Caption transcript for This Is Israel: “A Place of Blessing” (5/12)

• 00:03 HELLO I'M ZOLA LEVITT.
• 00:04   ON TODAY'S PROGRAM    WE ARE GOING TO INTERVIEW
• 00:05 THE MAYOR OF JERUSALEM, ONE OF THE BUSIEST MEN
• 00:08  IN THE WORLD,    MAYOR EHUD OMERT.
• 00:11   AND SOME SCIENTISTS   WHO ARE ABLE TO DETERMINE,
• 00:15 WITH MODERN TECHNOLOGY,  JUST WHO IS A REAL DESCENDANT
• 00:19  OF THE HIGH PRIEST, AARON.
• 00:22     [music playing]
• 01:00 THIS TRULY IS AN ARTISTIC CITY.
• 01:02  THERE ARE SCULPTURES >>   JUST EVERYWHERE.
• 01:04 ON THE STREETS, IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM,
• 01:08 A MAGNIFICENT SCULPTURE GARDEN.
• 01:10 THE PEOPLE ARE   USED TO SEEING ART,
• 01:12    ABSTRACT AND TRADITIONAL, ALL AROUND THEM
• 01:14  IN THIS BEAUTIFUL JERUSALEM.
• 01:18  ALSO MUSIC, THE ISRAEL OPERA,    THE ISRAELI PHILHARMONIC.
• 01:23   THERE ARE CONCERTS CONSTANTLY BECAUSE THEY
• 01:25  COME FROM RUSSIA AND EUROPE, >>   THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO LOVE
• 01:27   CHAMBER MUSIC AND RECITALS.
• 01:29 AND THESE THINGS GO ON  ALL OF THE TIME HERE.
• 01:32   AND WE ARE STANDING IN ONE OF THE BEAUTIFUL THEATERS
• 01:35  OF JERUSALEM, THE SHAREOVER THEATER.
• 01:37    THERE ARE PLAYS, >> OPERAS HERE.
• 01:40    IT IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE.
• 01:42 AND YOU WONDER HOW THESE PEOPLE, WHICH HAS TO LOOK OVER
• 01:46 ITS SHOULDER CONSTANTLY >>   HAS TIME FOR THESE ARTS.
• 01:50   WHEN YOU LOOK BACK    AT THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL,
• 01:54  THE 12 TRIBES AND HOW  THEY SURVIVED OUT OF SLAVERY
• 01:57 IN EGYPT AND SO FORTH, YOU DO WONDER.
• 02:00  MARK CHAGALL,    THE FRENCH ARTIST
• 02:02   COMMEMORATED THE 12 TRIBES >>   IN THE BEAUTIFUL WINDOWS
• 02:06    AT THE HADASSAH HOSPITAL.
• 02:08  THE CHAGALL WINDOWS,   AS THEY'RE CALLED,
• 02:11 GAVE US THE 12 TRIBES AND THAT  IN TURN GIVES US A BLESSING.
• 02:16  THE ARTS ARE PARAMOUNT AMONG JEWISH CULTURE AND ALWAYS WERE.
• 02:20  BUT AS I SAY, THEY BARELY SURVIVED SOMETIMES
• 02:25  LET ALONE TAKE TIME FOR THIS.
• 02:27  THE BIBLE SAYS THEY >>   BUILT THE SECOND TEMPLE
• 02:30   WITH A BRICK IN ONE HAND   AND A SWORD IN THE OTHER.
• 02:33   I WOULD SAY THEY    DID THESE ARTS
• 02:35 WITH A PAINT BRUSH IN ONE HAND    AND A SWORD IN THE OTHER.
• 02:38 AFTER ALL, IF YOU TAKE   THEIR HISTORY FROM
• 02:40  THE EGYPTIAN SLAVERY ON DOWN THROUGH THE VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS
• 02:44  OF THE COMING OF THE MUSLIMS AND IT IS MANDATE OF THE BRITISH
• 02:48    AND NOW THE PALESTINIANS    THEY HAVE HAD REALLY HAD
• 02:50 TO WATCH OVER THEIR SHOULDERS.
• 02:52   TODAY, WE'RE SEEING >>   NEO-NAZIISMS IN AMERICA.
• 02:55 WE'RE SEEING CRITICISM   OF ISRAEL IMPLIED,
• 02:58 CHRISTIAN LIBERALS WHO    DON'T USE THE BIBLE THINK
• 03:01    THIS PLACE IS OF >>NO IMPORTANCE TO CHRISTIANITY:
• 03:05  THEY LEARN NO PROPHECY HERE.
• 03:07   THEY USE BIBLE TRANSLATIONS   THAT GIVE THE NAME EASTER,
• 03:11   GOD OF THE FATHERS, THINGS MEANT TO FRANKLY SLANDER JEWS.
• 03:20 THEY USE WORDS JEWS -- PEOPLE FROM JUDEA WHICH
• 03:24    SEEMS FAIR, BUT SOMETIMES PEOPLE FROM JUDEA IN THE BIBLE
• 03:27 ARE CONTRASTED    WITH PEOPLE FROM GALILEE.
• 03:30  IN A STATEMENT LIKE:
• 03:36   THIS HAS BEEN USED    TO CALL THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 03:38 ANTI-SEMITIC AND SO ON.
