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Christians NFL players getting baptized
Archeology

Reflections from the field – NFL stars visit Israel

Seven current and former National Football League stars recently visited Israel in a six-day whistle-stop tour, which included Jewish and Christian sites and meetings with Syrian wounded treated in Israel’s hospitals and with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

It is not often that one gets the opportunity to speak to top-level athletes at all,...

Israeli specialists provide post-trauma training to Parkland community members
US-Israel Relationship

Israeli specialists provide post-trauma training to Parkland community members

As the community in Parkland, Fla., works to recover from the tragic Valentine’s Day shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 people dead, a team sent by the Israeli government has been helping out.

The Israel Trauma Coalition arrived in Broward County this week and has been holding training sessions for community members,...

Honduras' re-elected President Juan Orlando Hernandez (L) shakes hands with the US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, before speaking to the press in Tegucigalpa, on February 27, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Orlando SIERRA
US-Israel Relationship

US envoy praises Honduras for supporting Jerusalem embassy move

EGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AFP) — The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, on Tuesday heaped fulsome praise on Honduras for being one of a few countries that backed the US decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem.

In a visit to Tegucigalpa to see newly re-elected Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, Haley stressed that US President...

Iranian Revolutionary Guard
Iran

US Congress Targets Iranian IRGC Front Companies With New Legislation

New legislation before the US Congress will introduce tough sanctions to combat the growing financial influence of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the main driver of Tehran’s military interventions in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and other countries in the region.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and...

Iran

New satellite photos show Iran establishing another base in Syria

Iran has built another permanent military base outside Syria’s capital city complete with hangers used to store missiles capable of hitting all of Israel, according to Western intelligence sources.

Exclusive satellite images from ImageSat International obtained by Fox News show what is believed to be the new Iranian base, eight miles northwest of...

Amid shifting landscape, IDF unveils sweeping plan to revamp Ground Forces
Israel Defense Force (IDF)

Amid shifting landscape, IDF unveils sweeping plan to revamp Ground Forces

The Israeli military’s Ground Forces are due to undergo a massive overhaul, including significant structural changes and an influx of advanced technology, that will change the way they train, fight and communicate, a senior IDF official said Tuesday.

The reforms are meant to update the Ground Forces, which represent a huge portion of the Israel...

Prime Minister Netanyahu
Hamas

Netanyahu: Zero tolerance for rockets — ‘they get hit immediately’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he believed in a policy of “zero” tolerance for rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip and Syria, no matter how sporadic.

“My policy is zero spillover,” he told cadets at the National Defense College, an academic institution which trains high-ranking defense officials in national security fields.
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Event Recaps

Feb 26 Nampa, ID Stand With Israel

Israeli hospital treats Syrians suffering from emotional trauma
Syria

Israeli hospital treats Syrians suffering from emotional trauma

Given the enormous death toll of the ongoing war in Syria, it is easy to overlook—or fail to attribute importance to—the psychological well-being of those who have endured. But the severe trauma faced by so many Syrians has left an entire generation with intangible scars. It is an issue that, somewhat counter-intuitively, Syria's arch-enemy,...

Micro-History

1973 Yom Kippur War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdl7MuJZRqs

 

Event Recaps

Feb 25 Nampa, ID Stand With Israel

Event Recaps

Feb 25 Chambersburg, PA Stand With Israel

Event Recaps

Feb 17 Sacramento, CA Daughters For Zion Luncheon

Event Recaps

Feb 24 Nampa, ID Pastor’s Luncheon

Event Recaps

Feb 24 Southbridge, MA Bilingual Pastor’s Meeting

Netanyahu: U.S. Embassy move will have long-term ramifications
US-Israel Relationship

Netanyahu: U.S. Embassy move will have long-term ramifications

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lauded US President Donald Trump as a “great friend” at Sunday’s cabinet meeting and said Washington’s decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem will have significant, long-term ramifications.

“This is a great moment for the citizens of Israel and this is a historic moment for the State of Israel,” Netanyahu said...

Israeli Society

Israeli Wheelchairs of Hope donated in South Africa

Fifty colorful, lightweight child-sized wheelchairs from Israeli nonprofit organization Wheelchairs of Hope are being distributed to needy disabled five- to nine-year-olds in South Africa through the South African chapter of WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organization) and the Israeli Embassy in South Africa.

The inexpensive, low-maintenance...

US ‘to move embassy to Jerusalem on May 14’ — day of Independence Declaration
US-Israel Relationship

US ‘to move embassy to Jerusalem on May 14’ — day of Independence Declaration

The US is planning to officially move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem on May 14, 2018 — the 70th anniversary of Israel’s declaration of independence, as well as Washington’s recognition of the Jewish state — Channel 10 and Hadashot news reported Friday.

According to Hadashot the embassy will officially announce the plans later in the day. The...

Eighth-Century Clay Seal With ‘Signature of Prophet Isaiah’ Found in Jerusalem
Archeology

Eighth-Century Clay Seal With ‘Signature of Prophet Isaiah’ Found in Jerusalem

A historic archaeological discovery near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount may be proof of the life of the biblical prophet Isaiah, according to an article in the Biblical Archaeology Review.  A broken 8th-century BCE clay seal impression, or bulla, appears to be inscribed with the words “Belonging to Isaiah,” as well as a partial word containing letters...

IDF, US troops get ready for drill to simulate massive missile attack on Israel
US-Israel Relationship

IDF, US troops get ready for drill to simulate massive missile attack on Israel

The Israeli military on Thursday began its final preparations for a major air defense exercise with the United States, which is set to kick off at the beginning of next month, the army said.

While the Juniper Cobra exercise, which was first held in 2001, is scheduled every two years, it comes at a time of growing tension between Israel and Iran...