY
• 12:01 BEFORE THE JEWS CAME BACK TO THE LAND.
• 12:04    IT SAYS.
• 12:12   SADLY, THAT'S WHAT  THE LAND LOOKED LIKE
• 12:14 AT THAT TIME AND YET WE HAVE SO MANY VERSES ZEPHANIAH 2:7 SAYS,
• 12:19    "THE COAST LINE SHALL BE >>FOR THE REMNANT OF MY PEOPLE OF
• 12:22  "JUDAH WHEN I TURN AWAY THEIR CAPTIVITY AND BRING THEM BACK."
• 12:25    AND I COULD GO ON AND ON.
• 12:26   DEUTERONOMY 30:1-5.
• 12:28 "THEY'LL COME BACK INTO THE LAND  THEIR FATHER'S POSSESSED AND
• 12:31   "THEY SHALL POSSESS   AND THEY'LL HAVE EVEN MORE
• 12:33   "THAN THEIR FATHERS HERE."
• 12:35   SO AS YOU CAN SEE,   MARK TWAIN WOULD BE STUNNED
• 12:38   TO SEE THE SCENE BEHIND ME,    I'M SURE.
• 12:40    GOLDA MEIR SAID:
• 12:46   THAT'S THE SOUTHERN    DESERT OF ISRAEL.
• 12:47   THAT'S LIKE ARIZONA OR CALIFORNIA.
• 12:49 VERY, VERY DRY AND HOT.
• 12:51    SHE SAID.
• 13:01 THAT WAS SO VERY TRUE.
• 13:02 AND NOT VERY SURPRISING WHEN YOU CONSIDER WHAT THE LORD
• 13:05   ORIGINALLY SAID TO ABRAHAM IN GENESIS 12.
• 13:34 INDEED, THIS IS ISRAEL'S REAL MISSION.
• 13:36  BLESSING ALL NATIONS  OF THE EARTH.
• 13:38 AND THEY DO IT    WELL BY GIVING THE BIBLE.
• 13:40  MY GOODNESS, BY GIVING BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH
• 13:43 AND BY SENDING OUT THE ORIGINAL MISSIONARIES.
• 13:45  IN SOME WAYS,  THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
• 13:47 IS AS A RESULT  OF A JEWISH MISSION.
• 13:49 NOT IN JUST SOME WAYS, THAT'S A FACT.
• 13:51   AND PEOPLE THROUGH    THE AGES RECOGNIZED THIS.
• 13:55   ARTHUR BALFOUR, IN EUROPE, IN ENGLAND ONE OF GOD'S KEY MEN
• 14:02 GAVE OUT A DECLARATION THAT THE JEWS REALLY DO HAVE A
• 14:07  RIGHT TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN   COUNTRY IN THEIR OWN LAND,   THEIR OWN SOCIETY.
• 14:12 AND HE SAID THIS IN 1917 AND IT WAS AN ORIGINAL INSPIRATION FOR
• 14:17   THE JEWS TO COME BACK HERE
• 14:19  AND POSSESS THE LAND >>   THEIR FATHERS POSSESSED.
• 14:23 THE IDEA OF THE JEWS COMING IS ZIONISM.
• 14:27 THAT TERM HAS BEEN THROWN AROUND THE ARABS IN A PUBLIC RELATIONS
• 14:33 MOVE DECIDED TO   SAY THAT ZIONISM IS RACISM.
• 14:37  NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM   THE TRUTH AND I MEAN THAT.
• 14:40   ZIONISM BRINGS ALL  JEWS BACK TO ISRAEL.
• 14:43    THAT'S WHAT IT IS ABOUT.
• 14:44   THEY COME FROM ALL NATIONS   AND THEY COME TO THIS LAND.
• 14:47 THAT MEANS PEOPLE WHO ARE WHITE,
• 14:50  PEOPLE WHO ARE BLACK  LIKE THE ETHIOPIANS,
• 14:53   PEOPLE FROM RUSSIA,   CHINA, THE ORIENT,
• 14:55 JEWISH PEOPLE FROM EVERY NATION.
