ABOUT THE COURSE
Learning more about the Christians in the Holy Land and how our daily challenges make our faith stronger? In the birthplace of Christianity, Christians are currently 2% of the population of Israel and less than 1% of the Palestinian territories (The W.B. & Gaza). In Israel proper and in Jerusalem, we can call it more discrimination for the Christians, but in the West Bank, including the Gaza Strip, it is more persecution. In the land here, there are three main groups of Palestinians We will learn a lot and in depth about Christians of the Holy Land 1) The Palestinian Christians of East Jerusalem. 1% out of 1 million, that is less than 10,000 thousand Christians in Jerusalem today, that we spoke about in the past webinar. 2) The Palestinian Christians who are left and stayed in Israel since 1948 and who are now called Arab Israelis. They live in Israeli cities now, such as Haifa and Nazareth and many other Galilean villages mostly in the northern part of the country. There are about 180,000 Christian citizens of Israel 9 million. 3) Palestinians Christians of the West Bank and the Gaza strip, such as in Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem, and the other Palestinian cities. About 50,000 Christians in the West Bank (out of the 5 million), and around 800 Christians living in the whole Gaza Strip (out of the 2 million). In this next webinar, as i said we will more concentrate more on the Arab- Israeli Christians of the Holy Land and talk a little bit some of their challenges living in Israel: How does the Arab- Israeli Christians Identify themselves? How come they are more integrated into the Jewish system? There is a lot of differences between the Jerusalem Christians who mainly live in east Jrslm, the Arab Israeli Christians who live in Israel proper, and the Palestinian Christians who live in the West Bank and even who live in Gaza.