Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Jerusalem (CNN) -- The United Nations body responsible for preserving the world's most important cultural sites voted Friday to grant "world heritage" status to the Church of the Nativity in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem. The declaration by U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization covers the West Bank church, venerated by Christians as the birthplace of Jesus, and the surrounding route taken by religious pilgrims. It marks the Palestinians' first bid for inclusion on the prestigious list of sites deemed to hold "outstanding universal value" as part of the world's shared heritage. It comes after Palestinians were granted membership of UNESCO last October, when the body's general assembly voted overwhelmingly to accept them.The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is now the first Palestinian world heritage siteThe vote signals a loosening of Israeli control on Palestinian land, a Palestinian official says"This is a real theater of the absurd," says an Israeli foreign office spokesmanU.S. and Israeli funding to UNESCO was cut over Palestinian membership 
 Question:The United States' and Israel's subsequent funding cut to the body caused _ lose more than a fifth of its revenues.

U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization