What will happen to me if I go to Israel and ?

Question

Preach about Jesus on the street? Will they listen to me?
I love the Jewish pepole.

Answer 1

It depends where in Israel you do it....if you go to say, a Christian neighborhood of Jerusalem or Nazareth, then I don't think anyone will mind. If you go to some Jewish neighborhoods or most Muslim neighborhoods, then you're really asking for trouble.

In general, one thing Israelis have little toleration for is religious preaching (doesn't matter what religion). You can display your religiosity all you want (wear a huge crucifix accross your neck, read a New Testament in public, etc), but preaching is one line that shouldn't be crossed. They won't preach to you or impose their religious beliefs on you, so it's only fair that you respect their wishes.

Answer 2

The Israeli Jews really are the hardest people in the world to preach to (look up the Back To Jerusalem Prophecy on the internet to see what Jesus said about them to Chinese Christians in the 1940s).

It's illegal in Israel to proselytise, to convert from one religion to another, or to evangelise to a Jew under 18. This has a five-year jail sentence, and there are members of the Knesset who want to extend this to all preaching.

A friend of mine who'd been a professional rodeo rider in New Mexico and was still under 30 walked through Mea Shearim, an Orthodox area of Jerusalem, with a Bible in his hand and a large cross on the back of his leather vest. They ripped both off him. I had a T-shirt ripped off my back, not in Mea Shearim but in a central part of West Jerusalem, which said Yeshua haMeshiach (Jesus is Messiah). I was also hit a couple of times and my head pushed against a wall (I still have the scar) for singing hymns in a central square. It's always young, American Jews who are the problem. The homeless Russian and Romanian Jews on the street protected me from them!

But you'll find that, especially in Jerusalem, there are Christian (and Messianic Jewish) organisations you can join with in evangelistic efforts.

E-mail me and I can put you in touch with some useful contacts in Israel.

Answer 3

The following are significant observations by Christians of the Arabs in Palestine in the 1800s:

The Arabs themselves, who are its inhabitants, cannot be considered but temporary residents. They pitched their tents in its grazing fields or built their places of refuge in its ruined cities. They created nothing in it. Since they were strangers to the land, they never became its masters. The desert wind that brought them hither could one day carry them away without their leaving behind them any sign of their passage through it.

Stephen Olin, D.D., L.L.D., called one of the most noted of American theologians after his extensive travels in the Middle East wrote of the Arabs in Palestine "...with slight exceptions they are probably all descendants of the old inhabitants of Syria."

Palestinian Arab nationalism is largely a post-World War I phenomenon that did not become a significant political movement until after the 1967 Six-Day War and Israel's capture of the West Bank.

...the Arab leadership realized how much more effective they could make their efforts to "throw the Jews into the sea" if they became Palestinians rather than Arabs. By then, the Jews of this country (the only people called Palestinians before the War of Independence) were named Israelis. Even The Palestine Post became The Jerusalem Post. By adopting the name 'Palestinians' the Arabs succeeded in converting the Arab-Israeli conflict from a war of annihilation against the Jewish population to a struggle of dispossessed natives against colonialist invaders. It was a spectacularly effective canard, eventually adopted by Israel's own fiction weavers, the 'new historians.'

- David Bar-Illan, The Jerusalem Post, 'Eye on the Media', November 5, 1999


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Answer 4

They don't have preaching on the streets in Israel.

Answer 5

You can preach Christianity where there are Christian communities. Don't do it in the Jewish communities, they will get mad at you and nobody should experience the anger of a Jew. They are quiet as long as you don't make them mad. So beware!

Answer 6

Well first off your not going to get that much of a target market because the Jews in Israel that know the most English are also the ones who have had the most exposure to Christianity.

In short your going for the hardest market. In all likelihood you will either be ignored or if you do it in the wrong neighborhoods run out.

On a side note if you love the Jews so much I would advise you not to try to convert them.

Answer 7

Please don't. Most people won't take you seriously and anyways we have our own religion so don't need you to teach us yours (You see Itay Lahav is right about us not liking preaching). And if you love the Jewish people wouldn't it be a shame if you turned them into christians? who would you have to love then?

Answer 8

Hi Rosa Maria Q

Thank you very, very much for thinking about us and Jesus - but please do us a favour, will you?

Please go to Spain, or maybe France. Or New Zealand, that's a real nice place.

I hear the people in Bulgaria like to hear about Jesus, and you can get real cheap flights there. Try Bulgaria, eh?
Please.

Answer 9

depends where you are. if you are in a secular place, people will look at you funny and probably think you are nuts. in religious neighborhoods they wouldn't allow it (they'll find a way to make you leave) don't go to Muslim areas-you'll be asking for trouble.

on of the answerer's was right though, Israelis don't care much about preaching about religion any religion!

Answer 10

if you go to Israel you'll have the time of you life!!!!
but preaching about Jesus... I wouldn't do it if I were you