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Episode: “A Place of New Life”

We go to the baptismal site on the banks of the Jordan River. Zola recalls his own baptism there, and we see Russian immigrants being baptized. Next, we interview a cancer researcher who is developing a new method of treatment, which appears to be very promising.

Series: “This Is Israel”

Tired of waiting 20 years for CNN and the other networks to show Israel as the modern, beautiful country it really is, Zola and his crew decided to do it themselves. Viewers will be as surprised as our pilgrims to see that this much-criticized nation is at least the equal of our own and in some ways superior!

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Caption transcript for This Is Israel: “A Place of New Life” (2/12)

00:03 HELLO, I'M ZOLA LEVITT.
00:04 YOU'VE NO DOUBT HEARD THE HYMN "SHALL WE GATHER BY THE RIVER?"
00:07 WELL, ON TONIGHT'S PROGRAM, WE'LL GATHER TO THE JORDAN
00:10 WHERE PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD COME TO BE BAPTIZED
00:13 AND THEN WE'LL VISIT A HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM WHERE THE CUTTING
00:16 EDGE OF CANCER RESEARCH IS GOING ON IN ISRAEL.
00:19 [ music playing ]
00:58 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
00:59 WELCOME TO THIS IS ISRAEL SERIES.
01:01 ON TONIGHT'S PROGRAM, WE'LL BE GOING TO THE JORDAN RIVER.
01:04 WELL, IT RUNS DOWN HERE FROM THE SEA OF GALILEE --
01:07 ACTUALLY IT STARTS WAY UP ON MOUNT HERON.
01:10 THERE ARE TRIBUTARIES DOWN INTO NORTHERN ISRAEL,
01:14 DOWN THROUGH THIS WAY TO THE SEA OF GALILEE.
01:17 AND DOWN THROUGH ALL OF THIS VALLEY,
01:19 PAST JERUSALEM AND JERICHO AND EMPTYING INTO THE DEAD SEA.
01:25 AND THE PART THAT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK IS JUST SOUTH OF THE --
01:28 LAKE -- THE SEA OF GALILEE WHERE PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS BAPTIZED.
01:34 IT'S AN AMAZING COUNTRY.
01:36 ISRAEL IS NOT AT ALL WHAT YOU'VE BEEN TOLD.
01:39 WHILE WATCHING IT ON OUR NEWS NETWORKS,
01:42 ON CNN, AND THE OTHER NETWORKS,
01:43 YOU ARE GETTING A VERY, VERY DISTORTED PICTURE
01:46 OF A WONDERFUL, MODERN, CLEAN, PROGRESSIVE NATION.
01:51 AND WE'RE GOING TO SHOW IT TO YOU IN THIS SERIES CALLED
01:55 THIS IS ISRAEL.
01:56 FIRST WE WILL GO TO YARDENIT.
01:59 THE WORD FOR JORDAN >> IN HEBREW YARDEN
02:02 AND THE YARDENIT, IS LIKE THE LITTLE JORDAN,
02:05 A PLACE WHERE THE KIBBUTZ SET UP A BAPTISTERY FOR CHRISTIAN
02:08 FRIENDS TO COME AND COMFORTABLY ENTER THE RIVER ON STONE WALKS,
02:12 STONE STAIRCASES AND SO FORTH.
02:15 IT'S A SIGNIFICANT SITE, >> A VERY POPULAR SITE
02:18 AND IT IS SIGNIFICANT THAT JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF
02:21 MAY HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED RIGHT NEAR HERE.
02:31 OUR SUBJECT ON THIS PROGRAM IS "NEW LIFE."
02:34 AND WHAT BETTER PLACE TO LOOK AT THAT THAN
02:36 A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE ARE BAPTIZED.
