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The Jerusalem Fund's cultural program promotes the work of artists from Palestine as well as from the Arab and Islamic worlds through art exhibits, book signings, film screenings and musical performances. The cultural activities at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery, located in Washington, D.C., are being made available to a wider audience through our website and through lesson plans for educators and students of all ages.

Bethlehem Under Seige:

The Decline of Christianity at its Birthplace

30 November - 11 January 2008
Photographs by Kike Arnal

In recent decades, the Christian community of Bethlehem has
decreased dramatically from around eighty percent of the
total population, to less than ten percent today. Since the
construction of the Separation Wall, which divides Bethlehem
from Jerusalem, and the twenty or so surrounding Israeli settlements, the situation of Bethlehem's Christians has deteriorated such that many of the few remaining Christians, especially the young and educated, consider leaving their country as the only choice for their future. The images presented here tell the stories of individual Christians of Bethlehem and their failing efforts to continue to live in the land of their faith.