PM Netanyahu Launches "Inscribing the Tanakh" Website 
http://www.mybible.org.il/
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today (Wednesday), 13.4.11, in cooperation 
with Communications Minister Moshe Cahlon and Public Diplomacy and Diaspora 
Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein, launched the Inscribing the Tanakh website 
http://www.mybible.org.il/ (in Hebrew). Amos Rulnick, founder of the Bible 
Valley non-profit association also attended the event.

 

Prime Minister Netanyahu chose the first verse for the site: "Nation shall 
not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." 
(Isaiah 2:4)

 

Minister Cahlon chose "A Song of Ascents. I will lift up mine eyes unto the 
mountains: from whence shall my help come?" (Psalms 121:1)

 

The goal of the project is to restore the Tanakh to the entire public and 
bring its closer to the public at large in Israel. All of its books appear 
on the site and each person may choose the most significant verse for him or 
herself and note the reasons for the choice. Upon completing registration, 
each participant will receive a certificate attesting to his participation.

The launch of the Hebrew website is part of a global project run by the 
non-profit association, in cooperation with the Foreign Ministry and the 
Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Ministry, in the framework of which 
hundreds of thousands of people from around the world, of all faiths, are 
copying the Bible in their own hand.

(Click here for further details: http://www.biblevalley.org/ .)

Prime Minister Netanyahu said that he chose Isaiah 2:4 because this was 
prophets of Israel's goal for the entire world: "While the Tanakh has a 
universal aspect, it is, first of all, the Jewish People's book of books. 
The Tanakh conquers with its ideals, faith and unique character. No other 
book can compare to it. We hope that one day peace will prevail among all 
nations and nation will not lift up sword against nation."