I see articles and anecdotes all over indicating otherwise.
For example, this article:
According to the article:
(excerpt, read more at link)
“The reason the state of Israel gave for his deportation, he said, was that Barnett was engaging in missionary activity and not regular tourist activity on a B2 tourist visa.”
Also, there is the reported intimidation of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_L%27Achim
to which reportedly the government gives a wink and a nod.
It seems clear the strategy is to use technicalities of law as much as possible and intimidation as much as possible to impede Christian missionaries as much as possible while being able to say that the “door is open” to them.
I would submit:
Act 5
“38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.”
And in the meantime I would humbly submit...
I think America and Israel as nations are mired in sin and turning their backs on God.
I think Jews and Christians in both countries have their spiritual work cut out for them, for both nations are now at the point of institutionalizing abombinable acts.
Neither, IMHO, can claim to be on some righteous high horse where their governments go on military and espionage ventures at the behest of a few elites manuevering for commericial interests, power, central banks, drugs, etc.
I’m not sure that anything in your post contradicts what I said.
You can get deported for being a foreigner in Israel if you violate the terms of your visa.
From your article, a man claimed to be a tourist when he was working as a missionary. He lied, so they deported him.
The people that were Israeli citizens, in contrast, were unhindered in their conversion efforts.