Around this time in Israel each year, a flurry of building takes place across the country. What are they making? Sukkahs (booths) of course! Many Jews—not only in Israel but around the world—will spend a week living in these temporary structures, eating, resting, fellowshipping, and rejoicing throughout, in accordance with God’s commands. But the holiday...Read More
Shalom and greetings to you all from the beautiful Mount of Blessing in Samaria, the biblical heartland of Israel. Psalm 132: 13 says, “…the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place: 14 “This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.” Zechariah chapter 8:2...Read More
Yesterday, I was privileged to wake up before the sunrise, drive all the way to Jerusalem, stand in line for two hours in the hot sun, and ascend the Temple Mount plaza whilst reading the Psalms of Ascent and praying for the restoration of God’s holy house. I did this along with a group of...Read More
At The Israel Guys, we are more than just an advocacy channel for Israel. A good part of every week we are also out in the fields in Israel’s Heartland, leading volunteer teams to be part of projects that serve the land and people who live here. This week, we were part of one of...Read More
There are two types of people in the world when it comes to those who don’t support Israel. The first are those who just don’t know. They’ve never considered Israel or the Jewish people being a relevant part of their life, and have heard rumors or headlines decrying Israel’s existence or supposed hypocrisy, and they...Read More
After last week’s events in Israel, which included Israel sending an Apache helicopter into Jenin to rescue stranded and wounded IDF forces who had been struck by an IED, AND a terrorist attack at a gas station in Samaria which left three Israeli civilians dead, Israel announced the approval of 1,000 new homes to be...Read More
When the Israeli military set out to capture two wanted terrorists in the Arab city of Jenin on Monday, June 19th of this week, they likely thought that it would be a routine mission. After coming under heavy fire, (not unusual, considering that Jenin is one of the most volatile Palestinian Arab cities in Judea...Read More
Israeli media reported this week that Israel is expected to soon announce the approval of more than 4,000 new homes in the biblical heartland. Unsurprisingly, the media pounced on the development, and rushed to condemn Israel for advancing what the White House calls “an obstacle to peace and the advancement of the two-state solution.” As...Read More
This last week, several members of Biden’s administration made speeches about Israel, proving just how hypocritical their support of Israel actually is. One of them was Secretary of State Antony Blinken who spoke at the AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) summit on Monday; he started his speech with some very strong pro-Israel statements, praising...Read More
Instead of celebrating with his wife and two young children, he was instead buried on what would have been his 32nd birthday. Meir Tamari was shot by terrorists from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade while driving home to his family in Northern Samaria on Wednesday, May 31st. At the risk of sounding like a broken...Read More
If you have kept up with what has happened in Israel over the past few months then your heart is aching for the families of the recent terror victims. Among the victims were three sets of young Jewish siblings – Yaakov and Asher Paley, Hallel and Yagel Yaniv, and Maia and Rina Dee. These were...Read More
After Israel eliminated three senior leaders from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization in Gaza on Tuesday, the group responded by launching massive missile barrages at the Holy Land. Although Israel leads the world in their ability to launch precision strikes against their enemies (they are able to target one specific room in an apartment...Read More
Though the world’s attention has shifted elsewhere, the horrific murder of Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee, hy”d, is never far from our minds in Efrat. On April 7, the second day of Passover, Arab terrorists brutally murdered Rina (15) and Maia (20) Dee, in a drive-by shooting in the Jordan Valley. Their mother, Leah Dee,...Read More
Whilst mainstream international media Israeli networks have been reporting on the weekly demonstrations in Israel that have attracted tens of thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands, of people in protest of the proposed judicial reform, a different kind of rally took place in Jerusalem last night. While some reports place the numbers at 200,000, others say...Read More
This last week, Australia’s government made some very controversial statements in regards to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. On Monday, the Guardian reported that Australia had “Quietly dropped its recognition of the west part of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” despite the decision adopted by Scott Morrison’s government after the US embassy was moved from...Read More
The scene of the deadly bus crash in Jerusalem on Thursday, August 11, 2022 (photo credit: Ohad Zwigenberg) Last week, a United Hatzalah EMT who witnessed a deadly bus crash in Jerusalem sprang into action, using his tzitzit for a tourniquet. Shalom Klein, a United Hatzalah EMT, was standing at the bus stop on Shamgar...Read More
In a recent interview with Arutz Sheva, former envoy Jason Greenblatt said that Biden’s views on Jerusalem were actually inconsistent with U.S. law. A new poll here in Israel gives us an update on what elections might look like in November. A powerful explosive was disarmed in southern Israel by Israeli police after being discovered...Read More
Even though Israel’s skies opened on March 1st, 2022, the country remained strangely empty for several months. During Passover in mid-April, I was in Jerusalem, and the streets were very quiet. The two years of the pandemic left Israel with very few tourists, and people were challenged to believe that Israel was really open, not...Read More
In March of 2019, President Donald Trump made a very bold move and shut down the United States consulate in Jerusalem that served as an embassy to the Palestinians. This decision came only months after making the historic decision to move the United States embassy to Jerusalem and recognize the Holy City as Israel’s capital. ...Read More
On Wednesday morning, December 8th, a fifteen-year-old Arab girl crept up behind a Jewish mother walking to school with her children, and stabbed her in the back with a knife. The husband of the woman who was injured, Dvir Cohen, was on reserve duty in the IDF and was therefore not around when the incident...Read More
