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It’s burning, brothers! It’s burning!
Oh, our poor village, brothers, burns!
Evil winds, full of anger,
Rage and ravage, smash and shatter;
Stronger now that wild flames grow —
All around now burns!” (Mordechai Gebirtig, Our Town is Burning)

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The deputy mayor of Or-Yehuda, Uzi Aharon decided to burn copies of the New Testament in protest of missionary activities in his town; residents in his municipality are burning books in a flame of disrespect to the missionaries, who he says, are out to convert the residents of Or-Yehuda to Christianity. Of course, as a member of the Ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, he opposes all missionary activity, as long as it is not “returning to religion”, which is basically Jews becoming ultra-orthodox. In brief, Aharon collected copies of the new testament and arranged a public burning of them; while he did not deny his involvement, he later claimed that “it was done by local religious people” to News-Israel.net (here)).

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Is there anything wrong with missionary activity? Preaching to change one’s religion without any financial compensation should be in the legitimate scope of discourse; of course, when you decided that a specific god is the right god, there is no reason that the followers of another god would preach and fight his rule. Again, once legitimate missionary activity will be forbidden in Israel for non-Jewish religions, the law shall not be neutral and therefore illegitimate.
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Anyways, is there a difference between converting one’s religion type (Judaism to Christianity) and converting one’s habits of religious practice (meaning going to synagogue or praying daily? While Israel’s penal code states that it is a crime to offer payment in order for one to convert his religion, but the real question is what will go on with those who will “strengthen” their belief. It’s not just the “type” of religion, but its “Quantity” as well.

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If a free market of religions exists in Israel, then the competition should have been more than legitimate. However, it should note that the attorney general should order an investigation for “hurting religious beliefs” against a whole culture, the Christian one.

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Where were you when they burned books in Or-Yehuda, where were you when they burned the religious missionaries?