Caught in the act? Deputy Mayor of Or Yehuda, Uzi Aharon at the synagogue, holding one of the Christian New Testaments and Literature Packages that were burnt--
The persecution of Messianics in Israel continues. This is something you would expect from radical Islamics, and not Jewish youth, but here we have today in Israel hundreds of New Testaments being burned by orthodox Jews.
From The Jerusalem Post
Orthodox Israeli Youths Burn Hundreds of New Testaments-May 20, 2008
Orthodox Jews have burned hundreds of New Testaments in the latest act of violence against Christian missionaries in Israel.
Uzi Aharon, the deputy mayor of the central Israeli town of Or Yehuda, says he got into a loudspeaker car last Thursday and urged people to turn over hundreds of New Testaments and missionary material recently distributed by missionaries.
The books were dumped into a pile and religious students set them afire in a lot near a synagogue, he said.
The Maariv newspaper reported Tuesday that hundreds of students took part in the book-burning.
But Aharon told The AP on Tuesday that only a few students were present and he was not there when the books were torched. Hundreds of New Testaments were burned, he said.
Proselytizing is frowned upon in Israel but is not illegal in most cases.
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UPDATE: IsraelInsiderMedia Calls New Testament Trash and Garbage-May 21
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