• 14:58  IT'S THE OPPOSITE OF RACISM.
• 15:00  THIS IS THE ONLY COUNTRY THAT BROUGHT BLACK PEOPLE FROM AFRICA
• 15:03   HERE NOT AS SLAVES   BUT AS FIRST CLASS CITIZENS
• 15:08  AND NOT TO WORK HERE   BUT AS OWNERS OF THIS LAND.
• 15:10    THEY DO NOT HAVE >>TO APPLY TO LIVE HERE.
• 15:12 THEY ARE PROMISED THIS LAND BY ALMIGHTY GOD, FOR GOODNESS SAKE.
• 15:18    SO ZIONISM IS THE   OPPOSITE OF RACISM
• 15:22 SINCE IT DEALS WITH ALL RACES.
• 15:24  THE ARABS PUT THAT AS AN U.N. RESOLUTION AND THE U.N. VOTED IT
• 15:28   IN MINDLESSLY AND NOT EVEN KNOWING THE DEFINITION
• 15:30   OF THE WORD AND THEN LATER >>   RESCINDED THAT APPROVAL.
• 15:34 WELL, THE NATION SHOULD UNDERSTAND BY NOW THAT GOD MEANS
• 15:38    IT WHEN HE SAYS,
• 15:39  "I WILL BLESS THEE AND CURSE HIM THAT CURSETH THEE."
• 15:43   WELL, FOR EXAMPLE, IN OUR OWN GENERATION,
• 15:46  THE UNITED STATES HAS    PROSPERED SO WELL BECAUSE
• 15:50  AT LEAST IN PREVIOUS   ADMINISTRATIONS WE
• 15:52  WERE BLESSING   ISRAEL WONDERFULLY.
• 15:54 WE HELPED THEM.
• 15:55    WE GAVE THEM AID.
• 15:57   WE HELPED THEM BRING THEIR   IMMIGRANTS IN AND SO FORTH.
• 15:59   AND AMERICA HAS PROSPERED.
• 16:01  WHAT DID THE ARABS HERE DO AT THE SAME TIME BUT BOYCOTT ISRAEL
• 16:05    AND PERSUADE PEOPLE, JUST BLACKMAIL, IF YOU TRADE
• 16:09 WITH ISRAEL WE WON'T SELL YOU ANY OIL
• 16:11  OR WE WE'LL RAISE THE   PRICE OR WHATEVER.
• 16:14   THAT WAS JUST THE OPPOSITE.
• 16:15  BUT HOW HAVE THE ARABS FARED?
• 16:18  THEY ARE POOR >>   AND THEY ARE DOWNTRODDEN >> AND THEY'RE BACKWARD.
• 16:21  THEY HAVEN'T  PROSPERED VERY WELL.
• 16:23  WELL, LOOK AT EUROPE    WHICH IS STILL STAGGERING
• 16:28 FROM WORLD WAR II IN MANY PLACES OR RUSSIA WHICH IS COMING APART.
• 16:32 ANTI-SEMITIC NATIONS WHICH HAVE   SUFFERED FOR CURSING ISRAEL
• 16:37    VERSUS THE UNITED STATES >>  WHICH GAVE THE JEWS A HOME
• 16:40 AND FREEDOM AND  PROSPERED BY THEIR INDUSTRY.
• 16:44    ZIONISM REALLY IS FAITH.
• 16:47   IT'S A KIND >>   OF A FAITH IN THIS LAND.
• 16:49 AND FAITH, YOU KNOW IN 11:1 IS DEFINED FOR US.
• 16:58 THEY COULDN'T SEE WHAT   WAS GOING TO THE SAND DUNES
• 17:01  AND TO THE CEMETERY,  TO THIS PLACE THAT WAS EMPTY.
• 17:04    IMAGINE HAVING THAT KIND >>OF FAITH TO BUILD THIS?
