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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 531

Christian Zionists

Delegates to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, April 20, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 4, 2024, 8:47 pm
Allegations of Christian influence surface ahead of World Zionist Congress election
As Diaspora Jews prepare for vote that will influence funding of Jewish causes and oversight of Israel’s ‘national institutions,’ a group is accused of misrepresentation
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Israel's Ambassador to the United States Michael Herzog speaks during a roundtable discussion about gender-based violence against Israeli women during Hamas's October 7 massacre, on Capitol Hill on February 14, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)
November 7, 2024, 9:26 pm
Netanyahu to dispatch new envoy to US once Trump returns to the White House
PM thanks Israeli Ambassador Michael Herzog for ‘significant’ contribution during wartime; Yechiel Leiter to succeed him; evangelical ally of Trump: Israel must end wars by January
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Huib Kriekaard and Ina Straatsma-Elzes work at the Israel Product Center in the headquarters of the Christians for Israel group in the Dutch town of Nijkerk, June 5, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
August 20, 2024, 4:47 am
In Holland’s Bible belt, a Christian family’s pro-Israel empire shifts into overdrive
Since the October 7 Hamas massacre, the 45-year-old Christians for Israel’s product sales, public engagement – and risk exposure – have vastly increased
By Canaan Lidor
Pastor John Hagee addresses a conference of Christians United for Israel, National Harbor, Maryland, June 29, 2024. (CUFI/ via JTA)
August 8, 2024, 1:53 am
Pro-Israel US conservatives concerned over isolationism, and antisemitism, on far right
At CUFI annual summit, Christian activists and their Jewish allies address right-wing Republicans who oppose laws defining Jew hatred and want to curb aid to the Jewish state
By Ron Kampeas
Israelis mark the Sukkot holiday in front of a large Star of David in the West Bank settlement of Sde Boaz, in Gush Etzion, October 11, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
July 20, 2024, 5:33 pm
‘Fighting the same battle’: After Oct. 7, settlers court Republican evangelicals
Groups, including one founded hours after start of Hamas onslaught, fund visits for prominent GOP officials: ‘Having friends and voices like that in very high places in the US helps us’
By Jonathan Saul and Simon Lewis
Dikla Nasimi listens to her son Eliron at their home in Avdon on June 29, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
July 1, 2024, 2:03 pm
Israelis from town 2 miles from Lebanon forced to return home after running out of funds
After a hotel stay subsidized by a tapped-out Christian organization, Avdon’s 600 residents are refused state housing provided to others within the same distance from border
By Canaan Lidor
A Christian worshipper addresses a member of the Israeli security forces barring the entrance in Jerusalem's old city that leads to the the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, amid crod size concerns as Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter Saturday, on April 15, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
June 5, 2024, 8:34 am
Political climate sparks ‘notable increase’ in attacks on Israel’s Christians – NGO
Rossing Center report says authorities must do more to counter violence against clergy, pilgrims and church sites in Jerusalem and the Galilee
By Lazar Berman
Illustrative: Holding US and Israeli flags, a crowd of largely Evangelical Christians pray during the Christians United For Israel (CUFI) 'Night to Honor Israel' during the CUFI Summit 2023, in Arlington, Virginia, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott, July 17, 2023. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
November 12, 2023, 4:28 pm
A sizeable US demographic, many Evangelicals are sending money and manpower to Israel
A month into the Israel-Hamas war, Evangelicals aren’t just helping fight antisemitism at home – they’re hosting fundraisers and sending volunteers and supplies to the Jewish state
By Cathryn J. Prince
HaYovel Christian Zionist volunteers receive a briefing before heading to work in the greenhouses, at Mehola in the West Bank, November 9, 2023. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)
November 10, 2023, 12:16 pm
Cowboys of the wild West Bank: The visiting US volunteers who ‘own guns, love Israel’
The Christian Zionist group behind the recent viral images of American farmhands now in Israel eschews tourist sites in favor of agricultural work
By Gavriel Fiske
Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai (L), President Isaac Herzog (C), and Latin Patriach Pierbattista Pizzaballa at the Stella Maris Monastery in Haifa, August 9, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)
August 9, 2023, 7:57 pm
Herzog, police chief meet Christian leaders to condemn attacks on community
President, police show increasing determination to combat rise in incidents; latest gathering comes at Catholic site in Haifa where Hasidim have been trying to enter for prayer
By Lazar Berman
President Isaac Herzog at a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Jaffa on December 21, 2022. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
July 9, 2023, 9:39 pm
Herzog condemns growing attacks on Christians in Israel as ‘evil’ and ‘a disgrace’
President says he is personally working with law enforcement officials to ‘bring an end to this disturbing reality,’ also slams recent Quran burning in Sweden
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Jewish activists clash with police during a protest against a conference of Christians outside the Davidson Center in Jerusalem, Israel, on May 28, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/ Flash90)
July 7, 2023, 5:55 am
Christians worry growing protests against ‘missionaries’ will soon turn bloody
Deputy Jerusalem mayor leads extremists’ campaign against evangelists they believe are trying to convert Jews, as Messianic Jews and others fend off attacks and missionizing claims
By Lazar Berman
Pat Robertson speaks at the Florida Economics Club in 1986. (Mark T. Foley/Wikimedia Commons)
June 9, 2023, 10:49 pm
The pastor who personified US Jews’ dilemma with evangelicals
Pat Robertson, who died Thursday at 93, was deeply supportive of Israel, but his message carried with it baggage of age-old stereotypes that caused Jews discomfort
By Ron Kampeas
A member of the Assemblies of God Ministry of Restoration church reacts to the words of Pentecostal preacher Dione dos Santos in the Coreia shantytown, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 28, 2014. Evangelical Christianity is the fastest growing religious segment in Brazil and its population is exploding. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
October 15, 2022, 1:25 pm
Are the End Times near? How Pentecostal Christianity is taking over the world
In her new book ‘Beyond Belief,’ journalist Elle Hardy writes about her encounters around the globe with the fast-growing religion, and theorizes about what makes it so popular
By Rich Tenorio
University of North Carolina at Pembroke Prof. Motti Inbari (Rose Trail Images)
July 1, 2022, 1:00 pm
PODCAST: US evangelical support for Israel isn’t monolithic or certain, says expert
University of North Carolina at Pembroke professor Motti Inbari has three pieces of advice for Israeli authorities regarding Christian Zionists
By ToI Staff
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