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Worshippers conducting services on Easter Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, April 5, 2026. (Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)
April 12, 2026, 5:26 pm
Easter prayer fiasco, resolved too late, shows Christians still treated as afterthought
Netanyahu boasted about protecting worshipers once row over Holy Sepulchre access was fixed; without serious attention to policy, he’ll continue rushing to clean up scandals after the harm has been done
By Lazar Berman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Evangelical community leaders in Florida on December 31, 2025. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
January 1, 2026, 8:31 am
PM tells Evangelical leaders Israel is part of effort to protect Christians worldwide
Netanyahu doesn’t name the countries involved; PM says fight for support among young conservatives in US amid increased antisemitism, anti-Israel sentiment is an 8th front in war
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks at the Muni Expo 2025 conference in Tel Aviv, on July 15, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
July 21, 2025, 11:54 pm
US, Israel resolve issue of visas for visiting Christians, after row went public
US Ambassador Huckabee says Israel will ‘completely restore the long-standing process’; last week, he threatened to declare Israel no longer welcomes Christians
By Lazar Berman
Christian Palestinian mourners bid farewell to Saad Salameh and Foumia Ayyad, killed earlier by errant Israeli tank fire that hit the Holy Family church in Gaza City, during their funeral ceremony at the Saint Porphyrius Church on July 17, 2025. (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP)
July 21, 2025, 10:54 pm
Causing strategic, moral harm, Netanyahu lets others dictate Israel’s ties with Christians
Last week underscored how little control the PM, a longtime friend of evangelicals, exerts over key relationship, as extremists undermine support and army focuses on tactical fight
By Lazar Berman
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee delivers remarks as US President Donald Trump hosts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a dinner in the Blue Room of the White House on July 7, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images via AFP)
July 18, 2025, 6:55 am
Huckabee threatens to declare Israel does not welcome Christians, as visa row blows open
US envoy pens scathing letter to interior minister, accusing Israel of blocking Christian groups from entering Israel and warning of reciprocal steps against Israeli visa seekers
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks at the Jewish News Syndicate conference in Jerusalem, on April 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 29, 2025, 2:45 am
New US envoy: Israel’s struggle against its enemies is a ‘battle between heaven and hell’
Mike Huckabee, an Evangelical, declares Israel ‘a chosen place for a chosen people,’ lauds Trump for reversing Biden’s ‘ridiculous policies,’ says his top goal is returning the hostages
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks to evangelical pastor and senior adviser to the White House Faith Office, Paula White (L) in an interview published April 11, 2025. (Screen capture via YouTube)
April 14, 2025, 8:46 pm
End of Days and divine providence: Netanyahu gives interview to evangelical Trump adviser
Paula White, head of White House Faith Office, asks PM about Armageddon, Trump assassination attempt, in latest US interview amid PM’s yearslong shunning of most Israeli media
By ToI Staff
Delegates to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, April 20, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot)
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
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