• 03:39    BUT IT SPECIFIC HE MEANS >>THE PEOPLE OF JUDEA, THE PRIEST,
• 03:42    THE TEMPLE PEOPLE SOUGHT >>  TO KILL HIM BUT NOT
• 03:45 THE GALILEANS OR THE PEOPLE WHO  LISTENED TO HIM IN THE NORTH.
• 03:49    IT MADE THAT DISTINCTION.
• 03:51  IN ANY CASE, ISRAEL GOES ON IN ITS STRUGGLES
• 03:53  JUST AS THE ORIGINAL ISRAEL, >>   JACOB STRUGGLED.
• 03:56    IN GENESIS 32:24, YOU SEE  HIM WRESTLING WITH THE LORD.
• 04:01  HE WRESTLES THROUGHOUT NIGHT.
• 04:02    HIS THIGH IS DISLOCATED, >>   A PAINFUL INJURY.
• 04:05 AND HIS NAME IS CHANGED  TO ISRAEL WHICH MEANS
• 04:08 HE STRUGGLES WITH GOD.
• 04:12  THE MEDIA IS A BIG   PART OF THIS, OF COURSE.
• 04:15 YOU KNOW, CNN DRIVES PAST HERE EVERY DAY,
• 04:17   THE NETWORKS DO, >>THE BBC DOES.
• 04:20 THEY DON'T SEE THIS THEATER.
• 04:22 THEY DON'T SEE THE BEAUTIFUL >>  SCULPTURES ALL OVER TOWN.
• 04:25 THEY ARE LOOKING FOR >>  DUSTY STREETS AND TROUBLE
• 04:26  AND SMALL VILLAGES >>AND PROBLEMS TO SHOW.
• 04:30  AND AS THE NEWS --   AND BY PORTRAYING ISRAEL
• 04:33  THIS WAY MAYBE FOR 25 YEARS  THEY HAVE MADE IT SEEM LIKE
• 04:36 SOME KIND OF BANANA REPUBLIC.
• 04:39  NOTHING COULD BE LESS FAIR.
• 04:40    SOMETIMES THEY >> ARE TOTALLY UNFAIR.
• 04:42   RECENT CAR BOMB IN HAIFA >>AND TIBERIAS INJURED NO ONE.
• 04:48 THEY WERE LITTLE FIRECRACKERS.
• 04:49  THEY WERE DONE FOR >> MEDIA COVERAGE AND THEY GOT
• 04:52    LOADS AND LOADS  OF MEDIA COVERAGE.
• 04:54 BUT BOTH CNN AND THE BRITISH >>   BROADCASTING CORPORATION
• 04:59    REPORTED THREE KILLED.
• 05:01   THREE KILLED, THEY SAID.
• 05:03    THEY NEVER SAID  THE TERRORIST WERE KILLED.
• 05:06    BOMBS WENT OFF    PREMATURELY AND
• 05:07    THE PEOPLE WHO    BUILT THEM WERE KILLED.
• 05:10   LEST THEY SOMEHOW >>CRITICIZE THE ARABS,
• 05:13    LEST THEY SOMEHOW MAKE >>THE STORY SEEM LESS PATHETIC,
• 05:17   THEY DID NOT EVEN REPORT  THAT IT WAS THE TERRORIST,
• 05:20    THE BOMBERS THEMSELVES   THAT WERE KILLED.
• 05:23   THE CHURCH HAS CRITICIZED   ISRAEL FOR ITS UNBELIEF,
• 05:26    THE TRUE CHURCH >>IN READING SCRIPTURE.
• 05:28 BUT YOU KNOW,  THIS IS WRONG, TOO.
• 05:30  THE DRY BONE'S VISION SHOWS THAT ISRAEL COMES BACK IN STAGES
• 05:35 TO THIS LAND.
• 05:36   GOD BRINGS THEM FIRST --   WELL, THE VISION
• 05:39    IN EZEKIEL 37 PICTURES  THAT A BONE JOINED
• 05:44    TO ANOTHER BONE  AND THEN SKIN GOES OVER IT
• 05:46  AND THEN FLESH COMES ON IT   AND BREATH COMES INTO IT
• 05:49  LITTLE BY LITTLE BY LITTLE.
• 05:50  AND FINALLY HE SAYS, CALL TO THE WINDOW, SON OF MAN,
• 05:54  BLOW THY BREATH INTO   THEM THAT THEY MIGHT LIVE.
• 05:57   AND SO THEY BECOME SPIRITUAL WHEN HE CALLS
• 05:59    [speaking Hebrew]
• 06:01    THE WIND,  FROM THE FAMILIAR EXPRESSION
• 06:03    [speaking Hebrew]
• 06:04    THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 06:05  SO WHEN THEY RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT AS WILL
• 06:08 HAPPEN HERE EVENTUALLY THEN THEY ARE SPIRITUAL
• 06:10   BUT THERE IS A LONG PROCESS   AND WE'RE IN THAT PROCESS.
• 06:13    NO USE CRITICIZING PEOPLE    IN JERUSALEM OR IN ISRAEL
• 06:17 FOR UNBELIEF WHEN THEY   HAVE NOT BEEN WITNESSED TO,
• 06:20   WHEN THEY HAVE NOT READ THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 06:24   AND WHEN THE CHURCH  HAS CARED SO LITTLE FOR THEM,
• 06:26   BECAUSE THAT'S JUST NORMAL.