• 17:08   THE GATE OF HOPE, IN 1878,   JERUSALEM JEWS ESTABLISHED
• 17:14 A FIRST-EVER AGRICULTURE COLONY  AT PETAH TIKVA WHICH IS VERY
• 17:18 NEAR HERE AND FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE,
• 17:23   THEY BUILT    BEN GURION AIRPORT THERE.
• 17:25 IT'S THE ANCIENT CITY OF LYDIA IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WHERE THE
• 17:29    AIRPORT IS NOW STANDING.
• 17:31  I CAN CONCLUDE WITH A   QUOTE FROM DOLLY'S MENORAH.
• 17:36  THE ARTIST BUILT A FANTASTIC CANDLESTICK AND SAID THIS ON IT.
• 17:50 I COULDN'T SAY IT BETTER MYSELF.
• 18:00 JAFFA IS OFTEN TRANSLATED IN THE   BIBLE AS JOPPA, J-O-P-P-A,
• 18:04 WHERE PETER SPENT THE NIGHT IN >>   SIMON THE TANNER'S HOUSE
• 18:07  WHEN HE WAS SUMMONED  TO CEASAREA TO SEE CORNELIUS.
• 18:10  AND THE FIRST GENTILE  OF THE CHURCH AGE WAS SAVED.
• 18:13   PETER LEFT FROM THE    TOWN WE ARE GOING TO NOW.
• 18:16   AND WE'RE GOING TO GO TO A  SETTLEMENT HOUSE LIKE A YMCA
• 18:19 WHERE ARAB AND JEWISH CHILDREN   GET ALONG IN PERFECT PEACE.
• 18:21 AND ISN'T THAT THE BEGINNING OF ANY REAL PEACE PROCESS?
• 18:24  THE CHILDREN.
• 18:30 DURING THE DAY, PEOPLE ARE COMING HERE TO HAVE
• 18:32  ACTIVITIES BUT THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE CAN MEET THE OTHER SIDE.
• 18:36  WE HAVE HERE  CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS AND JEWS.
• 18:38   AFTERNOON, AND WE HAVE 2500 PUPIL DURING THE DAY.
• 18:42    AND WE HAVE 1400 MEMBERS.
• 18:45   WE HAVE ALL RANGES.
• 18:46   WE CELEBRATE ALL HOLY DAYS.
• 18:48   WE CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS    AND HANUKKAH.
• 18:51   AND ALL PARTIES >>PARTICIPATE IN THE ACTIVITIES.
• 18:54 FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE MEETINGS >>BETWEEN A PRIEST IN MUSLIM
• 18:58    AND RABBI TO TALK  ABOUT THE CONNECTION
• 18:59    WITH PEACE IN THE REGION.
• 19:02 WE HAVE PEACE FESTIVALS AND PEOPLE ARE COMING FROM OTHER
• 19:05  COUNTRIES AND  COMING TO ISRAEL TO HEAR IT.
• 19:09  WHEN WE STARTED THIS CENTER, WE EXPECTED IN THE FIRST YEAR,
• 19:12    WE WOULD HAVE 120 PEOPLE.
• 19:15   THAT'S ALL.
• 19:16    AND THE FIRST YEAR WE HAD   1000 MEMBERS IN THE CENTER.
• 19:19   SO PEOPLE LIKE IT.
• 19:21  PEOPLE WANT TO DO IT.
• 19:23 NOW, HOW MANY SCHOOLS ARE REPRESENTED HERE
• 19:25  AND WHY DO THEY COME HERE?
• 19:26    WHY DON'T THEY >>JUST PARTICIPATE IN THE SAME
• 19:28  THINGS RIGHT AT THE >>  SCHOOL WHERE THEY ATTEND?
• 19:30   WE HAVE 14 SCHOOLS.
• 19:35  WE HAVE ARAB SCHOOLS.
• 19:36 WE HAVE JEWISH SCHOOLS   AND WE HAVE MIXED SCHOOLS.
