Israel’s warning to Trump, and the Mordechai precedent

Israel provided the intelligence that led the US Secret Service to secretly pull President Trump off Air Force One and smuggle him onto a different aircraft as he prepared to leave Turkey last month, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Israeli mother and daughter missing in Vienna since Friday, embassy appeals for public’s help

The Israeli Embassy in Vienna has lost contact with an Israeli mother and daughter who have been missing in Vienna since Friday, the Foreign Ministry announced, as hundreds of volunteers joined the search alongside Austrian and Israeli authorities.
Irony in real time: Nashville bookstore cancels Jewish author’s book on antisemitism and cancel culture

Bell Bird Books, an independent bookstore, canceled a scheduled launch event for a new book “White. Blonde. Jew.” after facing an online pressure campaign from anti-Zionist activists, a cancellation that landed with particular irony given the book’s subject matter.
The real apartheid: Where Jews can’t enter and lynching is the result

A mother and her son, residents of Samaria, survived an attempted lynching last Thursday after accidentally driving into Jenin while on their way to meet friends in Afula.
The covenant God refused to cancel

I was taught, as most Christian pastors are taught, that the Old Covenant Scriptures were given to the Jews and the New Covenant Scriptures were given to the Church. Two books, two peoples, and only one of them still mattered.
The valley where redemption looks like nothing

We want deliverance to arrive the way it does in the stories: all at once, unmistakable, with the sea standing up on either side. Instead we get a slow gray lightening over a ridge, and we believe nothing is happening at all.
The Texas paradox: A state that loves Israel, but Jews are still six times more likely to be hate crime targets

Jews have been the target of 18 hate crimes in Texas so far this year, roughly 5% of the state’s 345 recorded hate crimes, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Uniform Crime Reporting system.
Meet ESEK: the Israeli marketplace turning small business survival into a global movement

Its premise is simple: Israel is home to nearly 700,000 small businesses, and after more than a year and a half of war, a significant number of them are barely staying afloat. ESEK exists to help them do more than survive.
“You shall again plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria”: the prophecy behind The Israel Guys

The Israel Guys, a Christian Zionist organization with a media reach spanning tens of millions of evangelical viewers, inaugurated a new visitors center in the Samaria, giving Christian supporters of Israel a permanent physical home in the biblical heartland rather than just a channel to watch from abroad.
“For Zion’s Sake”: the Catholic initiative trying to repair the Church’s relationship with Israel

“You want to be a Catholic anti-Zionist, bevakasha, please go ahead, but please do not claim to speak for the entire Catholic Church. This is your private opinion. The Catholic Church does not have an official teaching on Zionism, which means it’s absolutely legitimate to discuss it as a legitimate theological option.”