• 06:28   UNBELIEVERS BEHAVE AS UNBELIEVERS.
• 06:30  AND FRANKLY, >>   WE ALL LIVE THIS VISION.
• 06:33 WE, ALL OF US,  ARE MADE BY THE LORD
• 06:38 UNTIL IT SAYS,   IN PHILIPPIANS 1:6
• 06:40    "WE SHALL CONFORM TO THE >>IMAGE OF JESUS WHEN HE COMES."
• 06:57    "THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,   I SHALL GATHER YOU FROM THE
• 07:00 "PEOPLES AND ASSEMBLE YOU OUT OF THE COUNTRIES WHERE YOU HAVE
• 07:03    "BEEN SCATTERED AND I WILL   GIVE YOU THE LAND OF ISRAEL,
• 07:07   "THE WILDERNESS AND >>    DRY LAND SHALL BE GLAD.
• 07:11    "THE DESERT SHALL REJOICE     AND BLOSSOM AS THE ROSE.
• 07:15   "YOU SHALL KNOW THAT    I AM THE LORD WHEN I BRING
• 07:18 "YOU INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL."
• 07:23 WELL, MY POINT IS THAT  IT REALLY IS NOT FAIR
• 07:26 TO CONTINUE TO MALIGN A NATION  WHOSE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
• 07:31 IS THE SAME AS  THE WESTERN EUROPEAN NATIONS.
• 07:33    HERE THE EUROPEAN >>   PARLIAMENT VOTES
• 07:37 WITH THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY.
• 07:39  THEY PREFER THAT SIDE   OF THE QUESTION DOWN HERE.
• 07:43 WELL, THIS IS COMPARING  TWO VERY DIFFERENT ENTITIES,
• 07:49  THE DISORGANIZED PALESTINIAN COMMUNITY AGAINST ONE OF THOSE
• 07:51    POWERFUL NATIONS >>  IN THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE,
• 07:53  IF THE TRUTH BE TOLD, ISRAEL IS DOING QUITE WELL, THANK YOU.
• 07:57    AND NOT JUST IN THE ARTS, BUT IN GENERAL.
• 08:00   STILL AS WE LOOK AT THE ART OVER HERE, WE CAN SEE THAT WELL,
• 08:04 THIS THEATER IS EQUAL TO ANY ANYWHERE.
• 08:06  I DON'T THINK YOU WOULD HAVE TO APOLOGIZE FOR THIS THEATER.
• 08:09   JEWISH ACTORS HERE    AND IN THE UNITED STATES,
• 08:13 MY GOODNESS, YOU KNOW, >>   I HAVE A LIST --
• 08:16  IT'S KIND OF AMUSING    TO THINK OF THIS.
• 08:18  IF I HAD A LIST OF --   OR RATHER LET'S SAY A GROUP
• 08:23  OF FIVE JEWISH PERSONALITIES.
• 08:26  PEOPLE NAMED:
• 08:33 WELL, YOU'D THINK I WAS TALKING ABOUT WAITERS OF A DELICATESSEN.
• 08:37 BUT I AM ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT:
• 08:43  AMONG MUSICIANS I COULD NAME   THEM ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT.
• 08:46 ROGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN
• 08:48    YITZAK PEARLMAN, >>   LEONARD BERSTEIN,
• 08:51   WILLIAM STEINBERG.
• 08:53  COULD GO ON AND ON LIKE THAT.
• 08:56   YOU KNOW, WILLIAM STEINBERG WHEN HE WAS IN GERMANY
• 08:58    WAS MADE MINISTER    OF JEWISH CULTURE
• 09:00   BEFORE WORLD WAR II   BECAUSE THE JEWISH CULTURE
• 09:03  WAS SO INFERIOR THAT  THE NAZIS DIDN'T WANT
• 09:07    TO LISTEN TO THEIR MUSIC >>AND LOOK AT THEIR ART.
• 09:12   AND THE JOKE WAS IT  WAS MUCH BETTER WHEN
• 09:14 THE BERNSTEIN ORGANIZED THE JEWISH MUSICIANS IN GERMANY
• 09:18  TO TWO SUPER ORCHESTRAS, WHY,   THE GERMAN AUDIENCES WOULD
• 09:21  STAND OUT IN THE SNOW  AND OPEN THE WINDOWS
• 09:23   OF CONCERT HALL SO  THEY COULD HEAR THESE
• 09:25 MAGNIFICENT ORCHESTRAS PERFORM.
• 09:28    THEY CAME HERE TO ISRAEL, >>   THESE MUSICIANS.
• 09:30  THEY STARTED >>   THE ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC,
• 09:32   ONE OF THE    WORLD'S GREAT ORCHESTRAS.
• 09:34 WHEN TOSCANINI CONDUCTED HERE,
• 09:36 HE WAS SO AMAZED BY HOW  THE ORCHESTRA PLAYED HE SAID,
• 09:40   "WHO'S THE CONDUCTOR HERE."
• 09:41 AND THEY INTRODUCED HIM  TO WILLIAM STEINBERG.
• 09:44  THEY DIDN'T TELL HIM THESE WERE THE BEST OF
• 09:46 THE GERMAN ORCHESTRAS, HAND PICKED AND
• 09:49 THE LAST VIOLINIST WAS    A CONCERT MASTER OF A BIG
• 09:51   GERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
• 09:53  HE WAS IMPRESSED TOO   WITH THE CONDUCTOR
• 09:55   AND TOOK WILLIAM STEINBERG  TO THE UNITED STATES
• 09:57   AND THAT'S HOW HE TURNED UP   AT THE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY
• 10:00    AND THE NEW YORK >>PHILHARMONIC AND SO ON.
• 10:03    THE NAMES CHANGE >>  LIKE IN THE BIBLE.
• 10:05   A NAME IN THE BIBLE  LIKE YA'ACOV OR JACOB CHANGES
• 10:10 TO JAMES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 10:12   JESUS' NAME CHANGES FROM JOSHUA TO THIS J-E-S-U-S.
• 10:18   HIS NAME IS REALLY   JOSHUA IN ENGLISH.
• 10:20    YESHUA IN HEBREW.
• 10:22 THAT TEACHES US  SOMETHING WE SHOULDN'T MISS,
• 10:24    A BIBLE TYPE THAT JOSHUA >>   WHO WAS THE ONE WHO GOING
• 10:30  INTO THE JERICHO AT THE SOUND OF THE SHOUTS AND THE TRUMPETS
• 10:34  WAS THE LEADER OF HIS PEOPLE.
• 10:35  AND LIKEWISE, THE LORD JESUS,
• 10:38   WHEN IN THE RAPTURE  OF THE CHURCH
• 10:40    AND AT THE SOUND >>  OF THE SHOUTS AND TRUMPETS
• 10:42  WILL LEAD HIS PEOPLE  TO THE PROMISED LAND.
• 10:45    NAMES CAN BE VERY TRICKY.
• 10:47 LET ME GIVE YOU  A FEW MORE OF THESE.
• 11:24  I COULD GO ON AND ON.
• 11:25   WHY WOULD A JEWISH COMEDIAN CALL HIMSELF RODNEY DANGERFIELD?
• 11:30  IT WOULD SELL BETTER >>   AS A GENTILE, I SUPPOSE.
• 11:34   WHEN EDDIE CANTOR,   WHO WAS POPULAR, YOU KNOW,
• 11:36 WHEN FDR WHO HAD POLIO HIMSELF,   FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT,
• 11:42 CALLED HIM INTO THE WHITE HOUSE   AND ASKED HIS ADVICE ON HOW
• 11:43 TO COMBAT POLIO   AND CANTOR CAME UP
• 11:45  WITH A BRILLIANT IDEA  AND THE PHRASE ITSELF
• 11:48  OF "MARCH OF DIMES."
• 11:50 HE INVENTED IT.
• 11:53   CANTOR'S NAME WAS:
• 11:58  HE WAS CERTAINLY JEWISH, TOO.
• 11:59 YOU KNOW, IN MEDICAL RESEARCH, I DON'T HAVE TO MENTION
• 12:04 THAT DOCTORS AND SO ON.
• 12:05    SALK CURED POLIO.
• 12:07   SABINE WORKED WITH    THE VACCINE ALSO.
• 12:10   AND SO MANY OTHERS.
• 12:12 NOBEL PRIZES HAVE BEEN TAKEN BY JEWISH PEOPLE
• 12:16 SO PREVALENTLY,    THAT THESE PEOPLE
• 12:19  AS ONE QUARTER OF ONE PERCENT   OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION,
• 12:22   ONE QUARTER OF ONE PERCENT   HAS WON 20 PERCENT
• 12:26  OF THE NOBEL PRIZES.
• 12:28 ONE IN FIVE HAS  BEEN GIVEN TO A JEW.
• 12:30    IN THE HOLOCAUST HAS HALF >>   OF THE JEWS IN THE WORLD
• 12:33    WERE KILLED GIVE OR TAKE, HOW MANY DISEASES HAVE WE FAILED
• 12:37  TO CURE WITH THAT HOLOCAUST?
• 12:39 HOW MANY MUSICAL PERFORMANCES,
• 12:42   HOW MANY THEATRICAL  PERFORMANCES,
• 12:44    HOW MANY CHAGALL >>WINDOWS WERE NOT MADE?
• 12:46   HOW MANY SCULPTURES WERE NOT BUILT?
• 12:49 WHAT OTHER BLESSINGS DID WE LOSE BECAUSE WE CURSE THESE PEOPLE?
• 12:55 YOU KNOW IN GENESIS 12 WHEN ABRAHAM IS CALLED
• 12:58 IN THE BEGINNING OF THE CHAPTER,  GOD SAID, THAT THIS NATION IS
• 13:01  A BLESSING UNTO ALL NATIONS.
• 13:04    CHAGALL, >> WITH HIS 12 WINDOWS,
• 13:05   PAINTED THE  WHOLE ISRAELI NATION,
• 13:08  ALL 12 TRIBES    IN DIFFERENT WAYS
• 13:11  IN THAT BRILLIANT DISPLAY OF COLORED GLASS AND THAT PEOPLE,
• 13:15 THOSE PEOPLE WHO HE WAS  PORTRAYING OF THEM GOD SAID:
• 13:28  SO LET'S NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE OF WORLD WAR II GERMANS
• 13:32 OR OF THE PALESTINIANS    OR OF THE BRITISH
• 13:34 OR OF THE TURKS    OR OF THE MUSLIMS
• 13:36    OR OF THE ROMANS, OR THE GREEKS,
• 13:39  THE PERSIANS   OR THE BABYLONIANS
• 13:42    OR GO ALL >>   THE WAY BACK TO PHARAOH,
• 13:45   LET'S NOT MAKE THAT MISTAKE AND CURSE THIS BRILLIANT PEOPLE.
