Showing posts with label Judea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Judea. Show all posts

Friday, May 5, 2017

On the road to St. George Monastery south of Jerusalem to Jericho, Israel


On the road to St. George Monastery 
south of Jerusalem to Jericho, Israel
in the Judean desert
(Photos by Steve Martin, in my Chevy Spark rental car)
May 4, 2017















Tuesday, March 14, 2017

YOU Can Help Ensure a Jewish Presence in Judea & Samaria ✡ "Source of Strength for Me" - ISRAEL365

The captains of Judah will say in their hearts,
'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are a source of strength for me.'

וְאָמְרוּ אַלֻּפֵי יְהוּדָה בְּלִבָּם אַמְצָה לִי יֹשְׁבֵי יְרוּשָׁלִַם בַּי-הוָה צְבָאוֹת  אֱ-לֹהֵיהֶם

זְכַרְיָה יב:ה

v'-am-RU a-lu-FAY y'-hu-DA b'-li-BAM am-TZA lee yosh-VAY y'-ru-sha-la-YIM
ba-a-do-NAI tz'-va-OT e-lo-HAY-hem

Today's Israel Inspiration

Amnon, a friend who lives in Judea, recently shared with Israel365 that Palestinian Arabs in his area are trying to take over Israel State-owned land by planting trees and grapevines of their own. Often, with international funding, the Arabs are trying to change the facts on the ground to ensure that they will have control over as much land as possible, if and when a peace deal is ever worked out. Amnon said, “If I had the money, I’d plant 2,000 olive trees today.” With his simple words, he spoke to our hearts. The Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria is so important to every single one of us. After 2,000 years of exile, we must do everything we can to stay in control of our land! The Jews of Judea and Samaria are fighting a battle over the land, the soil, of Israel, and we must help them! Please help us stop the land grab and ensure a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria.

"The Almond Tree is Blooming"-A Classic Israeli Song

Every child in Israel sings this classic Hebrew song about the blooming almond tree, especially as the winter months come to an end and spring begins to show. Enjoy the youthful experience!

Appreciating Our Christian Supporters Who Bless Israel "For Such a Time as This"

One verse in particular from the Book of Esther, read each year on the Jewish holiday of Purim, has become the rallying cry for pro-Israel Christians to support the people and the Land of Israel!

    

Passover is Right Around the Corner!


This year, Jews around the world be sitting down to their festive Passover meal known as a "Seder"  after nightfall on April 10th.  Passover is the most widely celebrated holiday in the Jewish world! There are so many wonderful customs and traditions during the  "Seder". Make sure to stock up on your Passover needs such as a beautiful Seder Plate and Matzah Cover so that you are your family will be prepared to partake in the upcoming Biblical holiday of redemption.

Shop Now and Be Ready for Passover! »

Today's Israel Photo

Earlier this year, Rabbi Tuly, accompanied by Donna Jolay, Director of Christian Relations, joined the organization HaYovel at Har Bracha in Samaria to plant 2,000 trees that will grow lush and beautify the Land of Israel.
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Thursday, March 2, 2017

MAOZ ISRAEL REPORT - March 2017 - Ari & Shira Sorko-Ram



IS GOD GIVING AMERICA A SECOND CHANCE?
Monthly Report: March 2017
Adar - Nisan 5777


U.S. President Donald Trump in prayer at his first Annual National Prayer Breakfast event in Washington D.C.

By Shira Sorko-Ram

I must admit I have had many sleepless nights because of the spiritual and moral decline of western civilization—especially in the two countries of which I am a citizen—Israel and America.

Some 15 years ago I watched President George W. Bush proclaim a “road map for peace” by dividing the Holy Land into “two states for two people living in peace and security.” Moreover, his response to the 9/11 catastrophe was a declaration that “Islam is a religion of peace.” He added that Israel must not build houses in Judea and Samaria because it belongs to the Palestinians.

I had already been in Israel 35 years and I knew, as did most Israelis, that Islam is not a religion of peace. All I could think of was God’s solemn promise to “bless those who bless you (Abraham and his seed)” and “curse him who curses you.” (Genesis 12:3)

In the book of the prophet Joel, the curse becomes more exact as to time and actions: “When I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations … and I will enter into judgment with them on account of My people, My heritage Israel whom they have scattered among the nations; They have also divided My land.” (3:2).

Incidentally, I always wondered if Bush had forgotten that in 1947 the U.N. had divided the land of ancient Israel into two states—a Jewish state and an Arab state. (In those days there were no Palestinian people—only Arabs.) But the Arabs emphatically rejected two states for two people. They would settle for nothing less than one Arab state and no Jewish state.
ISLAMIC INFILTRATION

When Barack Obama became president, I began to realize that Muslims were immigrating to America in ever-increasing numbers. Muslim missionaries were converting prisoners in jail. Famous actors, musicians and sports heroes were embracing Islam.

