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Government and Religious
authorities carry on a constant campaign of persecution against
parents who send their
children to Christian schools. This is an example of this
campaign:
The Grand Rabbinate
supported this campaign by an appeal in which it denounced the
misdeeds of Christian
Mission. According to Hatsofe newspaper December 2, 1953 the
Grand rabbinate appeal
states: “The Christian Missions open under the feet of Jewish
children the precipice
of assimilation and of change of religion. Those who by attending
these schools let
themselves be drawn change their religion become the enemies of our
national existence. We
want this appeal to reach all in Israel. We proclaim a special week
for action and for
information. We launch an appeal in to collect the necessary
funds for the
realization of this
action.”
The newspaper Hatsofe
supported the appeal by the Grand Rabbinate with an
inflammatory racist
.
“This action must be
carried out with all possible vigor until the impurity is destroyed
by fire from the face of the
earth.”
Large placards were
displayed in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities stating: “Do you
know that 2,000 children
receive Christian education in Israel? Do you know that 400
preachers and Christian
sent by 48 Christian missionary institutions were recruited for the
new immigrants? Mr. Amos Eylon
published an article in Ha’aretz on March 14, 1954 in which he
stated:
“Government employees
as well as those working in municipalities who send their children to Christian schools
were obliged under threat of being fired to transfer their
children to Jewish schools.”
A section was
established in the Ministry of Religious Affairs for the object of
fighting
Christian missions.
This section is sending spies into churches, monasteries, and
Christian schools to
detect who visit these Christian establishments and to take the
names
of all those who
associate with , or send their children to Christian schools.
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