• 13:49     CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, BBC,
• 13:53   WHEN YOU DRIVE PAST THIS BUILDING,
• 13:54 SHOW THE PEOPLE   THE PICTURE OF IT.
• 13:56 ARE YOU ASHAMED TO SAY THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 13:58 HAVE BUILT QUITE A NATION HERE.
• 14:01   DO YOU HAVE TO KEEP  ON CURSING THEM HERE?
• 14:02 BECAUSE IF YOU DO THAT,   GOD WILL CURSE YOU
• 14:05    AND I SAY THAT ON   A SCRIPTURAL BASIS.
• 14:07   READ GENESIS 12:3.
• 14:09 LET'S INSTEAD LOOK FOR THE BOUNTIFUL BLESSINGS OF GOD
• 14:12 BY OBEYING THAT   SIMPLE PRESCRIPTION
• 14:16  GIVEN IN THAT VERSE:
• 14:17   "I WILL BLESS THEM   THAT BLESSES YOU."
• 14:20   AND TAKE THE JEWISH PEOPLE INTO OUR HEARTS.
• 14:25   OBVIOUSLY ISRAEL IS A LAND   OF ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTIONS.
• 14:28 THAT OF COURSE, IS PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF
• 14:30  THE NATURE OF >>   THE PEOPLE WHO GO THERE.
• 14:32 THE JEWISH PEOPLE OF THE WORLD HAVE ALWAYS EMPHASIZED EDUCATION
• 14:36    AND PARTICULARLY CULTURE.
• 14:38   WHEN I WAS A LITTLE CHILD, FOUR YEARS OLD,
• 14:40 IMMEDIATELY HAD TO TAKE  PIANO LESSONS WITH MY MOTHER.
• 14:43  I WENT ON TO A PIANO TEACHER.
• 14:45  I'M GLAD I DID THAT.
• 14:46 IF A CHILD HAS  ARTISTIC SKILLS FOR PAINTINGS
• 14:50    AND SCULPTURE, WHATEVER.
• 14:52   IT'S ALWAYS ENCOURAGED THEY    COME OUT OF THOSE THINGS.
• 14:54    AND SO THEY COME >>OUT OF AMERICA, OUT OF RUSSIA,
• 14:56 OUT OF EUROPE WITH THESE TALENTS  AND THEY BUILD CONCERT HALLS
• 14:59   AND THEY GIVE THESE TALENTS TO EACH OTHER AND TO THE WORLD.
• 15:04 IT'S WONDERFUL.
• 15:05   BUT THEN THERE ARE SCIENTIFIC PEOPLE AS WELL AMONG
• 15:08    THE JEWISH PEOPLE    AS YOU WELL KNOW.
• 15:10 A JEW CONQUERED POLIO.
• 15:12    A JEW FIGURED OUT THE WHOLE SPLITTING OF THE ATOM
• 15:15  AND SO FORTH.
• 15:16  BUT THESE ARE WORKING IN ISRAEL IN PARTICULAR ON DNA
• 15:22  AND THEY ARE DETERMINING WHO IS A REAL DESCENDANT OF AARON,
• 15:25    THE HIGH PRIEST, >> THE KOHANIM.
• 15:27 YOU KNOW ANY PEOPLE NAMED KOHAN?
• 15:29   THEY MAY BE HIGH PRIESTS OF   ISRAEL OR HIS DESCENDANTS.
• 15:44  PROFESSOR, WOULD YOU   TELL ME ABOUT THE RESEARCH
• 15:46    THAT'S BEEN DONE HERE    IN ISRAEL AND THE DNA
• 15:47  AND THE LOOKING OF THE KOHANIM?
• 15:54  AS YOU KNOW WHEN THE ISRAELITES WERE LEAVING EGYPT,
• 15:59   MOSES AND AARON HIS BROTHER   WERE AMONG THE ONES
• 16:03    THAT WERE LEADING  THE ISRAELITES OUT OF EGYPT.
• 16:08   AND BECAUSE OF THEIR HIARCHY  IN THE ISRAELITE TRIBE
• 16:14  AND THEY WERE NOMINATED BY GOD TO BE THE LEADERS.
• 16:19  AND AARON ESPECIALLY    GOT A VERY SPECIFIC TASK.
• 16:22  HE HAD TO BE THE MAIN PRIEST, >>   THE CHIEF PRIEST
• 16:27 AND HIS ASSISTANTS WERE THE ONES WHO SHOULD SERVE IN THE TEMPLE,
• 16:31 IN JERUSALEM WHEN THE TEMPLE WAS  BUILT IN THE TIME OF SOLOMON.
• 16:35   AND THE WAY THIS PRIESTHOOD WAS INHERITED WAS VERY STRICT.
• 16:43 ONLY THE ANCESTORS OF THE MALE PRIEST WERE PRIESTS THEMSELVES.
• 16:47   AND FOR CENTURIES,   THIS INHERITANCE WAS KEPT.
