Caption transcript for This Is Israel: “A Place to Call Home” (9/12)

• 00:01 HELLO, I'M ZOLA LEVITT.
• 00:03   ON TODAY'S PROGRAM, WE'LL GO OVER TO ISRAEL
• 00:05 AND SHOW ]OU CEASAREA,   A REALLY SURPRISING PLACE.
• 00:08 YOU ARE NOT GOING TO SEE ON CNN.
• 00:10  AND GO TO BEN GURION AIRPORT    AND CHECK ON NEW ISRAELIS
• 00:15   COMING BACK  TO THEIR ANCESTRAL HOMELAND.
• 00:21    [ music playing ]
• 00:57 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN AND WELCOME
• 00:58 BACK TO THIS IS ISRAEL SERIES.
• 01:00 WE MADE THESE PROGRAMS BECAUSE  FRANKLY WE ARE JUST WEARY OF
• 01:04   WATCHING HOW ISRAEL    IS PORTRAYED ON THE NEWS.
• 01:06 IF ISRAEL WAS A PERSON, IT WOULD HAVE GROUNDS TO SUE FOR LIBEL.
• 01:12  THE WAY CNN AND THE NETWORKS  COVER THE PLACE AS IF IT WAS
• 01:15  SOME KIND OF BANANA REPUBLIC  AND ALWAYS IN TROUBLE
• 01:17 AND HAVING STRIFE AND CONFLICT,  THAT'S CRAZY.
• 01:20    IT'S A THRIVING DEMOCRACY   AND IT'S GOT THE PER CAPITA
• 01:25   INCOME OF A    WESTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRY.
• 01:27  IT'S NOT LIKE   ITS ARAB NEIGHBORS AT ALL.
• 01:29   IT IS PROGRESSIVE, MODERN.
• 01:31 ITS TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRY AND >>   EXPORTS MAKE IT A NATION >> AMONG NATIONS REALLY.
• 01:39 AND WE CALL IT A PLACE TO CALL HOME, BECAUSE IT IS GOING TO BE
• 01:43  HOME OF THE ENTIRE CHURCH NOT   JUST TO SAY THE JEWS OF THE    WORLD EVENTUALLY.
• 01:49    BUT WE ARE GOING FIRST TO  THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST TO A WONDERFUL TOWN CALLED CEASAREA.
• 01:56    IT GOES ALL THE WAY BACK >>   WE'LL EXPLAIN IN HISTORY.
• 01:59   THIS IS MEDITERRANEAN SEA,  OF COURSE, AND THE COASTLINE
• 02:03   OF ISRAEL,    THIS IS TEL AVIV.
• 02:05 AND NORTH OF TEL AVIV, IS THE LITTLE TOWN OF CEASAREA.
• 02:09  HERE IS HYFFA  AND THE BORDER WITH LEBANON.
• 02:12    SO WE ARE HALFWAY   UP THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST
• 02:17  A VERY, VERY  SURPRISING AND PRETTY PLACE.
• 02:20    SO NOW WE'LL GO    TO LOCATION RIGHT THERE.
• 02:31  A PLACE TO CALL HOME.
• 02:33 THIS IS CERTAINLY ONE OF THOSE
• 02:34 PLACES IN ISRAEL WHERE
• 02:36 IT'S FUN TO BE AT HOME.
• 02:37    THIS IS CEASAREA.
• 02:38    IT WAS A DILAPIDATED TOWN   WHEN KING HEROD CAME HERE.
• 02:41 IT IS AN ANCIENT SITE.
• 02:43    IT'S A HARBOR AND SO ON, ON  THE COAST OF THE MEDITERRANEAN.
• 02:46   BUT HEROD, THE GREAT    BUILDER OF MASSADAH
• 02:50 AND THE TEMPLE AT JERUSALEM PUT A PALACE HERE
• 02:53  AND BUILT A MAGNIFICENT TOWN.
• 02:56  YOU KNOW, WHEN MARK TWAIN WAS    HERE IN THE 19th CENTURY,
• 03:00 CEASAREA WAS ONE OF THE PLACES  THAT REALLY DISCOURAGED HIM.
• 03:02  THE SEA WATER HAD BEEN PLOWED
• 03:04  IN HERE AND THE TURKS >>   HAD TAKEN THE TREES OUT.
• 03:07   IT WAS A DESERT AND  A SWAMP AND NOT A NICE PLACE.
• 03:12    BUT UNDER HEROD, >> SO MANY PEOPLE MOVED IN HERE
• 03:15  THAT THE CITY BECAME LARGER THAN JERUSALEM.
• 03:18    IT HAD A >>POPULATION OF 100,000.
• 03:21 THERE WAS AN OLD SAYING WHEN JERUSALEM PROSPERS    CEASAREA IS DOWN.
• 03:27   AND WHEN CEASAREA PROSPERS,   JERUSALEM IS DOWN.
• 03:29   AND WE'RE IN THE JERUSALEM   PERIOD NOW AND CEASAREA IS  PROSPERING JUST FINE.
• 03:34   THE VIA MARIS GOES  THROUGH HERE.
