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BATTLE OF 10 Our Projects | Film Review October 2017 CENTENARY - 5778 1917 - 2017 “I’m Not Alone”- Greatest Act of Kindness for Holocaust Survivors By Foundation 7 As we move farther and farther away from and visits by multi-lingual volunteers to Jerusalem Foundation’s Café Europa’s third birthday celebration the horrific events of , more survivors’ who are homebound. and more survivors find themselves alone. The very same survivors who speak of the With every passing year, survivors lose pain of loneliness, also speak of the joys of their connections to friends who have participating in the Café Europa experienced their horrors. programme. As one survivor put it, “Café One of the greatest acts of kindness we Europa is where I can socialise, hear a can show Holocaust survivors is to hear concert, or just read and relax.” And their stories, giving them a platform to another noted, “Café Europa is so much express their feelings and process their more than coffee - I am always happy to past while ensuring dignity in their old be there.” age. As one survivor put it, “loneliness is Bringing joy to Holocaust survivors is a the hardest for an elderly person - even challenging yet crucial task, for many still harder than an illness.” suffer from the emotional and traumatic That’s where Jerusalem Foundation’s Café wounds of one of the greatest horrors of Europa project steps in, providing the 20th century. 107 meeting places for Jerusalem’s 20,000 One Café Europa participant recalls Holocaust survivors, offering social and having her mother pack a suitcase, not can share experiences with others who partners in this important project. cultural programmes, as well as realising that she would never see her understand their pain. “It is the one place Not much time is left, and it is important professionals who help ensure that the again. “I was 9…I didn’t know. My mother where I feel surrounded by those who that we continue to bring light to those survivors receive the full government didn’t prepare me.” truly understand me,” said a survivor. who have experienced the greatest benefits they are entitled to. Café Europa has been a safe space for Café Europa has been a flagship project darkness of our time. If you want to There is also a ‘Café on Wheels’ survivors to process their trauma, a warm for Christians for around the world, donate, you can fill out the response programme that brings computers, books, and welcoming environment where they and we are honoured to have them as our coupon on page 12. ‘Whose Land?’ - Film Review By Bryce Turner, Christians for Israel New Zealand

Significant showings of British performance. Having spent considerable Survivors of the Battle of Beersheba 1917 6 11 documentary/filmmaker Hugh Kitson’s time in the Middle-East, including being newest release are set to coincide with the directly on the ground during the Gaza upcoming Centenary of the Balfour conflict of 2014, Kemp’s longHighlights... and Declaration. Having had its world exemplary career with the British Army is Editorial Pg 2 Remains of the “Two-State-Solution” premiere in August, showings in Australia reflected in his direct, clearUNESCO and - A Palestinian Culture War Pg 4 - 50 Years After the Six-Day War Pg 8 will be closely followed by events in New unswerving manner. Even Visitwhen by Ambassadorthe facts to Fiji Pg 5 The Gates of Jerusalem Pg 9 Zealand and then around the world. presented can only invoke Beershebascorn for - some100 Year Anniversary Pg 6 World Jewry Adopts Unique Traditions Pg 11 4 of Kemp’s own countrymen,5 Yom he Kippur remains - Holiest Day of the Year Pg 7 Generation of Survivors Pg 12 In a temporary departure from his usual professional and focused. Confidently operation at Films, Hugh boldly navigating the minefield of international tackles the political elephant in the room, opinions, Kemp willingly lays his own the issue of Israel’s legitimacy and the reputation and credibility on the table, in rights of the Jewish people over the land. the interests of ensuring that the viewerIsrael & Christians Today is the premier publication of Christians for Israel Vastly different to other films produced has the full story. by or other Jewish sources, this production deals fairly with documents Kitson’s film delivers a well-developed and evidence, often showing the actual progression of positions with a text on camera for the viewer to draw commendable objectivity. A diverse line- their own conclusions. up of international and local experts bring immeasurable knowledge and experience Opening, however, with a collection of to the documentary, squarely facing the video clips, news media items and even viewer with essential information from bites from an animated children’s’ show, international law and history, right the viewer is immediately introduced to through to archaeology, all the time in an the depth and passion of the Palestinian authoritative and yet succinct manner perspective. In what can only be that even a much lesser-qualified viewer categorised as blatant propaganda, claims can easily understand. International of Palestinian ownership over various lawyers and archaeologists aside, Kitson’s towns and cities escalate in successive own skill set is obvious, albeit behind the clips until the inevitable claim over the scenes. The production quality is whole land booms from the screen. Just as excellent, the editing conveying a sense of the viewer starts feeling a growing urgency but yet a deliberate and focused uncertainty, even indignation, Colonel pace. For those just entering the battle- (Ret.) Richard Kemp CBE takes command. zone that is Middle-East opinion, this film Colonel Kemp then proceeds to take the will go a long way towards combating the viewer on a journey through the spectrum blatantly one-sided arguments bandied of legal arguments with what can only be about in the world media. The legal described as military efficiency. Uniquely evidence is dealt with so thoroughly that DVDs available for $20 from c4israel.com.au/store qualified to address this most thorny of even those already holding an educated topics, Kemp offers an admirable view will come away with new material. Editorial October 2017 02 Tishrei - Kislev 5778 , Balfour and the By Andrew Tucker, International Editor & Executive Director, Christians for Israel International

for adopted by the League of Nations in 1922. These events cause us inevitably to wrestle with the question: to what extent can the political developments surrounding the rise of Zionism at the end of the 19th century, leading ultimately up to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, be reconciled with our Christian faith in the Bible? Many Christians argue that Zionism is These months of August to November merely a political phenomenon and the 2017 are historically significant months, as State of Israel is a construct of human we recall key dates in the world history efforts, and therefore cannot be regarded leading up to the creation of the State of as fitting in with the Bible. Others say Israel in 1948. 29 and 30 August was the that even if the Bible does allow for the 120th anniversary of the first Zionist return of the Jewish people to the land Congress in Basel, at which what came to promised to their forefathers, it cannot be be known as the ‘Basel Programme’ was ’s intention to achieve that goal as adopted, setting out the goals of the long as the Jewish people are blind and Zionist movement. It was adopted on the ignorant to the gospel of Christ, or following terms: as long as Israel allows offences to God “Zionism aims at establishing for the such as abortion and open support for Jewish people a publicly and legally homosexuality, or as long as they mistreat assured home in Palestine. For the the Arab Palestinians. We are living in a complicated and Jerusalem. That is why the world refuses attainment of this purpose, the Congress All of these are valid concerns. There are sometimes confusing period of transition, to accept the legality of Israel’s considers the following means (many) aspects of the State of Israel that where many interrelated things are reunification and the declaration as the serviceable: are far from perfect, perhaps even happening concurrently. The gospel of capital of the of Israel. The Ÿ The promotion of the settlement of problematic. But we need to remind the Kingdom of God is going into all the prophet Zachariah describes how this will Jewish agriculturists, artisans, and ourselves that we are dealing ultimately nations as never before. The Bible tells us end in the nations going up violently tradesmen in Palestine. with what the Apostle Paul, in Romans 11, that the ‘fullness of the Gentiles’ is against Jerusalem, only to be met by the Ÿ The federation of all into local or calls the spiritual restoration of Israel a inextricably linked to the physical and Lord Himself who will protect His people general groups, according to the laws of ‘mystery’. While he does not specifically spiritual restoration of the Jewish people. defeat them. speak there of the physical restoration of the various countries. This ‘fullness’ suggests the completion of The fulfillment of God’s declared the nation of Israel in the land, it can the church – the gathering in of the elect Ÿ The strengthening of the Jewish promises is happening in the midst of, hardly be argued that that is not part of feeling and consciousness. of God from amongst the nations. But it and by the means of, ordinary men and the mystery of which he speaks. In also refers to the completion of that women, in a broken and imperfect world. Ÿ Preparatory steps for the attainment of Romans 11 Paul draws all his arguments period of history in which the Gentiles Just as you and I are imperfect, but we those governmental grants which are from the , which speaks ‘trample on’ (dominate and govern over) know that, by grace alone, if we trust in necessary to the achievement of the clearly of the restoration of the Jewish Jerusalem. Ever since the destruction of Zionist purpose.” Him God will achieve His perfection in people to the land and the advent of their the in 70AD, and the us, so too He will achieve His purposes in The Basel programme led twenty years Messiah, as a necessary step in their destruction of Jerusalem in 135AD, the Israel and the nations. So that, ultimately, later to the , which spiritual restoration, when the Saviour nations and empires of this world have His name will be glorified. was published on 2 , and comes, after which the word of the Lord sought to govern Jerusalem. Even today, led in turn to the creation of the Mandate shall go forth from Jerusalem. the nations try to keep control of Timeline of Jerusalem 3500 BC - 0 4 PERSIAN PERIOD 6 MACCABEES PERIOD (536-333 BC) (165-63 BC) 1 EARLY 2 ISRAELITE PERIOD 3 BABYLONIAN PERIOD 5 GREEK/HELLENISTIC PERIOD (until 1010 BC) (1010-606 BC) (606-536 BC) (333-165 BC)

