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Episode: “A Place to Call Home”

Nestled along the shore of the Mediterranean, Caesarea has become a beautiful and affluent area. Zola explains the spiritual significance of Caesarea, which is a jewel in the crown of Israel. We see new immigrants coming to Israel and hear from the Jewish Agency representative involved with the process.

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!

Transcript

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.

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Episode 9 of 12 in series

Production Code: 709

Type: Episode

Play Time: 28:32

Year: 2000

Series code: VTI

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Host: Zola Levitt

Air dates: 2000-Jun-11, 2005-Feb-20

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