• 03:37  THE ROAD OF THE SEA.
• 03:38 THAT IS THE WAY OF THE SEA THAT  COMES FROM SOUTH OF TEL AVIV
• 03:42  AND RUNS UP THE COAST   TO HYFFA AND TO THE NORTH.
• 03:44  AND THIS WAS A MAJOR  TRADE ROUTE IN ANCIENT TIMES.
• 03:48 THE EGYPTIANS WOULD USE   TO TRADE WITH MESOPOTAMIA.
• 03:52 IT WOULD GO UP AS FAR AS HYFFA  AND TURN IN LAND THROUGH THE
• 03:54  VALLEY OF ARMAGEDDON AND PAST THE CITY OF MEGIDDO AND ALL OF
• 03:58 THIS IS STILL THERE AS ANCIENT ROADS AND THEN THE ROAD WOULD GO
• 04:03   THROUGH TO WHAT IS  NOW SYRIA AND JORDAN
• 04:06 AND ALL THE WAY OVER TO NORTHERN >>   IRAQ AND THE TIGRESS AND >> EUPHRATES AND SO ON.
• 04:11 WE'RE ON A GOLF COURSE.
• 04:13   THERE'S A WONDERFUL   COUNTRY CLUB HERE.
• 04:15  THERE'S ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL PROFESSIONAL 18-HOLE GOLF COURSE
• 04:21    ALTHOUGH YOU HAVE TO KNOW   HOW TO HIT OUT OF THE SAND,
• 04:24    IT IS A BEAUTIFUL   COURSE TO LOOK AT.
• 04:27  THERE'S WATER AND BEAUTIFUL FAIRWAYS.
• 04:29 AND THE TOWN BOASTS OF A ROMAN THEATER WITH 3600 SEATS THEY USE
• 04:35  ALL OF THE TIME FOR CONCERTS.
• 04:38 YOU KNOW, THE REVOLT OF 66 A.D.,  THE ONE THAT FINALLY ENDED UP
• 04:43  RAISING THE JERUSALEM TEMPLE,    STARTED HERE AT CEASAREA.
• 04:49  IT'S A FAMOUS PLACE.
• 04:51    THE MARMALUKES CAME HERE >> AND DESTROYED ROMAN STATUARY   AND SO ON,
• 04:55  SO THAT A LOT OF THE ANCIENT   RUINS HAVE BEEN DESECRATED.
• 04:59  THOSE WERE MUSLIMS FROM EGYPT >>   WHO CAME HERE AFTER THE >>   CRUSADES.
• 05:03 BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT OF  CEASAREA IS THIS IS THE TOWN
• 05:08   WHICH BEGAN GENTILE  SALVATION IN THE CHURCH AGE.
• 05:12  CORNELIUS, THE FIRST GENTILE WHOSE SALVATION IS RECORDED IN
• 05:16 THE CHURCH AGE IS SAVED HERE BY A SERMON FROM PETER WHEN HE CAME
• 05:26   HERE FROM JOPPA IN ACTS 10, THE THING IS RECORDED.
• 05:27 IT'S A KEY MOMENT IN SCRIPTURE.
• 05:28 WHEN THE BRETHREN AT JERUSALEM,
• 05:31    THE CHURCH FATHERS WHO, >> OF COURSE, WERE ALL JEWISH AT THAT POINT,
• 05:35  HEARD THAT HE WITNESSED TO    GENTILES, IT SAYS THEY   WERE TAKEN ABACK.
• 05:40  AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE JEWISH CHRISTIANS THAT CAME
• 05:42 HERE WITH PETER IT SAYS IN THE SCRIPTURES WERE ASTONISHED THAT:
• 05:48  PAUL WAS HERE FOR TWO YEARS.
• 05:50  HE STOOD TRIAL HERE.
• 05:54 AND SINCE 1961, THIS HAS BEEN A
• 05:55 REAL TOURIST >>   ATTRACTION IN OUR DAY.
• 05:59 THEY COME HERE TO PLAY GOLF, TO GET SUN, TO SWIM.
• 06:01  THERE IS BEAUTIFUL >>BEACHES ON THE MEDITERRANEAN.
• 06:04 THERE'S GORGEOUS HOMES >>   HERE AND EXOTIC BAZAARS.
• 06:07 THIS IS A JEWEL IN THE CROWN OF ISRAEL.
• 06:10   IT'S ALSO A PLACE THAT CNN   AND THE NETWORKS DRIVE PAST   EVERY DAY.
• 06:13  THEY CAN'T AVOID IT.
• 06:15 THE HIGHWAY BETWEEN TEL AVIV AND HYFFA PASSES IN PLAIN SIGHT OF
• 06:19 THESE BEAUTIFUL HOMES,    THIS GOLF COURSE,
• 06:21   THESE BROAD BOULEVARDS AND    BEAUTIFUL TREES AND FRUIT  AND ORCHARDS.
• 06:26 AND THEY NEVER,  EVER SHOW IT TO YOU.
• 06:28 SO WE CAME HERE TO SHOW YOU THAT THIS, TOO, IS ISRAEL.
