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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 472

Yechiel Eckstein

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
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein and his daughter Yael at Mount Arbel in Israel’s Lower Galilee region. (Courtesy of IFCJ via JTA)
February 24, 2023, 9:49 am
Criticism of prominent rabbi possibly scrubbed from internet due to fraud – report
Investigation finds someone linked to International Fellowship of Christians and Jews may have paid to have posts panning salaries of Yehiel Eckstein and his daughter Yael removed
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative: From 'Til Kingdom Come,' a new documentary about the unlikely relationship between Jews and evangelical Christians, premiering on Kan 11 on October 28, 2020 (Courtesy Maya Zinshtein)
October 28, 2020, 11:34 am
Documentary eyes Evangelicals: Trump’s 2016 win, Jerusalem embassy and beyond
2 Israeli filmmakers do a deep dive into the Evangelical Christian community and its Jewish connection in ‘Til Kingdom Come
By Jessica Steinberg
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews founder Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein and daughter Yael, the current organization head, with a view of the Jerusalem Old City. (Olivier Fitusi)
March 12, 2020, 6:04 pm
LISTEN: Fellowship of Christians & Jews CEO walks father’s path in her own shoes
Inheriting massive philanthropy organization, Yael Eckstein enlists metrics and data for ‘mom and pop shop’ that brings Christians’ financial — and political — support to Israel
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
IFCJ President Yael Eckstein greets some of 243 immigrants from Ukraine on the 'Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein Memorial Freedom Flight' (Noam Moshkowitz/IFCJ via JTA)
November 7, 2019, 7:54 am
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews scraps Jerusalem outreach center
Plans canceled for $60 million project serving evangelical Christians visiting Israel, as organization focuses on immigration rather than tourism and BDS fight
By JTA
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein and his daughter Yael at Mount Arbel in Israel’s Lower Galilee region. (Courtesy of IFCJ via JTA)
February 27, 2019, 6:36 am
After death of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, daughter inherits billion-dollar charity
Yael Eckstein takes over her father’s mission as head of International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, which raises $130 million a year, mostly from evangelical Christians
By Marcy Oster
Rabbi Eckstein visiting Ukraine, February 2008. (Karen Sandvick)
February 10, 2019, 3:41 pm
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein: ‘One is the number that matters’
That was his lasting message to us all: we must rid the world of suffering, human being by human being
By Asher Ostrin and Michal Frank
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein exiting the first aliyah flight organized by the the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, December 2014. (Courtesy of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews)
February 6, 2019, 8:00 pm
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder of Fellowship of Christians and Jews, dies at 67
Eckstein passes away from sudden heart failure; his IFCJ has raised $1.4 billion in donations for Israel, mostly from evangelical Christians
By ToI Staff
Demonstrators gather in front of a burning car during a protest of Yellow vests (Gilets jaunes) against rising oil prices and living costs, on December 1, 2018 in Paris. (Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)
December 13, 2018, 8:30 am
France tax protests often feature anti-Semitic rhetoric
With yellow vest demonstrators carrying signs calling Macron a ‘whore of the Jews,’ local Jewish leader says hateful messages were present ‘from the start’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
In this January 30, 2018, photo, new Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine arrive on a flight funded by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, at the Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
March 10, 2018, 1:27 am
Christians emerge as key patrons for Jews moving to Israel
Evangelical groups supported 8,500 immigrants to Jewish state in 2017, though some observers remain suspicious of apocalyptic motivation
By Tia Goldenberg
William Attal, the brother of Sarah Halimi who was killed in April in an apparent anti-Semitic attack, outside the central synagogue in the Creteil suburb of Paris, June 17, 2017. (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)
July 18, 2017, 7:45 pm
Seeking justice, brother of Sarah Halimi sees ‘warning’ for French Jews in grisly slaying
In family’s first major interview, William Attal says he can ‘no longer stay silent’ over his sister’s brutal killing by a Muslim neighbor in April, fumes at police refusal to acknowledge it was an anti-Semitic crime
By Raoul Wootliff
Thousands of Muslims perform prayers on the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan at Al Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem on June 2, 2017. (Afif H. Amireh/Flash90)
June 5, 2017, 6:37 pm
Interfaith fellowship increases aid to Arab Israelis during Ramadan
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews also calls on government to bolster Arab connection to the country in wake of proposed ‘Jewish state’ law
By JTA
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein exiting the first aliyah flight organized by the the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, December 2014. (Courtesy of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews)
December 6, 2016, 11:49 am
Christian-funded group claims a fifth of immigration in 2016, annoys Jewish Agency
Increased role of International Fellowship of Christians and Jews in bringing Jews to Israel irks main immigration body
By JTA and ToI Staff
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein in Ukraine (courtesy)
September 27, 2016, 7:46 pm
Charity to give $52 million for Jews in former Soviet Union
Christian-Jewish group pledges food and medical aid, much of it for elderly and impoverished Holocaust survivors
By JTA
Rabbis Yechiel Eckstein, left, and Moshe Sebbag at the Grand Synagogue of Paris, June 27, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
August 9, 2016, 4:43 am
Raising Christian money for Jewish causes, star rabbi earns praise and scorn
Yechiel Eckstein is a great hit with Evangelicals, but acceptance in Orthodox circles has been a far bumpier road
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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