Danit Keren, general manager of the Israeli Center for Victims of Cults, told Arutz Sheva's Hebrew journal on Sunday that Scientology is the biggest cult in Israel and the world. She was interviewed in the wake of a French court decision which defined Scientology as a fraud and ordered its leaders to compensate $600,000 to its believers.
Keren noted that Scientology was declared a dangerous cult by a special parliamentary committee in the 1980s supported by the police, but despite continuing efforts by her group, there is no legislation in Israel to fight the activities of cults like this. She says Scientology uses agressive marketing in an attempt to get its followers to give the cult their property.