• 06:45    "THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,   I SHALL GATHER YOU FROM THE
• 06:48 "PEOPLES AND ASSEMBLE YOU OUT OF THE COUNTRIES WHERE YOU HAVE
• 06:52    "BEEN SCATTERED AND I WILL   GIVE YOU THE LAND OF ISRAEL,
• 06:56   "THE WILDERNESS AND >>    DRY LAND SHALL BE GLAD.
• 06:59    "THE DESERT SHALL REJOICE     AND BLOSSOM AS THE ROSE.
• 07:03   "YOU SHALL KNOW THAT    I AM THE LORD WHEN I BRING
• 07:06 "YOU INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL."
• 07:12 WELL, WE'VE MOVED FROM THE GOLF   COURSE HERE AT CEASAREA TO
• 07:14  THIS AREA OF  VERY BEAUTIFUL HOMES.
• 07:17   THE JEWS HAVE ALWAYS LOOKED    FOR A PLACE TO CALL HOME.
• 07:21  FOR A LONG TIME,    THEY DIDN'T HAVE ONE.
• 07:38  GOD HAS TAKEN   CARE OF HIS PEOPLE.
• 07:40   THEY WERE DISPERSED  AND WENT FROM PLACE TO PLACE,
• 07:42   COUNTRY TO COUNTRY, THE WORLD OVER.
• 07:45   THE FACT IS AND AS BENJAMIN DISRAELI SAID,
• 07:49    "IT IS IMPOSSIBLE  TO DESTROY THE JEWS."
• 07:51  SO THEY SURVIVED AND THEY WENT ON AND THEY WENT ON.
• 07:55  AND WE KNOW FROM OTHER VERSES THAT GOD GAVE THEM THE LAND HERE
• 07:58 IN ISRAEL WHICH    BELONGED TO OTHER PEOPLE.
• 08:01   HE WELL KNEW THAT.
• 08:05   THEY WELCOMED FRIENDS HERE AND MADE A SOCIETY HERE
• 08:09   AND THEY HAVE BEEN INFLUENTIAL HERE IN THE WORLD.
• 08:12  ISRAELI PEOPLE HAVE GONE OUT AND REALLY HELPED IN THIS WORLD.
• 08:16  YOU KNOW, IN YUGOSLAVIA, THEY WENT OUT AND HELPED OUT IN THE
• 08:22  SETTLEMENT OF THE REFUGEES OF KOSOVO.
• 08:25    THEY WENT TO THE >> EARTHQUAKE AT TURKEY.
• 08:27    THEY WENT TO THE >> EARTHQUAKE AT GREECE.
• 08:29    THEY HAVE REACHED OUT IN ALL DIRECTIONS.
• 08:32  THEIR ENEMIES   HAVEN'T DONE THAT,
• 08:35  BUT THE ISRAELIS REALLY HAVE.
• 08:37    BACK IN THE 19th CENTURY, >>   THEY HELPED THE BOSNIANS
• 08:40  WHO BUILT MOSQUES IN ISRAEL.
• 08:42  AND THEY HAD    GOOD RELATIONS WITH THEM.
• 08:47   ISRAEL REALLY WORKS    TO EMBRACE ITS NEIGHBORS.
• 08:50   AND THAT IS   PART OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 08:52  ISRAEL WORKS EVEN TO EMBRACE   THE ARABS. THAT IS A FACT.
• 09:15   IT REMINDS THEM TO BE GOOD TO STRANGERS BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN STRANGERS.
• 09:18 THEY SURE HAVE.
• 09:20   THEY WERE 400 YEARS  IN SLAVERY IN EGYPT.
• 09:23    THEY HAVEN'T ALWAYS BEEN >> TREATED KINDLY IN THIS LAND.
• 09:25   IN 1930, THE BRITISH ISSUED  THE "PASSFIELD WHITE PAPER."
• 09:31   THEY SAID THERE WAS NO ONE  LAND TO BE HAD, NO MORE JEWS
• 09:34   SHOULD BE COME BECAUSE THE WHOLE PLACE WAS OVERPOPULATED.
• 09:37    THAT IS A RIDICULOUS LIE.
• 09:39 THERE ARE 6 TIMES OR 10 TIMES AS MANY PEOPLE NOW AND IT'S STILL
• 09:42    NOT OVERPOPULATED AT ALL.
• 09:45 THEY SIMPLY WERE ANTI-SEMITIC.
• 09:48 THE EXODUS SHIP WHICH CAME INTO THE HARBOR AFTER THE HOLOCAUST
• 09:55  IN '47, '48,  THE JEWS WERE TRYING  TO COME TO THE LAND,
• 09:59 THE BRITISH KEPT THE SHIP OUT IN THE HARBOR AND PEOPLE STARVED TO
• 10:03 DEATH BEFORE THEY WOULD LET THEM  WALK INTO THE PROMISED LAND.
• 10:06  IT WAS SUCH A   TERRIBLY SAD THING.
• 10:08    AND IN THE LAND ISRAELIS >>REACTED, BY GOSH, MENACHEM BEGIN
• 10:12   AND OTHERS LIKE HIM FORMED    VIGILANTE GROUPS AND THEY >>   BOMBED THE BRITISH, TOO.
