By Marissa Newman, Times of Israel— Fifty years after Israel captured the Western Wall, US President Donald Trump on Monday became the first sitting American leader to visit the holy site, in a historic visit that saw him accompanied by his Jewish relatives in Jerusalem’s ancient Old City. Entering the Old City’s warren of alleyways…
DetailsBy Israel Today— President Trump landed in Israel today, and immediately made history. Remember when one of Barack Obama’s first trips was to the Middle East, to give that ridiculous speech about Islam in Cairo? Do you also remember how he very conspicuously REFUSED to visit Israel during that same trip? Well, Trump did the…
DetailsBy JPost— US President Donald Trump arrived in Israel shortly after noon on Monday for a historic visit in the second leg of his whirlwind maiden foreign tour as president. Trump spent the afternoon in Jerusalem, meeting with Israel’s President and Prime Minister and seeing some of the sights of the Old City. Below you…
Details“No people has ever insisted more firmly than the Jews that history has a purpose and humanity a destiny. At a very early stage of their collective existence they believed they had detected a divine scheme for the human race, of which their own society was to be a pilot.” Paul Johnson, History of the…
DetailsThink on this: “Yahweh has established his throne in heaven and his kingdom rules over all.” (Psalm 103:19) Pray like this: Father, help us to remember that you are in sovereign control of all that takes place on planet earth, especially what transpires as a result of President Trump’s visit Israel. In Jesus’ name, AMEN!
DetailsBy Yaakov Katz, JPost— On November 9, the day after the presidential election in the United States, Education Minister Naftali Bennett released a statement congratulating Donald Trump on his victory. “The era of a Palestinian state is over,” Bennett glowed at the time. “Trump’s victory is an opportunity for Israel to immediately retract the notion…
DetailsBy GREER FAY CASHMAN, JPost— At an unimaginable cost in time, effort and human resources, both the Americans and the Israelis are leaving no stone unturned for the visit on Monday of US President Donald Trump, who will be the first sitting President to visit the Western Wall in the old city of Jerusalem. Other…
DetailsBy Ron Kampeas, Times of Israel— The Zionist Organization of America launched two broadsides against a Trump administration it has ardently defended, signaling a growing unease on the pro-Israel right with the president’s Israel policies. The ZOA, the flagship for the conservative pro-Israel community, slammed President Donald Trump for retreating from a campaign pledge to move…
DetailsBy Ilana Messika, Breaking Israel News— Just a few days prior to US President Donald Trump’s first official visit to Israel, a White House official announced that Trump has decided not to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem for the moment. The official who had asked not to be identified told Bloomberg…
DetailsTorah: Leviticus 25:1 – 27:34, “Behar” (The Mount … ) Haftorah: Jeremiah 16:19 – 17:14 New Testament: Acts 9:1 – 11 Gospel: Matthew 21:33 – 46, “Shemu” (Listen … )
DetailsBy David Israel, Jewish Press— President Donald Trump will not move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem for the time being, a senior White House official told Bloomberg. This makes it the second campaign promise the president has broken in one evening, the first one being signing a waiver on Iran…
DetailsBy Sean Savage/JNS.org Ahead of President Donald Trump’s Israel visit, top Christian Zionist organizations and leaders are calling on the president to fulfill his election campaign promise to relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, despite reports that Trump is unlikely to make the move in the near future. Pastor John Hagee, founder…
DetailsBy Israel Today— Israel President Reuven Rivlin said during a meeting with church leaders in Jerusalem that Christians and Jews are “brothers.” Rivlin invited the heads of the various churches in Jerusalem to his official residence on the occasion of Easter. He used the opportunity to decry the rising persecution of Christians across the Middle…
DetailsBy Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, BIN— The nascent Sanhedrin sent a letter on Monday to US President Donald Trump, calling on him to ascend to the Temple Mount and pray for world peace when he arrives in Jerusalem next week for his first state visit. If Trump chooses to answer the call, he will not only…
DetailsBy Chana Roberts, Israel National News— US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Tuesday that the US Embassy should be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and that the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City is part of Israel. In an interview with CBN News, Haley said, “Obviously I believe that the…
Detailsby CHARLIE SPIERING, Breitbart— The White House does not expect to announce plans to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, despite President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to do so. “There’s no planned announcement for the embassy on the trip,” a White House official told Breitbart News. The official however cautioned that the plan…
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