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Caption transcript for This Is Israel: “A Place of Birth” (1/12)

• 00:02 HELLO, I'M ZOLA LEVITT.
• 00:03 AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE
• 00:05    SOMETHING OLD AND SOMETHING NEW ON THIS PROGRAM.
• 00:07 WE'LL START IN JERUSALEM WHERE YOU CAN OVERLOOK THE INTERESTING
• 00:10 AND BEAUTIFUL CITY OF BETHLEHEM
• 00:12 AND THEN WE'LL ZIP INTO  CYBERSPACE AND TALK WITH CEO
• 00:16   OF ISRAEL'S LARGEST  INTERNET PROVIDER, NETVISION.
• 00:20 █q    █[music playing softly ]
• 00:59  SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 01:00   WELCOME TO OUR NEW SERIES, >>    THIS IS ISRAEL.
• 01:02   AND THIS IS ISRAEL BEHIND ME ON THIS MAP.
• 01:05  HERE'S THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
• 01:07   AND THIS IS THE COUNTRY OF ISRAEL.
• 01:09 THE YELLOW LINE HERE MARKS WHAT  IS BEING CALLED THE WEST BANK
• 01:13 WHICH IS ACTUAL THE PROVINCES IN THE BIBLE OF JUDEA AND SAMARIA.
• 01:19 AND THIS LINE MARKS THE GAZA'S STRIP WHERE ARAFAT'S GOVERNMENT
• 01:24 AND THE PALESTINIANS ARE LIVING.
• 01:29  AND JERUSALEM IS HERE IN THE CENTER.
• 01:30 AND BETHLEHEM JUST FIVE MILES SOUTH OF IT RIGHT THERE.
• 01:34  AND WE'RE GOING TO GO THERE.
• 01:36   YOU KNOW, THE POINT OF THIS SERIES IS TO DISPLAY THE OFTEN
• 01:40 IGNORED SIDE OF ISRAEL WHICH IS ITS INGENUITY
• 01:43    AND KNOW HOW AND BEAUTY.
• 01:45   THE KIND OF NEWS YOU GET IN    AMERICA ON CNN AND SO ON,
• 01:49 IT JUST ALWAYS SHOWS A TROUBLE  SPOT AND SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
• 01:55   AND AFTER A WHILE, >>   THE PEOPLE START
• 01:58  TO THINK OF ISRAEL THAT WAY.
• 01:59  IT'S REALLY NOT AT ALL FAIR.
• 02:01 AND SO WE ARE GOING TO GO TO JERUSALEM AND FROM THERE,
• 02:05    KIBBUTZ -- ON THE   SOUTHERN SIDE OF JERUSALEM,
• 02:07    RAMAT RACHEL WHICH  HAS AN EXCELLENT VIEW
• 02:09  OF THE LITTLE >>   TOWN OF BETHLEHEM WHERE,
• 02:12 OF COURSE, THE MESSIAH WAS BORN.
• 02:22 HERE WE ARE AT A TRUE PLACE OF BIRTH.
• 02:24 AND BACK OF ME, YOU SEE  THE LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM.
• 02:26   THAT'S OUR LOCATION JUST ACROSS ON A SOUTHERN HILL
• 02:29 IN THE SOUTHERN  SUBURBS OF JERUSALEM.
• 02:34 AND FROM THIS KIBBUTZ,  FROM RAMAT RACHEL WE CAN LOOK
• 02:37  AT THE TOWERS AND SPIRES OF THAT LITTLE TOWN.
• 02:41  BETHLEHEM IN HEBREW    IS BEITLECHEM,
• 02:44    "HOUSE OF BREAD,"
• 02:46 AND THAT'S VERY SIGNIFICANT TO THOSE WHO READ THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 02:48  THAT THE LORD   IS REALLY A PIECE OF BREAD.
• 02:50     "THIS BREAD IS MY BODY,"
• 02:52 AND, "I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE."
• 02:53  AND, HE WAS BURIED ON UNLEAVENED BREAD, AND SO FORTH.
• 02:57  THAT IS THE JEWISH FEAST, THE SECOND FEAST ON LEAVENED BREAD,
• 03:00  THE SECOND NIGHT OF PASSOVER.
• 03:02  WELL, IT IS A HISTORIC PLACE.
• 03:04   IT IS A VERY ANCIENT CITY.
• 03:06    THERE IS A STATUE    HERE IN THE KIBBUTZ WITH
• 03:08    RACHEL WITH HER TWO CHILDREN.
• 03:10 SHE DIED HERE IN CHILDBIRTH
• 03:12    AND HER TOMB IS HERE.
• 03:14 THAT'S AN ALLEGED SITE, BUT IT IS WHERE
• 03:17    RACHEL IS REMEMBERED AND >> PEOPLE VISIT ALL OF THE TIME.
• 03:23 HERE IT WAS THAT NAOMI  HAD HER NEEDS MET IN FAMINE.
• 03:27  HERE IT WAS THAT SHE HAD HOPE WHEN HER DAUGHTER RUTH CONVERTED
• 03:31  TO THE JEWISH FAITH AND SAID,
• 03:33   "YOUR LAND WILL BE MY LAND  AND YOUR GOD WILL BE MY GOD."
• 03:37    AND HERE'S WHERE >>RUTH MET BOAZ,
• 03:40    AND THEY MARRIED >> AND THEIR OFFSPRING,
• 03:42 OBADIAH AND THEN JESSE,    AND THEN ONE OF THE GREAT
• 03:45  FIGURES OF ANTIQUITY,   KING DAVID, OF THEIR LINE.
• 03:49 AND FINALLY, OF COURSE,  ON DOWN TO THE LORD HIMSELF,
• 03:53  THE PRESENT REIGNING    KING OF THE JEWS.
• 03:56    DAVID WAS ANOINTED HERE.
• 03:58 YOU RECALL THE SCENE IN I SAMUEL 16:13,
• 04:01   THE PROPHET COMES TO ANOINT
• 04:04  THE NEW KING OF ISRAEL DURING SAUL'S REIGN.
• 04:07    BUT IT WAS THE CUSTOM TO >>ANNOUNCE THE NEXT KING.
• 04:11 AND JESSE HAD MANY SUGGESTIONS.
• 04:14 HE HAD EIGHT SONS AND,   OF COURSE,
• 04:17   HE STARTED WITH THE OLDEST.
• 04:18  BUT THE PROPHET WAS APPOINTED TO ACTUALLY DO THE YOUNGEST SON
• 04:24    RATHER AS IN THE CASE OF >>JACOB AND ESAU OR ABEL AND CAIN,
• 04:28   THE YOUNGER WAS PREFERRED.
• 04:30  THE YOUNGEST OF ALL, >>   DAVID, THE SHEPHERD LAD,
• 04:33 PLAYING ON A PIPE AND COMPOSING POETRY AND CARING FOR HIS SHEEP
• 04:37 BECAME ANOINTED   AS THE NEXT KING OF ISRAEL.
• 04:41   MICAH, THE PROPHET, HONORED  THIS LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM
• 04:44   IN AN UNFORGETTABLE   VERSE IN MICAH 5:2.
• 05:00 THE LORD WAS BORN HERE,   OF COURSE,
• 05:02 AT A TIME WHEN THIS WAS EVEN A  SMALLER TOWN THAN IT IS NOW.
• 05:05    IT IS NOT A BIG TOWN NOW.
• 05:07  BUT WHEN THE KING WAS  BORN TO A VIRGIN BRIDE HERE,
• 05:11   THERE WAS ONLY 400 FAMILIES  IN BETHLEHEM.
• 05:14   THAT'S NOT A VERY BIG TOWN.
• 05:16  AS A MATTER OF FACT,    THAT'S THE REASON
• 05:18  THAT THE LORD WAS BORN HERE.
• 05:21   THAT IT WOULD BE A  BIRTH THAT WOULD BE NOTICED.
• 05:23   YOU KNOW, IN A SMALL TOWN, >>   WHEN YOUNG KIDS,
• 05:26   OR PRACTICALLY HIGH SCHOOL  KIDS ENGAGED,
• 05:30  AND THE GIRL IS PREGNANT AND    ABOUT TO DELIVER,
• 05:33    WHY, THAT'S NEWS.
• 05:34 WHEN A GIRL HAS A BABY  IN WHAT WE CALL IT A BARN --
• 05:39  IT WAS REALLY A CAVE   WHERE THEY KEEP THE ANIMALS
• 05:41 WITH THE FIRE AT THE ENTRANCE.
• 05:43 WHEN SHE HAS A BABY IN  CIRCUMSTANCES LIKE THAT, WHY,
• 05:47  PEOPLE OF THE   TOWN MUST TELL EACH OTHER,
• 05:49  "WHY DOESN'T SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING?"
• 05:51   AND THEY --  SOMEBODY PROBABLY DID
• 05:52    AND THEY PROBABLY >>   BROUGHT BLANKETS
• 05:53 AND CARED FOR THEM AND SO FORTH.
• 05:55    AND IN THAT MANNER THERE >> WAS A BIRTH TO BE REMEMBERED.
• 05:59    30 YEARS LATER AN HONEST >> QUESTION OR LIKE A NICODEMUS
• 06:03 MIGHT COME TO BETHLEHEM AND SAY,
• 06:05 "LOOK, I'VE HEARD THE TEACHINGS OF THIS MAGNIFICENT GALILEAN WHO
• 06:10   "THEY CLAIM WALKS ON WATER   AND HEALS THE SICK
• 06:12  "AND RAISES THE DEAD.
• 06:14   "BUT FOR ME TO MAKE   THE STEP TO BELIEVE
• 06:16 "THAT HE IS TRULY THE MESSIAH OF   ISRAEL, THAT'S A BIG STEP.
• 06:20   "AND I'D LIKE TO KNOW SINCE   MICAH SAID THAT THE MESSIAH
• 06:23  "WOULD BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM,  IN YOUR LITTLE TOWN,
• 06:26   "CAN YOU REMEMBER,   WAS HE BORN HERE?"
• 06:29 AND OF COURSE, PEOPLE WOULD SAY,   "WHO CAN FORGET IT?
• 06:32    "YES, HIS MOTHER >>AND DAD RODE INTO TOWN.
• 06:36   "THEY WERE ENGAGED.
• 06:37  "THEY WEREN'T    REALLY EVEN MARRIED YET."
• 06:40  AND THEN NICODEMUS OR WHOEVER  QUESTIONED WOULD SAY,
• 06:44   "ISAIAH SAID THAT HE    WAS TO BE BORN OF A VIRGIN.
• 06:49   "WHAT CAN YOU   TELL ME ABOUT THAT?"
• 06:52 THEY COULD SAY,  "WELL, SHE WAS A YOUNG GIRL.
• 06:54  "SHE WAS A GOOD GIRL.
• 06:55   "THEY WEREN'T MARRIED YET."
• 06:57    THAT'S A LOT OF EVIDENCE.
• 06:59 THAT'S THE WAY THEY USED TO FIND  THE MESSIAH WITH THE EVIDENCE
• 07:01    OUT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 07:03 YOU KNOW, WE HAVE LOST THE SKILL OF WITNESSING
• 07:05 OUT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT ALONE.