• 10:18  AT ONE POINT, >>   THEY BOMBED UP A SECTION >>OF THE KING DAVID HOTEL
• 10:23  WHICH WAS THE BRITISH   HEADQUARTERS IN JERUSALEM.
• 10:26   THEY DIDN'T  DO IT LIKE TERRORIST.
• 10:28 THEY ISSUED A WARNING FIRST AND PHONED THE BRITISH OFFICERS AND
• 10:31    TOLD THEM, THE PLACE HAS >>  BEEN STAKED OUT WITH BOMBS,   YOU NEED TO GET UP AND GO.
• 10:35 THE BRITISH TALKED IT OVER AND  DECIDED THE ISRAELIS WEREN'T
• 10:37  CAPABLE OF DOING THAT >>   AND AS A RESULT,
• 10:39 LOST QUITE A FEW PEOPLE   WHEN THE BUILDING BLEW UP.
• 10:43    THE ISRAELIS WERE  QUITE CAPABLE OF DOING THAT.
• 10:47  THE CITY OF HADERA, JUST SOUTH  OF HERE WAS SETTLED 1891 BY 178 RUSSIAN FAMILIES.
• 10:54  540 PEOPLE DIED OF MALARIA    IN THE FIRST 20 YEARS.
• 10:59    IT'S VERY SAD.
• 11:01 IT WAS A PLACE WHERE THERE WAS SWAMPLAND AND AT FIRST ALTHOUGH
• 11:06    THEY DRAINED THE SWAMPS, >>  THE MOSQUITOS THAT CARRIED
• 11:10  MALARIA WERE INDIGENOUS TO THE AREA.
• 11:13    IT'S AN AREA THAT'S HARD >>  TO SETTLE AND HARD TO FARM,
• 11:17    BUT THEY MADE IT PRODUCE.
• 11:22   IT'S REALLY QUITE NICE NOW.
• 11:23    NO BED OF ROSES, BUT THEY >>   HAVE DONE A LOT WITH IT.
• 11:39  AND LIKE THE MESSIAH HIMSELF, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE TRIBULATION,
• 11:43  BUT IN THE END THEY SURVIVE.
• 11:45   THEY EVEN TRIUMPH.
• 11:47    THEY HAVE PLENTY.
• 11:48 ISRAEL TODAY IS   A REAL POWER TO BE
• 11:50  RECKONED WITH   IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 11:52 AND IT IS A PERFECT SUCCESS IN TERMS OF BUILDING A COMFORTABLE
• 11:57  MODERN LAND, A REAL HOME TO LIVE IN.
• 11:59  LOOK AT THE HOMES BEHIND ME.
• 12:01  YOU KNOW, HERE AGAIN,    CNN DRIVES PAST THIS PLACE
• 12:05    ALL OF THE TIME, >>  SO DO THE NETWORKS.
• 12:08  THEY'VE NEVER SHOWN YOU THIS.
• 12:09  IT'S AS IF IT DOESN'T EXIST.
• 12:11    AND YET, THIS S MUCH MORE   AVERAGE FOR ISRAEL THAN THE
• 12:14  DUSTY STREETS  AND SMALL VILLAGES WHERE THEY
• 12:17 TYPICALLY FILM THE BAD  NEWS THAT THEY SPECIALIZE IN.
• 12:21   THE NEWS ON >>   TELEVISION IN PARTICULAR >> HAS DETERIORATED TO THEATER.
• 12:25 IT IS SOME KIND   OF NEGATIVE ENTERTAINMENT.
• 12:28 KNOW THAT ISRAEL HAS DONE THIS,  BUILT THIS AND ISRAELI PEOPLE
• 12:34 AND ARAB PEOPLE ALIKE PROSPER.
• 12:36  YOU KNOW, IN AMERICA WE HAVE    HOMELESS, WE HAVE HUNGRY.
• 12:39 THERE'S NO SUCH THING IN ISRAEL.
• 12:40  DESPITE THE ONCOMING IMMIGRATION EVERY YEAR.
• 12:44  DESPITE THE TENSIONS >>   OVER POLITICS AND SO ON.
• 12:48 DESPITE THE WILD EXAGGERATION OF     CNN AND THE OTHER MEDIA,
• 12:52   EVERY YEAR, THE PEOPLE ARE ALL FED.
• 12:57   EVERYONE HAS WORK.
• 12:58   THERE ARE NO SUCH PROBLEMS.
• 13:00   SO THEY HAVE REALLY  FOUND HERE A HOME TO LIVE IN.
• 13:15    YOU KNOW,    THE PURPOSE OF OUR SERIES
• 13:18   IS TO SHOW THE RE-BIRTH OF  THE BIBLICAL LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 13:21    THIS IS THE ONLY >>  COUNTRY IN THE WHOLE WORLD,
• 13:24 I MEAN THAT, THAT WAS AN ANCIENT  KIND OF A PARADISE AND COMES
• 13:30 BACK TO BE THE SAME KIND OF LAND WITH THE SAME PEOPLE, SAME GOD,
• 13:34  SAME PRAYER,   SAME MUSIC, SAME FESTIVALS.
