Juat to be clear it was a MISSION that left, a mission in Israel, there is a difference between a mission and an ORG, a mission is a very small group of Scientologists an Org is much much bigger, the mission that left was made up of about 50 people. It is still a big loss because Israel doesnt have much of a COS presence there is only one other ORG in Tel Aviv and now this smaller mission which I understand was growing pretty fast, has broke off.
This all reminds me of the schism between the Catholics and the Protestants back in the days of Martin Luther, you have the COS (Catholic Church) and now a lot of people are leaving to form their own independent Scientology study groups much like the early Protestants did. Although the Catholic Church was rich and powerful enough to withstand something like that the COS is not and if this trend of break aways continue it may very well be the end of the COS, that MISSION in Israel, as I understand, brought in to the COS 100 million dollars alone and that is only a SMALL MISSION, its not even an ORG which like I said is much, much bigger than a Mission.