• 07:07    BUT THAT'S WHAT PETER DID    AND WHAT PAUL DID
• 07:09  AND EVERYONE OF THEM    IN THE FIRST CENTURY DID.
• 07:11 THEY USED THEIR OLD TESTAMENT TO PROVE THE MESSIANIC PROPHECIES.
• 07:15  THEY MUST HAVE USED ISAIAH 53
• 07:17   AS PHILLIP DID WITH  THE ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH.
• 07:20 "BY HIS STRIPES ARE WE HEALED."
• 07:22    HE'S INTERCESSOR >>FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS.
• 07:24 IF THEY COULD CALCULATE    DANIEL 9,
• 07:27    THEY MUST HAVE USED THAT.
• 07:28 THIS IS A TIME  THAT THE MESSIAH SHOULD COME
• 07:30   IN THE 70 WEEKS OF YEARS OF   PROPHECY, AND MANY OTHERS.
• 07:34  AND THEY HAD THE SKILL OF WITNESSING
• 07:35 FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 07:37 WELL, BETHLEHEM WENT ON   AFTER HIS BIRTH AS A PLACE
• 07:41  OF SPIRITUAL  RENEWAL AND REBIRTH.
• 07:44 CHRISTIANITY FLOURISHED HERE IN THE HOLY LAND.
• 07:47    THE LATIN BIBLE WAS  COMPOSED IN 386 A.D. BY JEROME,
• 07:52  THE VULGATE BIBLE STILL  IN USE IN SOME PLACES.
• 07:56 THE 4th CENTURY SAW THE BUILDING
• 07:59  OF THE OLDEST   CHURCH IN THE LAND.
• 08:01  THE BASILICA, CALLED   THE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY
• 08:05    WHERE THEY CLAIM >>THE MANGER IS LOCATED.
• 08:07    I'M NOT SURE THAT'S TRUE >>  BECAUSE IT'S IN THE MIDDLE
• 08:10   OF THE CITY SQUARE.
• 08:11  AND MORE THAN LIKELY THE LORD  WAS OUT IN ALL OF THE FIELDS.
• 08:13   AFTER ALL, ANIMALS   ATTENDED THE BIRTH
• 08:15  AND IT WAS A FARM OR RANCH OR  SORT OF THAT HE WAS BORN ON.
• 08:18    BUT IN ANY CASE, >> THE CHURCH WAS BUILT
• 08:21    TO COMMEMORATE IT AND THE CHURCH
• 08:23 WAS THE SITE OF   MUCH ARGUMENTATION.
• 08:25  IT HAS A VERY LOW DOORWAY TO KEEP HORSEMEN FROM RIDING INTO
• 08:30   THE CHURCH AND UP AND DOWN  THE AISLES LOPPING OFF HEADS
• 08:32  IN THE HOME OF THE PRINCE OF PEACE TO CONTEND FOR THEIR SIDE.
• 08:37 THERE HAS BEEN MUCH CONTENTION AND MUCH STRIFE
• 08:40  AND IT SEEMS A SHAME   IN THE PLACE WHERE
• 08:42    THE ONE WHO IS ULTIMATELY TO BRING PEACE ON EARTH
• 08:46  AND GOODWILL TO MEN WAS BORN.
• 08:58    "THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,   I SHALL GATHER YOU FROM THE
• 09:02 "PEOPLES AND ASSEMBLE YOU OUT OF THE COUNTRIES WHERE YOU HAVE
• 09:05    "BEEN SCATTERED AND I WILL   GIVE YOU THE LAND OF ISRAEL,
• 09:09   "THE WILDERNESS AND >>    DRY LAND SHALL BE GLAD.
• 09:12    "THE DESERT SHALL REJOICE     AND BLOSSOM AS THE ROSE.
• 09:17   "YOU SHALL KNOW THAT    I AM THE LORD WHEN I BRING
• 09:20 "YOU INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL."
• 09:26   WE ARE ON LOCATION   ACROSS THE FROM THE
• 09:28    LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM >> WHERE JESUS CHRIST WAS BORN,
• 09:30    WHERE DAVID WAS ANOINTED,
• 09:32 WHERE RACHEL DIED IN CHILDBIRTH, AN ANCIENT AND IMPORTANT CITY.
• 09:37    AND WE'VE TALKED >>   ABOUT THE BIRTH OF CHRIST
• 09:39  AND WHAT HAPPENED THEREAFTER,
• 09:40   THE BUILDING OF THE CHURCH   OF THE NATIVITY AND SO ON.
• 09:43 BUT THEN THE TOWN WENT    THROUGH A LOT OF CHANGES,
• 09:45 BECAUSE AFTER ALL,    THE MOSLEMS RODE IN.
• 09:47  THEY CONTROLLED JERUSALEM    STARTING IN 632 A.D.
• 09:51 THEY BUILT THE DOME OF THE ROCK AND FINISHED IT IN 691.
• 09:55 THEY HELD SWAY   HERE FOR CENTURIES.
• 09:59    FOR TWICE THE AGE  OF THE UNITED STATES,
• 10:00 THE MOSLEMS HELD ONTO THE AREA.
• 10:03 CHRISTIAN ARMIES OF EUROPE  CAME HERE, THE CRUSADERS,
• 10:07 TRYING TO WREST THE HOLY LAND FROM THE MOSLEMS.
• 10:09  THEY RODE THROUGH THE PLACE,
• 10:10 KILLING PEOPLE, JEWS AND MOSLEMS ALIKE.
• 10:13    THEY DO NOT HAVE >>A VERY GOOD REPUTATION,
• 10:15 CERTAINLY NOT A   VERY RELIGIOUS REPUTATION.
• 10:19  AND THEY TOOK OVER THE LAND.
