Red Alert: Conversation with Yakir Englander, Director of IAC (Israeli-American Council)
Today’s special guest is Yakir Englander, Director of Leadership for the Israeli-American Council (IAC). Yakir is an Israeli now living and working in the United States. His journey keeps him tightly connected to Israel and the Israeli-American community.
Yakir provides us with an intimate insight into the trauma and endurance experienced by the Jewish community and invites us to share in the healing. Yakir shares with us specific ways the Christian community can join in the pursuit of the Divine by aiding and comforting all the people of Israel and those connected to Israel and the region.
Ways to help and organizations designed to support Israel and the global Jewish Community including providing material and other kinds of support can be found here:
IAC360 | IAC | WARTIME COMMUNITY RESOURCES
Contact Yakir at yenglander@israeliamerican.org. You are invited to contact Yakir and the IAC to host a speaker at your church, school, or organization as healing from trauma requires the entire community to embrace the trauma and provide support. The personal testimonies of witnesses and victims will keep us connected to the humanity of it all and help in the healing.
How to Help the Hostages and All of Israel:
- Pray for the Hostages’ safety and quick return home.
- Pray for the family members’ well-being–emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
- Write to your US Congress and Senate representatives and the White House to demand the full power of the US Government and people work to return the hostages held in Gaza.
- Write to all your favorite press outlets as Op-Eds or Letters-to-the Editor.
- Write to The Red Cross and the UN, to the WHO and Amnesty International
- to use all their power to demand and secure the hostages’ release.
- Find and Sign petitions to support Israel and Return the Hostages. Petitions can be found at JNS, Genesis123 Foundation, and more.
- Use Social Media
#BringthemHome #Standwithus #EndJewHate
#StandwithIsrael #JerusalemDateLine VoicesforHostages.org
National Council of Jewish Woman
Find these groups, join them, donate, like, and repost their messages.
- Access the IAC activism page for more content and ways to help from material resources to ways you can help ensure the truth about Israelis and the Jewish people are known and the world can value their humanity and help in their battle to defeat evil and aid in their healing.
- Participate in rallies in your area as they happen so you can stand in solidarity with your Jewish neighbors—that they know they are not in this alone.
- Engage in the Weekend of Prayer with your Church, family, and organization, and then continue the praying as this weekend, Nov. 17-19, is only the starting point. Praying in unison with Jewish congregations the world over—A Historic First. Resources for what and how to pray are here: https://aclforisrael.com/weekendofprayer/
- Remember that the well-being of innocent Arabs in the region and Gazans specifically means the terrorists and Hamas must be eradicated. This job will fall on the shoulders of Israelis, so be praying for them all.
Am Yisrael Chai!