• 19:38    SOME OF THEM ARE >> COMING TO USE OUR FACILITIES
• 19:40  BECAUSE WE HAVE VERY >>   BIG AND NICE FACILITIES.
• 19:43   BUT THE IDEA IS TO GIVE THE  POTENTIAL FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW THE OTHER SIDE.
• 19:48  FIRST OF ALL,  WE HAVE MIXED SCHOOLS
• 19:51    AND WE HAVE ARAB >>  AND JEWISH SCHOOLS
• 19:53 THAT COME TO SPECIAL PROGRAMS.
• 19:55   FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE JEWISH SCHOOLS AND ARAB SCHOOLS TO MAKE
• 19:58 THEATER GROUPS OR MUSIC BANDS OR BALLET AND SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
• 20:02 AND TOGETHER WE TRY TO GIVE THEM TIME TO KNOW THE OTHER SIDE AND
• 20:05  PLAY TOGETHER AND THEN AFTER THAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT POLITICS.
• 20:10    THIS YEAR IS THE YEAR OF >>  RESPECTING THE OTHER SIDE.
• 20:13    YOU SEE THIS IS THE IDEA.
• 20:15    SO WE TRY TO GIVE   THEM THE POTENTIAL   OF KNOWING THE OTHER SIDE.
• 20:16 SO YOU KNOW IN ISRAEL, IT IS VERY COMPLICATED
• 20:18 TO DEAL WITH THE ARABS AND JEWS.
• 20:20    THE ISSUES OF SECURITIES.
• 20:22   THE ISSUE OF PEACE.
• 20:23    SO IF YOU NOT TRY  TO DO IT FROM THE EARLY AGES.
• 20:26    AND WE START THEM   AT ONE AND HALF YEARS OLD.
• 20:29    THIS IS THE IDEA.
• 20:31   TO GIVE THEM OTHER  IDEAS ABOUT THE OTHER CENTER.
• 20:33  AND TO TRY TO DEMOLISH ALL OF  THE PREJUDICE OF THEM
• 20:37  ABOUT THE OTHER SIDE.
• 20:39    WHY DO YOU THINK THAT THE  PROGRAM IS NOT MORE ACCEPTED
• 20:41   OR USED THROUGHOUT ISRAEL?
• 20:44 WHY IS IT JUST HERE IN  JAFFA THAT IT'S ABLE TO WORK?
• 20:47    I'M SORRY TO SAY >> THAT THIS IS THE ONLY CENTER
• 20:49 OF THIS TYPE IN ISRAEL.
• 20:51  I DON'T THINK IT IS A MATTER   OF BUDGET IN OTHER PLACES.
• 20:52    IT IS A MATTER OF   POLITICAL DECISION.
• 20:55 AND THIS IS A PROBLEM IN ISRAEL.
• 20:57  YOU SEE POLITICAL DECISIONS.
• 20:58  AND SO OKAY LET'S DO THINGS BETWEEN ARABS AND JEWS.
• 21:00 AND OKAY, LET'S PUT ONE PERCENT   OR TWO PERCENT OF THE COST.
• 21:06   MORE TALKING AND NOT DOING.
• 21:09    YOU SEE, WE MAKE >>  THE THINGS HERE NATURALLY.
• 21:12  WE DON'T MAKE IT ARTIFICIAL.
• 21:14  LET'S BRING 50 PERCENT ARABS  AND 50 PERCENT JEWS.
• 21:17    AND THEY MEET EACH OTHER.
• 21:18  AND THEY DID.
• 21:19 AND THEY CAN COME HERE.
• 21:20  AND NATURALLY  YOU CAN SHARE THINGS.
• 21:22 YOU MUST GIVE THEM BEST  EQUIPMENT AND IT MUST BE NICE
• 21:25  AND QUIET AND CLEAN AND WELL >>   EQUIPPED BUT THE IDEA IS
• 21:28 TO NATURALLY COME HERE.