• 16:58   THAT MEANS THAT THE KOHANIM SHOULD BE REALLY A VERY DISTINCT
• 17:00  AMONG THE JEWISH POPULATION, BECAUSE AS I EXPLAINED THE WHITE
• 17:05   CHROMOSOME IS ONLY   A SINGLE CHROMOSOME
• 17:06 IN THE HUMAN POPULATION AND INHERITED ONLY FROM ONE MALE
• 17:11    TO ANOTHER MALE.
• 17:13 AND IF INDEED A STRICT  ORDER OF PRIESTHOOD WAS KEPT
• 17:18 DURING THE 3000 YEARS,
• 17:20  THAT MEANS THAT MAYBE    THE WHITE CHROMOSOME KEPT
• 17:22    A SPECIAL FEATURE   IN THIS POPULATION.
• 17:26  IT IS PART OF THE DNA AND THEY HAVE A SPECIAL FEATURE
• 17:31    OF THE WHITE CHROMOSOME, >> AND SURPRISINGLY ENOUGH THEY
• 17:34  INDEED SHOW THAT THIS   SPECIAL FEATURE OF
• 17:38  THE WHITE CHROMOSOME >>   MEANING THAT THE KOHANIM
• 17:41   IS SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT    FROM THE WHITE CHROMOSOME
• 17:44  FROM ALL OF THE OTHER    OF THE JEWISH POPULATION.
• 17:48 THIS MUST HAVE BEEN A SURPRISE   TO THE SCIENTIST COMMUNITY.
• 17:51 YES, IT WAS A SURPRISE.
• 17:52   IT WAS PUBLISHED IN  NATURE WHICH WAS IS AN ANSWER
• 17:57  PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH JOURNAL.
• 18:00 ONE OF THE MOST  PRESTIGIOUS JOURNALS
• 18:01    IN THE SCIENTIFIC WORLD.
• 18:03 MANY PEOPLE COMMENTED ON THIS.
• 18:06 AND IT WAS REALLY A BIG SURPRISE TO SEE THAT SO MANY YEARS PASSED
• 18:11 AND STILL YOU CAN FIND A VERY UNIQUE STRUCTURE
• 18:15   OF THE DNA OF THIS PEOPLE.
• 18:17   THIS IS ONE OF THE  UNIQUE THINGS THAT CAN HAPPEN
• 18:20   TO NOT ONLY JEWISH   BUT THE GENERAL POPULATION
• 18:23    OF THE WORLD TO SEE SUCH >>A GROUP OF PEOPLE REALLY KEEPING
• 18:26  THROUGH THE CENTURIES
• 18:28    SUCH A CLEAN WAY >> OF INHERITANCE AND MARRIAGES.
• 18:33 PROFESSOR, WHAT IMPACT COULD THIS HAVE IN THE
• 18:35    FUTURE OF ISRAEL?
• 18:37   I WOULD SAY THAT IF   THE TIME COMES WHEN
• 18:41    THE TEMPLE WERE REBUILT,    MANY JEWS HOPE THAT THIS
• 18:46 WILL COME SOON.
• 18:49 I GUESS, THAT SINCE IN   THE TEMPLE ONLY THE PRIESTS
• 18:52    CAN SERVE IN THE TEMPLE.
• 18:56 THERE WAS A BIG DEBATE  AMONG THE LEADERS AND RABBIS
• 19:01  AND JEWISH TRADITION,    IF THE KOHANIM ARE REALLY
• 19:04 THE ORIGINALLY KOHANIM BUT THE PEOPLE WHO CALL
• 19:08   THEMSELVES KOHANIM, BUT IN  FACT THEY WERE NEVER KOHANIM.
• 19:11    THE FACT THAT THE KOHANIM >>   KEPT THE SPECIAL FEATURE
• 19:17   IN THE DNA PROBABLY THEY ARE REAL KOHANIM,
• 19:21   THEY ARE THE REAL ANCESTORS OF THE FIRST AARON OF THE BIBLE
• 19:25    WHICH MAKES IT MUCH EASY >>   FOR THESE PEOPLE TO SERVE
• 19:30  IN THE TEMPLE  WHEN THE TIME COMES.
• 19:41    IF THE TEMPLE IS >>   GOING TO BE REBUILT SOON,
• 19:43    IT WILL BE IN JERUSALEM.
• 19:45 THIS CITY IS ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO THE HEART OF ONE MAN EHUD OMERT,
• 19:50 THE MAYOR OF JERUSALEM.
• 19:52   MAYOR OMERT, IN THE AMERICA AND THE WESTERN WORLD,
• 19:56    THE NEWS ABOUT JERUSALEM >>  TENDS TO BE VERY NEGATIVE.
• 19:59 DUSTY STREETS AND PEOPLE PUSHING EACH OTHER AND WORSE THAN THAT.
• 20:03  AND YET WHEN  WE COME HERE,
• 20:05    IT LOOKS PEACEFUL  AND A BEAUTIFUL CITY.
• 20:08   IT CERTAINLY IS A BEAUTIFUL    CITY AND A PEACEFUL CITY.
• 20:11 YOU KNOW EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE IN THE PROBLEM
• 20:13    OF JERUSALEM BECAUSE OF ITS VERY UNIQUE STATUS.