• 13:37 THIS ISN'T TRUE ANYWHERE ELSE.
• 13:40   YOU CAN GO TO OLD CULTURES, CHINA AND SO ON, BUT THEY HAVE
• 13:43   CHANGED THEIR RELIGION AND CULTURE 50 TIMES IN THAT PERIOD.
• 13:47  ROME, GREECE AND THESE ARE DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT WERE THERE.
• 13:51    EGYPT, YOU KNOW, >> OFTEN CLAIM THEY WERE
• 13:53  THE BUILDERS OF THE PYRAMIDS.
• 13:54 THAT'S NOT SO.
• 13:56 THEY WERE ARABS WHO RODE IN AND CONQUERED THE PLACE OFF OF THE   ORIGINAL EGYPTIANS.
• 13:59   YOU CAN SEE THE EGYPTIAN FRESCOS AND STATUES
• 14:02    AND SO THEY DON'T LOOK AT ALL LIKE ARABS.
• 14:04  AND IN ISRAEL THOUGH, YOU ARE  GREETED WHEN YOU GET THERE BY
• 14:08 THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED THERE THREE  AND FOUR THOUSAND YEARS AGO.
• 14:11   NO KIDDING,   SPEAKING THE SAME LANGUAGE.
• 14:13    IF ZEPHANIAH CAME >>   WALKING DOWN THE STREET,
• 14:15   THEY WOULD    UNDERSTAND HIM PERFECTLY.
• 14:17   SO WE ARE SHOWING A TRANSFORMATION FROM A WASTELAND,
• 14:23 ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
• 14:25 MARK TWAIN FOUND IT A TERRIBLE WASTELAND TO A PARADISE THAT IT    IS TODAY.
• 14:30 IN 50 YEARS OF THE POPULATION OF  JEWISH PEOPLE HAS RISEN FROM
• 14:34   600,000 TO NEARLY 5 MILLION
• 14:37   AND THE IMMIGRANTS    CONTINUE TO COME.
• 14:40    AND WE CAN'T BLAME THEM.
• 14:42  WE WENT TO BEN GURION AIRPORT
• 14:44 TO CHECK ON THE PRESENT  IMMIGRANTS TO ISRAEL.
• 14:47 EXPERTS WHO HANDLE IMMIGRATION  FROM OTHER COUNTRIES, COME TO
• 14:53 ISRAEL TO LEARN FROM ISRAEL'S EXPERTISE
• 14:56    IN THE ABSORPTION OF IMMIGRATION.
• 14:59   ALMOST ONE MILLION,    TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND JEWS
• 15:01 HAVE IMMIGRATED TO ISRAEL FROM  THE FORMER SOVIET UNION THAT
• 15:05 MEANS IN THIS COUNTRY,   THERE IS A RUSSIAN >>   LANGUAGE INFRASTRUCTURE.
• 15:12 IT HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN MILLION --
• 15:15  TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND  SOUNDS A LOT AND IT IS A LOT
• 15:17   FOR A COUNTRY WHICH HAS A POPULATION OF JUST OVER
• 15:20  SIX MILLION OF WHOM ARE CLOSE   AND FIVE MILLION ARE JEWS.
• 15:24 BUT IT WASN'T EASY FOR JEWS TO LEAVE THE COMMUNIST SOVIET UNION
• 15:30   10 YEARS AGO, FOR EXAMPLE.
• 15:33 AND WHAT WE ARE WITNESSING NOW,  IS THE MAJOR IMMIGRATION OVER
• 15:38 THE LAST 10 YEARS WITH THE FALL OF COMMUNISM AT THE END OF 1989,
• 15:43 OVER 800,000 JEWS HAVE IMMIGRATED FROM ISRAEL
• 15:48  FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION.
• 15:50  SO IF IN 51 YEARS A MILLION,   TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND ARRIVE
• 15:55 AND IN 10 YEARS >>   CLOSE ON 800,000 ARRIVE,
• 15:59 WE SEE THIS AS BEING ONE OF THE  MIRACLES OF THE 20th CENTURY.
• 16:04 WE'VE WELCOMED A FLIGHT   OF NEW IMMIGRANTS TO ISRAEL
• 16:09    THAT ARRIVED FROM >>   THE FORMER SOVIET UNION.
• 16:14 CAN YOU TELL US   THE PROCESS THEY GO THROUGH
• 16:16 WHEN THEY ARRIVE HERE?
• 16:17 THE IMMIGRANTS COME OFF OF THE PLANE AND THEY ARE TAKEN TO THE
• 16:21 IMMIGRATIONS HALL WHERE THEY ARE
• 16:23 PROCESSED WITH  THEIR DOCUMENTATION.
• 16:26 WHAT THESE IMMIGRANTS ARE GIVEN IS A IMMIGRATION BASKET TO KEEP
• 16:32   THEM GOING FOR THE   FIRST FEW MONTHS IN ISRAEL.
• 16:35 THEY COME WITH HARDLY ANYTHING.
• 16:38  AND WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS THEY'RE COMING HOME, RIGHT.