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2500 ž First houses built 1000 ž King 721 ž The Assyrians 141 ž Jerusalem is captures Jerusalem conquer Samaria. occupied by the Jewish Hasmoneans and remains their capital for 78 years 1850 ž sacrifices 1400 ž First mention of and turns the city As a consequence on Mount Moriah Jerusalem in Egyptian documents into the capital inhabitants flee 164 ž The Maccabees of Israel to Jerusalem. seize the city and sanctify the temple again. 1800 ž Construction of the first city walls 1200 ž Jerusalem is conquered The city expands by the Canaanites 167 ž Antiochus IV 3500 ž First settlement near the Gihon Spring 960 ž King Solomon 701 ž Sennacherib suppresses the Jewish religious traditions, desecrates the builds the first temple besieges the city temple, confiscates its attributes and makes it a Greek temple Nuremberg Chronicles 931-930 ž King Solomon dies. 712 ž King Hezekiah 198 ž The Seleucidian Jerusalem becomes the capital of the builds the Siloam Tunnel conquerors give Jews the right to live southern kingdom of Judah to keep the water of the ‘according to the laws of their fathers’ Gihon in the city 301 ž The Ptolemies of Egypt give 599 ž Nebuchadnezzar besieges the city the Jews autonomy in domestic affairs

586 ž The Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar besieges the city again. 332 ž Alexander the Great conquers the Jerusalem and the temple are demolished. The inhabitants are carried into exile. city and affirms the Jewish privileges given by the Persians TISHA B’ 445-425 ž Last group of exiles returns, including 539 ž The Persian ruler Cyrus (Kores) issues an the prophet Nehemiah. He rebuilds the city walls edict to let the exiles return to rebuild the temple 458 ž Another group of exiles returns, 516 ž The construction of the second temple is finished including the prophet Ezra Editorial October 2017 October 2017 Current Affairs 03 02 Tishrei - Kislev 5778 Tishrei - Kislev 5778

Zionism, Balfour and the Bible Wishing Jewish Community Short News By Andrew Tucker, International Editor & Executive Director, Christians for Israel International Barrier Against Tunnels Worldwide a Sweet Year Along Israel-Gaza Border for Palestine adopted by the League of By Tomas Sandell, ECI (European Coalition for Israel) Just under a year ago, Israel started the Nations in 1922. These events cause us construction of an underground wall along inevitably to wrestle with the question: to the Israel-Gaza strip border to prevent what extent can the political As the Jewish terrorist tunnels. The wall is currently developments surrounding the rise of community around under construction in ten places along the border. The wall not only goes deep under the world pauses to Zionism at the end of the 19th century, ground, but it is also equipped with sensors leading ultimately up to the creation of reflect on the past that can perceive digging activities, the State of Israel in 1948, be reconciled and make allowing the army to intervene in time. The with our Christian faith in the Bible? resolutions for the wall has been designed to go a short way into the sea, hindering attacks from Hamas Many Christians argue that Zionism is future the European These months of August to November divers. However, the Israeli government merely a political phenomenon and the Coalition for Israel said the wall is taking too long, and has 2017 are historically significant months, as State of Israel is a construct of human wishes everyone sped up construction. The wall now will be we recall key dates in the world history efforts, and therefore cannot be regarded Shana Tovah, a sweet year. The Jewish finished in two years. leading up to the creation of the State of as fitting in with the Bible. Others say New Year, Rosh Hashana, commenced 20 Israel in 1948. 29 and 30 August was the that even if the Bible does allow for the September 2017. Argument Over Hotels 120th anniversary of the first Zionist return of the Jewish people to the land Having just returned from a first official Congress in Basel, at which what came to promised to their forefathers, it cannot be visit to the African continent, ECI director be known as the ‘Basel Programme’ was God’s intention to achieve that goal as Tomas Sandell made a statement where adopted, setting out the goals of the long as the Jewish people are blind and he spoke about year 5778 in the Jewish Zionist movement. It was adopted on the ignorant to the gospel of Jesus Christ, or calendar as a year of unique opportunities following terms: as long as Israel allows offences to God for the State of Israel and the Jewish Photo: Shmuel Bar-Am “Zionism aims at establishing for the such as abortion and open support for people. Jewish people a publicly and legally homosexuality, or as long as they mistreat “From Africa to Asia, from Europe to Some time ago, the Greek Orthodox assured home in Palestine. For the the Arab Palestinians. Only a week before the UN General As of 2016 the United Nations is Church signed an agreement to rent out We are living in a complicated and Jerusalem. That is why the world refuses Latin America, a growing number of attainment of this purpose, the Congress Assembly met, an Iranian general recognising as a religious two hotels that the church owns in the Old All of these are valid concerns. There are sometimes confusing period of transition, to accept the legality of Israel’s nations are drawing closer to the State of City of Jerusalem. The tenant, who may considers the following means threatened to “turn and Haifa and will refrain from hosting any (many) aspects of the State of Israel that where many interrelated things are reunification and the declaration as the Israel to learn from its many into dust”, thus reiterating the Iranian call high-level meetings on this day. rent the hotels for 99 years, with the serviceable: opportunity of prolongation for another 99 are far from perfect, perhaps even happening concurrently. The gospel of capital of the Jewish State of Israel. The achievements and its dynamic economy. for many years to “wipe Israel off the This year Yom Kippur began on Friday 29 years, turned out to be a Jewish Ÿ The promotion of the settlement of problematic. But we need to remind the Kingdom of God is going into all the prophet Zachariah describes how this will Even in the Arab world, the relationships map.” Iran is today supporting terrorist September. organisation dedicated to buying up real Jewish agriculturists, artisans, and ourselves that we are dealing ultimately nations as never before. The Bible tells us end in the nations going up violently towards Israel are warming up as former groups such as Hezbollah in Lebanon estate in the . The church is not tradesmen in Palestine. with what the Apostle Paul, in Romans 11, that the ‘fullness of the Gentiles’ is against Jerusalem, only to be met by the enemies appear as friends on the world which claims to have 100,000 missiles in In a separate message to the Jewish happy about this. They disputed the deal, but the Israeli judge ruled that the Ÿ The federation of all Jews into local or calls the spiritual restoration of Israel a inextricably linked to the physical and Lord Himself who will protect His people arena. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al- Lebanon aimed at destroying Israel. community in Europe, European ‘mystery’. While he does not specifically Sisi met openly with Israeli Prime Commission Vice-President Frans agreement was valid and that the tenants general groups, according to the laws of spiritual restoration of the Jewish people. defeat them. had met their obligations. speak there of the physical restoration of Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the “These agents of destruction must be Timmermans wished the Jewish the various countries. This ‘fullness’ suggests the completion of The fulfillment of God’s declared the nation of Israel in the land, it can sidelines of the opening session of the UN contained and stopped before it is too communities joy and happiness as they Ÿ the church – the gathering in of the elect promises is happening in the midst of, Preserving Ladino The strengthening of the Jewish late,” Sandell said and quoted an old celebrate the New Year. Each year, the hardly be argued that that is not part of of God from amongst the nations. But it General Assembly in New York. On a You’ve probably heard of , a feeling and consciousness. and by the means of, ordinary men and Jewish saying at the the mystery of which he speaks. In also refers to the completion of that separate occasion the King of Bahrain, European Commission Vice-President language historically spoken by many women, in a broken and imperfect world. illustrating the perseverance of the Jewish Ÿ Preparatory steps for the attainment of Romans 11 Paul draws all his arguments period of history in which the Gentiles Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa called upon the recognises the Jewish High Holy Days Northern European Jews. Many Yiddish Just as you and I are imperfect, but we people over the years. “They tried to words can still be found in today’s Dutch those governmental grants which are from the Old Testament, which speaks ‘trample on’ (dominate and govern over) Arab world to end its boycott of Israel and with a personal message and participates know that, by grace alone, if we trust in destroy us. They failed. Now let’s eat.” language. But Ladino is less known. It was necessary to the achievement of the clearly of the restoration of the Jewish said its citizens are free to visit the Jewish in the festivities of the local Jewish Jerusalem. Ever since the destruction of Him God will achieve His perfection in a Judeo-Spanish language spoken by Jewish Zionist purpose.” state.” community in Brussels. people to the land and the advent of their the second Temple in 70AD, and the us, so too He will achieve His purposes in Rosh Hashana is a time to eat and -Spanish communities, which stayed alive The Basel programme led twenty years Messiah, as a necessary step in their destruction of Jerusalem in 135AD, the “However, as we reflect on these positive celebrate but the ten days leading up to Tomas Sandell is a Finnish journalist who has after the Jews were banished from Spain in Israel and the nations. So that, ultimately, 1492. The Spanish Royal Academy has later to the Balfour Declaration, which spiritual restoration, when the Saviour nations and empires of this world have the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Yom been accredited by the European Union. He His name will be glorified. developments in the world we should not recently decided to establish a branch in was published on 2 November 1917, and comes, after which the word of the Lord sought to govern Jerusalem. Even today, forget the forces of evil who continue to Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is a period is the Founding Director of European Israel for the preservation of Ladino. led in turn to the creation of the Mandate shall go forth from Jerusalem. the nations try to keep control of call for Israel’s destruction,” he said. of soul searching and deep reflections. Coalition for Israel. Timeline of Jerusalem 3500 BC - 0 0-Present Day 2017 4 PERSIAN PERIOD 6 MACCABEES PERIOD 11 PERIOD OF THE MAMELUKES 14 ISRAELI PERIOD (536-333 BC) (165-63 BC) (1250-1517) (1948-present) 2016 ž The UN passes the 1 EARLY HISTORY OF JERUSALEM 2 ISRAELITE PERIOD 3 BABYLONIAN PERIOD 5 GREEK/HELLENISTIC PERIOD 7 ROMAN PERIOD 8 BYZANTINE PERIOD 9 ISLAMIC PERIOD 10 PERIOD OF THE CRUSADERS 12 OTTOMAN PERIOD 13 BRITISH MANDATE PERIOD UNESCO resolution on (until 1010 BC) (1010-606 BC) (606-536 BC) (333-165 BC) (63 BC - 324) (324-638) (638-1099) (1099-1250) (1517-1917) (1917-1948) Jerusalem

