israel is a community originally from the united states with roots in the black hebrew israelites movement now based in israel the religious group believes telurad to be the true jerusalem these are the people of the book that's right the israeli government however does not recognize telurad as a holy site it will have a law you see that indicates that if you have a holy place within the land of israel that you should be able to visit there freely you see without having to pay entry for it so because of that we want with everybody else
but every other community have in israel we want our people that's coming from america our people that live here in israel we want to be able to enter into our the holy place leader of bet israel hoshua a mario is citing an israeli law enacted 52 years ago the law says holy places will be protected from any desecration with freedom of access to those who hold them as sacred telurad is currently under israel's park authority where it is being treated as a national park and campsite baitis rails activities are slowly being banned from the site
and its members must pay a fee to enter for prayers i fear god more than i fear men you understand so we do go ahead and do what we require to do but we have a backlash afterwards saying that we broke the rules of the place several years ago bait israel began working with israeli lawyer daniel tybe that's the handshake for the revolution the torah revolution together they are working on bringing the case before the israeli government to have telerod officially recognized as a holy place over the past year the situation started escalating before last
year chief hoshua and his community could go there for their ceremonies and sacrifices everything was authorized no one heard anyone now they are being given difficulties to practice their rituals so we are stepping up our legal actions to help currently the group holds most of their rituals outside the boundaries of the parks authority and abiding by israeli law is beginning to dishearten many members of the community the scriptures say that the city of david is the same as zion that mount zion is the city of david if the scriptures literally say that then how can
you have a sign that points mount zion this way and then the city of david that way it just doesn't make sense we know that that's mount zion and we would like to come uh there and pray and serve the most high as as we're commanded that's all it hurts it hurt really bad it's something that i think about every day i cry about it i pray about it i just every day i'm just i'm dealing with it every day everywhere i go in this country it's really hard because that's who we are that's who
we are as a people israel's parks authority declined i-24 news requests to be interviewed on bait israel in telurad it remains to be seen if the community will ever get the recognition it seeks [Music]
