Transcript (en)

Soldiers are spitting too, the soldier in uniform, and this is, you know, people in uniform spitting on you. What shall I say? Many Christians in Israel say intimidation and spitting have become commonplace. Abbot Nicodemus Schnabel says he faces threats almost daily when he walks through Jerusalem. It's a young monk. They're really spitting on me in the nighttime, you know, in dark alleys without eyewitnesses, because they know if I attack the monk it's not accepted. Now it's during daylight, people around, and they don't care. Ultra-nationalist politician Itamar Ben-Guir, currently security minister, has repeatedly downplayed the attacks on Christians and in the past even justified them. As a result, fear is spreading in Jerusalem's Christian quarter. Many residents refuse to speak publicly. children get better education than what we did so they can find their future somewhere else." A study by Israel's Rossing Center found more than half of Christians under the age of 45 are considering leaving the country. Abbot Nicodemus hopes that Jerusalem will remain a city for all religions. But for that to happen, he says, the world must pay attention. We know how badly we treated Jews and also we see the really rising phenomenon of anti-Semitism. But this is not an excuse not to look on the realities here on the ground.