IDF Promotes Highest-Ranking Christian Soldier
In February, the IDF will promote a Christian soldier to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, making him the first soldier of his faith to achieve that rank. This comes as the result of a six-year process intended to help the indigenous Christian community integrate into mainstream Israeli society.
Pre-Hannukah Weekend
Just before Hannukah, the Festival of Lights, we drove to the Upper Galilee on beautiful mountain roads to visit the village of Peki’in.
Biblical, Traditional and Healthy: Olive Picking with the Israeli President
On October 29, President Reuven Rivlin and First Lady, Nechama, participated in the beginning of the olive harvest season by picking olives from the trees at the President’s residence in Jerusalem. Religious, secular, Jewish and Christian olive growers from across Israel came with the next generation, their children and grandchildren.
“Covenant Land, Covenantal Responsibility”
Two rabbis are working hard to help the Christian Arabs of Bethlehem, the oldest Christian community in the world. Their efforts are based on the Torah imperative “to help the stranger in your midst,” or, as one rabbi puts it, “Covenant land requires covenantal responsibility.”
PA Leader Accuses Israel of Planning to Conquer the World
In response to media inquiries concerning the approval by Israel’s Planning Committee of the Civil Administration to construct 2,000 units in Judea and Samaria, Hanan Ashrawi, a leading politician in the Palestinian Authority, responded in a manner that should have been taken straight from the most egregious sources of anti-Jewish rhetoric.
Spirituality is Universal at Rambam Hospital
While some are touting Rambam’s eight decades of medical and technological innovations, chaplain Michael Schultz is reveling in the hospital’s success at spiritually serving its constituents.
Setting The Way For Israel’s Christian-Arab Soldiers
‘I hope that my example teaches them that hard work and loyalty pay off,’ says Samur Geris.
Austrian Evangelical Community ‘Adopts’ 100 Christian IDF Soldiers
Christian-Israeli soldiers received presents from abroad just like Jewish soldiers who often get gifts from Jewish communities in the Diaspora.
Elite Israeli Air Force Pilots Course Welcomes First Christian Arab
Christian Arab military enlistment is still in its infancy. Many Christian Arabs live in Muslim communities where there can be deep animosity towards anything “Israeli” and certainly its army.
Christian IDF Soldiers Risk Death Threats, Violent Attacks From Muslim Neighbors
As the number of Christian Israeli Arabs enlisting in the Israel Defense Force rises, so does the risk of violent attacks against the soldiers by their Muslim neighbors.
