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This week’s prayer points

1: BIBI’S GOVERNMENT IS IN CRISIS AND MAY BE DISSOLVED FOR NEW ELECTIONS: The cabinet is in turmoil of two major issues: the Jewish State, nationality bill, which identifies Israel as a nation state for the Jewish people and the 2015 budget which must be passed before March 1st. The Jewish State bill does not call…

Denounce terrorism or pay the consequences

By EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— Very few who lived outside of Israel possess a clear understanding of Israel’s situation as it relates to Arab-Israelis and the Palestinians, yet we form opinions and attitudes and pass judgments based on news clips and reporters’ comments that are almost always overly sympathetic to the Arab-Israelis of East Jerusalem…

Jerusalem Remembers General Who Halted WWI

By CHARLES GARDNER, ISRAEL TODAY— The World War I British officer who gave the order to lay down arms in 1918 is the subject of a year-long exhibition in Jerusalem that opened last week. On the 50th anniversary of his death, Lt.-Gen. Sir William Dobbie’s life is being celebrated at Christ Church, an Anglican community…

Messianic Judaism gaining momentum in Israel

By BARRY RUBIN, CHARISMA MAGAZINE— In recent decades, Messianic Judaism, a movement of Jewish people who have accepted Yeshua (Jesus) as Messiah and continued to embrace their Jewishness, has been steadily growing—especially in the United States. Jews have been coming to faith in Yeshua for centuries, increasingly so after Israel became a reality again in…

Ambassador Ron Proser addresses UNGA on the question of Palestine

Mr. President, I stand before the world as a proud representative of the State of Israel and the Jewish people. I stand tall before you knowing that truth and morality are on my side.  And yet, I stand here knowing that today in this Assembly, truth will be turned on its head and morality cast…

Arabs and Jews unite to proclaim Messiah’s return

By DAVID LAZARUS, ISRAEL TODAY— A new generation of Arab and Jewish followers of Jesus met together last week to strategize on how to “turn Israel upside down.” Two hundred and sixty Messianic Jewish and Arab pastors, youth leaders, evangelists, Bible-school teachers and ministry leaders gathered for a three-day council to discuss, study, pray and…

In their own words

In this struggle, Israel can prevail

By DR. MORDECHAI KEDER, ARUTZ 7— The problem: During these difficult days of increasing terror, the most urgent question is: What can we do in order to cope optimally with the growing terrorist violence in Israel, knowing that behind the scenes there are several players who are expending intense efforts to bring about an explosion.…

New aliyah facility in Dnipropetrovsk

By JNS.ORG— The Jewish Agency opened a new center in Ukraine last week, meant to offer assistance to Jews who fled the eastern part of the country over the fighting between the Ukrainian military and pro-Russian separatists. The crisis in Ukraine and the sharp increase in anti-Semitic attacks have prompted hundreds of the country’s Jews…