• 16:41  ISRAEL LOOKS AT THEM.
• 16:43   THIS IS NOT  IMMIGRATION BUT HEBREW TERM,
• 16:45   [ speaking Hebrew ] BUT IT MEANS COMING UP.
• 16:48 IT IS A BIBLICAL TERM,   A TERM WITH A LOT OF MEANING BEHIND IT AND IDEOLOGY.
• 16:54  BUT WE ALSO LIVE IN THE REAL WORLD AND IT'S FELT THAT OFTEN
• 16:59 51 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, THE IMMIGRATION PROCESS
• 17:04   HAS TO BE A SMOOTH PROCESS.
• 17:06 MY PARENT, OUR PARENTS  THEY LIVE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY
• 17:13 AND THEY DIDN'T  COME TO THIS COUNTRY.
• 17:15  WE'RE ALONE.
• 17:18   WE CAME TO MY AUNT.
• 17:21  SHE LIVES IN ISRAEL.
• 17:26 I'M 18.
• 17:28   I'M 16, 17.
• 17:34 IT WAS MY DREAM >>   TO COME TO THIS COUNTRY.
• 17:40    TO LIVE, TO WORK,  TO STUDY, YEAH, HERE.
• 17:48    WHAT HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT ISRAEL?
• 17:51   WELL, THIS?
• 17:53 DO YOU THINK IT IS GOING TO BE A GOOD COUNTRY?
• 17:55   MY AUNT ALWAYS PHONE US AND  PHONE US AND SAID THAT IT IS   VERY GOOD COUNTRY.
• 18:05 SHE LIKES TO LIVE HERE.
• 18:09   WHAT IS SIGNIFICANT   IN THIS LAST YEAR,
• 18:12 THE IMMIGRATION IS COMING FROM RUSSIA,
• 18:15  FROM THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.
• 18:17    FROM CITIES LIKE   MOSCOW AND ST. PETERSBURG.
• 18:22  PREVIOUSLY JEWS WERE NOT COMING   TO ISRAEL FROM THE RUSSIAN >>  FEDERATION.
• 18:29    JEWS WERE COMING FROM THE  UKRAINE AND OTHER STATES THAT
• 18:34 MADE UP THE FORMER SOVIET UNION.
• 18:36 BUT OVER THE LAST YEAR, WE'VE SEEN AN INCREASE
• 18:39   OF 131 PERCENT IMMIGRATION  FROM THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.
• 18:43  WHAT IS THE REASON FOR THAT?
• 18:46  AS EVERYBODY KNOWS THE RUBLE FELL, BUT UNFORTUNATELY THIS HAS
• 18:50    BEEN FOLLOWED BY RAMPENT    ANTI-SEMITISM IN RUSSIA.
• 18:55   THE JEWISH AGENCY HAS AN >>INFRASTRUCTURE OF EMISSARIES
• 18:59    IN RUSSIA WHO HAVE BEEN >>PREPARING JEWS WHO HAVE WANTED
• 19:04   TO COME HOME   IN LANGUAGE CENTERS.
• 19:06  AND WHAT WE NOTICE RECENTLY,
• 19:08  IS THAT MANY OF THE JEWS OF RUSSIA ARE OPTING
• 19:12    IN THE SUMMER TIME TO GO >>  AND STUDY HEBREW TO PREPARE
• 19:15 THEMSELVES FOR IMMIGRATION AND   THE CONTRIBUTION THAT THESE
• 19:18    PEOPLE ARE MAKING, MAKING >>   TO ISRAEL IS PHENOMENAL.
• 19:24 IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR ME TO BE
• 19:26 A STUDENT HERE THAN IN THE DUTCH LAND BECAUSE EDUCATION HERE IS LITTLE BIT MORE USEFUL.
• 19:34 AND MY MOTHER AND FATHER LIVED,
• 19:36   I WILL STUDY HERE AND THEN, >>   I HAVE PLANS TO GO TO --
• 19:47   BECOME A SPECIALIST   AND THEN WORK HERE.
• 19:52 HERE, THE PEOPLE HAVE TURNED THE DESERT INTO A THRIVING COUNTRY.
• 19:57  WHAT IS IMPORTANT FOR  YOU TO NOTICE IS THAT ISRAEL
• 20:01   HAS PREFERENCE TODAY AS THE   COUNTRY WHERE IF JEWS FROM
• 20:06 THE FORMER SOVIET UNION  WOULD PREFER TO COME.
• 20:08    THE UNITED STATES  HAS A QUOTA FOR JEWS.
• 20:10 THIS QUOTA IS NOT FILLED BECAUSE  WORD GETS BACK TO THE FORMER
• 20:14   SOVIET UNION AND ESPECIALLY  RUSSIA YOU CAN MAKE IT IN THE
• 20:18  COUNTRY EVEN    IF YOU DON'T KNOW HEBREW.
• 20:20    THIS IS A COUNTRY    WHERE IN THE 50s,
• 20:22 PEOPLE COULDN'T GO AND BUY MEAT, >>   EVERYTHING WAS RATIONED.