• 21:30   WHAT KIND OF CLASSES DO YOU   HAVE FOR THE CHILDREN HERE?
• 21:33  WE HAVE A LOT OF ACTIVITIES.
• 21:34 WE HAVE MUSIC,   ALL KINDS OF MUSIC.
• 21:36 ORIENTAL MUSIC.
• 21:38    GUITAR AND PIANO.
• 21:42  ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF MUSIC.
• 21:43 WE HAVE SPORTS.
• 21:44    WE HAVE HEALTH CLUB HERE.
• 21:47 WE HAVE ALSO TEACHING LANGUAGE, >>   ENGLISH AND MATHEMATICS.
• 21:52  AND ACTIVE CENTER, ALL KINDS.
• 21:55   WOULD YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU
• 21:59 DO IN YOUR CLASS WITH THE CHILDREN?
• 22:01    I'M TEACHING THE CREATIVE    DANCE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.
• 22:06   IT'S BALLET, BUT IT IS MORE CREATIVE AND MORE NOEN AND FREE.
• 22:11  WELL, WHAT'S IT LIKE WORKING  WITH ARAB CHILDREN AND JEWISH
• 22:14 CHILDREN AND DIFFERENT RACES?
• 22:17  I THINK IT'S MORE INTERESTING JUST TO SEE THEIR RELATIONSHIP
• 22:20  BETWEEN THEM AND JUST   TO SEE HOW THEY GET ALONG.
• 22:25  AND IT'S LIKE ALL OF >>   THE SMALL GROUPS
• 22:27  AND NOW THESE   GROUPS ARE MIXED TOGETHER.
• 22:29 AND IT'S NICE.
• 22:30  IT IS NICE TO SEE THAT IT'S WORKING.
• 22:32  THEY'RE CHILDREN, SO WHY NOT?
• 22:35    TELL ME WHAT YOU >>   DO IN YOUR CLASS.
• 22:36   I AM WORKING WITH THE CHILDREN WITH ALL KINDS OF MATERIALS
• 22:40    AND I TEACH THEM >>I LITTLE BIT ABOUT ART
• 22:44 AND LET THEM EXPRESS THEMSELVES.
• 22:46    DO YOU FIND THAT THERE'S >>ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
• 22:48  ARAB CHILDREN AND THE JEWISH CHILDREN AS TO HOW THEY EXPRESS
• 22:51 THEMSELVES WITH PEN AND INK AND  CRAYONS OR WHATEVER THEY USE?
• 22:55  NO, I THINK CHILDREN ARE CHILDREN, YOU KNOW.
• 22:57    AND THEY EXPRESS >>THEMSELVES AS CHILDREN.
• 23:00    DO YOU FIND IT DIFFICULT
• 23:02    TO WORK WITH ARAB  AND JEWISH CHILDREN TOGETHER?
• 23:04   FOR ME, IT'S THE SAME.
• 23:05 IT'S KIDS.
• 23:07 I LIKE THEM FOR HOW  THEY LIKE HUMAN,
• 23:13   NOT HOW IT IS FROM JEW FROM RUSSIA OR FROM THE UNITED STATES   AND SO ON.
• 23:20  YOU THINK THIS WILL HELP THEM
• 23:22  AS THEY GROW UP THAT THEY ARE TOGETHER AT THIS POINT
• 23:24 AND THEY WON'T   HAVE THE POLITICAL
• 23:26   PROBLEMS WHEN THEY GROW UP?
• 23:27  SURE.
• 23:28  FOR ME IT IS A POSSIBILITY TO DO SOMETHING FOR PEACE PROCESS
• 23:31   IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 23:33 MAYBE SOME LITTLE HELP FROM ME.
• 23:36  BUT IT IS REAL HELP.
• 23:38  10 YEARS AGO, >>   IF YOU ASKED ME ABOUT IT
• 23:39   I SAY I CAN'T TELL   YOU IT IS A DREAM.