• 10:21  THEY PUT THE KNIGHT'S TEMPLAR   ON THE TEMPLE SITE.
• 10:24   THEY IN AN AWESOME   EXAMPLE OF FAILING
• 10:26   TO READ YOUR OLD TESTAMENT, >>   THEY THOUGHT THE
• 10:28  DOME OF THE ROCK WAS KING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE,   IF YOU CAN IMAGINE.
• 10:32  AND THEY PUT   A CROSS ON THE TOP OF THING
• 10:34   MAKING A CHURCH OUT OF IT.
• 10:36   AND THAT WAS RATHER AMAZING  SINCE IT HAD ORIGINALLY BEEN
• 10:39 BUILT OVER THE   OLD ROMAN TEMPLE OF JUPITER
• 10:42    WHICH ITSELF HAD REPLACED   THE TEMPLE OF GOD,   THE JEWISH TEMPLE.
• 10:46 WE NOW HAD A CHRISTIAN CROSS ON A MOSLEM DOME ON ROMAN PILLARS ON JEWISH LAND.
• 10:53   THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS    IN THE HOLY LAND.
• 10:56 THE CRUSADERS HELD THE PLACE FOR TWO CENTURIES OR SO.
• 10:59 THE MULTITUDES  FROM EGYPT RODE BACK
• 11:02  AND OTHER MOSLEMS TOOK OVER.
• 11:03  AND FINALLY THE TURKS RODE, 1517,
• 11:05 STILL OTHER MOSLEMS, >> THEY TOOK IT OVER.
• 11:08   AND ALL THIS TIME, THE JEWS ARE DISPERSED
• 11:11   AND THE CHRISTIANS TOO FAR AWAY TO OBJECT
• 11:13   AND THE TURKS HELD SWAY UNTIL  1917 AT THE END OF WORLD WAR I,
• 11:19  GENERAL ALLENBY   OF THE BRITISH ARMY,
• 11:21  WITHOUT FIRING A SHOT,   GOT OFF OF HIS HORSE
• 11:24  AND WALKED RESPECTFULLY    INTO JERUSALEM ON HIS FEET
• 11:26   AND TOOK THE CITY OVER FROM THE TURKS.
• 11:28  AND ESTABLISHED   THE BRITISH MANDATE.
• 11:31  IN THE SAME YEAR, LORD BALFOUR  OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT SAID
• 11:36   THAT THE JEWS HAVE A PERFECT    RIGHT TO REESTABLISH THEIR
• 11:38  HOMELAND HERE AND THAT   WAS A HISTORIC MOMENT INDEED.
• 11:42  THE JEWS DID START TO COME BACK
• 11:44 AND THEY STARTED    TO FARM THIS PLACE.
• 11:47 AT LAST, SOMEBODY LIVING    IN THE LAND CARED ABOUT IT.
• 11:50 YOU KNOW, I CAN'T SAY MUCH ABOUT THE TURKS.
• 11:53 THEY CUT OUT THE FOREST.
• 11:54   THEY TURNED THE PLACE INTO A DESERT, INTO SWAMP LAND.
• 11:57 THEY SEEMED NEVER TO PLANT A TREE.
• 11:58   THEY CHOPPED DOWN ALL OF THE   TREES TO MAKE TIES FOR THEIR
• 12:01 FAMOUS RAILROADS  BUT THEY NEVER REPLACED
• 12:03   THE TREES AND SO SILT  WENT INTO THE HARBORS.
• 12:07    THE PLACE WAS IN RUINATION  WHEN THE FIRST JEWS CAME BACK.
• 12:11  BUT THEY TURNED OUT TO BE AMONG  THE BEST FARMERS IN THE WORLD.
• 12:14 THEY DRAINED THE SWAMPS.
• 12:16  THEY PLANTED THE PLACE.
• 12:17 IN THE 1960s THEY WERE THE FIRST
• 12:21   IN THE WORLD  TO USE DRIP IRRIGATION,
• 12:23 COMPUTER CONTROLLED WATER  DRIPPING ON EACH PLANT.
• 12:26   JUST ENOUGH.
• 12:29    AND LATELY THEY GROW ROSES BY USING THE WATER TWICE.
• 12:31   IT GOES THROUGH THE STONE AND  COMES OUT OF THE BOTTOM
• 12:34    AND BACK UP THROUGH   THE TOP AND SO FORTH.
• 12:37  AND THEY HAVE REALLY MADE THIS  PLACE INTO AN EXPORTER OF FOOD
• 12:41 AND AS A MATTER OF FACT,   AN EXPORTER OF ROSES.
• 12:44 AS WE POINT OUT IN THE PREVIOUS PROGRAM,
• 12:46 ISAIAH PREDICTED THAT THE DESERT
• 12:49  SHALL BLOSSOM LIKE A >>   ROSE AND INDEED IT DOES.
• 12:53 NOW THEN, THEODOR HERZL,   THE GREAT ZIONIST AND
• 12:56    BEN YAHUDA, THE LEXICOGRAPHER
• 12:58   RECREATED THE    LANGUAGE OF ISRAEL.
• 13:00  WHEN THE JEWS  STARTED TO COME BACK.
• 13:02 THEY SPOKE A HUNDRED LANGUAGES.
• 13:04   THEY SPOKE RUSSIAN, >>   LIKE MY PARENTS.
• 13:07 AND THEY SPOKE YIDDISH.
• 13:09   THEY SPOKE LANGUAGES OF THE    COUNTRIES THEY CAME FROM.
• 13:13   AND THESE TWO FELT >>   THAT THEY OUGHT TO SPEAK >>THE BIBLICAL LANGUAGE.
