2.  Eddie in Arad reports that an ultra-Orthodox doused the outside of their building with gasoline while elderly Russian Jews were inside playing board games yesterday.

The man who attempted to burn the Beckford's ministry down was placed in police custody (as of yesterday) and none of Russian Jews inside playing chess and dominos were physically hurt.  Eddie notes they are retraumatized by the incident because many are survivors of the concentration camps and work camps.  This is the same outreach building that was torched last year, that time while no one was inside.

Eddie relates that the gangs of young Orthodox men in their 20's roam the streets of Arad and are free to terrorize Christians, Messianics and their associates.  They often prefer targeting the women, children and elderly.  Because they are religious ruffians the local police do not put it to a stop.

Continue to pray for these believers, and also for the elderly community they serve who have not come to the Lord yet but are often caught up in backlash from the religious persecutors.