Obama was filling the White House with Muslims as his advisors. Because of my personal experience living in Israel and extensive research into Islam, I knew that Muslim leaders in America had a solid plan based on Sharia law to completely overtake the political establishment of the U.S.A. Not immediately. But not in the too-distant future either.

Few people have thought about this: A democracy without God cannot win against Islam. First, Islamic refugees flood into a country because of its superior economic prowess. What democratic people can turn away masses of Islamic refugees because of their religion?

Secondly, the birthrate of Muslims is much greater than that of any democratic country. Under pressure to find enough cheap laborers, democratic governments invite more available young alien men and women to their land. Muslim supply is unlimited.

Thirdly, scientific polls all state that between 10 and 15% of the Muslim population are prone to jihadism, with a goal to conquer the world for Islam. Islamic Sharia doctrine severely warns Muslims not to integrate into western society as other immigrants have done for centuries.

Over time, the helpless democratic country invaded by Muslim aliens has no defense and evolves into an Islamic culture through elections, fear and even terror, as is happening in Europe right now.

I watched as Obama routinely avowed protection for Muslims, no matter what, but never mentioned defending Christian values. Here and there a voice rang out, like that of Franklin Graham:

“I do know that the president defends Islam and chastises Christians, rebukes our allies and befriends our enemies, and fully supports gay marriages and abortion but denies the religious freedoms of those who don't agree. Our nation is ridiculed abroad and morally crumbling within. We are in trouble. We have turned our back on God.”

BIBLICAL VALUES OUTLAWED

Abortion rights, homosexual rights and Islamic rights have become the predominant liberal values in America. Free access of migrants and immigrants—whether criminals or not—is promoted by liberals knowing that the majority of migrants will vote for liberal candidates. The goal: To create an overwhelming majority of liberal voters. It seemed it would not be long until decadence and debauchery had conquered America.

Indeed, who isn’t aware that Christian religious freedom has been eroding? Christian business owners, by law, are forced to serve same-sex marriage parties and cater festivities of transvestites, who in turn may lawfully use boys’ or girls’ bathrooms, according to their pleasure on any particular day.

Multitudes of atheists, financed by extremist liberal tycoons, are giving their entire lives to suing anything and everything that possibly looks like it came from the Bible.

Atheistic professors have rewritten American history, and are literally brainwashing the vulnerable youth of America—promoting hedonistic lifestyles and a lawless mindset, birthing violent protest against Biblical mores. Licentiousness is called freedom of expression; God-given values are mocked and speech by its proponents is suppressed.

“No borders” became the mantra of the far left, not giving a thought to the drugs pouring over the borders, resulting in the death of 52,000 Americans from drug overdoses in 2016! Heroin killed more Americans than guns did last year.

THE VANISHING AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY

Obama also did what he could to turn America away from Israel. As liberal values have become the norm this decade, many, if not most, Jewish Americans have been a solid component of this anti-God movement.

As a result, the U.S. Jewish population in America is clearly declining through intermarriage and atheism. Abortion and homosexual rights have become more important to the Jewish community than the state of Israel; the values, ethics and attitudes between American Jews and Israeli Jews are fast growing apart. Think of Jews such as Bernie Sanders and his lukewarm embrace of his Jewishness. As The New York Times put it, “He doesn’t like to talk about it.” What kind of “Jews” will his great-grandchildren be?

Israel’s lack of importance to American Jewish lawgivers was clearly apparent when out of the 28 Jews on the Hill, 19 voted for the Iranian agreement, against the strenuous opposition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who fears a nuclear attack in the future from Iran. Iran has vowed for years to destroy Israel and they can’t wait to build their nuclear weapons in order to carry out their threat.

Here is the one and only defense against an Islamic or atheistic takeover:

“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (II Chronicles 7:14)


The Balfour Declaration, signed by the British Foreign Secretary James Balfour in 1917, favored a "national home" for the Jewish people. Shortly after, Britain was given an mandate by the League of Nations to rule the Holy Land and facilitate the establishment of a Jewish national home. Under Arab pressure, it withdrew from its commitment and proceeded to all but close the borders to Jews who were attempting to return to their anticent homeland. Multitudes of Jews who were denited entrance to the land God promised to the descendants of Abraham, were murdered in the Nazi Holocaust.
CHOSEN OF GOD FOR A MOMENT IN TIME

From 1917 to 1947, the God of Heaven gave the United Kingdom the privilege of establishing a new Israeli nation after 2000 years of exile. Britain spurned the Chance of the Ages to grant the Jewish people their own country on their own God-given land.

Now, in this moment of time, the God of Israel has given the United States the privilege of leading the way for the preservation of the Jewish state. The opposition against Israel will be massive. Those who hate Israel will be, first of all, targeting the potential protector—the U.S. president.

