Israeli radio reports controversy surrounding the resurgence of Egyptian Copts traveling to Jerusalem to visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Church of the Nativity, despite the Coptic Orthodox Church's prohibition of Copts to travel to Jerusalem whilst under Israeli occupation. The radio also announced the Israeli government's decision to allow dozens of Coptic families who were persecuted in Egypt, to settle in Israel (Muhammed Mahmūd, al-Misrīyūn, Apr. 4, p. 2). Read original text in Arabic.