• 13:17    AND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY,
• 13:20  A "DEAD LANGUAGE" SO CALLED,  I MEAN IT WAS USED FOR PRAYER
• 13:23   BUT NEVER FOR CONVERSATION,
• 13:26   WAS RESURRECTED AND NEW WORDS PUT INTO IT.
• 13:29  AND IT WAS USED EVERYDAY FOR   CONVERSATION IN THE STREETS   AND IN THE STORES.
• 13:33    AND HEBREW WAS RECREATED.
• 13:34 THE PRINCIPLE HERE IS GIVEN WAY
• 13:37   BACK IN THE BEGINNING OF THE BIBLE.
• 13:38 GENESIS 11, THE TOWER OF BABEL.
• 13:46 THAT WAS THE CASE THEN.
• 13:54    AND HE PROPOSED THAT THEY CONFOUND THE PEOPLE'S LANGUAGE
• 13:57  AND SO THEY ALL ARE SPEAKING  DIFFERENT LANGUAGES SUDDENLY.
• 13:59  THEY HAVE TO ABANDON THEIR PROJECT.
• 14:10  THEY GAVE UP TRYING TO BUILD THIS TOWER TO REACH TO HEAVEN.
• 14:27    WELL, HERZL AND >> BEN YAHUDA DID THE OPPOSITE.
• 14:30   THEY RECREATED A LANGUAGE.
• 14:31 GAVE THEM ALL BACK ONE LANGUAGE  AND SPOKE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
• 14:34    FROM ALL OVER THE EARTH.
• 14:36 AND NOW, THEY WERE BACK  AND THEY HAVE STAYED,
• 14:39 OF COURSE, FOR DECADES.
• 14:41  ISRAEL IS NOW  IN ITS SIXTH DECADE.
• 14:45    IT IS JUST PASSED  THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY.
• 14:49 IN 1948 WHEN THE JEWS DECLARED INDEPENDENCE, WELL, I WOULD CALL
• 14:53 THAT THE DECADE OF INDEPENDENCE.
• 14:56   THEY MADE THEIR DECLARATION JUST LIKE AMERICA DID IN 1776.
• 15:00    AND OF COURSE, THEY WERE >>FALLEN ON BY FIVE ARAB NATIONS.
• 15:04  THE ARABS CAME FROM ALL SIDES    WITH WELL-EQUIPPED ARMIES
• 15:07 AGAINST 650,000 JEWISH PEOPLE, MANY ARMED ONLY WITH HAND GUNS
• 15:12   AND SOME NOT ARMED AT ALL.
• 15:13 AND THEY LOST.
• 15:15 THE ARABS LOST.
• 15:16  SOMEHOW THE ISRAELIS HELD THE LAND AND THEY
• 15:19 ESTABLISHED THEIR INDEPENDENCE.
• 15:21  AND THEN IN THE 50s,  THE IMMIGRATION BEGAN IN REAL
• 15:25 EARNEST AND THE 650,000 PEOPLE BECAME A TWO AND HALF MILLION.
• 15:31    IT WAS A TREMENDOUS INFLUX OF    JEWS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
• 15:33  COME BACK TO BUILD A PROMISED LAND.
• 15:35  IN THE 60s, THE PALESTINIANS OR THE ARABS CO-OPTED THE TERM
• 15:40   PALESTINIANS FOR THEMSELVES   AND BEGAN THE PLO,
• 15:45 AN IDEA OF LIBERATING SO CALLED, THE LAND FROM JEWISH INHABITANTS
• 15:50   SINCE THEY HAD BEEN THERE -- AS WE CAN SEE THE MOSLEMS
• 15:53  HAD BEEN THERE    FOR CENTURIES ALSO.
• 15:55   BUT THE JEWS PREDATED THEM BY SO LONG.
• 15:57 IN ANY CASE, THEY   WANTED TO LIBERATE THE LAND.
• 15:59    THE SIX-DAY WAR OCCURRED    AND IN THAT ONE,
• 16:01 THE JEWS CAPTURED JERUSALEM.
• 16:03   THAT WAS THE DECADE OF WAR AND >>JERUSALEM, I WOULD SAY.
• 16:07   THE 70s, THE DECADE  OF THE ARAB BOYCOTTS.
• 16:10    REMEMBER WE STOOD IN LINE  TO BUY GAS BECAUSE THE ARABS
• 16:12  HELD BACK THE OIL AND BLAMED   THE THING ON THE ISRAELIS.
• 16:16    THE ISRAELIS MAKE THE ARABS DO BAD THINGS
• 16:19 AND THE AMERICAN PRESS AND THE WORLD PRESS IN GENERAL
• 16:22    TURNED AGAINST ISRAEL AND  IT IS AGAINST IT TO THIS DAY.
• 16:25  BASHES IT EVERY DAY.
• 16:27 AND THIS IS DECIMATING    A MODERN DEMOCRACY AND AN
• 16:32   ALLIES OF THE UNITED STATES AND IT GOES ON AND ON.
• 16:35   IT HAS BEEN VERY EFFECTIVE.
• 16:37 THE ARAB "PR" MACHINE GOES ON   AND ON AND ISRAEL SUFFERS.
• 16:41  IN THE 80s THE INTIFADA BEGAN
• 16:44    WITH THE >>   CHILDREN THROWING STONES.
• 16:45    ARAFAT AND HIS PEOPLE HAD >>   NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT.
• 16:47    THEY WERE CAUGHT >>  TOTALLY BY SURPRISE
• 16:49 AT THIS SPONTANEOUSLY UPRISING.
• 16:51   BUT THEY CLAIMED IT AND DECIDED THAT THERE HAD TO BE
• 16:55  PEACE CONFERENCES TO   SETTLE THIS ISSUE.
