(Clearwisdom.net) On Friday, July 20, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners and human rights activists in Israel held an event marking eight years of brutal persecution at the hands of the Chinese Communist Part. The protest was staged in front of the Chinese embassy in Tel-Aviv. Practitioners held up protest banners, carried memorial photos of practitioners who have died in the persecution, and demonstrated the exercises.

A Chinese practitioner who lives in Israel addressed the staff of the embassy: "Embassy workers, you too have spouses, children, parents, friends and neighbors. Have you really tried to contact and to understand Falun Dafa and its practitioners? Let me tell you that Falun Dafa is guided by the highest principle of the universe - Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance. Falun Gong teaches people to be kind to the others, to be in a state of selflessness, and improves the level of health and morality".

Human rights activists and people of conscience came to support the event. Rabbi Uri Sharki from Jerusalem addressed the rally, "We should not keep silent in such situations", despite financial or political interests.

Michael Fuah, the general manager of the Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) organization, also gave an address and said that "the Chinese regime's representatives should be condemned," and he demanded that the CCP open its gates for international examination. "Moral justice will prevail", he said.

A spokesperson for the Israeli Epoch Times said in his address that The Epoch Times was the first to expose the concentration camps used for organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China. He talked about the terror of the CCP, about the lies it has spread over the years in its media to defame Falun Gong, and about the fear of Chinese citizens with conscience to support Falun Gong practitioners and thus become victims of persecution themselves.

In July 19, Israeli practitioners held peaceful demonstrations in Jerusalem in three places simultaneously - in front of the Prime Minister's office, in front of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, and in front of the Knesset (the Israeli parliament). Later that day, practitioners held a demonstration in a central square in Jerusalem, displayed banners, handed out fliers, and helped people to sign a petition against the persecution.

A practitioner said, "I usually do one-on-one truth clarification, and here I stood together with many practitioners and huge signs that marked eight years of persecution. The square was small, but there was a power of being together, a lot of things happened simultaneously, trucks and cars came from all over the place. I looked at the drivers and the passers-by. I saw how the drivers stopped, absorbed the information, and the right messages were carried into people's hearts."