Miriam Marcus, Director of Volunteer Israel, discusses why Israel needs more Christian volunteers, as well as explains how to get involved. If you are interested in visiting the Holy Land and getting involved while there, checkout volunteer-israel.com.
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In the waning days of his presidency, and thanks to his vendetta against Israel exemplified in the betrayal at the UN on December 23 (Resolution 2334), 2017 will become the year of the Obama Intifada. If you’re not familiar with it, intifada is Arabic for, the act of “shaking off.” It’s become commonly used in context of an armed uprising of Palestinians against Israel. The first intifada began in December 1987. It consisted of widespread throwing of stones and Molotov cocktails at Israeli soldiers and civilians. The Second Intifada began in September 2000, and consisted largely of numerous suicide bombings…
Less than a month after wildfires engulfed parts of Israel, tender green growth is emerging from scorched ground in the Judean hills, west of Jerusalem. The stubborn shoots attest to the natural process of healing and also symbolize the difficult, but determined, return to normalcy for thousands of Israelis affected by the fires. Some caused by negligence, others by arson, an estimated 4,000 brush and urban fires in a span of 9 days killed vegetation and wildlife across 10,000 acres in the Judean hills, burned homes and businesses in the region, and caused human and structural havoc in the northwestern cities of…
“One day I will sue Assad for all the money I paid out to save his own people when he was shooting them,” stated Israeli-born entrepreneur Moti Kahana. Over the past five and a half years, Kahana has funneled $2.2 million from his own pocket into helping Syrian victims of the ongoing civil war. Recently, he established a foundation to solicit additional aid for Amaliah. His non-profit organization focuses on returning Syrians to a somewhat normal routine. “There are 70,000 Syrians stranded in the desert who need to get home before the winter,” says Kahana from his home in the…
After the UN Security Council passed Resolution 2334 last Friday, 23 December 2016, Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon addressed the entire Council. Speaking plainly and with remarkable clarity, this is a video record and transcript of what he said. Mr. President, today is a sad day for this Council. The resolution you just voted on is a peak of hypocrisy. While thousands are being massacred in Syria, this Council wasted valuable time and effort condemning the democratic state of Israel for building homes in the historic homeland of the Jewish people. We have presented the truth time and again to this Council,…
A new initiative called the Gideon Project is enlisting Israel Defense Forces lone soldiers, referring to soldiers without immediate family in Israel, as volunteers to combat the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) movement in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The Gideon Project aims to pull the rug out from under the BDS strategy of garnering support for its cause by evoking values such as minority and human rights. The project is headed by the Reservists at the Front organization and the Lone Soldier Center, which issued a joint statement describing the project as a “challenging and unique Zionist…
In hopes of offering a blueprint for ramping up constructive Israeli and Jewish relations with the Islamic world, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week made historic visits to Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, two Muslim-majority nations in Central Asia. Netanyahu’s trip to the former Soviet Republics was part of an ongoing push by the Jewish state to forge closer ties with many non-traditional allies in Africa, South America, and Asia. The Israeli leader visited several countries in East Africa earlier this year, and has plans to return to the continent for visits to West African nations. While giving remarks at the Great…
A controversial bill to limit the volume of Muslim calls to prayer from mosques across Israel pits freedom of religious expression against the right to be protected from unwanted religious intimidation. The bills supporters contend that the noise of the calls negatively affects the quality of life of nearby residents of all faiths, including some Muslims, that are not interested in the five-times-a-day ritual, particularly the midnight and pre-dawn calls that often wake adults and small children. Opponents of the bill suggest that the measure was offered specifically to discriminate against mosques. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who supports the…
The Palestinian Authority has threatened to “make life miserable” for US President-elect Donald Trump if he follows through on his election campaign promise to move America’s embassy to Jerusalem. “If people attack us by moving the embassy to Jerusalem, it means they are showing belligerence towards us,” stated the Palestinian Authority’s envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour. “If they do that, nobody should blame us for unleashing all of the weapons that we have in the UN to defend ourselves, and we have a lot of weapons in the UN.” In remarks carried by the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, Mansour acknowledged…
Sandra Solomon is the niece of Saher Habash, one of the founders of the ruling Palestinian party Fatah, as well as a leader in the Second Intifada campaign of terror. Sandra was born in Ramallah and later lived in Saudi Arabia. In both places, Solomon was raised to seek violence against Jews. As a child, she was taught to “hate the Jews, hail Hitler, and praise the Holocaust,” Solomon said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 News. Speaking at an event in Canada, where she now resides, Solomon confirmed why genuine peace between Israel and the Palestinians is slipping further…