• 16:58 AND SO WHAT WAS A REALLY GHETTO RIOTS WHICH WE HAVE ALL THE TIME
• 17:02  IN THE UNITED STATES BECAME SOME KIND OF WAR
• 17:05 THAT HAD TO BE SETTLED WITH PEACE CONFERENCES.
• 17:07    AND SO WE HAVE THE 90s,  THE DECADE OF FALSE PEACE.
• 17:11  THAT SHOULD HERALD  THE ENTRANCE OF THE ANTICHRIST,
• 17:14   THE MASTER OF FALSE PEACE  COMING UP.
• 17:17  WELL, TODAY, ISRAEL IS A TOTAL
• 17:19 SUCCESS OTHERWISE.
• 17:20   ITS INCOME IS EQUAL TO THAT OF
• 17:22 ENGLAND PER CAPITA.
• 17:23  IT IS MUCH WEALTHIER   AND MORE IMPORTANT
• 17:27   THAN ANY OTHER ARAB NATION.
• 17:28   EVEN THE ONES WITH ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF OIL STILL DON'T FEED
• 17:31 THEMSELVES AS THE ISRAELIS DO.
• 17:34    AND BETHLEHEM, BEHIND ME,
• 17:37 WAS GIVEN OVER TO THE MOSLEMS IN 1995.
• 17:40  I SUPPOSE WE WOULD BE IN THE CITY SQUARE IN BETHLEHEM FILMING
• 17:43   IF IT WERE STILL A ISRAELI-CONTROLLED CITY BUT NOW,
• 17:46    IT'S A CITY THAT >>   GOT SOME DANGER INVOLVED.
• 17:49  IT IS NOT MUCH FUN TO VISIT.
• 17:52  YOU HEAR CONSTRUCTION >>   GOING ON NEARBY.
• 17:53  MEANWHILE, THE BIRTH GOES ON.
• 17:55   THIS PLACE IS STILL BEING REBORN AND REBORN
• 17:57   AS THEY BUILD NEWER  AND NEWER BUILDINGS.
• 17:59    STILL REMAKING THE LAND.
• 18:02  AND BETHLEHEM WAS LOST TO THE  PALESTINIANS SOME TIME BACK.
• 18:05 HAR MOMA, WHERE SOME OF  THIS BUILDING IS TAKING PLACE,
• 18:10  JUST OFF THE HILL TO MY RIGHT.
• 18:12   AND THERE, OF COURSE,   WAS A TREMENDOUS CONTROVERSY
• 18:15    ABOUT THE BUILDING    OF SOME APARTMENTS.
• 18:16   BUT AS I SAY,   THE REBIRTH GOES ON.
• 18:20  THE BORDERS OF JERUSALEM ARE  REALLY COMING UP FOR SERIOUS
• 18:23  DISCUSSION AND WELL, YOU KNOW JEWS AND ARABS HAVE BEEN MOVING
• 18:26    IN FOR YEARS AND >>THE CITY HAS SWOLLEN UP
• 18:29   AND THE REAL ESTATE  VALUES ARE VERY HIGH.
• 18:31   AND THE POPULATION >>   OF THE COUNTRY HAS GROWN
• 18:33 BY A THIRD IN 10 YEARS.
• 18:35  IMAGINE THAT.
• 18:37 GOSH, IT WOULD BE LIKE ANOTHER  HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE COMING
• 18:40  INTO AMERICA  IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS.
• 18:42  ISRAEL HAS A TREMENDOUS BURDEN HERE.
• 18:45    AND OF COURSE, MUCH MORE >> USAGE OF ALL OF ITS SERVICES
• 18:48  INCLUDING COMPUTER SERVICES.
• 18:50  OUR PRODUCER KEN BERG VISITED  THE HOME OFFICES OF NETVISION
• 18:54    AND SPOKE TO THE >> CEO RUTH ALON.
• 19:02  RUTH, THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US TODAY.
• 19:04   THANK YOU.
• 19:05    CAN YOU GIVE US A  BACKGROUND ON    NETVISION AND ITS
• 19:07  EXTRAORDINARY    GROWTH AND WHERE YOU ARE GOING?
• 19:09 NETVISION IS FIVE   YEARS OLD NOW.
• 19:13 WE WERE FOUNDED IN 1994 AND WE GOT A LICENSE IN AUGUST
• 19:21   AND STARTED SELLING   ACCOUNTS IN AUGUST OF '94.
• 19:25    AND TODAY, WE ARE  THE LEADING COMPANY.
• 19:28   WE HAVE MANY, MANY TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CUSTOMERS.
• 19:33   AND WE HAVE WONDERFUL, EXCITING BUSINESS.
• 19:39  AND WE'RE TRYING >>TO RIDE THE WAVE OF THE INTERNET
• 19:41 WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD.
• 19:43 IT IS PROBABLY ABOUT 20 PERCENT
• 19:45  OF THE CUSTOMERS  THAT ARE YOUNGER.
• 19:47 AND THE OTHERS ARE THE TYPICAL,
• 19:49  MAYBE MORE EDUCATED AND  SOMEWHERE AROUND
• 19:54    THE 20 TO 45    IS THE TYPICAL USER.
• 19:59    WHAT WAYS WOULD  YOU CONSIDER ISRAEL
• 20:01    A LEADER IN CYBERSPACE TODAY?
• 20:04 I THINK THAT PROBABLY THE NUMBER
• 20:09  OF NEW IDEAS AND NEW VENTURES  AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
• 20:12   AND THE INNOVATION   THAT GOES WITH IT.
• 20:15   WE MUST BE LEADER.
• 20:17 ESPECIALLY IF WE TAKE A PERCENT
• 20:21    OF THE POPULATION OF THE COUNTRY.
