Israeli cable television HOT is planning to drop a major Christian TV network which runs missionary advertisements directed at Jews. The move has prompted threats of legal action by the station's representatives.

The decision by the Hot Cable TV to halt the broadcasts of the Daystar TV network is pending the authorization of the Israeli Council for Cable TV and Satellite Broadcasting.

ETGAR LEFKOVITS, The Jerusalem Post, July 19, 2007

"The Nazareth Cross", the world's largest cross, is an initial private building plan under consideration, officials said Sunday.

The proposal, which is still in its planning stages, is being floated by a group of affluent Christian businessmen from Israel and abroad. The fascia of the Cross of Nazareth will be made of mosaic tiles in ston. 7.2 million tiles will cover this majestic structure, each one engraved with a name. The purchaser will be able to choose both the material and location of the tile on the Cross.

The Jerusalem Post, July 17, 2007

The Nazareth Center for Christian Studies (NCCS) will be opening its doors in September 2007 welcoming students for its BD and pre-Masters degrees.

The Center, an initiative of the Association of Baptist Churches in Israel, is inter-denominational, welcoming students from all Christian denominations and groups. The NCCS Board includes both national and international members and the Director is Rev. Dr. Bryson Arthur.

Special For "Come and See", July 5, 2007

The leader of the Melkite Greek Catholics of Galilee has proposed the establishment of a new "branch" of the Neocatechumenal Way to work specifically in the Eastern-rite Church.

In a recent letter sent to Father Rino Rossi, director of Domus Galilaeae -- a project of the Neocatechumenal Way -- Archbishop Elias Chacour recognized that this ecclesial reality is bearing "excellent fruits" in its evangelizing work within the Melkite Church.

Zenit, The World Seen from Rome, June 5, 2007

Thousands of women watch the premier showings of Magdalena Film in Galilee. The film, produced by Life Agape (Campus Crusade for Christ) and targets women. It talks about the life of Jesus concentrating on several encounters of Jesus with women.

Mrs. Alia Grayeb, a teacher on pension and who was among the 1000 women watching the film in Nazareth told "Come and See” that the movie was very touching and it touched her - like it did to many other women who sat beside her who were crying during the Film. "I am very proud of Jesus Christ who dealt with women in respect, released them from fear and gave them the privilege to be the first one to see Him after the resurrection"

Special For "Come and See", April 2, 2007

Some 200 Christian leaders representing hundreds of thousands of Bible-believers from different nations filed into Israel's parliamentary building (the Knesset) Wednesday to ask for forgiveness for centuries of Christian anti-Semitism.

The visitors were hosted by the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus (KCAC) -- a three-year-old parliamentary caucus established to facilitate close official cooperation between Christian supporters of Israel and the Jewish state.

By Stan Goodenough, Israel Insider, March 29, 2007

Mysterious photographs from the 1970s are to be brought as evidence to prove that the so-called ossuary of James, the brother of Jesus, is authentic. They are to be presented by attorneys for Oded Golan, the antiquities dealer charged with forging the item, which when it was made public, was dubbed "the most important archaeological discovery from the beginnings of Christianity."

The photographs, copies of which have reached Haaretz, have already been examined by an American expert and are to be submitted as evidence in court. But they do not remove doubts about the item, which touched off a storm in the archaeological world.

Amiram Barakat, Haaretz, Feb 8, 2007

Ethiopian rabbis and spiritual leaders (keisim) called on the government Monday to halt the Ethiopian Falashmura aliyah to Israel, citing concerns that many of the Falashmura are engaged in Christian missionary activity.

The leaders made the call during a Rehovot conference titled "Defeating the [Christian] mission manifestation in the community," in which hundreds of Ethiopian Jews took part.

Ayanawo Farada Sanbatu, Haaretz, Feb 6, 2007

A major Christian TV network offered on Israeli cable and satellite television is broadcasting missionary advertisements directed at Jews.

The Dallas-based Daystar TV network, which is part of the basic cable program on both YES and HOT, broadcasts a medley of teachings from the New Testament, and includes 15-minute infomercials from the Jewish Voice Ministries International that targets a Jewish audience with the message of Jesus.

By ETGAR LEFKOVITS, Jan 22, 2007, The Jerusalem Post

A Christian Arab researcher originally from Nazareth who is a leading chemical engineer at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has won the largest grant ever given by the European Union to an Israeli scientist - ?1.75 million - to develop an "electronic nose" to sniff out cancer.

The Jerusalem Post, Oct 31, 2006