02:38 TYPICALLY A BAPTIZER SAYS SOMOMETHING LIKE,
02:40 "RAISED TO WALK >> IN THE NEWNESS OF LIFE,"
02:42 AS THEY COME OUT OF THE WATER.
02:44 WE DO THIS ON OUR TOURS AND WE DO IT RIGHT HERE AT THIS PLACE
02:48 WHERE I MYSELF WAS BAPTIZED YEARS AGO.
02:52 THERE IS A CEMENT PLATFORM BEHIND ME IN THE RIVER.
02:55 THAT'S ALL THAT WAS HERE >> WHEN I WAS BAPTIZED IN 1973.
02:59 DR. TOM McCALL ON OUR PROGRAM, YOU SEE HIM OFTEN,
03:03 HE WAS THE BAPTIZER AND WE WALKED OUT ON THAT CEMENT PLATFORM,
03:07 SORT OF JUMPED IN THE WATER
03:09 AND KIND OF STOOD ON THE MUDDY BOTTOM
03:12 AND THERE I WAS BAPTIZED AND RAISED TO WALK
03:14 IN THE NEWNESS OF LIFE WHICH I DID AND I CAN RECOMMEND IT.
03:17 I HAD A CALL ONCE ON MY RADIO TALK SHOW
03:21 WHERE A LADY SKEPTICAL OF JEWISH CHRISTIANS IN GENERAL I SUPPOSE,
03:25 SAID TO ME, "WERE YOU BAPTIZED?"
03:27 AND I SAID, "YES, I WAS."
03:29 SHE SAID, "WELL, WAS >> IT IN A BAPTIST CHURCH?"
03:33 I SAID, "NO, NOT ACTUALLY, IT WAS IN THE JORDAN RIVER."
03:38 I THOUGHT THAT WOULD PUT AN END TO IT.
03:40 SHE THOUGHT A MINUTE AND SAID,
03:41 "WELL, WAS IT BY A BAPTIST MINISTER?"
03:44 AND I SAID, "YOU KNOW, NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT, IT WAS."
03:47 TOM IS A BAPTIST MINISTER AND SO I WENT IN THIS RIVER.
03:52 AND SINCE THEN I SUPPOSE, HAVE BROUGHT 5000 PEOPLE TO CHRIST,
03:57 THE VAST MAJORITY OF WHOM WALKED DOWN THE SLOPES
04:00 OF THESE BEAUTIFUL BAPTISTERIES INTO THIS WATER.
04:03 IT'S EASIER TO DO NOW BECAUSE >> A KIBBUTZ NEAR THE RIVER
04:08 HAS TAKEN THIS UP AS WHAT WE CALL A MINISTRY.
04:12 THEY ARE ENTERPRISING AND THOUGHT,
04:14 WELL, IF THE NAZARENE, IF THE CHRISTIANS ARE GOING
04:19 TO COME TO THIS PLACE, WE'LL THEN PROVIDE FOR THEM.
04:23 THAT REMINDS ME OF THAT WORD NAZARENE,
04:25 PEOPLE OF NAZARETH, SO TO SPEAK.
04:27 NAZARENE.
04:29 I GOT INTO A TAXI ONCE AT A HOTEL TO TRY TO COME HERE.
04:32 AND I DIDN'T QUITE KNOW HOW TO DESCRIBE THE SITE TO THE DRIVER.
04:35 AND HE SPOKE NO ENGLISH AT ALL.
04:37 I JUST COULDN'T THINK >> HOW TO SAY THIS.
04:40 AND FINALLY I SAID, [ speaking Hebrew )
04:45 IN JUDAISM, >> THE RITUAL BATH.
04:48 I SAID IN EFFECT, THE RITUAL BATH OF THE CHRISTIANS.
04:51 HE NODDED ONCE AND WE WENT STRAIGHT HERE.
04:54 NOT A PROBLEM.
04:56 THE KIBBUTZ FIRST BUILT ONE CONCRETE WALKWAY
05:00 INTO THE WATER TO MAKE THINGS MORE COMFORTABLE
05:03 AND THEN THEY PUT SOME BENCHES BACK FOR PEOPLE TO OBSERVE.
05:07 AND THIS BECAME SO POPULAR, GROUP AFTER GROUP CAME HERE.
05:11 THIS SPOT IS VERY FRESH WATER.
05:14 JUST AS THE RIVER COMES OUT OF THE SEA OF GALILEE.
05:17 YOU CAN CERTAINLY DRINK IT.
05:19 YOU ARE DRINKING IT >> IN THE HOTELS IN ISRAEL.
05:21 AND THEN THEY HAD TO PUT IN MORE SPOTS BECAUSE MORE GROUPS CAME.
05:26 IT IS SAID TO BE CLOSE TO THE PLACE WHERE JESUS WAS BAPTIZED.
05:30 MOST OF US THINK OF BEING >> IN THE SOUTH BY THE AREA
05:36 WHERE JOHN THE BAPTIST WOULD HAVE CONDUCTED HIS MINISTRY.
05:40 BUT THE SIGN HERE SAYS BETHABARA, IS A TOWN
05:46 MENTIONED BY THE KING JAMES TRANSLATION
