Daystar, TBN ready for Messiah in Jerusalem

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-israel-evangelical-20121001,0,6110978.story?track=lat-pick

"Texas-based Daystar Television Network already beams a 24-hour-a-day live webcam from its terrace. Not to be outdone, Costa Mesa-based Trinity Broadcasting Network last month bought the building next door.

The dueling studios are part of an aggressive push by U.S. evangelical broadcasters seeking to gain a stronger foothold in the holy city. Their presence not only offers boasting rights with American viewers and contributors, but also — and more controversially — a platform for spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ to Jews in Israel."

Try going door to door

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more from the story -

Such proselytizing angers Orthodox Jewish groups who say it threatens the character of a nation that was created as a home for Jewish refugees of the Holocaust. Christian proselytizing is legal in Israel, though the government has at times restricted and discouraged the practice; members of the Jewish faith do not seek to convert those of other faiths.

"One of the things I find offensive is that they are bragging about their missionary work," said Ellen Horowitz, research director at Jewish Israel, a grass-roots group created in 2008 to track and counteract Christian missionaries in Israel. "They're actually very in-your-face about it."

Horowitz said proselytizing is a touchy subject in Israel. "Our people have been through the wringer already with either persecution or assimilation," she said. "Now people finally get to a Jewish nation and someone pushes a copy of the New Testament in Hebrew at them. A sensitive line is being crossed."

When Daystar debuted in Israel in 2006, it created such a public uproar that the channel was temporarily suspended from the HOT network. It was restored after a court challenge.

Since then, Christian evangelical groups have quietly and steadily expanded their footprint in Jerusalem.

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If you want to check out the webcam - http://www.daystar.com/israel/live/

note: I couldn't get it to work - maybe it is just down right now.

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this work... this is night...

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Cool there is a big windmill in the middle. I thought it would be pointed at the dome of the rock.

So research on the windmill - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montefiore_Windmill

Jerusalem, Israel

31°46′17.31″N - 35°13′27.03″E