Yad L’Achim says it has filed police complaints against the organizers for violating the law against missionary activity with minors. “Not all of those who participated in the seminar are already Jesus-believers,” a Yad L’Achim staffer told Israel National News, “and attempting to convince them is certainly illegal. In addition, having youths ‘witness’ to other youths in this manner is also illegal.”

Of course Yad L’Achim are fine ones to talk about violating the law. As Yuval Azulai’s Haaretz article on Yad L’Achim demonstrates, Yad L’Achim routinely violate Israel’s democratic law to persecute and harrass Messianic Jews.

Haaretz once again picks up on Yad L’Achim’s tactics:

The U.S. State Department also reiterated its displeasure this year with a series of incidents in which Messianic Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses have been harassed. The latter group reported an increase in assaults and other crimes against them, specifically noting the difficulties their members have encountered when they’ve tried to urge the police to investigate and apprehend the suspects.

Between September of 2007 and September of 2008, members of the Jehovah’s Witness community filed 46 complaints against anti-missionary activists, most of them members of the Yad L’Achim (“Jewish Outreach”) organization. According to the Jehovah’s Witness’ legal department, the police have stated that they responded to 15 of the 35 calls for help during that time period. “Exacerbating these tensions,” the American report states, “was the widespread but false belief that proselytizing is illegal in this country.”

However, according to the same article, Yad L’Achim’s tactics aren’t working:
Interestingly, despite the harassment, the report notes that the number of Messianic Jews and Evangelical Christians in Israel has grown in recent years through immigration and conversions.

For more, read here.

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