05:48 AND IT IS QUITE CLOSE TO HERE.
05:51 IT IS BETWEEN TIBERIAS AND BETH SHEAN AND ALONG THE RIVER
05:54 AND SO THIS WOULD BE CLOSE TO THAT SPOT.
05:57 BUT ANY CASE, OVER THE YEARS,
05:58 THEY HAVE MANAGED TO PUT UP >> BUILDING AFTER BUILDING.
06:01 CHANGING ROOM AND TOOK IN ROBES AND TOWELS.
06:05 AND THEY REALLY PROVIDE FOR THE CHRISTIANS.
06:08 THERE IS A SMALL FEE.
06:10 IT IS NOT A MATTER OF RELIGION SO MUCH TO THEM.
06:13 BUT THEY STILL HAVE DONE THIS THING ALMOST LIKE A MINISTRY,
06:17 PROVIDING FOR PILGRIMS, FOR THE WORLD OVER,
06:20 TO GO INTO THE SAME WATERS WHERE THE KING HIMSELF WAS BAPTIZED.
06:29 "THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, I SHALL GATHER YOU FROM THE
06:33 "PEOPLES AND ASSEMBLE YOU OUT OF THE COUNTRIES WHERE YOU HAVE
06:36 "BEEN SCATTERED AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE LAND OF ISRAEL,
06:40 "THE WILDERNESS AND >> DRY LAND SHALL BE GLAD.
06:44 "THE DESERT SHALL REJOICE AND BLOSSOM AS THE ROSE.
06:48 "YOU SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD WHEN I BRING
06:51 "YOU INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL."
06:56 NOW, BAPTISM IS REALLY AN OLD, OLD CEREMONY.
06:59 IT WASN'T INVENTED BY THE CHURCH.
07:02 THE MIKVAH THAT I MENTIONED, THE ORIGINAL BATH OF THE JEWS.
07:05 IT BEGAN WAY BACK AT THE TABERNACLE.
07:09 IF WE LOOK AT THE BOOK OF EXODUS,
07:11 EXODUS 29 STARTS THIS WAY.
07:39 ALL OF THE PRIESTS WERE IMMERSED ONCE IN THE WATER
07:43 TO CONSECRATE THEM AS PRIESTS,
07:44 AN ENABLING ACTION TO BEGIN THEIR MINISTRIES.
07:49 THEY WASHED THEIR HANDS AND FEET DAILY IN THE LAVER.
07:52 AND THAT IS SYMBOLIC OF THE CHRISTIAN CONFESSION.
07:56 BUT THE IMMERSION IS SYMBOLIC OF CHRISTIAN SALVATION.
08:01 WE HAVE THE STORY OF NAAMAM.
08:03 IT'S VERY INTERESTING BECAUSE IT TOOK PLACE RIGHT IN THESE PARTS.
08:27 IT IS SAYING THAT THIS IMPORTANT GENERAL IN SYRIA
08:29 STRUGGLED WITH A TERRIBLE DISEASE AND HE HAD A HEBREW MAID
08:33 AND SHE DISCLOSED TO HIM >>THAT THE PROPHET ELISHA
08:37 WAS IN NORTHERN ISRAEL AND HE >> COULD DO GREAT MIRACLES.
08:40 AND TALKING HIM INTO TO CONSULTING WITH THE PROPHET.
09:01 TOLD HIM TO COME DOWN HERE AND WASH IN THE JORDAN.
09:05 NAAMAN ISN'T SATISFIED.
09:06 IT SAYS.
09:29 CAN YOU IMAGINE?
09:31 HE HAS NO CONCEPTION THAT THE PROPHET IS REALLY IMBUED
09:33 WITH THE POWER OF GOD AND TELL HIM TO WASH HIMSELF AND HE WILL BE CLEAN.
09:38 HE'S ANGRY BECAUSE HE DIDN'T SEE A REAL DEMONSTRATION
09:41 BY A HEBREW PROPHET, STRIKING THINGS AND SMITING THINGS
09:44 AND CALLING ON HIS POWERFUL GOD.
10:01 THEY SAY, "WELL, LOOK BE REASONABLE.
10:02 "HE SAID SUCH A SIMPLE THING.
10:04 "ANYBODY CAN DIP >> THEMSELVES IN WATER.
10:06 "YOU WOULD HAVE GONE OFF
10:07 "AND FOUGHT A WAR IF HE SAID TO DO THAT.
10:09 "SURELY YOU CAN DO THIS LITTLE THING."
10:27 THIS WATER HEALED HIM.
10:29 IF HE WAS A GUY SENSITIVE TO THE CLEANLINESS OF RIVERS
10:32 AND THOUGHT THE RIVERS OF SYRIA
10:33 WERE MORE WHOLESOME THAN >> THE RIVERS OF ISRAEL,
10:36 WHY, HE WOULD HAVE COME RIGHT UP NEXT TO THE LAKE