• 20:19  IT HAS ENORMOUS SIGNIFICANCE   FOR WORLD HISTORY,
• 20:24 FOR SO MANY DIFFERENT BELIEVERS, AND SO MANY DIFFERENT RELIGIONS
• 20:26    ACROSS THE WORLD.
• 20:27 THERE IS AN ABNORMAL SENSITIVITY OF JERUSALEM WHICH IS DIFFERENT
• 20:32    PERHAPS ANY OTHER   CITY IN THE WORLD.
• 20:36   AND EVERY TINY LITTLE EVENT WHICH WOULD BE HARDLY MENTIONED
• 20:42 OR EVEN NOTICED IN BIGGER CITIES IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD
• 20:50   IMMEDIATELY BECOMES A GLOBAL EVENT WHERE IT
• 20:55    TAKES PLACE IN JERUSALEM.
• 20:58 EVERYTHING THAT TAKES PLACE HERE IS IMMEDIATELY A GLOBAL EVENT.
• 21:01   SO THINGS TEND TO BLOW OUT   OF THEIR REAL PROPORTIONS.
• 21:07   BUT THERE ARE MORE VIOLENT   EVENTS IN EVERY MAJOR CITY
• 21:13    IN AMERICA AND IN EUROPE,   THERE ARE MORE INSECURITIES
• 21:18  IN TERMS OF PERSONAL  SECURITY SAFETY AND SECURITY
• 21:21 FOR INDIVIDUALS IN MOST    MAJOR CITIES IN THE WORLD
• 21:24  THAN THERE ARE IN JERUSALEM.
• 21:26 JERUSALEM IS CLEANER, IS NICER,   IS CERTAINLY MORE BEAUTIFUL
• 21:31   AND MORE INSPIRING  THAN ANY OTHER CITY.
• 21:37  OKAY.
• 21:39   YOU GO TO NEW YORK   AND I LOVE NEW YORK
• 21:40  AND YOU SEE THESE HIGH RISES AND BIG TOWERS,
• 21:44 OKAY, AFTER YOU HAVE SEEN FIVE,    YOU GOT THE IDEA.
• 21:47  THAT'S RIGHT.
• 21:48   SO IN OTHER PLACES.
• 21:50 FIVE THOUSAND.
• 21:51 AND GO TO MIAMI AND YOU GO TO TEL AVIV
• 21:53   AND YOU ASK YOURSELF WHICH IS MIAMI AND WHICH IS TEL AVIV
• 21:57    AND WHO IS OTHER CITIES.
• 22:00   THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT JERUSALEM WHICH DOES NOT
• 22:04   EXIST IN ANY OTHER    PLACE IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
• 22:08   WHEN YOU THINK FROM  JUST ACROSS WHERE WE SIT NOW
• 22:12   FIVE HUNDRED METERS >>   IN ONE SQUARE KILOMETER,
• 22:18  WE HAVE MORE HOLY SITES THAT  ARE IMPORTANT AND SIGNIFICANT
• 22:23   FOR MORE BELIEVERS OF MORE   RELIGIONS ACROSS THE WORLD
• 22:29    THAN IN ANY OTHER    PLACE IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
• 22:34  WHEN YOU THINK OF ALL   THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL EVENTS
• 22:39   OF OUR CIVILIZATIONS, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THIS SMALL PLACE,
• 22:44   WHEN YOU KNOW THAT  WHEN YOU COME THERE,
• 22:48 YOU CAN LOOK AT PLACES WHICH YOU READ OF IN THE BIBLE.
• 22:53    NOW, THIS IS NOT FICTION.
• 22:55 THIS IS NOT FAIRYTALE.
• 22:57    THIS IS REALITY.
• 22:59   YOU WALK THROUGH THE HILLS >>   WHERE KING DAVID WALKED.
• 23:03  THIS IS NOT A STORY.
• 23:05 WE HAVE THE REMAINS OF THE HOUSE OF KING DAVID
• 23:08 JUST OUTSIDE OF THE WALL IN JERUSALEM.
• 23:12   YOU LOOK AT   ABSALOM MORATORIUM
• 23:15  WHICH YOU READ ABOUT  IN THE BIBLE,
• 23:17  KING DAVID BUILT FOR   HIS SON AFTER HIS SON TRIED
• 23:20   TO ASSASSINATE HIM,   AND HE EULOGIZED HIM IN ONE
• 23:24  OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PIECES OF POETRY THAT WERE EVER WRITTEN
• 23:28   BY ANY HUMAN BEING    IN HUMAN HISTORY.
• 23:30    ALL THIS IS HERE.
• 23:33   IT CAN'T BE  COMPARED TO ANYTHING.
• 23:35    IT IS TRUE THAT JERUSALEM   IS FILLED WITH ALL KINDS OF
• 23:39    DIFFICULTIES AND PROBLEMS AND CONTRADICTIONS WHICH IS PART
• 23:43 OF THE FASCINATION OF THIS CITY.
• 23:46    BUT HOW CAN IT BE  COMPARED TO ANY OTHER PLACE?
• 23:49  A THOUSAND YEARS AGO.
• 23:50   CRUSADERS CAME FROM EUROPE.
• 23:53  TRYING TO RECAPTURE THE PLACE  FOR THEIR LORD AND SO FORTH.
• 23:59 THERE WAS A LOT >>   OF TROUBLE AND FIGHTING.
• 24:01   DO YOU EXPECT ANY TROUBLE?
