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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
Background: Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, censes during Sunday morning mass at the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City on July 20, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
July 25, 2025, 8:25 am
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Why Israel is misfiring in ties with Christians
ToI’s diplomatic reporter delves into the overdue need for official Israel to set up an office — or even a ministry — to secure ties with the Christian world
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and 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
April 25, 2025, 4:53 am
At Israeli premiere, ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ director struts celebration of life
Holocaust survivors who star in award-winning documentary about controversial pageant attend Haifa screening with Polish-born filmmaker; movie set for worldwide release in January
By Diana Bletter
Members of a delegation of International Christian Embassy Jerusalem pastors tour what's left of Kibbutz Nir Oz in January 2024. (ICEJ)
February 19, 2024, 6:59 am
Turning the other cheek on extremist Jews’ incitement, Christians flock to Israel
Delegations and solidarity trips of hundreds of supporters from churches around the world are touring the sites of carnage wrought by Hamas while bolstering the survivors
By Canaan Lidor
Israelis watch the International Christian Embassy of Jerusalem march, October 4, 2023 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
October 4, 2023, 10:49 pm
As spitting attacks continue, some religious Jerusalemites embrace Christian marchers
Delegations at annual ICEJ Feast receive warm welcome from Haredi teens, families lining route, on same day police arrest five for spitting at pilgrims
By Lazar Berman
Dozens of Orthodox Jews hold signs during a protest outside a Christian Embassy Feast of Tabernacles eventa t the Pais Arena stadium in Jerusalem on October 3, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 3, 2023, 11:50 pm
Amid tensions, anti-Christian protesters target Christian Embassy event in Jerusalem
Following widespread condemnation of spitting incident in Old City, dozens of activists decry Feast of Tabernacles gathering featuring president, intelligence minister
By Lazar Berman
File: Christian Zionists at a 2013 Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem. (Times of Israel/Lazar Berman)
March 22, 2023, 9:29 pm
Despite PM’s assurances, Christian Zionists bedeviled by anti-missionary bill
UTJ-sponsored bill, submitted at start of every Knesset, is not meant to become law, says spokesman — but millions of Christian supporters of Israel globally have taken notice
By Lazar Berman
Papua New Guinea's capital, Port Moresby (Masalai at English Wikipedia/ CC BY-SA 3.0)
February 26, 2023, 2:49 pm
Papua New Guinea to open Jerusalem embassy, Israel announces
Port Moresby expected to make move by end of year; Fiji might follow suit after decades-long campaign by Christian organization
By Lazar Berman
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett addresses the 42nd annual ICEJ Feast of Tabernacles (screenshot)
September 20, 2021, 6:21 pm
Christian Feast of Tabernacles event opens with greeting from Bennett, Herzog
Massive annual celebration held online this year due to pandemic; International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem hails new government’s outreach to Christian world
By Lazar Berman
A girl smiles upon arriving from Ethiopia as her mother kisses the ground at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel on February 12, 2021. (Courtesy of ICEJ via JTA)
February 12, 2021, 9:56 pm
While skies officially shut, exception made for 300 Ethiopian Jewish immigrants
Newcomers taken from Ben Gurion Airport to 14-day quarantine period, but 6-year-old passenger in need of emergency heart surgery whisked to hospital
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Members of a group of American Baptist Christian tourists stand at the Mount of Olives as they look toward Jerusalem's Old City and the Dome of the Rock on January 20, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
January 21, 2018, 5:55 pm
For US Christian tourists, Trump’s Jerusalem move has biblical implications
Some evangelicals believe shoring up Israel’s claim to the city and establishing a new temple there could herald a Second Coming
By AFP and ToI Staff
The Soler family will perform with dancers from around the world at the Jerusalem Pais Arena on October 10, 2017. (courtesy Soler family)
October 10, 2017, 1:28 am
Not even hurricanes can keep Puerto Rican pilgrims from dancing in Israel
The Soler family’s dance studio in Puerto Rico was devastated in Hurricane Maria, but that didn’t keep them from their annual pilgrimage to the Feast of Tabernacles
By Grace Austin
Rabbi Tuly Weisz (left) with MK Rabbi Yehuda Glick at Prophecy in the News Conference, Jerusalem, June 5, 2017 (Courtesy Israel365)
September 19, 2017, 8:26 am
Jewish media company puts biblical spin on news for evangelical Christians
Defying journalistic conventions, Breaking Israel News publisher Rabbi Tuly Weisz taps into vast market hungry for stories of prophecy that are playing out in the Holy Land
By Renee Ghert-Zand
People march during an annual religious festival in Bishoftu, a town southeast of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. (AP Photo)
October 7, 2016, 4:36 pm
Report: Ethiopian Jew killed in Gondar riots while waiting to immigrate
Weta Chekla was one of 9,000 Ethiopian Jews set to come to Israel; 78 are expected to arrive at Ben Gurion Sunday
By JTA
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