10:39 BECAUSE THE WATER IS SO CLEAR HERE.
10:41 STANDING HERE, WE CAN SEE FISH IN THE WATER.
10:42 NO PROBLEM.
10:44 THEY SWIM RIGHT TO THE SURFACE.
10:45 THEY HAVE NO ENEMIES HERE AND THE CATFISH GET SO BIG
10:49 THAT THEY LOOK LIKE LITTLE ALLIGATORS SWIMMING IN THE WATER.
10:53 AND THE PEOPLE STILL GO IN AND GET BAPTIZED.
10:55 THE CATFISH STAY >> AWAY FROM THE SHORE.
10:58 YOU KNOW, THE STORY GOES ON A LITTLE BIT.
10:59 GEHAZI, THE SERVANT OF ELISHA THE MAN OF GOD,
11:02 RAN OUT THERE TO NAAMAN AND HE ASKED FOR A COMMISSION.
11:05 HE ASKED FOR SOME MONEY AND SOME GOODS
11:07 FOR ASSISTING IN THIS CURE.
11:10 AND NAAMAN GLADLY PAID HIM A COMMISSION.
11:13 BUT THEN AS THE CHAPTER ENDS, IT SAYS:
11:25 OH, BOY, THE PUNISHMENT FIT THE CRIME IN THAT CASE.
11:28 HE GOT THE LEPROSY THAT NAAMAN LOST.
11:31 WELL, THE CHRISTIANS REALLY ARE PRIESTS, EVERY ONE.
11:36 WE SAID THAT THE PRIESTS >> WERE IMMERSED ONCE TO BEGIN THEIR MINISTRY.
11:40 BUT EVERY CHRISTIAN IS A PRIEST IN A SENSE
11:42 MINISTERING BETWEEN GOD AND THE PEOPLE.
11:45 I MEAN, WE CAN GIVE OUT ETERNAL LIFE ON A CHILD
11:48 AND THE CHURCH CAN GIVE ETERNAL LIFE TO A HUNDRED ADULTS.
11:51 WE CAN COUNSEL.
11:54 THE SCRIPTURE TELLS OF MANY GIFTS.
11:55 WE CAN TEACH.
11:56 WE CAN HELP.
11:59 WE CAN GIVE.
12:00 WE CAN HEAL.
12:02 ALL MUCH THESE GIFTS IF THAT IS THE GIFT ONE HAS CAN BE EVIDENCE
12:08 BY CHRISTIANS AND USED EVERYDAY.
12:10 SO WE ARE PRIESTS IN THAT SENSE.
12:12 AND I PETER 2:9 SAYS EXACTLY THAT.
12:30 THAT IS HOW PETER ADDRESSES THE CHURCH ON THIS.
12:33 AND SO WE ALL ARE IMMERSED AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR MINISTRY.
12:37 PEOPLE OMIT BAPTISM.
12:40 THAT IS NOT -- YOU WON'T LOSE YOUR SALVATION
12:42 OR FAIL TO GAIN IT.
12:44 IT'S NOT A COMMAND OF THE LORD
12:47 IN THE SENSE OF BELIEVING ON THE LORD
12:49 OR DOING YOUR GOOD WORKS AND SO ON.
12:51 BUT WE GO IN OBEDIENCE TO THE LORD
12:53 AND TO BECOME REAL PRIESTS
12:55 LIKE THE PRIESTS >> OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
12:57 MINISTER TO THE PEOPLE FOR GOD.
12:59 YOU KNOW, MY TRIBE, DEUTERONOMY TELLS THAT
13:03 THE LEVITES HAVE NO LAND INHERITANCE.
13:05 BUT THEY MINISTER TO THE PEOPLE FOR GOD.
13:06 THEY GIVE A BLESSING TO THE PEOPLE FOR GOD.
13:09 THE LEVITE'S BLESSING [ speaking Hebrew ]
13:12 THE LORD'S FACE SHINE UPON YOU AND GIVE YOU PEACE, AND SO FORTH
13:16 IS A PRIVILEGE THAT THE LEVITES HAVE.
13:19 THEY ARE THE TRIBE OF PRIESTS AND THEY MINISTER TO THE PEOPLE.
13:23 AND SO IF CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE EFFECTIVE MINISTERS FOR GOD,
13:26 EVIDENTLY THEY GO THROUGH >> THE STEPS A PRIEST DOES.
13:28 AND ONE OF THOSE >> IS IMMERSION IN THE WATER.
13:31 OF COURSE, THERE IS LOTS OF KINDS BAPTISMS.
13:33 SOME FOLKS ONLY SPRINKLE WATER.
13:34 A LITTLE BIT ON THE HEAD.
13:37 SOME TAKE SOME KIND OF HERB OR HYSSOP OR SOMETHING AND DIP
13:42 IT IN THE WATER AND ANOINT THE PEOPLE WITH THE WATER.
13:46 OTHER PEOPLE COME DOWN HERE AND SIT AND HEAR A SERMON