• 20:25    PEOPLE WERE GIVEN COUPONS WHERE THEY COULD GO BUY >>   MEAT AND BUY VEGETABLES.
• 20:32   NOTHING WAS AS IT IS TODAY.
• 20:36  AND IF WE LOOK AT ISRAEL, WE SEE ISRAEL IS A LITTLE AMERICA.
• 20:40 ISRAEL IS VERY,   VERY TECHNOLOGICAL.
• 20:42 THERE ARE THREE CELLULAR PHONE   COMPANIES IN THIS COUNTRY.
• 20:45  ISRAELIES HAVE THREE MILLION   SUBSCRIBERS TO CELL PHONES.
• 20:48 AND A FOURTH COMPANY IS ON THE   VERGE OF BREAKING INTO THE MARKET.
• 20:53 SO IF WE LOOK AT THE SOCIETY AND SEE THIS IS A CONSUMER SOCIETY.
• 20:58    IT'S AN OPEN SOCIETY AND >>   OPEN MARKET, THINGS WHICH  VERY RECENTLY DID NOT EXIST.
• 21:05   THIS IS A TREMENDOUS STORY.
• 21:07  WHY DON'T YOU THINK WE DON'T  HEAR ABOUT THIS THROUGH CNN,
• 21:10  OR OTHER NEWS    OUTLETS AROUND THE WORLD?
• 21:13    IT'S CERTAINLY MUCH MORE >>   INTERESTING TO US AND OUR
• 21:17  AUDIENCE THAN WHAT WE'VE HEARD ABOUT.
• 21:20 I SUPPOSE THE OLD ADAGE >>   OF GOOD NEWS IS NO NEWS.
• 21:23   THIS IS SOMETHING POSITIVE TAKING PLACE ON AN ONGOING BASIS
• 21:28    AND THE PEOPLE HAVE COME >>   TO EXPECT THIS OF ISRAEL.
• 21:33 ISRAEL, THE STATE OF THE JEWS,   WELL, WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL?
• 21:37 RIGHT?
• 21:39  SHOULDN'T BE TAKEN AS A GIVEN THAT ISRAEL ABSORB ALL OF THESE PEOPLE.
• 21:41 BUT AS EVERYBODY KNOWS, >>   THIS COSTS A LOST MONEY.
• 21:46 WITHOUT THE HELP OF WORLD JURY AND LOVERS OF ZION, ISRAEL WOULD
• 21:52 NOT BE ABLE TO SINGLE-HANDEDLY BE ABLE TO UNDERGO THIS
• 21:57  TREMENDOUS TASK OF ABSORBING   MILLIONS OF JEWS ESPECIALLY
• 22:03  FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION.
• 22:05  SOMEONE HAS TO PAY FOR THIS.
• 22:07    WE CAME AND NOW, >>WE ARE GOING TO GO TO.
• 22:10 AND WE ARE HERE WITH NO RELATIVES HERE.
• 22:17 YOU HAVE NO RELATIVES IN ISRAEL?
• 22:18 YES, NO FRIENDS    AND NO RELATIVES.
• 22:21  AND WHY DID YOU COME?
• 22:24  WE WANTED TO   COME HERE AND TO LIVE HERE.
• 22:27  WHY?
• 22:28  WHY?
• 22:31   I AM JEWISH AND I WOULD LIVE HERE.
• 22:36  AND MY FAMILY >>   WANTS TO LIVE HERE, TOO.
• 22:41    AND SO OUR RELATIVES WILL >>   COME HERE SOON AFTER US.
• 22:47   ISRAEL IS NOT GOING >>   TO STOP THE IMMIGRATION.
• 22:51 THIS IMMIGRATION IS NOT A BURDEN ON THE NATION.
• 22:52 IT COSTS MONEY. IT'S EXPENSIVE.
• 22:55 BUT IT'S AN ASSET >>AND THE INVESTMENT PAYS OFF.
• 22:59 SO WILL YOUR AUNT BE HERE WHEN YOU GO OUTSIDE?
• 23:01 SHE IS.
• 23:05  I THINK SHE'S WAITING FOR US WITH MY BROTHER.
• 23:10    I FEEL MYSELF VERY GOOD.
• 23:12 I AM HAPPY, VERY HAPPY.
• 23:24    [ music playing ]
• 24:17    WELL, THE REGATHERING TO >>ISRAEL CONTINUES AND CONTINUES.
• 24:20  AND YOU KNOW,   THIS IS A THELOGICAL POINT.
• 24:23    THIS REGATHERING WILL BE >>COMPLETED FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 24:27 IN WHAT WE CALL THE TRIBULATION  PERIOD UPCOMING IN PROPHECY.
• 24:30 THEY WILL ALL GO BACK AND STAND BACK TO BACK IN ISRAEL BECAUSE
• 24:34   OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN   THIS COUNTRY AND ELSEWHERE.
• 24:37  AND I MENTIONED THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE IT'S ESPECIALLY
• 24:40 COMFORTABLE FOR JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 24:42  BUT AFTER THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH IT WON'T BE COMFORATABLE.
• 24:44  I THINK THEN THE ANTI-SEMITES WILL COME DOWN ON THEM.