• 20:23  THERE IS A HUGE NUMBER OF NEW    IDEAS AND PEOPLE,
• 20:28   YOUNG PEOPLE, OLDER PEOPLE, A LOT OF MONEY THAT IS INVESTED
• 20:32  IN TRYING TO COME UP WITH NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND NEW OFFERINGS.
• 20:36   AND I THINK WE ARE  QUITE UNIQUE IN THAT.
• 20:39    WHY DO YOU THINK >>   THAT IS THE CASE?
• 20:41   ISRAEL IS A >>   RELATIVELY SMALL COUNTRY
• 20:42 BUT YET SO MUCH >>   IS COMING OUT OF ISRAEL.
• 20:45    THERE IS PROBABLY    SEVERAL REASONS FOR THAT.
• 20:47  THERE'S THE CLASSICAL REASONS
• 20:49   THAT ISRAEL HAS ALWAYS BEEN    KNOWN FOR WELL --
• 20:53 BEING THE WELL-EDUCATED COUNTRY.
• 20:55   WE HAVE A VERY HIGH PERCENT >>   OF PEOPLE THAT GRADUATED
• 20:59  HIGH SCHOOL THAT CONTINUE IN ACADEMIC DEGREES OF SOME KIND.
• 21:04   AND THE OTHER THING    IS WE ARE A SMALL COUNTRY
• 21:06  AND WE ARE A LITTLE FAR AWAY.
• 21:08   AND IT IS IMPORTANT TO US.
• 21:10    AND EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE >>   CONNECTED WITH THE WORLD
• 21:13  AND THERE IS NOTHING  LIKE THE INTERNET TO CONNECT
• 21:15    AND MAKE US ONE >> NICE, GLOBAL VILLAGE.
• 21:21  PERHAPS PART OF YOUR SURVIVAL
• 21:22  THAT YOU NEED TO STAY >>   IN TOUCH WITH THE WORLD?
• 21:24    I THINK IT'S VERY  IMPORTANT FOR ISRAEL.
• 21:26   BECAUSE CERTAINLY, WHAT THE FUTURE BRINGS
• 21:30   IS HOPEFULLY PEACE   AND GOOD ECONOMICS
• 21:33 AND GOOD EMPLOYMENT FOR PEOPLE.
• 21:35 AND EXPORT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ISRAEL AND WE NEED TO BE A PART
• 21:40    OF THE WORLD AND >>   WE ARE PART OF THE WORLD.
• 21:42  THERE IS NOTHING LIKE   THE INTERNET THAT DOES IT.
• 21:44  AS WE SPEAK, >>   WE CAN HEAR CONSTRUCTION
• 21:46    GOING ON RIGHT NEXT DOOR.
• 21:47    IT IS SYMBOLIC, ISN'T IT, >>   IN THE WAY OF THE GROWTH
• 21:50    OF THIS COUNTRY, NOT ONLY CYBERSPACE OR THIS IN GENERAL,
• 21:53 IT'S A DYNAMIC COUNTRY.
• 21:55   YES, IT IS VERY DYNAMIC
• 21:57    AND THERE IS  BUILDING ALL OF THE TIME.
• 21:58 IT COMES AND GOES AS WE CAN SEE.
• 22:01 THAT'S OKAY WE GET USED TO IT.
• 22:03 BUT IT'S FINE.
• 22:04 WHERE WOULD YOU   SAY THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY
• 22:05    IS TAKING TO US?
• 22:07 WHAT ULTIMATELY    IS DOWN THE ROAD?
• 22:09  WOULD YOU SAY IN FIVE YEARS?
• 22:10 PROBABLY GOING    TO BE VERY LITTLE
• 22:12    THAT WILL NOT BE >>SOMEHOW CONNECTED TO SOMETHING.
• 22:16 WE LIKE TO SAY    SOMETIMES IN THE LECTURES
• 22:19   THE STORY ABOUT HOW  YOUR SHIRT WILL HAVE
• 22:22    THIS LITTLE SMEAR  THAT WILL TELL THE LAUNDRY --
• 22:26 THE LAUNDROMAT THAT IT'S DIRTY
• 22:29 AND IT IS TIME >>   TO TAKE IT TO THE WASHER
• 22:30  AND ALSO TELL  YOU WHEN IT'S CLEAN.
• 22:33  I THINK IT'S GOING TO REALLY CHANGE
• 22:37 EVERYBODY'S LIFE EVEN MORE THAN
• 22:39 WHAT WE CAN SEE NOW AND    HOPEFULLY FOR A GOOD WAY.
• 22:42  AND CERTAINLY HOPE IT   HAS A BIG IMPACT ON
• 22:45 THE NEW GENERATION WITH    EDUCATION AND THE ABILITY
• 22:48    TO BRING THE GOOD   WONDERFUL THINGS THAT KIDS
• 22:51 NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AND EXPLORE
• 22:53   AND NOT JUST SIT THERE AND   LISTEN TO LECTURES ANYMORE.
• 22:57 UNFORTUNATELY THE IMAGE THAT WE HAVE IN AMERICA
• 22:59  IS NOT OFTEN THE BEST OF ISRAEL BECAUSE OF THE NEWS.
• 23:03 DO YOU THINK THAT THE INTERNET  MAY HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH
• 23:05  CHANGING THAT DOWN THE ROAD?
• 23:06 WELL, WE SURE HOPE SO.
• 23:09  I THINK THAT ANYTHING   THAT MAKES PEOPLE TALK WITH
• 23:13 EACH OTHER IS GOOD AND HAVE OPEN >>   PHONES TO DISCUSS THINGS
• 23:18 AND DO IT IN A CIVILIZED MANNER.