13:49 AND GO BACK TO THE HOTEL.
13:51 THEY DON'T DO THE RIVER AT ALL.
13:52 THEY LOOK AT IT.
13:54 BUT I THINK TOTAL IMMERSION >> IS WHAT IS IMPLIED HERE.
13:56 WELL, IT'S COMMANDED DIRECTLY IN THE TABERNACLE.
14:00 BUT THE POINT OF >> TOTAL IMMERSION IS SERIOUS.
14:03 THE NEW TESTAMENT PICTURES BAPTISM AS A DROWNING, THAT IS, A DEATH.
14:08 WE DIE WITH CHRIST.
14:11 YOU DON'T DIE FROM HAVING WATER SPRINKLED ON YOUR HEAD.
14:14 BUT YOU DIE IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT,
14:17 IN ROMANS 6 IN THIS MANNER.
14:26 AND THERE WE KIND OF SEE >> THAT NAAMAN'S PROBLEM
14:30 REALLY WHAT LOOKED LIKE LEPROSY WAS SIN
14:34 AND HE WASHED HIMSELF AND THAT SYMBOLICALLY TOOK AWAY THAT SIN.
14:38 HE GOES ON.
15:13 AND THE PASSAGE IS THE NEWNESS LIFE.
15:15 IT IS GOING ON RIGHT >> HERE AT THIS BAPTISTERY.
15:18 THE ISRAELIS ARE >> BUILDING IT ALL OF THE TIME.
15:20 ISRAEL IS SERVING ITS TOURIST.
15:22 AND IF ITS TOURIST ARE CHRISTIAN PILGRIMS,
15:24 THEN THEY SERVE THE CHRISTIAN PILGRIMS WITH CHRISTIAN THINGS.
15:27 AS THEY BUILD ON THIS RIVER,
15:30 MORE BAPTISTERIES, THEN MORE BUSES OF PILGRIMS COME AND MORE PEOPLE
15:34 APPRECIATE BEING ABLE TO BE BAPTIZED IN THE SAME WATER AS OUR LORD HIMSELF.
15:43 [ singing in Russian ]
15:44 A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT GROUPS VISIT YARDENIT.
15:47 THE GROUP YOU SEE HERE SINGING
15:48 AND BEING BAPTIZED IS UNIQUE INDEED.
15:51 THESE ARE RUSSIAN-SPEAKING JEWS THAT HAVE IMMIGRATED TO ISRAEL,
15:54 ESTABLISHED THEMSELVES >> AND FOUND THEIR MESSIAH.
15:59 I AM FROM RUSSIA, YES.
16:00 I AM COME TO ISRAEL FOR --
16:04 [ speaking Russian ]
16:05 11 YEARS, YES.
16:07 SO WHAT HAS HAPPENED HERE TODAY?
16:13 16 PEOPLE WENT INTO THE WATER.
16:17 AND WERE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST,
16:22 THE SON OF GOD AND MESSIAH OF ISRAEL.
16:25 ALTHOUGH, I AM A JEWISH GIRL,
16:27 I BELIEVE IN JESUS.
16:30 YES, AND I AM VERY HAPPY.
16:34 WHEN YOU WENT UNDER THE WATER,
16:35 AND WHEN YOU COME UP, WHAT DID YOU FEEL?
16:40 I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT.
16:42 IT IS NOT BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW ENGLISH.
16:48 IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN.
16:50 ARE YOU FROM RUSSIA ALSO?
16:52 YES, I AM HERE SIX YEARS AND I BELIEVE 10 YEARS IN JESUS,
16:58 LIKE MY MESSIAH >> AND SAVIOR AND GOD.
17:02 YOU ARE JEWISH?
17:03 YES, I AM JEWISH.
17:05 AND SO IS THIS A CONGREGATION OF JEWISH BELIEVERS?
17:08 YES, WE HAVE A CONGREGATION IN
17:09 [ speaking Russian ]
17:12 A JEWISH, RUSSIAN-SPEAKING >>CONGREGATION.
17:14 AND IN OUR CONGREGATION HAVE NAMED SPIRIT OF LIFE.
17:19 SO YOU WANT TO SHARE YESHUA WITH OTHER PEOPLE HERE IN ISRAEL?
17:24 YES.
17:26 [ speaking Russian ]
17:28 YES, VERY GOOD.
17:31 WHAT DOES ISRAEL MEAN TO YOU?
17:33 GOD IS CALLING ME TO ISRAEL >> TO BE A SERVANT
17:38 AND I BELIEVE ALL >>ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED.
17:50 [ music playing ]
18:48 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU FORGET