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2017 ž The city of 2500 2400 2300 2200 2100 2000 1900 1800 1700 1600 1500 1400 1300 1200 1100 1000 900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 2010 Jerusalem celebrates its Jubilee: 50 years of reunion 2500 ž First houses built 1000 ž King David 721 ž The Assyrians 141 ž Jerusalem is 37 ž King Herod 132-135 ž The revolt 620 ž Mahummad’s 1099 ž The first 1517 ž Jerusalem 1799 ž Napoleon 1917 ž The Ottoman 1947 ž On 29 November, the UN captures Jerusalem conquer Samaria. occupied by the Jewish Hasmoneans and remains their capital for 78 years restores the second of Bar Kochba against nocturnal journey to Jerusalem, Crusaders occupy becomes a part of the wants to conquer Empire is defeated at the 1850 ž Abraham sacrifices 1400 ž First mention of consent to the Partition Plan of the and turns the city As a consequence temple and builds the Roman Empire according to Islamic sources Jerusalem and kill Jerusalem but does Battle of Jerusalem during Isaac on Mount Moriah Jerusalem in Egyptian documents British mandate into the capital inhabitants flee 164 ž The Maccabees city walls most of the inhabitants, not succeed the First World War. The of Israel to Jerusalem. seize the city and sanctify the temple again. HANUKKAH 136 žThe Romans 324-325 žThe First 624 ž Muslims no both Jews and Muslims 1538 ž Suleiman British Field Marshall 1948 ž The British leave the country, 1800 ž Construction of the first city walls 1200 ž Jerusalem is conquered The city expands 63 ž The Roman rename the city Council of Nicaea. The longer pray the Magnificent rebuilds 1822 ž The first Allenby enters the city on and the State of Israel is declared. by the Canaanites 167 ž Antiochus IV capture. 12,000 Jews are . city is acknowledged facing Jerusalem 1141-1173 ž Important the walls of Jerusalem Protestant diocese is foot on 11 December, a As a consequence, the Israeli War of ž ž ž 3500 First settlement near the Gihon Spring 960 King Solomon 701 Sennacherib suppresses the Jewish religious traditions, desecrates the killed in Jerusalem. The The city is forbidden as a patriarchy. From but facing Jewish scholars visit Jerusalem: established in Jerusalem reference to Caliph Omar Independence commences ž builds the first temple besieges the city temple, confiscates its attributes and makes it a Greek temple priests that refused to for Jews and that time on, Christians Yehuda Halevi (1141), 1541 The Golden Gate MODERNISING is walled up 1920 ž Riots in and Nuremberg Chronicles cease their service in the Christians. The left for Jerusalem. 638 ž Caliph Omar Maimonides (1165) and 1949 ž Jerusalem is declared the near the Old City, the first 931-930 ž King Solomon dies. 712 ž King Hezekiah 198 ž The Seleucidian temple are murdered restrictions are Supposedly, the city is enters the city Benjamin of Tuleda (1173) capital of Israel. The moves 1827 ž First visit of the British Sir Montefiore major scuffles of the Jerusalem becomes the capital of the builds the Siloam Tunnel conquerors give Jews the right to live while praying at the alter liberalised for called Jerusalem again on foot from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem southern kingdom of Judah to keep the water of the Christians in 138 ž Arab-Israeli conflict. ‘according to the laws of their fathers’ 1212 300 from England 1833 ž The Armenians open up the first Gihon in the city The victors of the First World 1967 ž In June, the Six-Day War 30 ž Jesus is crucified 325 žThe prohibition 691 ž The Dome of and France settle in the city printing company in the city War acknowledge the takes place; the city of Jerusalem is 301 ž The Ptolemies of Egypt give at Calvary, just outside the of entering the city for the Rock is built 1250 ž The walls of the National Jewish claims on united, and the regions Judea and 599 ž Nebuchadnezzar besieges the city the Jews autonomy in domestic affairs city walls of Jerusalem Jews is still in force, but on the site of 1838-1857 ž The first European consulates open up they are permitted to the destructed city are taken down the country of Israel, Samaria fall under Israeli government temple including Jerusalem, at the 586 ž The Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar besieges the city again. 332 ž Alexander the Great conquers the 60 ž The First Jewish War pray on Tisha B’Av at 1857 ž The Montefiore Windmill is built simultaneously with the 1980 ž The is the conference in San Remo Jerusalem and the temple are demolished. The inhabitants are carried into exile. city and affirms the Jewish privileges given by the Persians by the Zealots. They occupy the first neighbourhood, Mishkenot Sha’ananim outside the city walls, introduced JERUSALEM LAW TISHA B’AV city for four years with the aim of providing work and food for the poor 1921 ž Al-Husseini 445-425 ž Last group of exiles returns, including 325 žThe Church 1996 ž Jerusalem celebrates its of the Holy 1868-1877 ž Rapidly, multiple neighbourhoods develop outside the becomes the Grand 539 ž The Persian ruler Cyrus (Kores) issues an the prophet Nehemiah. He rebuilds the city walls 70 ž The Romans occupy 3000 years of existence as a Sepulchre is built Old City: Mahane Israel, Nahalat Shiv’a, Beit David and Mea Shearim Mufit of Jerusalem edict to let the exiles return to rebuild the temple Jerusalem again. The temple is destroyed capital since King David 458 ž Another group of exiles returns, (on Tisha B’Av), the city lies in ruins. Many 1932 ž The first edition of the Palestine Post, 516 ž The construction of the second temple is finished including the prophet Ezra Jews are deported to Rome TISHA B’AV now known as Jerusalem Post, came out 1998 ž becomes a public holiday by law 04 About Jerusalem October 2017 Tishrei - Kislev 5778

