By Eric Westervelt
NPR
April 8, 2009
...Much of Ariel's state-of-the-art facility was paid for by donations from American evangelical Christians. It's a move that some find ironic, given that many evangelicals want the Jews to populate the West Bank to fulfill their interpretation of prophecy that sees Jews converting to Christianity on Judgment Day.
The main building of the sports complex was named for John Hagee, in honor of the U.S. evangelical leader.
But rotund Russian Jewish immigrants ignore the apocalypse in favor of the rec center's scenic wooden deck and a light breeze blowing in from the rocky West Bank landscape. More than 9,000 Russian Jews, most of them secular, have moved to Ariel since 1990...
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