18:49 HOW INTERNATIONAL A FAITH CHRISTIANITY IS.
18:52 THERE ARE CHRISTIANS IN ALL >> NATIONS AND ALL BELIEVING
18:55 VIRTUALLY THE SAME THING, >> AT LEAST IF THEY'RE
18:56 READING THE SCRIPTURES.
18:58 AND THESE ARE TRUE MESSIANIC JEWS BEING BAPTIZED THERE EVEN >> THOUGH
19:02 THEY ARE RUSSIAN-SPEAKING PEOPLE.
19:04 OF COURSE, THEY'RE SAVED LIKE ANYONE ELSE.
19:07 BUT THERE'S A CERTAIN ADVANTAGE TO BEING A RUSSIAN RATHER THAN
19:12 SAY BEING AN UNBELIEVING AMERICAN.
19:14 MOST AMERICANS HAVE >> HAD SOME KIND OF TRAINING
19:17 ONE WAY OR ANOTHER >>IN RELIGION AS THEY GREW UP.
19:19 BUT MOST RUSSIANS THAT GREW UP
19:21 UNDER COMMUNISM ARE CLEAN SLATES.
19:24 THEY HAVE NO RELIGION AT ALL.
19:26 RELIGION WAS VERY FROWNED UPON.
19:27 THE COMMUNIST LET A FEW ORTHODOX >> CHURCHES RUN, I SUPPOSE,
19:31 REPORTING TO THE STATE.
19:33 THOSE AREN'T >> TRUE CHURCHES, OF COURSE.
19:35 BUT THE AVERAGE RUSSIAN KNOWS NOTHING AND IF YOU INTRODUCE
19:40 HIM TO THE LORD FROM THE BIBLE
19:42 AND TELL HIM WHAT THE LORD TAUGHT,
19:43 IT IMMEDIATELY APPEALS TO HIM.
19:45 IT'S A WONDERFUL PROOF >>OF THE FACT THAT WHAT
19:47 THE LORD SAID IS SAVING INDEED.
19:50 JESUS SAVES, THE SIGNS SAY.
19:53 IF YOU EXPLAIN TO SOMEONE >>WITH NO BIAS ONE WAY OR ANOTHER
19:56 EXACTLY WHAT JESUS SAID, >> THAT PERSON TYPICALLY COMES
20:00 TO SALVATION BY BELIEVING IN JESUS CHRIST.
20:03 WELL, THAT'S A SUBJECT AND A BIG ONE.
20:06 NOW, AS TO MEDICAL RESEARCH, >> ISRAEL IS A WORLD LEADER.
20:10 I MEAN THAT.
20:11 I DISCOVERED ONE >>TIME WHEN THEY LOST MY LUGGAGE,
20:13 I HAD TO CHANGE OFF >> A BUNCH OF PILLS,
20:15 HEART MEDICATIONS AND SO ON,
20:17 AT A PHARMACY >> FOR ISRAELI EQUIVALENCE.
20:20 AND IT WAS QUITE EASY >> FOR THE PHARMACIST TO DO.
20:22 MOST OF OUR PILLS ARE >> ISRAELI TO START WITH.
20:25 WE JUST CHANGE THE NAMES AND, OF COURSE, JACK UP THE PRICE.
20:27 CONTAC, THE COLD MEDICINE >>IS AN ISRAELI PILL ORIGINALLY.
20:32 DR. ISRAEL VLODAVSKY IS OUR GUEST.
20:37 HOPE IS VERY SCARCE WITH CANCER OBVIOUSLY.
20:40 IT IS A TOUGH PROBLEM >> BUT HE IS DOING REALLY
20:43 IMPORTANT WORK ON THAT SUBJECT.
20:51 WHEN WE ESTABLISHED THIS LAND ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO,
20:54 WHEN I CAME BACK AT >> THE END OF '79,
20:57 SINCE THEN, WORK IN THE INSTITUTE OF THE HADASSEH HOSPITAL
21:04 IN SEEING ALL OF >>THE SUFFERING INVOLVED IN IT,
21:06 WE DECIDED TO FOCUS OF ONE ASPECT OF TUMOR BIOLOGY
21:11 WHICH IS THE >> SPREAD OF TUMOR CELLS.
21:16 YOU KNOW THAT PEOPLE WHO SUCCUMB OR DIE FROM CANCER DON'T --
21:25 DON'T DIE >>BECAUSE OF THE PRIMARY TUMOR.
21:27 BECAUSE THE PRIMARY TUMOR, THE TUMOR THAT IS FIRST
21:29 DIAGNOSED CAN >> BE REMOVED IN SURGERY.
21:33 THE TUMOR CELLS HAS THE ABILITY TO MOVE AROUND.
21:37 THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO ENTER BLOOD VESSELS
21:40 AND IN THE BLOOD VESSEL THEY ARE CARRIED AWAY TO DISTANT ORGAN.
21:44 AND THEN THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO GO FROM THE BLOOD TO TISSUE.
