How did Israel respond as more Gentiles believed the gospel?

Les explains that when Paul spoke of going to the Gentiles, the Jewish audience listened with rapt silence until he said the word "Gentile." At that word they lifted their voices and said, "Away with such a fellow from the earth," insisting it was not fit that he should live. They detested him because he carried salvation based on that Jew, Jesus of Nazareth, to the Gentile world. Moses had prophesied that another nation would come into fellowship with their God, and Israel would hate them for it. Les points out that the more the Gentiles succumbed to the Gospel, the more the Jewish people fought it, except for the few. This same resistance continues today, as seen in Israel's Law of Return, which seeks to keep out Christians or even Jewish people who profess belief in Christ, because religiously they remain hidebound with no room for a Gentile in their so-called religion.