Showing posts with label Gill Rosenberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gill Rosenberg. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

ISRAEL TODAY REPORT: Israeli Girl Who Fought ISIS Comes to Faith in Yeshua - Israel Today Staff

REPORT: Israeli Girl Who Fought ISIS Comes to Faith in Yeshua

Wednesday, January 06, 2016 |  Israel Today Staff

UPDATE: The video and written report from Trumpet of Salvation have been removed.
The Israeli Messianic ministry Trumpet of Salvation is reporting that Gill Rosenberg, the Canadian-Israeli girl who gained renown for joining the Kurds in their fight against ISIS, has come to faith in Yeshua. The video above is said to have been taken at her recent baptism.
Rosenberg made headlines last year after returning to Israel following a “tour of duty” with the Kurdish peshmerga in Iraq and Syria. She was one of the first foreigners, and certainly the first foreign woman, to join the Kurds in their desperate fight against ISIS.
Rosenberg had earlier immigrated alone to Israel, where she served in the IDF. She was later extradited to the US and jailed over her role in an international phone scam.
Rosenberg told Israel’s Channel 2 News that helping the Kurds was her chance to “turn my life around and do something good for a change.”
While her travel to an enemy nation, which also violated her parole conditions, threatened to put Rosenberg in hot water with Israeli authorities, she was ultimately not charged over what most in Israel saw as a brave and heroic decision.
Many believers would say Rosenberg’s reported decision to follow Yeshua was equally, if not more, courageous.
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Monday, July 13, 2015

First western female fighter against ISIS returns to Israel

First western female fighter against ISIS returns to Israel

Monday, July 13, 2015 |  Israel Today Staff
Gill Rosenberg, a Canadian - Israeli, returned to Israel after spending the last 8 months on the front lines against ISIS in Syria and Iraq with Kurdish fighters.
In November 2014 it was reported that Rosenberg had joined the Kurdish forces fighting ISIS in Syria. She flew via Jordan to Erbil in Kurdish controlled northern Iraq where she assumed her combat role.
A few weeks later media reports stated that she had been abducted by ISIS being the first western female combatant having been abducted. Within a matter of days the reports of her abduction were put to rest with reports of a post on her FaceBook page that she was alive and well.
After seeing action in Syria Rosenberg moved to Iraq where she continued in her combat role util she left Iraq for Paris about 10 days ago.
She arrived in Israel on Sunday where she was briefly detained by Israel's General Security Services (Shin Bet) and interrogated before being released.
"It's good to be home. I'm here for now, and don’t plan on going back there anytime soon," she said.
Rosenberg spoke of her difficulty witnessing the humanitarian crisis in the areas that she found herself, saying, "It's a country at war. There are millions of refugees scattered across the country, most of them women and children."
Rosenberg reportedly said that that she left the area for political reasons, saying that peoples attitudes towards the US and Israel and increasing Iranian advances in the area warranted her departure.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Female IDF Soldier Takes Up Arms Against ISIS

Female IDF Soldier Takes Up Arms Against ISIS

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 |  David Lazarus  ISRAEL TODAY
A female former IDF soldier has become the first Israeli to publicly join Kurdish forces battling against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, the nation learned on Tuesday.
“I’m on the Iraq-Syria border, and we’re currently about 3,000 meters from ISIS,” Gill Rosenberg, 31, told Israel Radio in a telephone interview from the battlefield. “I was given an RPG by the Kurdish army,” she said.
Rosenberg is a civil aviation pilot and served in an Israeli army search-and-rescue unit. She wanted to help with the fight against the militant Islamists and contacted the Kurds through the internet. “I found them via Facebook, and told them I wanted to volunteer, and went to Iraq,” Rosenberg said.

Hundreds of foreign fighters, including some Israeli Arabs who want to destroy the Jewish state, are joining ISIS. Rosenberg felt that enough was enough, and this brave young woman left Tel Aviv for the Syrian border to join the fight and help take down the radical jihadists now moving on Kurdistan.
ISIS is currently only about 20 kilometers from Erbil, the capital city of Kurdistan, where a small minority of Jews still live. Kurdistan lies at the heart of what was once the Assyrian Empire. It was there that the Assyrians took many Jews into exile during the times of the Prophets. Before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 Jews still lived in the area.
In recent weeks, the small group of Jews who have remained in Kurdistan have asked Israel to provide them with aid, and to allow them to emigrate to the Jewish state, since they see no future in their current location. Most have fled their homes and headed for the mountains because of the fighting.
Rosenberg told Israel Radio that she felt she could contribute to the fight against ISIS in Kurdistan because of her military experience in the Israeli army.
Israel has maintained clandestine military, intelligence and business ties with the Kurds since the 1960s.
Israel bans its citizens from traveling to enemy states, among them Syria and Iraq. It has been cracking down on Israeli Arabs who return after volunteering to fight with ISIS. Officials would not respond to a Reuters inquiry as to whether or not the Rosenberg could face prosecution when she returns to Israel.
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