21:48 AND THE EFFORT OF MANY >> SCIENTISTS IS TO PREVENT
21:51 THE ABILITY OF TUMOR CELLS TO GO INTO THE BLOOD.
21:57 AND KEEP THEM IN THE BLOOD AND NOT ALLOW THEM TO GO OUT.
22:00 BECAUSE THERE IS A SECONDARY TUMOR SOMEWHERE ELSE.
22:03 WHAT I UNDERSTAND IS, IF THEY ARE KEPT IN THE BLOOD STREAM,
22:06 THEN THE IMMUNE AND THE NATURAL QUALITIES OF BLOOD STREAM
22:10 WILL OVERCOME THESE CANCER CELLS?
22:12 YES.
22:14 IT WAS CALCULATED BY OTHER SCIENTISTS THAT TUMOR CELLS WERE
22:16 ABLE TO ENTER THE BLOOD
22:18 AND CANNOT SURVIVE LONG IN THE BLOOD.
22:20 YOU CAN'T DO THAT MORE THAN THREE HOURS
22:23 BECAUSE THEY ARE >> ATTACKED BY THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
22:26 AND THEY DON'T LIKE THE ENVIRONMENT OF STREAMING, OF PRESSURE.
22:30 SO THE IDEA OF US AND OF COURSE, MANY OTHER SCIENTISTS,
22:34 IS TO KEEP THEM IN THE BLOOD FOR MORE TIME AND INHIBIT THEM
22:37 AND DELAY BY SOME HOURS THE ABILITY TO GO OUT
22:41 AND TO LET THEM DIE IN THE BLOOD.
22:43 OKAY.
22:44 NOW, THE ENZYME THAT ALLOWS THE TUMOR CELL TO DO THIS,
22:47 THAT IS THE ONE YOU HAVE MANAGED >> TO ISOLATE AND TO CLONE?
22:51 I HAVE A SYMBOL OF BIOLOGY AND HOW, WE ARE CLONING THE GENE
22:58 WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THIS ENZYME.
23:01 ONCE YOU CLONE THE GENE, YOU HAVE A LOT OF BETTER
23:04 OPPORTUNITIES BECAUSE YOU CAN PRODUCE LARGE AMOUNT OF THIS
23:07 ENZYME IN BACTERIA AND HEART/LUNG CELLS.
23:11 ONCE YOU HAVE LARGE AMOUNT OF THIS ENZYME,
23:13 AND YOU KNOW EXACTLY THE >> STRUCTURE OF THIS ENZYME,
23:16 YOU CAN DESIGN A VERY SPECIFIC INHIBITOR WITH NO SIDE EFFECT.
23:21 SO AS I UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU WORKED WITH THIS INHIBITOR
23:25 YOU WERE REALLY SUCCESSFUL?
23:27 AND IT IS EASY TO SEE IN THIS PICTURE
23:29 THERE'S NO CELLS MASTICIZED >> OVER IN THIS SIDE ALMOST
23:33 AND IT WAS PROVED?
23:37 WE CREATED SOME PRIMITIVE >> INHIBITORS OF OUR ENZYME
23:42 WE GOT 90 TO 95 PERCENT ABILITIES OF THIS MELANOMA CELL
23:51 THAT HAVE ENTERED THE BLOOD TO COLONIZE IN THE LUNG.
23:59 IT IS TOO EARLY TO SPEAK ABOUT CURE OF CANCER.
24:00 BUT IF WE WILL BE ABLE TO GET
24:03 EITHER AN ANTIBODY THAT NEUTRALIZES ENZYME
24:06 OR ANOTHER COMPOUND THAT >> INHIBITS ITS ACTIVITY
24:10 IT IS AN IMPORTANT STEP FORWARDS.
24:14 WE HAVE DEVOTED TO THIS PROJECT MORE THAN 15 YEARS.
24:15 15 YEARS.
24:16 THERE IS UPS AND DOWNS, YOU KNOW.
24:18 WE STARTED AND WE BELIEVE IN THIS ENZYME.
24:22 WE ARE CONVINCED THAT THIS ENZYME IS IMPORTANT.
24:25 IT'S REQUIRED A LOT OF DAY AND NIGHTS AND CONSISTENCY AND
24:34 PERSISTENCY AND WHATEVER YOU CALL IT TO --
24:37 TO WORK ON A SINGLE SUBJECT FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
24:41 PEOPLE WOULD SAY >>YOU HAVE TO DROP THIS.
24:43 BECAUSE MANY PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE THAT THIS
24:46 ENZYME WAS IMPORTANT.
24:47 I WAS SPEAKING ABOUT THIS ENZYME IN THE STATES AND OTHER PLACES
24:52 AND PEOPLE SAY HOW MANY YEARS YOU CAN DEVOTE TO THIS?
24:55 BUT FINALLY IT PAID BECAUSE WE CAME OUT WITH SOMETHING WHICH