• 23:42 BUT IF YOU WANT THINGS, IF YOU HAVE A DECISION,
• 23:46    YOU CAN MAKE IT.
• 23:47 SO WE MADE IT.
• 23:48 WE MADE IT AND WE HAVE IT HERE.
• 23:49    BUT A CHILD DOES IN FACT
• 23:51   CHANGE HIS THINKING  AFTER BEING HERE FOR A WHILE?
• 23:55 THOSE THAT COME WITH PREJUDICE?
• 23:56  WE MADE A RESEARCH, A SURVEY  AND WE FOUND A LOT OF CHANGES
• 24:03  AND A LOT OF   KIDS ARE FRIENDS, YOU SEE.
• 24:07  THEY CAN COME AND VISIT EACH OTHER IN AFTERNOON BECAUSE THEY
• 24:10  ARE LIVING HERE IN THE AREA.
• 24:12 WE ARE GIVING SERVICES    TO THE PEOPLE IN THE AREA
• 24:14  AND THE AREAS AROUND,  OTHER CITIES.
• 24:18  BUT WE HAVE A LOT OF MEETINGS  BETWEEN FAMILIES AND MOTHERS
• 24:21   AND FATHERS THAT ARE COMING   HERE AND TALKING TOGETHER.
• 24:24   SO THIS IS AN IDEA.
• 24:26 NOW, YOU HAVE BEEN TO AMERICA.
• 24:27 DO YOU THINK AMERICANS  HAVE AN ACCURATE VIEW OF WHAT ISRAEL IS LIKE?
• 24:31 NO, I THINK NO.
• 24:33   SEE, WHEN I WAS IN AMERICA, I WATCHED TV AND SAID,
• 24:36  "WOW, PEOPLE >>   ARE KILLING EACH OTHER."
• 24:37 AND IN AMERICA,  PEOPLE THINK WE ARE SHOOTING
• 24:40   EACH OTHER IN THE STREETS.
• 24:42 SO IT IS NOT LIKE THIS.
• 24:43    WE HAVE TENSION HERE, WE >>HAVE TENSION, BUT IN ISRAEL IS,
• 24:47   IT IS MORE ON THE BORDERS.
• 24:50   PEOPLE ARE >>   NOT SHOOTING EACH OTHER.
• 24:52   IT IS NOT SO ROSY,  BUT IT IS NOT SO BAD.
• 24:54 PEOPLE ARE LIVING HERE.
• 24:56  AND WE HAVE A LOT OF TENSION  AND WE TRY TO LIVE TOGETHER.
• 24:58    WE MUST CONTINUE    LIVING TOGETHER.
• 25:00  IT THIS IS THE IDEA.
• 25:01 IT IS NOT LIKE    THE THINGS ON TV.
• 25:03  MOSTLY YOU SEE ON TV, MOSTLY THE BAD THINGS.
• 25:08  WE ARE AGAINST IT, ALL OF US, >>   ARABS AND JEWS TOGETHER.
• 25:10 WHEN YOU HAVE A BOMB ON THE BUS IN THE STREET,
• 25:13 AN ARAB OR JEW CAN BE INJURED.
• 25:15   IT IS NOT A >>   MATTER OF ARAB AND JEWS.
• 25:19    WE ARE IN THE SAME BOAT, >>  I SAY AND THIS IS THE IDEA.
• 25:30   WELL, IT'S PLACES LIKE THE CENTER THAT CAN REALLY
• 25:32  HAVE A PEACE PROCESS.
• 25:33 NOT LIKE THE FAKE PEACE >>   PROCESS WE HAVE.
• 25:36 BUT REAL PEACE.
• 25:37 THESE CHILDREN   ARE ISRAELI ARABS.
• 25:39   IT IS WELL TO REMEMBER THAT  THE ARABS WHO LIVE IN ISRAEL
• 25:41   AND ARE CITIZENS OF ISRAEL AND WHO VOTE IN ISRAEL
• 25:43   AND HAVE MEMBERS OF  PARLIAMENT REPRESENTING THEM
• 25:46 ARE QUITE HAPPY WITH THEIR GOVERNMENT.