A Palestinian Culture War Prayer Points By Pieter Bénard Christians for Through UNESCO Israel Prayer By Ruben Ridderhof, Christians for Israel Netherlands Coordinator

The Palestinian Authority has asked UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) to acknowledge the old city of , including the Cave of ISRAEL Machpelah, as Palestinian world heritage. Ÿ Praying for Israel is often By this, the Palestinians once again try to exhausting, because of the continuous wipe out a piece of and attacks on Israel that affect us too. turn the world against Israel. May we take encouragement from the Ever since UNESCO, as the first UN words of Jesus: “Peace be with you! As organisation, recognised the ‘State of the Father has sent me, I am sending Palestine’ in 2011, the Palestinians have you.” (John 20:19-23) tried to rewrite history through the UN Ÿ Pray for the elderly who survived cultural organisation. The Palestinians the Holocaust and for those who have already tried to claim the Cave of experienced terror. Give thanks that Machpelah as Palestinian heritage in the Lord God is close to them and 2010. UNESCO adopted a resolution in they can take shelter with Him. Ÿ Turkey, Saudi-Arabia, Iran and 2015, in which the burial cave in Hebron A Herodian complex, used as a mosque and a nowadays, is built over the Cave of Machpelah, and Rachel’s grave in were which Abraham bought as a family grave and where the patriarchs are buried. Photo: Flash90 others strive for power and influence in the Middle East. It is good to know recognised as an ‘Islamic sacred place’. At authenticity and integrity of historic diligently taken care of the maintenance that whatever they do, in the end, the end of 2016, a UNESCO resolution places’. Not only do the Palestinians want and improvement of them. Additionally, they will all be confronted with was passed stating every Jewish tie with the Cave of Machpelah recognised as Israel has always guaranteed that Jerusalem. (:16-19) the , and the Western Wall Palestinian world heritage, but as world followers of other religions also have free was to be denied, and Islamic names heritage in danger. This danger would access to these places. CHRISTIANS FOR ISRAEL would exclusively indicate these places. include Israeli attempts to destruct the Ÿ Thank the Lord God for our new Then, in June this year, UNESCO had a complex. The Palestinians find a >> Culture war Christians for Israel headquarters in conference about this Palestinian request justification for this in Israeli work What the Palestinians are doing through the Netherlands. It is a miracle how to recognise the Cave of the Israeli activities, which are blown up to UNESCO, is nothing but waging a everything has developed in the last Patriarchs as Palestinian world heritage in unrealistic proportions by the Palestinian cultural war against Israel, to the despair year! With many people cooperating Kraków, Poland. and with thanks to a few Christian >> In Danger businessmen, an affordable lease Slowly, the world has to believe construction was found. Thank God by The Palestinian appeal builds on previous Psalm 128:1. resolutions concerning Hebron and the way Israel tries to destroy Ÿ Thank and pray for the many Jerusalem. Here, Israel was described as speakers and co-workers of Christians an ‘occupying force’ and was condemned Palestinian history… for Israel around the world, who work for archaeological projects in Jerusalem for Israel’s good day after day. They and Hebron which ‘harmfully violate the reports. In reality, Israel carried out the of many. Even UNESCO director Irina take their inspiration from Scripture, work in good dialogue with the Islamic Bokova watches the hijacking of her and thereby inspire many other Waqf, the organisation that controls the organisation’s executive body, in which Christians and non-Christians to Jewish Festivals Islamic part of the cave. The objective of resolutions of the Member States are acquire a vision of Israel. Ÿ Please pray for the field workers of - Feast of Tabernacles the work was to make the complex more democratically adopted or rejected, with Christians for Israel in Ukraine. They 7-11 October 2017 easily accessible to both Jewish and sadness. She has repeatedly spoken up for Muslim visitors. Israel, but she is powerless against a large often have to do their work in Shmini Atzeret - 8th Day of Assembly exhausting and dangerous bloc of Islamic countries that support 12 October 2017 circumstances. Pray also for the groups >> Hijacked these political resolutions and against of volunteers who distribute food Simchat - Celebrate the Torah It is clear that the Palestinians have many Western nations that, because of parcels. 13 October 2017 hijacked UNESCO’s agenda through their political or diplomatic reasons, abstain INTERCESSION membership and fight their political from voting, making it possible for these Yom HaAliyah - Recognises , Ÿ Pray for congregations where there battle with the support of Muslim lies to be recorded by the UN. Immigration to Israel is preaching about the restoration of countries. They do this in subtle ways, 27 October 2017 What would happen if Palestine was Israel, where there is interest in taking small steps each time, each recognised as a Member State by other Biblical prophecy, and where there is constituting a basis for the next step, UN organisations too... gives pause for an explanation of the books of the Old increasingly backing Israel in a corner. thought? Testament. Pray for your own First, the historic Jewish ties and the congregation as well. historic Islamic ties are made uniform. Ÿ In recent years the persecution of Then, the Jewish ties are denied. Jerusalem Christians has increased at an alarming Subsequently, Israel is portrayed as an News Team | Contact Details rate, particularly in the Middle East; occupying force and a threat to the 50 Years Reunited the Copts in Egypt and the Maronites INTERNATIONAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ‘Palestinian cultural heritage’. Slowly, the One-Time Edition | Collector’s Item - in Syria and Iraq. 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A Palestinian Culture War Prayer Points Visit by Ambassador to Fiji Short News By Pieter Bénard By Lepani Makubuna, Christians for Israel Fiji Rivlin, Blair Honour Late Christians for Shimon Peres at State Israel Prayer Through UNESCO New Guinea, H.E. Shmuel Ben Shmuel, One particular case, was a 2 year-old girl Ceremony By Ruben Ridderhof, Christians for Israel Netherlands Coordinator was also in Fiji to officially celebrate the Florabella Taylor Mosese, whose heart had completion of Israel’s humanitarian stopped beating five times since birth due The Palestinian Authority has asked project in the village of Vuma, on the to a severe throat condition. UNESCO (the United Nations island of Ovalau. Israeli people helped Filled with sympathy, the Jewish Educational, Scientific and Cultural rebuild this village after Fiji was specialists asked the State of Israel to Organisation) to acknowledge the old city devastated by Category 5 Cyclone bring in another Jewish specialist, Dr Rob of Hebron, including the Cave of Winston, the most powerful cyclone ever ISRAEL Berkowitz from Melbourne, who has 28 Machpelah, as Palestinian world heritage. recorded in Fiji. Ÿ Praying for Israel is often years experience operating on young During a state memorial to mark the one- By this, the Palestinians once again try to exhausting, because of the continuous As a gesture of goodwill from the State of children. He arrived 27 July and year-anniversary of the passing of Shimon wipe out a piece of Jewish history and attacks on Israel that affect us too. H.E. Tibor Shalev Schlosser with the Israel, the new Ambassador brought in an conducted a successful 5-hour complex Peres, President Reuven Rivlin says the turn the world against Israel. Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum Israeli elder statesman’s dream of peace, May we take encouragement from the E.N.T medical team to conduct free operation on the little girl. Ever since UNESCO, as the first UN words of Jesus: “Peace be with you! As Christians for Israel Fiji were proud to surgeries on the most complicated cases determination and faith will live on “for generations to come.” organisation, recognised the ‘State of the Father has sent me, I am sending host the formal welcome event in Suva, from around the country. The team spent Interestingly, Florabella’s father had you.” (John 20:19-23) for Israel’s new Ambassador to Fiji. H.E. ten days in Suva, conducting over 21 travelled to Jerusalem. After the operation Speaking at the ceremony in Jerusalem, Palestine’ in 2011, the Palestinians have Rivlin says: “You have left us much more to tried to rewrite history through the UN Ÿ Pray for the elderly who survived Tibor Shalev Schlosser presented his operations, some of which took 5-8 hours. he said, “I went to Israel during the Feast do, but the path you paved, the dream you cultural organisation. The Palestinians the Holocaust and for those who have credentials to the Fijian President on 25 The specialists also guided and taught the of Tabernacle in 1993 and little did I know spoke of, and most of all, your already tried to claim the Cave of experienced terror. Give thanks that July 2017. On the same day, Israel’s local Fijian surgeons during some of the that Israel would bring a Jewish specialist determination and faith, will be with this Machpelah as Palestinian heritage in the Lord God is close to them and Ambassador to Australia, Fiji and Papua more complex procedures. team 24 years later to save my daughter.” people for generations to come, and you will continue to be an advocate of all of us.” 2010. UNESCO adopted a resolution in they can take shelter with Him. Former British PM Tony Blair, at the event, 2015, in which the burial cave in Hebron Ÿ Turkey, Saudi-Arabia, Iran and A Herodian complex, used as a mosque and a synagogue nowadays, is built over the Cave of Machpelah, others strive for power and influence said that the country Peres “wanted to and Rachel’s grave in Bethlehem were which Abraham bought as a family grave and where the patriarchs are buried. Photo: Flash90 create was to be a gift to the world.” in the Middle East. It is good to know recognised as an ‘Islamic sacred place’. At authenticity and integrity of historic diligently taken care of the maintenance that whatever they do, in the end, the end of 2016, a UNESCO resolution New Building for Head Office The Lost City of Jesus' places’. Not only do the Palestinians want and improvement of them. Additionally, they will all be confronted with was passed stating every Jewish tie with Apostles Has Just Been the Cave of Machpelah recognised as Israel has always guaranteed that Jerusalem. (Zechariah 14:16-19) the Temple Mount, and the Western Wall We are delighted to announce that the We sincerely Found, Archaeologists Say Palestinian world heritage, but as world followers of other religions also have free was to be denied, and Islamic names new headquarters of Christians for Israel believe this new Archaeologists think they may have found heritage in danger. This danger would access to these places. CHRISTIANS FOR ISRAEL would exclusively indicate these places. in Nijkerk (Netherlands) will be officially building will the lost Roman city of Julias, the home of include Israeli attempts to destruct the Ÿ Thank the Lord God for our new Then, in June this year, UNESCO had a >> Culture war opened on Thursday, 26 October 2017. provide us with three apostles of Jesus: Peter, Andrew and complex. The Palestinians find a Christians for Israel headquarters in Philip (John 1:44; 12:21). A multi-layered site conference about this Palestinian request H.E. Ambassador Mr Aviv Shir-On, more justification for this in Israeli work What the Palestinians are doing through the Netherlands. It is a miracle how discovered on the northern shore of the to recognise the Cave of the Israeli Ambassador of Israel to the Netherlands, opportunities activities, which are blown up to UNESCO, is nothing but waging a everything has developed in the last , in the Bethsaida Valley Patriarchs as Palestinian world heritage in and Binyomin Jacobs, Nature Reserve, is the spot, the team cultural war against Israel, to the despair year! With many people cooperating to bless Israel unrealistic proportions by the Palestinian believes. The key discovery is of an Kraków, Poland. and with thanks to a few Christian of the Inter-Provincial Chief Rabbinate of and the Jewish the Netherlands will perform the opening advanced Roman-style bathhouse. That in businessmen, an affordable lease people. As the itself indicates that there had been a city >> In Danger ceremony. Slowly, the world has to believe construction was found. Thank God by building is there, not just a fishing village. The Palestinian appeal builds on previous Psalm 128:1. With the support of investors with a heart larger than our resolutions concerning Hebron and the way Israel tries to destroy Ÿ Thank and pray for the many for Israel, the potential of the new current offices, we will be able to host events. Our vision is to make it a vibrant 16 Years On, US and Israel Jerusalem. Here, Israel was described as speakers and co-workers of Christians building was realised in the past months. more groups, schools, exhibitions and place where Israel will be blessed. Mourn 9/11 Attacks, Laud an ‘occupying force’ and was condemned Palestinian history… for Israel around the world, who work Anti-terror Alliance for archaeological projects in Jerusalem for Israel’s good day after day. They and Hebron which ‘harmfully violate the reports. In reality, Israel carried out the of many. Even UNESCO director Irina take their inspiration from Scripture, work in good dialogue with the Islamic Bokova watches the hijacking of her and thereby inspire many other Waqf, the organisation that controls the organisation’s executive body, in which Christians and non-Christians to Speakers at CFI UK Conference Jewish Festivals Islamic part of the cave. The objective of resolutions of the Member States are acquire a vision of Israel. Ÿ Please pray for the field workers of By Andrew Tucker, International Editor & Executive Director, Christians for Israel International Sukkot - Feast of Tabernacles the work was to make the complex more democratically adopted or rejected, with Christians for Israel in Ukraine. They 7-11 October 2017 easily accessible to both Jewish and sadness. She has repeatedly spoken up for Christians for Israel International when Israel will be the first among Muslim visitors. Israel, but she is powerless against a large often have to do their work in Vince praying for Shmini Atzeret - 8th Day of Assembly exhausting and dangerous President Rev. Willem Glashouwer and the nations, the word of the Lord Rev. Willem Glashouwer bloc of Islamic countries that support US ambassador has praised Israel for 12 October 2017 circumstances. Pray also for the groups Executive Director Andrew Tucker were will go forth from Jerusalem, and standing by America, saying their >> Hijacked these political resolutions and against of volunteers who distribute food invited as keynote speakers at the Annual God’s will will be done on earth, as relationship has strengthened. Speaking at - Celebrate the Torah It is clear that the Palestinians have many Western nations that, because of parcels. Conference hosted by Christian Friends of it is in heaven. the 9/11 Living Memorial Plaza in the 13 October 2017 hijacked UNESCO’s agenda through their political or diplomatic reasons, abstain Arazim Valley outside Jerusalem, US INTERCESSION Israel UK in Eastbourne on 22-23 Andrew Tucker spoke about the Yom HaAliyah - Recognises Aliyah, membership and fight their political from voting, making it possible for these ambassador to Israel David Friedman Ÿ Pray for congregations where there September 2017, attended by about 200 position of Israel under lauded the strong friendship between US Immigration to Israel battle with the support of Muslim lies to be recorded by the UN. is preaching about the restoration of people. This conference was a wonderful international law. He described and Israel. “Israel and the will 27 October 2017 countries. They do this in subtle ways, What would happen if Palestine was Israel, where there is interest in time of fellowship, praise and teaching. We the importance of international always stand together and fight for the taking small steps each time, each recognised as a Member State by other total defeat of radical Islamic terrorism,” Biblical prophecy, and where there is are thankful to CFI UK Director Jake Vince law from God’s perspective. In constituting a basis for the next step, UN organisations too... gives pause for an explanation of the books of the Old Friedman said. for allowing us to be part of this event. , God reveals how Messiah increasingly backing Israel in a corner. thought? Testament. Pray for your own Israel “mourned for America” in the wake At the opening of the conference on the will judge between the nations, First, the historic Jewish ties and the congregation as well. of the attacks, he added, noting that the historic Islamic ties are made uniform. Friday evening, Oxford scholar Dr James and the law shall go forth from Jewish state was the only country other Ÿ In recent years the persecution of than the US to erect a memorial with all of Then, the Jewish ties are denied. Patrick gave a fascinating presentation on . Today, the enemy of God is Jerusalem Christians has increased at an alarming the victims’ names. Subsequently, Israel is portrayed as an the history of Britain, the church and the using the international legal News Team | Contact Details rate, particularly in the Middle East; occupying force and a threat to the 50 Years Reunited the Copts in Egypt and the Maronites Jewish people. He clearly demonstrated system to undermine the return of Twitter Litter on the that throughout Britain’s history, while the people to the land. A battle is INTERNATIONAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ‘Palestinian cultural heritage’. Slowly, the One-Time Edition | Collector’s Item - in Syria and Iraq. 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« Gallipoli and Beersheba – « « « « More than Military Battles 100 « By Kelvin Crombie, Author of ‘Gallipoli – The Road to Jerusalem’ and Documentary ‘31 October - Destiny’s Date?’

