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כתבה מעניינת מYnet News, דעה ישראלית בנוגע לנושא:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...486884,00.html

יש מספר קטעים שלדעתי מעניינים יותר מאחרים, והם:

Never before have so many trees been sold in Israel ahead of Christmas.

The buyers are no longer the State of Israel’s Christian citizens, but rather, mostly Israelis who moved here from the former Soviet Union and from Eastern Europe under the Law of Return, and are now openly celebrating the birthday of the Christian savior.

Yet I and people like me do not view Christmas as an Israeli holiday. More accurately, I do not see those who celebrate this holiday as entitled to come and live with us on the basis of the Law of Return, whose aim is to gather Diaspora Jews in their homeland.

A person who views himself as Christian and who follows Christian ritual which has no cultural connection to Jewish heritage or the Israeli existence has nothing to do with us. Do we wish to bring to Israel people who go to church regularly? Do we seek to turn Christmas into an Israeli holiday?

וכמובן הפסקה האחרונה מסכמת הכל:

One of my friends is an immigrant from Russia. His father was a Zionist “refusenik” and his family celebrated the Jewish holidays all those years, even when this entailed true life danger. He moved to Israel about 20 years ago and speaks fluent Hebrew. I asked for his opinion on this matter, and he looked at me and said: “If I wanted to celebrate Christmas I would have stayed in Moscow. The holiday is much nicer there…”