NFL Hall of Famers Receive Warm Welcome in Jerusalem
(Israel Hayom/JNS). Nineteen football Hall of Fame members arrived in Israel for a weeklong event dubbed “Touchdown in Israel: Mission of Excellence,” sponsored by Jewish billionaire Robert Kraft, owner of the current National Football League champion New England Patriots. Kraft led a festive ceremony launching the event on Sunday at Kraft Stadium, which he built in Jerusalem.
In 1994, Kraft purchased the Patriots, the football team he loved as a fan, despite its lackluster record. He has since won four Super Bowls.
“It reminds me of the story of Moses,” Kraft told Israel Hayom. “For 40 years, the team was in the desert, and the moment I bought it, it began winning titles.”
At the ceremony, Kraft sang the Israeli and the American national anthems, and had trouble concealing his excitement.
“I am very emotional,” he said.
Kraft expressed his joy at being in Jerusalem and his hope to one day see an Israeli player in the NFL.
“My first trip to Israel was in 1963, for my honeymoon, and I remember how angry I was when I looked out from the balcony at the King David Hotel and saw armed Jordanian soldiers keeping me from visiting the holy sites,” he said. “After the Six-Day War, we were all able to go and pray. I was in favor of building bridges between the peoples.”
Kraft said Israel is his “favorite place to be” after the U.S.
"For I'm going to come upon you and I'm going to open doors for you. I shall cause you to step into that which shall be even as the children of Israel, when they crossed into My promise and they received crops that they did not plant. 
"For some will work, and others will war. This is a day of finding your place, for I am re-positioning My troops. Heaven is beginning to go before you. Therefore, I am calling you into new levels of unions and alignments. I am putting you in place, and even though some of you have been on the shelf, you're coming in. And even though some of you have been lost, you're being found. (Photo via Pixabay)
"You've been in a whole lot of traffic jams when the traffic's moving slowly, but I would come up to those highways and you will go, go, go, go, go. I will accelerate, accelerate. As you move in faith, as you hear Me, and you respond, I will accelerate you in the heavenly ways, the highways. (Photo via flickr)
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