>> Significance of the the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) In July 1917 Lord Rothschild submitted a Beersheba, thereby setting up a decisive whose initial task was to protect the Suez proposal to the British Government that charge by Australian Light Horsemen to Gallipoli Campaign Canal from an expected Turkish attack. pending the ultimate defeat of the Turks affect the final capture. By about 6 pm Concerning the Gallipoli Campaign in These Anzac soldiers were from the New the British Government would view with Beersheba was in Allied hands. 1915 Winston Churchill wrote in his book Zealand Mounted Rifles and the favour the establishment of a Jewish During the same period, the War Cabinet The World Crisis: Australian Light Horse, and became part national entity in Palestine. in London discussed and then voted in ‘From the uttermost ends of the earth ships of the . Consideration was given to this proposal favour of accepting the Zionist proposal. and soldiers are approaching the eastern During 1916 they repulsed the Turks from over the following months, and following Most of those who voted in favour had Mediterranean in fulfilment of a destiny as the Sinai, thereby protecting the Suez approval by the United States of America some form of Christian upbringing and yet not understood by mortal man... The Canal. But then at the end of 1916, a new the British War Cabinet was set to discuss would have known of the Jewish arrival of the Anzacs in Egypt created the government came into power in Britain and finally vote upon this Zionist connection to the land of covenant nucleus of the army needed to attack the led by Prime Minister proposal on 31 October 1917 - the 400th promise, an understanding due to their heart of the Turkish Empire.’ and Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour. anniversary of the official beginnings of knowledge of the Bible – a product of the What was Churchill alluding to with This new government favoured an the Protestant Reformation. Reformation. those words ‘in fulfilment of a destiny as yet offensive campaign with the ultimate Allenby meanwhile endorsed a plan for an The events of 31 October 1917 laid the not understood by mortal man’? objective of not only defeating the attack upon the weaker eastern end of the foundation for the Jewish people being When Turkey entered the War against the Ottoman Turkish Empire but of driving Turkish defence line – at Beersheba. able to return officially and legally to their Allies, the big question was the concern them out of the two provinces of Beersheba, the town associated with land and to ultimately establish their own for the future of the Turkish Empire. Mesopotamia and Syria. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (to whom God state on 14 May 1948. had sworn on oath the ) Once the Gallipoli Campaign began that There seems little doubt that the battles >> Entering the Land of means, in Hebrew, ‘the well of the oath’ – question was no longer academic, it of Gallipoli and Beersheba both played a Covenant Promise - 1917 where Abraham and Abimelech swore an became real. decisive role in this dynamic, a dynamic oath to each other. Politicians in London, Paris, Petrograd The EEF entered into Turkish Palestine which may very well have been linked to and elsewhere, as well as Jewish and Arab (the land of Israel) in early 1917. But two The planned attack at Beersheba was that ‘destiny as yet not understood by mortal nationalists, were now all involved in serious defeats at Gaza caused the scheduled for 31 October 1917. man’ alluded to by Churchill. offensive to stall. Military adjustments trying to determine what would replace Kelvin Crombie is an author and Australian were needed, and a new commander was >> Beersheba and Ottoman control over their Empire. One historian, and has lived in Israel for almost sent out named General Edmund Allenby. Balfour - 31 October 1917 location, in particular, took on twenty-five years. He developed a childhood importance – the ‘’, the land of Simultaneously there were serious On that day British Infantry and New interest in Israel while reading of Australia’s Israel, southern Syria or Palestine. considerations relating to the future Zealand and Australian horsemen military involvement in the Middle East >> Anzac Mounted Forces governance of Palestine. Britain had to be attacked Beersheba. By midday, the during both World Wars. He also gained an sure that at the War’s end she was not facing British infantry had achieved most of early interest in the Australian Light Horse Protect the Suez Canal a potential protagonist on the east side of their stated goals. Then in the mid- (mounted infantry) involvement in the Following the withdrawal from Gallipoli, the Suez Canal. Discussions then began in afternoon, the New Zealanders captured Middle East. The Australian and New many of the Anzac soldiers became part of earnest with the Zionist Organisation. Tel el Saba, the ancient town of Zealand soldiers were known as ANZAC’s.

On 31 October 1517 Martin Luther openly challenged the Roman Catholic Church, marking the 'official' beginning of the Protestant Reformation. The central message of the Reformation was the need for a personal relationship with Jesus. It also resulted in NEW! the Bible being translated into numerous languages. Almost simultaneously two other major movements began: the formation of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and the age of discovery when the European maritime nations sought direct access to the regions of India and the East. These three movements resulted in British involvement in the land of Israel (Turkish Palestine); in order to preserve its trade link to India and the eastern empire - (Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere); and to present Jesus to the peoples of that region. From the early 1840's Prussian-German involvement began in the land of Israel, initially associated with the British. This involvement resulted in the visit to Jerusalem of the German emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, to open the new German Church on 31 October 1898. Germany was forging a closer link with the Turkish Empire. This link saw Turkey join with Germany in the First World War. Turkey's decision meant the Dardanelles and Suez Canal became strategically important. Several campaigns were fought in the Eastern Mediterranean between 1915-1918 with British, Anzac (Australian and New Zealand) and Indian soldiers fighting against the Turks, Germans and Austrians. In the event of an ultimate Turkish defeat the Allies had to determine the future status of the regions controlled by Turkey, including Palestine. On 31 October 1917 the British War Cabinet agreed to establish a national home for the Jewish people in the land of Israel. On that same day British and Anzac troops won a key battle at Beersheba, a victory often associated with the famous charge of the Australian Light Horse. This documentary looks at these four major events which occurred on the 31st October. The links are such that it almost seems as if they were destined to occur on the same day.

