soeben sind die jährlichen Gedenkveranstaltungen zu Ende gegangen, die mit der Feier von Israels Unabhängigkeitstag zum Abschluss kommen. Diese Veranstaltungen im Frühling, die direkt nach dem Pessachfest stattfinden, rufen eine einzigartige Atmosphäre in Israel hervor. Genau eine Woche nach dem Ende der Pessachfeierlichkeiten erinnern wir uns an die sechs Millionen Juden, die von den Nazis […]

I remember as a young child, when the Six Day War occurred, we heard Arab reports on the television and radio that were diametrically opposed to the reports coming out of Israel.  The Arabs boasted ongoing victory while the Jews reported ongoing defeat of their Arab enemy.  At the end of the war it became […]

Recently I heard a well informed pastor tell of the many biblical events that happened in Judea and Samaria – that part of Israel that the modern world has come to call the West Bank. Although I’ve studied these events many times and am very familiar with them, I don’t believe I had ever lined […]

I was in the US a few weeks ago, arriving in Boston just a few days after the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon and just hours after one of the terrorists had been captured.  Following the chain of events on television before leaving Israel, I was reminded of the many similar terrorist attacks that […]