by Elie Mischel
Rabbi Tuly Weisz wrote Universal Zionism before the bombs fell. He argued that October 7th was not an ending but a beginning — that out of the worst atrocity inflicted on the Jewish people since the Holocaust, a Jewish-Christian alliance of historic proportions was being born, one with the power to reshape civilization. That argument was already bold when the manuscript was delivered. Then, on February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched Operation Roaring Lion.
On Tuesday, March 17, Rabbi Weisz will convene an emergency webinar — The Iran War as the Dawn of Universal Zionism — joined by MK Ohad Tal of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and Adv. Sagiv Asulin, a former Israeli intelligence officer and leading expert on the Iranian threat. The webinar takes place at 8:00 PM Israel time | 2:00 PM EDT | 1:00 PM CDT.
Register here for the webinar.
Three weeks into the most consequential military operation in modern history, the questions believers are asking are not only strategic. They are prophetic. Within days of the February 28 launch, Ali Khamenei was dead. Within weeks, over 6,000 targets had been struck, Iran’s naval capacity gutted, its ability to project terror across the Middle East reduced to a fraction of what it was. US President Trump has described operations as running ahead of schedule. Israeli forces report the elimination of key IRGC assets and Hezbollah commanders. And yet Iran has retaliated with missile barrages on Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Eilat. An Interim Leadership Council has formed under Ali Larijani. Casualties exceed 2,000. No firm end date is in sight.
Universal Zionism opens with exactly this kind of moment in mind.
The book traces the arc from Theodor Herzl’s political dream through Religious Zionism’s spiritual awakening to what Rabbi Weisz calls the third stage: a coalition of Jews and Christians united not merely around Israel’s survival, but around a vision of what Israel’s restoration means for all of humanity. From Political Zionism to Religious Zionism to Universal Zionism — a blueprint, Rabbi Weisz argues, for a coming Golden Age of faith and cooperation.
Whether Operation Roaring Lion is the next chapter in that story is precisely what Tuesday’s conversation will address.
Isaiah envisioned a day when the nations would stream to the mountain of God’s house. Zechariah described a future in which men from every language would grab the corner of a Jewish man’s garment, saying: we have heard that God is with you (Zechariah 8:23). The question Rabbi Weisz has spent his career asking — and that his book now presses with new urgency — is whether we are living out those chapters.
The two men joining him on Tuesday bring that question down from theology into hard reality.
MK Ohad Tal has been one of the most consistent advocates in Israeli politics for a genuine hardline toward Iran — and one of the most active members of the Knesset in building the Jewish-Christian alliance that Universal Zionism describes. As a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, he has the classified briefings and strategic deliberations that most commentators lack.
But Tal has also spent years appearing before Christian and pro-Israel audiences worldwide, framing the relationship between Jews and Christians not as a diplomatic convenience but as a shared civilizational battle — Jews and Christians standing together against the same forces of darkness. He has held events with former US Ambassador David Friedman promoting Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, engaged in more international public diplomacy than nearly any other MK in 2025, and consistently argued for total victory over Iranian-backed terror when that position still drew criticism. It does not draw much criticism anymore.
Adv. Sagiv Asulin brings a different kind of access. A former senior officer and operations commander in Israel’s security forces, Asulin now works at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, where he focuses on Iran, influence operations, and strategic perception. Iran’s power has never been only military. It operates through terror proxies, information warfare, religious legitimacy claims, and international sympathy networks — and Asulin has spent his career understanding all of those layers from the inside.
Together, the three speakers represent something that the current flood of geopolitical commentary cannot: the military picture, the strategic logic, and the larger meaning — held together in a single conversation.
The webinar takes place Tuesday, March 17 at 8:00 PM Israel | 2:00 PM EDT | 1:00 PM CDT.