• 24:03   NO.
• 24:04   NOT REALLY.
• 24:06    THERE ARE OBVIOUS ISSUES >> WHICH ARE PART OF OUR AGENDA
• 24:10  AND PALESTINIANS WANT    TO HAVE SOME KIND
• 24:15   OF POLITICAL STATUS  IN JERUSALEM AND THIS
• 24:17 IS PART OF THE POLITICAL AGENDA.
• 24:20 THERE WILL BE MORE THAN    500 UNDER COVERS SCRAPING
• 24:25  EVERY CORNER AND SPOT >>   IN THE OLD CITY.
• 24:29 ALL WILL BE MONITOR IT  IS 24 HOURS AROUND THE CLOCK.
• 24:32   MICROPHONE SENSORS,   CAMERAS, POLICEMEN,
• 24:38 SECURITY PEOPLE  WHO IN EVERY CORNER.
• 24:40 THERE WILL BE COMPLETE SECURITY AND SAFETY FOR VISITORS
• 24:44   AND GOOD PROTECTION FOR ALL  OF THE SITES THAT NEED TO BE
• 24:47 PROTECTED IN JERUSALEM.
• 24:51     [music playing]
• 25:39    WHAT INNOVATIONS >>  YOU FIND IN ISRAEL.
• 25:42   AND PROPHECY FULFILLMENTS.
• 25:43   MY GOODNESS ANYBODY INTERESTED IN THE BIBLE
• 25:45 REALLY NEED TO SEES THIS PLACE.
• 25:47  YOU SHOULD VISIT IF YOU CAN.
• 25:50    YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO WITH OUR TOURS BUT GO WITH SOMEBODY,
• 25:53 GET OVER THERE.
• 25:55    AND DON'T GO BY THE MEDIA  WHICH IS THE WAY MOST PEOPLE,
• 25:58 SO-CALLED VISIT ISRAEL.
• 26:00 THEY WATCH WHAT   THE NEWS MEDIA SAY.
• 26:04    NEWS MEDIA ARE IN CHARGE >>  OF TELLING NEGATIVE STORIES
• 26:07  AND GATHERING A CROWD SO THEY CAN HAWK THEIR
• 26:09   MERCHANDISE IN COMMERCIALS.
• 26:11   FORGET IT.
• 26:12 THAT'S WHY WE MADE THIS SERIES   TO SHOW YOU THIS IS ISRAEL
• 26:18  AS OPPOSED TO WHAT THEY FILM.
• 26:20    GO ON A PILGRIM'S JOURNEY   AND GO WITH THE BELIEVERS.
• 26:24  AND LISTEN TO >>   THE TEACHERS OVER THERE.
• 26:26  YOU'LL JUST LOVE THAT PLACE.
• 26:28  THAT'S OUR OFFER, BY THE WAY.
• 26:30   WE ONCE MADE A SERIES  OF A PILGRIM'S JOURNEY.
• 26:33    AND IT WAS FOR THE PURPOSE   OF FOLKS WHO CAN'T GET I KNOW
• 26:36    EVERYBODY CAN'T GO   WE HAVE PEOPLE IN WHEELCHAIRS
• 26:39    AND WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO CAN'T TRAVEL THAT FAR
• 26:42   FOR VARIOUS REASONS.
• 26:43    AND A LOT OF PEOPLE    JUST DON'T HAVE THE MONEY.
• 26:45   I'M SORRY IT IS SO FAR AWAY.
• 26:47   THE PSALMIST TOLD US   NOT TO LEAVE THE LAND
• 26:49    AND THERE'S A GOOD REASON.
• 26:51 AND WE PUT IT ON    VIDEO TAPE FOR YOU.
• 26:53   WE HAD THE CREW FOLLOW ALONG   THE TOUR AND PRETTY MUCH FILM
• 26:58  WHAT WAS SEEN AND TAPED   WHAT WAS SEEN BY THE TOURIST.
• 27:01   YOU CAN GET IT ON VIDEO TAPE   OR GET THE MUSIC SET
• 27:04 OF THE PILGRIM'S JOURNEY.
• 27:06    I WROTE SOME MUSIC    AS THE LORD GAVE IT TO ME.
• 27:07    AND ON THE COMPANY    OF THE ISRAEL TOUR.
• 27:10    YOU GET YOUR LEVITT LETTER   AND CATALOG AS WELL.
• 27:13 JUST SEND YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
• 27:14   THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR THOSE  THINGS.
• 27:16 I WISH YOU WOULD GET IT, IT KEEPS YOU UP AND DATE
• 27:19  AND INFORMED OF WHAT WE'RE DOING.
• 27:21  AND ALL OF THE    OFFERS OF ALL OF THE SHOWS.
• 27:22   AND FINALLY,   REMEMBER THE GIFTS OF FUNDS.
• 27:24    EVERY NOW AND THEN   I HAVE TO STOP AND REMIND YOU
• 27:26    THAT WE ARE REALLY  NOT A STORE AND WE STAY
• 27:29  ON NATIONAL TELEVISION  BY THE FACT THAT PEOPLE
• 27:32 SIMPLY GIVE FUNDS    AND ASK NOTHING IN RETURN.
• 27:34  THAT'S CHRISTIAN GIVING    AND WE VALUE IT VERY MUCH.
• 27:38 AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 27:40 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
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