Will President Trump stand with Israel to help populate her land—Judea and Samaria? Approve Jerusalem as her capital? Will Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May assist or oppose? The Open Door will one day close.

This is the state of affairs as the new President of the United States has taken the reins. Can this president slow down the disintegration of a lawless generation which seems hell-bent on destruction? Can he turn around some of the anti-God laws? And foolish laws? And crazy laws? Laws which decimate the nation, and destroy its Biblical foundation?

That’s what the people of God are asking. So when my husband, Ari, who attended President Trump’s Prayer Breakfast, told me some amazing stories which could bring change and even revival to the United States of America, I felt a certain relief. I believe God is giving America a second chance.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Israel Provides Life-Changing Surgery to Deaf Palestinian Children - Israel Today

Israel Provides Life-Changing Surgery to Deaf Palestinian Children

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 |  Israel Today Staff
You won’t hear about this in the international mainstream media that is determined to paint Israel as hostile toward all Arabs.
But this month Israel provided, free of charge, life-changing surgery to 16 Palestinian children who were born deaf.
The children came from Judea and Samaria (the so-called “West Bank”), as well as from Hamas-ruled Gaza.
They were each fitted with a special cochlear implant allowing them to “hear” sounds in their surroundings, and underwent special therapy to help them get used to the drastic change in their lives.
The procedures took place at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. The outreach was done in cooperation with the Peres Center for Peace, with special authorization from the Israeli government.
And it is yet further evidence that Israel is fulfilling Jesus’ command to “love your enemies” even as it is forced to fight for its life.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

White House Silent on Israeli Settlement Vote - JNS.ORG CHARISMA NEWS


A bill the Knesset overwhelmingly passed that retroactively authorizes settlements in Judea and Samaria in the West Bank has resulted in outrage around the world, except from Washington, D.C. (Reuters photo)

White House Silent on Israeli Settlement Vote

JNS.ORG  CHARISMA NEWS
The U.S. has remained mum on the historic, yet controversial passage of an Israeli bill that retroactively legalizes settlement outposts in Judea and Samaria.
Rather than issuing a new statement, the White House immediately responded to the Regulation Law by referring to its statement from last week, which said "we don't believe the existence of settlements is an impediment to peace" but that construction of new settlements "may not be helpful" in the Israel-Palestinian peace process.
Late Monday night, the Knesset passed the bill 60-52, retroactively legalizing some 4,000 homes that sit on private Palestinian land, while also providing compensation to the landowners. The State Department said that "at this point, indications are that this legislation is likely to be reviewed by the relevant Israeli courts, and the Trump administration will withhold comment on the legislation until the relevant court ruling," AFP reported. 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump Feb. 15, where the two will likely address the issue of settlements among other topics. 
Meanwhile, the international community and Arab leaders slammed the legislation on outposts, with the Palestinians calling it an attempt to "legalize theft" of Palestinian land.
"This is an escalation that would only lead to more instability and chaos. It is unacceptable. It is denounced and the international community should act immediately," said Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
The Arab League said the law "is only cover for stealing the land."
Just a day after Netanyahu met with U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May, British Minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood said the bill "damages Israel's standing with international partners."
"It is of great concern that the bill paves the way for significant growth in settlements deep in the West Bank, threatening the viability of the two-state solution," Ellwood said.
Similarly, French Foreign Minister Jean Marc Ayrault said the law "constitutes a blow to the two-state solution."
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Friday, January 27, 2017

Your news from Israel - 27 January 2017 - The Jerusalem Journal Brian Schrauger

IN ISRAEL, SYRIAN ORPHANS GIVEN REFUGEE STATUS - AND ARAB HOMES

Officially, Israel has been in a state of war with Syria since 1948. Regardless, it has provided birthing care to Syrian mothers, provided state-of-the-art surgery for crippled young people, and has rescued at least one Syrian fighter. Now it is giving refugee status to 100 orphans along with a path for permanent residency in the Jewish State. READ MORE...
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NEW HOMES FOR ISRAELI COMMUNITIES IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA, A PALESTINIAN INDUSTRIAL ZONE - AND AN APOPLECTIC PA

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Israel is preparing to build 2,500 homes in its communites in Judea and Samaria. It also plans a new Palestinian industrial park near Hebron, the ancient capital of King David and burial site of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekkah, Jacob and Leah. The PLO, under the leadership of President Mahmoud Abbas, is apoplectic, calling the collective move a "war crime." READ MORE...
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ISRAEL ON THE MOON ...Video included

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Israel is in first place to win Google's $20 million prize for being the first to land a privately funded robotic vehicle on the moon. Israel's craft, designed to hop on the lunar surface, is set for launch before the end of this year. Read about it and see the video here. READ MORE...

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM IDENTIFIES ANTISEMITISM ON THE INTERNET

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Using artificial intelligence, an Israeli company has developed a system to identify antisemitic Internet posts in real time. READ MORE...

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