• 24:49  AND THEY WILL PREFER TO GO TO ISRAEL.
• 24:50   THAT WILL DRIVE THEM HOME.
• 24:52  ISAIAH 27:12-13 TALKS ABOUT A TRUMPET BLOWING
• 24:56 AND CALLING THE JEWS BACK TO THE LAND.
• 24:58   I THINK THAT'S THE  RAPTURE TRUMPET SO TO SPEAK.
• 25:00   VERY EFFICIENT USE OF THAT TRUMPET HE CALLS THE BELIEVERS
• 25:05 IN THE JEWISH MESSIAH TO HEAVEN  AND THE UNSAVED JEWS BACK TO ISRAEL.
• 25:09    AND THEN, THE CHRISTIANS >>WILL REGATHER IN ISRAEL
• 25:13    IN THE KINGDOM TO COME, >>THAT'S WHERE IT IS GOING TO BE.
• 25:16    THIS IS WHY I AM >>  ALWAYS HARPING ON THE IDEA.
• 25:19  ISRAEL IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE TO THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
• 25:25 MY GOODNESS, IF YOU ARE GOING ON A TOUR FOR TWO WEEKS OR 10 DAYS.
• 25:28    READ THE BROCHURE CAREFULLY AND STUDY UP.
• 25:31   YOU ARE GOING THERE  FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.
• 25:34    IF WE'RE READING >> THE SCRIPTURES RIGHT.
• 25:35   IF THERE IS >>   A THOUSAND YEAR KINGDOM.
• 25:38    GOOD GRIEF, IT IS MENTIONED 500 TIMES I SUPPOSE.
• 25:41 WE KNOW THAT WE ARE GOING THERE.
• 25:45  WE NEED TO KNOW THESE THINGS,
• 25:47    I DON'T CARE WHAT  THE SEMINARIES ARE TEACHING.
• 25:49    I DON'T CARE IF THEY HAVE    DROPPED ISRAEL FROM THEIR
• 25:52    CURRICULUM OR TALK ABOUT >>   PROPHECY IN VAGUEST TERMS
• 25:55    AND I DON'T CARE IF THEY >> DON'T TALK ABOUT THE RAPTURE.
• 25:58 THEY ARE JUST FALLING BEHIND OR GOING LIBERAL OR IN THE BUSINESS
• 26:02    OF GETTING MORE STUDENTS    OR DONATIONS, ET CETERA.
• 26:05   LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING.
• 26:07 ISRAEL IS WHERE IT IS HAPPENING   TODAY LIKE THIS REGATHERING   THAT WE'RE SEEING.
• 26:10 IT'S PROPHESIED DUETERONOMY 30,
• 26:14 THE FIRST FIVE VERSES PROPHESY  THE REGATHERING TO THE LAND.
• 26:18    THAT PROPHECY HAS >>   A RANGE OF 35 CENTURIES.
• 26:21    3500 YEARS, IMAGINE THAT.
• 26:25  AND THE JEWS ARE COMING FROM >>   EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
• 26:27 GOSH, 1.2 MILLION RUSSIANS HAVE   COME TO ISRAEL OUT OF FIVE MILLION JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 26:33 MORE THAN 20 PERCENT IN ISRAEL  ARE RUSSIANS AND NOW YOU SEE
• 26:36 RUSSIAN BILLBOARDS AND SO FORTH.
• 26:41 WHAT WE'RE REALLY SEEING IS THE  REALIZATION OF THE BRILLIANT
• 26:44 DRY BONES VISION OF EZEKIEL THAT THE PEOPLE RETURN IN UNBELIEF, UNBELIEF AGAIN.
• 26:49 THE SEMINARIES ARE STARTING TO  HOLD THAT GOD WON'T DEAL WITH
• 26:52 AN UNBELIEVING NATION.
• 26:54 THAT'S INSANE.
• 26:55 GOD HAS DEALT WITH UNBELIEVERS FOR THE ENTIRE BIBLICAL HISTORY
• 26:58  AND HE WILL DEAL WITH THEM AS   EZEKIEL SAYS AND THEY WILL
• 27:01  FINALLY HAVE A PLACE TO CALL HOME WHEN GOD SPIRITUALIZES THE PLACE.
• 27:19    READ EZEKIEL 37.
• 27:21    SEMINARIES READ IT, OKAY.
• 27:23   AND TEACH IT AGAIN.
• 27:25   AND LET'S GET   BACK TO THE SUBJECT.
• 27:26    GET OUR OFFER, 12 PROGRAMS.
• 27:28  THIS IS ISRAEL SERIES.
• 27:30  IT IS A GOOD BUY AND SOMETHING
• 27:32   TO LEARN AND I HOPE YOU TAKE
• 27:34 ADVANTAGE OF IT.
• 27:36   GET THE LEVITT LETTER
• 27:37  AND CATALOG AND THOSE ARE FREE.
• 27:38   JUST GIVE US  YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
• 27:39   REMEMBER THE GIFTS OF FUNDS,   IF YOU WOULD, FOLKS.
• 27:42 AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 27:44 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.