The Bible Plus Israel Day Package Does.
Every year, Israel’s Memorial Day and Independence Day arrive together, one on the heels of the other. Siren to dancing, grief to joy, in the span of 24 hours.
And every year, millions of people who love Israel find themselves in the same uncomfortable position. They know Israel matters. They feel it. But when someone at work brings up “the occupation,” or a family member asks why Israel has a right to Judea and Samaria, or a friend wants to know what the big deal is about 1948, the words don’t come. The feelings are there. The knowledge isn’t.
That gap is not your fault. But it is fixable.
The Bible has been answering these questions for thousands of years. The land, the people, the promises, and the return are all there, in extraordinary detail, waiting to be learned. Bible Plus exists to help you learn it, from rabbis who do not just teach this material but live it.
Learn the Land
Rabbi Elie Mischel lives with his family in Efrat, in the heart of Judea, minutes from Bethlehem. He has just completed a stunning three-part series called Reclaiming the Biblical Heartland: The Modern Story of Judea and Samaria. This isn’t a political lecture. It’s a biblical journey through the very hills where Abraham walked, where King David grew up, where Jewish pioneers fought and died to hold on to their ancestral home.
Rabbi Mischel traces the full arc, from the Jewish pioneers of the 1920s who purchased land and built settlements on barren hilltops, to the massacre of Kfar Etzion in 1948 just hours before Israel declared independence, to the miraculous Six-Day War, to the Oslo Accords, to October 7th, and to the 530,000 Jews who live in Judea and Samaria today, fulfilling the prophecies of Jeremiah and Ezekiel in real time.
After this course, “occupied territory” will never land the same way again.
Understand Why 1948 Was No Accident
Rabbi Pesach Wolicki brings a teaching that will stop you in your tracks. Drawing on a tradition that runs from the Talmud through Nachmanides to the Kabbalist Rabbi Isaac Luria, he shows that the founding of the State of Israel in the spring of 1948 was encoded in the words of the Bible, calculated to the month centuries before it happened.
This isn’t speculation. This is the kind of Torah depth that makes you put the article down and sit quietly for a moment. And it’s exactly the kind of knowledge that transforms how you talk about Israel — and how you feel about it.
Hear From Someone Who Has Lived It
Rabbi Leo Dee came from London, studied at Cambridge, and built a life with his family in Efrat — in the biblical heartland he believed in deeply enough to move to. Three years ago, on the second day of Passover 2023, his wife Lucy and his two daughters Maya and Rina were murdered in a terror attack on the road to Tiberias. His youngest daughter Tali heard about it from the back seat of his car.
In his Bible Plus session, Rabbi Dee doesn’t speak in abstractions. He speaks about his family, his community, his faith, and why, after everything, he is still here, still rooted to this land, still believing.
Some of the most important things you will ever hear come from people who have paid the highest price for what they believe.
What Is Bible Plus?
Bible Plus is Israel365’s online video learning platform, with hundreds of courses taught by Israel-based rabbis and scholars, covering every book of the Hebrew Bible, Jewish history, Israel, and more. New courses are released every single month.
Right now, a subscription is as low as $5 a month when you subscribe annually.
That price won’t last.
Yom HaZikaron asks us to remember. Yom Ha’atzmaut asks us to celebrate. Both deserve more than a feeling. Go deeper this year.
