Israel said U.S. evangelical leader Pat Robertson would not be allowed to take part in a planned Christian tourist site. A spokesman for Tourism Minister Abraham Hirchson said Wednesday that Robertson, who recently suggested that Ariel Sharon’s Jan. 4 stroke was divine punishment for last summer’s Gaza withdrawal, would not be allowed to take part in a planned $48 million Christian Heritage Center on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.
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