• 23:22  WE HAVE A LOT   OF USERS THAT SPEAK
• 23:25  OTHER LANGUAGES THAN HEBREW.
• 23:27  ACTUALLY HERE IN OUR TECHNICAL SUPPORT GROUP
• 23:29 WE SUPPORT ON A REGULAR BASIS IN FOUR LANGUAGES;
• 23:33    HEBREW, ENGLISH, >>ARABIC AND IN RUSSIAN.
• 23:36 AND NEW REPORT THAT WAS JUST LAUNCHED
• 23:40  ABOUT A MONTH AND HALF AGO IS ALSO SUPPORTING FOUR LANGUAGES.
• 23:43  AND WE PUT A LOT OF EMPHASIS    ON THE ARABIC SIDE OF IT.
• 23:48   AND WE'RE GOING TO PUT MORE CONTENT INTO IT AND IT IS GOING
• 23:51  TO BE ADDRESSING THE ISRAELI-ARAB POPULATION
• 23:53    AND HOPEFULLY, YOU KNOW, >>   PEOPLE AROUND US.
• 23:57 AND WE DEFINITELY THINK THAT IT COULD HAVE A GOOD AFFECT
• 24:00  IN COMMUNICATING MORE  AND START INTO TRADE
• 24:03  AND SEE THE ECONOMY AFFECTED  BY IT AS WELL ON BOTH SIDES.
• 24:16 [ music playing softly ]
• 25:31    MODERN ISRAEL IS A STORY OF SOMETHING NEW AND    SOMETHING VERY OLD.
• 25:35 YOU KNOW, AS MUCH   AS THEY ARE ADVANCED
• 25:37    IN THE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE AND SCIENCE
• 25:39    AND AGRICULTURE, AND SO ON.
• 25:41    THEY ARE THE OLDEST   COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
• 25:45    WHY DO I SAY THAT?
• 25:46 CHINA IS OLDER AND SO ON.
• 25:48   YES, BUT THEY CHANGED  THEIR RELIGION
• 25:50 AND THEIR    PHILOSOPHY A HUNDRED TIMES.
• 25:52  I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE,  BUT I MEAN, WHAT WOULD
• 25:53 AN ANCIENT CONFUSION HAVE TO SAY TO A CHINESE COMMUNIST OF TODAY?
• 25:58   IN ISRAEL, IF ZEPHANIAH CAME   WALKING DOWN THE STREET AFTER
• 26:03    NEARLY 3000 YEARS, AND SPOKE TO THE PEOPLE,
• 26:06   HE'D SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE   AND GIVING THE SAME THOUGHTS
• 26:08    ABOUT THE SAME GOD,  THE SAME PROPHECIES AND SINGING
• 26:12  THE SAME SONGS  AND DO THE SAME PRAYERS
• 26:14 THAT WE ARE DOING  FROM TIME AND MEMORIAL.
• 26:16   MY GOODNESS,   GOD SAID TO ABRAHAM.
• 26:25   IT HAS COME TO PASS.
• 26:27  IT CERTAINLY HAS COME TO PASS.
• 26:29 GET TO KNOW THIS COUNTRY, IT'S WELL WORTH KNOWING.
• 26:33  WE'RE OFFERING    MAPS AS OUR OFFER.
• 26:36   THIS IS INTERESTING.
• 26:37   IF YOU HAVE A MAP OF >>  A COUNTRY OR A MAJOR CITY,
• 26:39   YOU GET TO KNOW IT QUITE WELL.
• 26:42 WE HAVE TWO MAPS.
• 26:44   ONE OF ISRAEL >>  AND ONE OF JERUSALEM TYPICALLY
• 26:45  THAT WE USE WITH OUR TOURS.
• 26:47    WE'VE OFFERED THEM FOR YEARS.
• 26:49  THEY ARE VERY COMPLETE.
• 26:51    THE MAP OF ISRAEL HAS ALL  OF THE CITIES AND THE ROADS
• 26:53 AND PROVINCES AND SO ON.
• 26:55   SO YOU UNDERSTAND IT.
• 26:56 AND THE MAP OF JERUSALEM IS A   PICTURE MAP.
• 26:58 IT HAS STREET NAMES.
• 26:59 YOU CAN SPEND HOURS AND HOURS LOOKING AT THIS KIND OF A MAP.
• 27:03 IT IS DIFFERENT THAN AMERICAN CITY.
• 27:05 THERE ARE NO EXPRESSWAYS.
• 27:07 THERE ARE BUILDINGS OF 1500 YEARS OLD.
• 27:13  1300 ANYWAY, THE DOME OF THE ROCK.
• 27:15 THERE ARE WALLS THAT GO BACK TO KING SOLOMON,
• 27:17 THE BOTTOM OF THE WESTERN WALL GOES THAT FAR BACK.
• 27:20 SO GET THESE MAPS AND STUDY THEM AND YOU'LL LIKE THEM.
• 27:24 AND GET OUR LEVITT LETTER AND OUR CATALOG.
• 27:26 OUR NEWSLETTER AND CATALOG ARE FREE FOR THE ASKING.
• 27:28 SEND US YOUR NAME   AND ADDRESS
• 27:30 AND WE'LL SEND THEM RIGHT TO YOU.
• 27:32 I HOPE YOU WILL DO THAT.
• 27:33  REMEMBER THE GIFTS OF FUNDS.
• 27:35   I MEAN, THAT'S HOW  ANY MINISTRY REALLY OPERATES.
• 27:37  THIS IS NOT A STORE.
• 27:38   WE NEED YOUR HELP.
• 27:40    LIKE ANY CHURCH, >>  WE NEED YOUR TITHE.
• 27:42 AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 27:44 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
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