• 25:48 THEY DON'T WANT  TO HAVE A REVOLUTION.
• 25:50 IT IS THE SO-CALLED PALESTINIANS OF GAZA AND THE WEST BANK WITH
• 25:56 WHOM WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE PEACE AND THINGS ARE NOT GOING QUITE
• 25:59   AS WELL AS THEY ARE AT THE CENTER, I CAN TELL YOU.
• 26:02  BUT THAT'S HOW THINGS ARE AND HOW THEY ARE GOING TO BE UNTIL
• 26:04  THE PRINCE OF PEACE RETURNS, >>   I THINK.
• 26:07 THE ISRAELI ARABS WILL GET ALONG
• 26:09  FINE BECAUSE    THEY LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY.
• 26:10 OTHER ARABS, IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO DEAL WITH.
• 26:14 WELL, TAKE A LOOK AT OUR  JERUSALEM 3000 SERIES.
• 26:17 THAT'S OUR OFFER TONIGHT.
• 26:19    WHY JERUSALEM 3000?
• 26:20 WELL, THAT ESTABLISHES THE AGE
• 26:21 OF JEWISH RULE IN THE LAND.
• 26:24 EVEN WENT FURTHER BACK THAN THAT
• 26:26   IF YOU COUNT THE JUDGES
• 26:27 OF THE TIME SINCE JOSHUA CAME.
• 26:29 BUT AT LEAST SINCE DAVID RULED
• 26:30 IN JERUSALEM, IT WAS THE CAPITAL
• 26:33 OF ISRAEL AND IT IS TODAY.
• 26:35   AND WE HAVE COVERED THOSE 3000
• 26:36 YEARS IN RATHER THRILLING SERIES
• 26:38 OF VIDEO PROGRAMS.
• 26:41 THERE'S JUST SO MUCH TO SAY
• 26:42   ABOUT, WELL, YOU KNOW WE DON'T
• 26:44   HAVE A PROGRAMS ABOUT AMERICAN
• 26:46   HISTORY FOR 3000 YEARS
• 26:47 OR EVEN 300 YEARS.
• 26:49 LET'S FACE IT, THIS IS THE
• 26:51 WORLD'S OLDEST CITY    OF ONE FAITH.
• 26:55  THAT IS THE JEWISH FAITH,  ANYWHERE.
• 26:59  OTHERS HAVE CHANGED THEIR RELIGIONS AROUND A HUNDREDS
• 27:01  OF TIMES AND OF COURSE,
• 27:02 MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS LIVE  IN JERUSALEM NOW
• 27:04    AND THEY DID BEFORE.
• 27:06 BUT 3000 YEARS AGO,
• 27:07  DAVID OF ISRAEL CALLED IT
• 27:08   THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL.
• 27:11    AND TODAY EHUD BARAK CALLS IT
• 27:13   THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL.
• 27:14   NO OTHER CITY CAN MAKE
• 27:16   A STATEMENT LIKE THAT.
• 27:17  SO GET THE VIDEO SERIES.
• 27:18    YOU CAN ALSO   GET THE MUSIC CASSETTE.
• 27:19 THERE IS SOME VERY  THRILLING SONGS IN THERE;
• 27:21 INCLUDING OUR BEST-SELLING
• 27:23     SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM,
• 27:25 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
• 27:27  AND AS YOU DO SO REMEMBER THE GIFTS OF FUNDS, FOLKS.
• 27:31  THAT'S HOW WE'RE  REALLY ABLE TO GO THERE.
• 27:32   TAKE A TV CREW WITH ALL OF THE PROBLEMS WITH THE EQUIPMENT
• 27:35 AND INSURANCE AND VANS AND HOTELS AND MEALS AND SO ON.
• 27:38  HELP US OUT IF YOU WILL.
• 27:40 AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 27:42 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
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