we have decided on a series of protest steps starting with an open strike on the 1st of September and we assure you that we have not done this lightly but only after a long study and careful thinking. We will not back off until we receive our full rights. We will also hold several protests that will accompany the strike.

The Secretariat sees this meeting as a positive step that requires follow up with negotiations of working teams from the ministry in order to translate the discussion into actual work on the ground

The tract of negotiating is not bringing forth fruitful results. Consequently, the schools are moving toward starting a strike as a response to the steps imposed by the ministry of Education. No doubt these actions will make the lives of Christians in Israel very difficult.

President Rivlen has responded to the Christian Schools Secretariat call and appointed a meeting with the Minister of Education and the representatives of the Christian schools to be held with him in his residence the last week of this month, in an attempt to resolve the crisis. In the absence of a solution, the Christian schools will not open their doors on the first of September, and the scenario will be one of crisis within the Christian world.

A press release issued today by the Office of Christian Schools in Israel states that the ministry of Education has sent letters to several Christian schools in the last few days. In these letters the Ministry of Education threaten not to issue permits for these schools to open their doors, if these schools continue to collect tuition with sums that contradict the new regulations.

Baptist Ethicist Dr. David Gushee: “I continue to believe that contemporary Christian Zionism essentially trains its adherents to subordinate these core kingdom values to a politicized end-times theology. The result is harmful for everyone involved, including Israel.”

An unprecedented encounter of Evangelical Arabs and Jewish Reformed Israelis held in Nazareth

It’s hard to take seriously the condemnations uttered by the prime minister, cabinet ministers and Knesset members when, at the same time, they give a nod and wink to those who infringe on the state’s sovereignty by embarking on private religious and cultural campaigns against Christians and Muslims.

Palestinian Evangelical Millennials are experiencing withdrawal from the church... They are committed Christians on one hand, and are willing to look for meaningful fellowship somewhere else on the other hand. They are not against church as a community. They want to see their churches take up their role in being a prophetic voice that leads its people.

This proposal by the ministry of Education was seen by the owners of the schools (churches, monasteries, etc.) as the end of the Christian, value-based educational enterprise and even a critical blow to the Christian minority in the Land