25:00 NOW HAS A LOT OF HOPE.
25:14 DR. VLODAVSKY ASKED US TO STRESS THAT THERE IS YEARS TO GO BEFORE
25:18 HIS RESEARCH IS REALLY COMPLETE.
25:20 AND I THINK HE'S >> ON THE RIGHT TRACK
25:23 FROM WHAT I CAN UNDERSTAND OF IT.
25:24 TYPICALLY THE ISRAELIS WILL SOLVE A PROBLEM,
25:28 EVEN A PROBLEM LIKE CANCER AND THEN GIVE IT TO THE WORLD.
25:31 THEY WERE THE RECEIVERS OF THE WORLD'S
25:33 FIRST PUBLIC HEALTH LAWS.
25:35 REALLY, THE OLD TESTAMENT WAS ABOUT IT.
25:38 GOD GAVE THEM THE SECRETS >> OF THE LIFE OF THE FLESH
25:42 IS IN THE BLOOD, FOR EXAMPLE.
25:44 IT SAYS IN LEVITICUS 17:11.
25:46 GOSH, 200 YEARS AGO IN MODERN ENGLAND VIRTUALLY,
25:50 THEY WERE STILL BLEEDING PATIENTS.
25:52 THE ISRAELIS UNDERSTOOD FROM THE WORD OF GOD SO MANY THINGS
25:57 AND HAVE FOR SO VERY LONG THAT THAT COUNTRY
26:00 SIMPLY HAS A GREAT DEAL TO OFFER.
26:03 CONTINUALLY PAINTING IT IN THE NEWS AS SOME KIND OF WAR-TORN,
26:06 YOU KNOW, I HAVE TO LAUGH.
26:10 RECENTLY, PRESIDENT CLINTON WENT TO OSLO.
26:13 AND HE SAID, >> "IF RABIN WERE HERE NOW,
26:15 "HE WOULD SAY, 'THERE'S NOT A MOMENT TO LOSE.'"
26:19 THERE'S NOT A MOMENT TO LOSE?
26:20 WHAT TO GIVE AWAY THE LAND?
26:22 THERE WAS NO WAR, WHY ARE WE HAVING
26:24 A PEACE PROCESS TO START WITH?
26:26 THERE HASN'T BEEN A WAR IN ISRAEL SINCE 1973.
26:29 THIS CONSTANT MYTH.
26:32 THE PRESIDENT IS ONE OF THE WORST OFFENDERS OF DESCRIBING
26:36 THE SITUATION AS SOME KIND OF EMERGENCY OVER THERE
26:39 WHEN IT IS NOTHING BUT A NORMAL GHETTO PROBLEM
26:41 THAT EVERY DEMOCRACY HAS INCLUDING OURS.
26:44 CERTAINLY INCLUDING OURS.
26:45 OUR PROBLEMS ARE FAR WORSE THAN ISRAEL'S PROBLEMS.
26:49 BUT IN ANY CASE, >>LEARN ABOUT THIS LAND.
26:51 IT REALLY DOES HAVE MUCH TO OFFER.
26:54 OUR OFFER TO YOU TONIGHT >>IS THE PILGRIM'S JOURNEY SERIES.
26:59 THIS IS A SERIES >>OF NINE VIDEO PROGRAMS.
27:01 WE JUST DECIDED TO ONE DAY
27:05 MAKE A SERIES FOR THE PEOPLE WHO NEVER COULD COME TO ISRAEL.
27:09 THEY ARE SHUT IN, DON'T HAVE THE MONEY,
27:10 THEY DON'T HAVE THE TIME, WHATEVER.
27:12 AND WE FOLLOWED ALONG.
27:13 OUR TV CREW EXPERTLY FOLLOWED OUR PILGRIMS
27:16 AND FILMED THE ENTIRE TOUR.
27:19 AND I'M WITH THEM AND TALKING ABOUT THE THING.
27:21 SO YOU GET TO SEE THE LAND
27:23 AND THE MUSIC CASSETTE IS ALSO
27:25 AVAILABLE WITH THE SONG "FINALLY HOME,"
27:27 "TEACH ME TO WALK ON WATER,"
27:29 AND SOME OF OUR BIG HITS.
27:30 YOU CAN GET THE LEVITT LETTER
27:32 AND THE CATALOG AT OUR ADDRESS FOR NOTHING.
27:35 WRITE TO US AND LET US KNOW.
27:37 REMEMBER THE GIFTS OF FUNDS.
27:39 AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
27:41 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.

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Episode 2 of 12 in series

Production Code: 702

Type: Episode

Play Time: 28:35

Year: 2000

Series code: VTI

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Host: Zola Levitt

Guests: Dr. Israel Vlodavsky

Air dates: 2000-Mar-19

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