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Welcome to this special October / From left to right: Senator James Patterson, Keith Buxton (Bridges for Peace), Ian Worby and Matthew Chivers (also Bridges for Peace) November edition. What makes it taken during our visit to Parliament House Canberra to discuss the Petition to the senate to move the Australian Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem special? Aside from the New Year and all Tasmania said of the commemorations very pro Israel senators and politicians We only had 700 printed, so these the celebrations and commemorations to take place in Beersheba, that we including Senators James Patterson, will become a prized collectors piece taking place here in Australia and in should remember it was the Palestinians David Fawcett and Mike Kelly as well as for sure. They are available for your Israel and the UK, we also have a special we betrayed, and now 100 years later we an opportunity to thank out-going Israeli donation of $25 and proceeds go lift out feature focusing on our projects should recognise Palestine unilaterally Ambassador Shmuel ben Schmuel, who to help keep this ministry operating for feeding the poor Jewish people in without them forming a peace treaty has done an amazing job. Here is a and get the important message out Israel and Ukraine. with Israel, as a separate sovereign report written in J-wire on this exciting concerning God’s plans for Israel and One of the main ways we demonstrate state: bit.ly/wilkie-beersheba event: bit.ly/zfa-aus-parliment the Church. Why not order a couple for family and friends, they will be a great our love for the Lord is by the way we Another politician from NSW was calling By the time you are reading this gift for Christmas or for some other care for His people, especially the poor Israel an apartheid state and was calling newspaper, my wife Mandy and I, and special occasion? , disadvantaged and dispossessed. King for boycott, divestment and sanctions some of our staff, will be on our way David wrote “Whoever is kind to the against Israel, like they did in Germany to Israel along with hundreds of other poor lends to the LORD, and He will in 1933? Aussies to attend the historic centennial reward them for what they have done” commemorations in Beersheba and in – Psalm 19:17 Clearly we still have a lot of work to do Semakh imited (read Barry Rodgers update L Ed to inform and educate our political and it Jesus’ brother James said it like this on page 11). io some of our Church leaders regarding n

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Dreyfus. He realised that the Jewish The year 2017 can be people have a serious problem: they are remembered for always a minority wherever they live and subject to arbitrary, irrational yet regular several reasons: bouts of anti-Semitism by the Gentile The year Donald J. Trump was majority. ‘Enlightened Europe’ would inaugurated President of the not be their safe haven but a death United States; trap. To Herzl, the only solution to the ‘Jewish Question’ was a Jewish state in Of the ‘larger than ever’ Palestine., where they can be a majority, North Korean missile crisis; rule their own affairs, and defend themselves militarily like any other Or even of the forward roll nation. Herzl wrote a book in 1896 called of the Brexit train. The Jewish State, which summarised his Yet, the best way to remember 2017 is philosophy, which became known to the that it is the ‘Year of the Anniversaries.’ world as Zionism. These include the centenary of the Stunningly, Herzl wrote in his diary that 1917 , the birth of at Basel, he founded the Jewish state. John F. Kennedy, and other events, as Within 5 to 50 years, the whole world listed below: would see it. The UN votes on partition, November 29, 1947 (Courtesy of the Government Press Office, Jerusalem) birth of the Jewish state; an unintended southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula. This consequence was that it stirred up prevented shipping to the Israeli port of unbridled opposition of the , which Eilat on the Gulf of Aqaba. The closure continues to this day. Thus, the Arab- of international waters was considered Israeli conflict is the ‘hundred year war.’ an act of war. Nasser demanded the 1947 - 70th Anniversary - United withdrawal of UN peacekeeping troops Nations Partition Resolution 181 in the Egyptian-held Sinai Peninsula. (29th November) Then Nasser formed an alliance with After 30 years in Palestine, Britain Syria and Jordan to confront Israel informed the newly-created United militarily. Nations that it was In a pre-emptive going to withdraw air strike, Israel from the country. The ‘Not everyone will Martin Luther. Father of the Protestant Reformation. explosive Palestine destroyed the three 1517 - 500th Anniversary of Australian light horsemen riding waler horses: AWM issue now became the be in a celebratory Arab airforces with their planes still on the Protestant Reformation (31 1917 - 100th Anniversary - Battle problem of the UN. After several months mood when it the ground. Having October) of Beersheba (31 October) of deliberation, the unchallenged skies, This is one of the major events in all Exactly 400 years after the Reformation, General Assembly comes to these Israeli tanks raced history—where the reformers broke the Australian Light-horsemen, along Resolution 181 of through Arab held away from the Vatican, cutting across anniversaries... with the British, captured the city of 29 November 1947 territory unopposed. centuries of tradition and papal control Beersheba in the south of Turkish- voted 33 to 13, with The entire Sinai in order to recover some foundational occupied Palestine. This campaign not 10 abstentions, to “...pray for doctrines of the Christian faith. only highlighted the great bravery of the partition Palestine Peninsula, Gaza Habakkuk 2:4 spawned the Reformation Allied troops, but it was the beginning into Jewish and Arab the peace of Strip, West Bank, in just seven words: The just shall live of the end of 400 years of Turkish rule. states. Jerusalem Golan Heights, by his faith. This verse is repeated 3 The British, who captures the rest would be under an Jerusalem.”’ and East Jerusalem times in the New Testament. We do of the country, including Jerusalem international regime with the Old City, not obtain salvation by good religious in , were granted a for 10 years (corpus were captured with works that we do, but what Christ has mandate in Palestine by the League of separatum). lightning speed. Israel trebled its size in already done on the cross. Nations, and all this led to the creation The Jewish community accepted the just 6 days. East Jerusalem was annexed of Israel in 1948. The Reformation highlighted Sola resolution results. The Arabs rejected to Israel before the end of the month, Fide—only faith, and Sola Scripture— it completely. The partition resolution declared the ‘indivisible’ and ‘eternal’ only Scripture. The Word of God was recognised in principle the creation of capital of the State of Israel. ‘Jerusalem recognised as the highest and sole the Jewish state. The subsequent war is not negotiable’ was their motto and source of authority in issue of faith and rendered implementation impossible. remained so until the Camp David practice. The reforms and courage of The borders would be determined on the reformers are still paying dividends the battlefield. negotiations of 2000. The remainder of until this day. land was declared ‘occupied territory’ and, in theory, subject for peace negotiations. Not everyone will be in a celebratory mood when it comes to these anniversaries. We would do well to heed the injunction of Psalm 122:6 and ‘pray for the peace of Jerusalem.’ ______

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THE CITY OF TIBERIAS: The Leaning Tower erected by Zahir al-Umar in Tiberias Lessons learned from the Tour by Mandy Worby Tiberias is a city in Israel located on the Tz’fat is #3 because it’s the birthplace of banks of the Sea of Galilee. The Sea of and; Galilee is locally called Lake Kinneret, but because it’s the place we mostly know it as the Sea of Galilee. Our Tiberias is the 4th where the Jerusalem was composed Israeli guide calls Tiberias, Tiberiah, which and because of the influx of rabbis who has a lovely Israeli lilt to it. established the city as a centre for Jewish The city itself was first established about learning in the 18th and 19th centuries. 20BC and was named to There’s another important honour the Roman Emperor historical event that has to Tiberias and the original The history of be mentioned as well; the city was actually located Tiberias... is ‘Great Ride’ that took place in just a little further along September 1918. Semakh is the shores than the current The 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment outside Tiberias with the crucial in the very close to Tiberias on the Leaning Tower seen to the back-left of the photo (AWM: B00279) modern city of Tiberias... shores of the Sea of Galilee, however when I say the unfolding of and after the liberation of modern city, it’s still ancient. Beersheva, 12,000 Australian The city has natural hot God’s plans for Light Horsemen were part of springs which were known this ‘Great Ride’ that travelled to help cure skin and other this land. from , up to Megiddo ailments and today it’s quite and through to Semakh and a bustling city, although it’s really very old. from there on to Damascus, overcoming What is very characteristic of the buildings the Turks at every stop along the way. The in Tiberias is the common use of black end result was the final liberation of the Holy basalt stone. Land from the occupying Ottoman forces. Most of the tourist hotels are situated along There’s a new memorial at Semakh near the shores of Tiberias which is really quite Tiberias to commemorate the ‘Great Ride’. lovely when you wake up each morning The history of Tiberias is very important, not to look out your window and see the sun just because it’s both ancient and modern, rising over the lake. but because it’s crucial in the unfolding of There is quite a large orthodox community God’s plans for this land. in Tiberias, and in fact, for many centuries, ______Tiberias has been considered 1 of the 4 is an experienced holiest cities of the Jewish people. Mandy Worby Israel Tour Leader and is also the popular radio host of Night Vision Jerusalem is #1 for obvious reasons; The ‘Great Ride’ of 12,000 Australian Light Horsemen that began north of Jaffa on 19 September 1918. featured on Australia’s national The entire force wheeled eastwards, overcame Turkish resistance at Megiddo and encircled and Hebron is #2 because it’s where the Vision Christian Radio network captured thousands of astonished enemy forces, before taking Nazareth and Tiberias and moving into majority of the Jewish Patriarchs and Monday to Friday 7-12pm. Syria. Over 12 days Australian and other EEF forces managed to cover approximately 400 kilometres culminating, on 1 October 1918. (AWM: B00256) Matriarchs are buried; www.vision.org.au 4 Embrace the Feasts. Enjoy the Lord. by Ron Ross October 2017

