School Year Opens in Israel Despite Gaza Rockets

August 25, 2014 Despite the continued barrage of rockets fired at Israel from Gaza, the school year will start on September 1. In order to help students who are suffering from the stress of continually being bombed by Hamas, Israel’s teachers have been directed to lead discussions in which students talk about what they have experienced during the ongoing Gaza conflict.

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Four-Year-Old Israeli Murdered By Hamas Laid to Rest Sunday

August 24, 2014 On Sunday morning, four-year-old Daniel Tragerman, who was the victim of Hamas' Friday afternoon rocket attack on Kibbutz Nahal Oz, was laid to rest. Daniel was critically wounded by rocket shrapnel in his family home as he ran to the safe room when the code red siren sounded. With only seconds to reach the room, he didn't make it. He died shortly after.

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Israeli Surplus Potato Crop Destined for Hungry Gazans

August 22, 2014 Gershon Baskin, the founder and co-chairman of the Israel Palestine Creative Regional Initiatives (IPCRI), has raised $93,000 to be used to buy surplus Israeli potatoes for Palestinians in Gaza who are hurting due to the aftermath of the Hamas bombing of Israel.

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Israeli UN Ambassador Warns Nations Against Terrorism

August 11, 2014 Speaking before the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, condemned its malignant anti-Israel bias and warned the international body to “stand with Israel and stand against terror before it’s too late.” “The international community has lost its way,” he said. “This institution was founded to stand for truth, for justice, and for moral clarity. This is no longer the case.” “It might be too much to ask you to stand on our side in this battle between civilization and barbarism, but at least have the decency to swallow your selective outrage while Israel wages war against the extremist groups seeking to eradicate the values that we all hold very dear.”

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Peres Parts Presidency Sharing Israel’s Sorrow

July 27, 2014 In the last days of Shimon Peres' presidency over Israel, the Polish-born 90-year-old met in shared sorrow with the families of some of the 35 Israeli soldiers slain since June 2014 when Hamas escalated its attacks against Israel. Greeting the mourners as if close friends—with heartfelt, compassionate hugs—Peres spent an emotional whirlwind last Monday visiting the loved ones of Bnaya Rubel, 20; Major Amotz Greenberg, 45; and Sgt. Eitan Barak, 20.

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Hamas War Enters Second Week as Ceasefire Fails

July 15, 2014 Israel accepted an Egyptian proposal to end the week-long conflict with Gaza on Tuesday, ceasing fire at 9 a.m. Despite the ceasefire on Israel's part, Hamas rockets kept coming. At 3 p.m., Israel resumed Operation Protective Edge, which was launched last Tuesday to end almost incessant rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. Hamas rockets are putting as many as five million of Israel’s eight million in danger.

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Three Israelis Confess to Murder of Abu Khdair

July 15, 2014 Israel has charged three Jewish men with the kidnapping and killing of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, a Palestinian teenager whose death set off days of violent protests in Arab areas of Jerusalem and northern Israel. Israel responded to the slaying of Khdeir with repulsion and righteous anger, reaching out to the Khdeir family with sympathy. President Shimon Peres expressed his condolences to the father of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, Hussein Abu Khdeir. "I know what you and your family are going through. I am full of shame and share in your grief. He was murdered by criminals. I am ashamed on behalf of my nation and grieve with you. The only thing left for all of us to do is to ensure that no more children are murdered, and no more tears are shed by mothers," Peres told him.

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Bomb Explodes Near One of our Offices and the Rockets are Still Coming Down!

July 11, 2014 These days in which we are living are prophetic days that leading up to Yeshua (Jesus) coming back as the King Messiah to reign in Jerusalem. Let’s us not forget that the first of the Blood Moon Tetrad that happened this Passover was just 10 weeks, and since then we have seen non-stop “action” which I will mention in a minute. But let’s recap the significance of the Blood Moons.

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Israel Warns Hamas to Halt Rockets

July 7, 2014 More than 150 Gazan rockets have been launched at Israel since the June 12 abduction of three Israeli teens, resulting in damaged property and emotional suffering in Israel's south. In response to the escalation of rockets within a 24-hour period on Wednesday and Thursday, with about 40 rockets launched at southern Israel, 34 successfully reaching Israeli soil, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to have warned Hamas Thursday night to stop shooting rockets into Israel or face an escalated Israeli attack on Gaza.

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Israel Calls for Restraint as Murder of Palestinian Teen is Investigated

July 6, 2014 Israeli authorities are working to cool the red hot climate in Israel following the brutal murders of three Jewish teens, Naftali Frenkel and Gilad Shaar, both 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19, and one Palestinian teen, Muhammad Abu Khdair, 17, whose body was found July 2. Palestinian residents reported seeing Abu Khdair forced into a vehicle outside a supermarket in the Shuafat section of Jerusalem on Wednesday. His body was found just hours after the abduction in the Jerusalem Forest. It was charred and showed signs of violence. Post-mortem reports suggest the lad was burned alive. Just one day before, the Jewish teens had been laid to rest, their deaths bringing the nation to its knees in united grief and mourning. Six Jewish Israelis were arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of Abu Khadair on Sunday.

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