This is the season of joyful feasts, a time of year where the faithfulness and triumph of the Lord is measured against worldly threats. Jesus used the Feast of Tabernacles to make a profound statement.

On the last day of the Feast, He declared rivers of living water would flow from the innermost being of those who believe in Him (John chapter 7)

The Feast of Tabernacles, this year in October, is also known as Sukkot (sukkah singular). Most people eat and sleep in the Sukkah. From the fragile sukkah the stars are visible and the occupants are exposed, at least partially, to wind and rain. The conditions relate to their history and the forty days of wandering in the wilderness.

In the the celebrants sing hymns while circling in a procession. The circle is about unity. They dance, hand on the shoulder in front, and shuffle forward while singing hymns. In this formation, they are one. There is no leader, no class. No direction either! They are together linked by choice and wherever they are going, they are going together. Christians

Those who ignore the Biblical feasts miss the deep lessons. Christians have the same human emotions as Jews. The Apostle Paul acknowledged that fact: Men touching a Torah scroll at the Western Wall in Jerusalem as part of the celebrations of Simchat Torah (Will take place this year on October 12-13), “We are afflicted in every way, but not the celebration dedicated to completing the yearly cycle of public Torah reading, and starting the cycle again. crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken, “then, the house, the house of Leviticus chapters 17 to 26 are Messiah Ben Yosef, the Suffering Messiah- struck down, but not destroyed.” ADONAI, was filled with a cloud; designated as ‘The Holiness Code’ Prophet-Priest described by Isaiah. so that because of the cloud, the which harks back to “You shall be holy, “He was despised and rejected – 2 Corinthians 4:9 cohanim (priests) could not stand up for I, the Lord your God, am holy.” of men, a man of sorrows, and to perform their service; for the glory (Leviticus 19:2) Holiness requires the The Jewish people knew all about acquainted with grief…” of ADONAI filled the house of God. people separate themselves from the suffering and persecution. So did the world, and prioritize their fellowship – Isaiah chapter 53:3 early Christians. – 2 Chronicles 5:13,14 with God. The key Hebrew word for During His second coming, the Messiah The celebration of and fellowship is ‘badal’, and means to ‘Filled with a cloud!” The Holy Spirit will fulfill the role of Messiah Ben David, Simchat Torah follows Sukkot with great remove from something. filled the temple on the eighth day of the Conquering Messiah-Rabbi-King. joy! Leslie Koppelman Ross writes: the Feast. Consider the consecration The seventh day was holy, meaning set “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of “The distinct feature of the day of Aaron and his sons apart. Jesus called His Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of (Shemini Atzeret) is recitation of the as priests. They were followers to be set apart. Jerusalem! Behold, your king is prayer for rain so that the earth will be set apart for seven days Those who “Do not love the world or coming to you; righteous and having able to produce in the coming year.” (Leviticus chapter 8 verse 35). On the eighth day the things in the world. If salvation is he, humble and mounted – Celebrate! The Complete Jewish ignore the they were anointed. anyone loves the world, on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a Handbook of Holidays, Leslie the love of the Father is donkey.” Koppelman Ross, Rowman and David was the eighth son Biblical feasts not in him. For all that is – ,:9 Littlefield Publishers Inc. of Jesse. He was chosen miss the deep in the world - the lust of to launch a new life for the flesh, the lust of the Sukkot is observed over seven days and One day a famous Rabbi was discussing Israel. (1 Samuel 16:10- eyes, and the pride of life on the eighth day Shemini Atzeret and lessons. the coming of Messiah. He discussed 11) A title for Jesus is - is not of the Father but Simchat Torah. There is significance in the two messiahs and how Jesus could Son of David! is of the world. And the the numbering. In Hebrew seven means fit both. “When Messiah comes,” he world is passing away, said to me, “May I be the first to ask, Is perfect, complete, satisfied. Shemini In Hebrew the number eight comes and the lust of it; but he who does the this your first or second visit?” Atzeret is on the eighth day and is called from a root meaning ‘to make fat’,’ ‘to will of God abides forever.” ‘the eighth day convocation.’ abound in strength.’ Seven indicates I referred him to John chapter 1. – 1 John 2: 15-17 we are complete and satisfied in the ______Numbers? Lord and then eight is the anointing of Two Messiahs former national director of great strength! Ron Ross: So, what about 7 and 8? It took 7 Bridges for Peace, The Musaf, the additional service on years for the First temple to be built. Australia working Holiness begins with a special Solomon chose to dedicate the Temple Shemini Atzeret, in Jerusalem for during Sukkot. prayer for rain. In Hosea chapter 6, verse Simchat Torah (October 12-13) is the five years. Now he’s 3 and Joel chapter 2 verse 23 we are “All the people of Isra’el assembled celebration dedicated to completing the Middle East informed that the coming of Messiah will before the king at the festival in the the yearly cycle of public Torah reading, correspondent for be like the rain. Just as there are spring seventh month.” Vision Christian Radio and starting the cycle again. The name (former) rains and fall-winter (latter) and a popular speaker. – 2 Chronicles 5:3 means ‘joy of the Torah.’ The celebrants rains in Israel, the Bible speaks of two were instructed to be qadas meaning comings of Messiah. www.ronross.org Do you know what happened on the ‘holy’, that is, ‘set apart’ removed from [email protected] eighth day? the common to the sacred. In His first coming, He fulfilled the role of Special Edition October 2017

“And if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, Israel then your light will rise in the darkness.” Newsletter (:10a)

“There is a shortage of meals every day”

It’s nice and warm inside and the air is filled with the aroma of freshly made food. “Try it yourself”, Benjamin says enthusiastically. “This is the menu for today.” He helps himself to a plate as well.

“Poverty in Israel has deeply permeated society”, shares Benjamin Philip, director of the Hineni Centre in Jerusalem. “There’s an older lady who comes here with her grandson. Her daughter works during the day, so she watches the boy. No matter how hard the daughter works, she doesn’t make enough money to pay for a good meal. She might just

“You should treat them the same way you would want to be treated yourself.”

make enough to pay rent. Because grandma watches her grandchild, the daughter is able to work, and hopefully, this will prevent the little boy from also ending up in poverty. I can go on forever telling these kinds of stories. The people you see here, all have their own story. None of them choose to live in poverty. Yet it happens. You can’t just stand by and watch. If I can help people with a meal, I will.”

An older lady with her grandson. Her daughter doesn’t make enough money to pay for a good meal

But by giving them just a meal, people Why? still remain poor. “We’re talking about people. You have to treat “Maybe, but you can’t abandon them to their people with respect. It should never be that fate. The first thing you have to do is give just because they have no money, we allow them food. Plus, with Hineni, I hope to give a the dining room to be a mess or the food to be little more.” crummy. You should treat them the same way you would want to be treated yourself.” What do you mean? You say that with conviction. “It’s not just about the meals. You make sure “Yes, it’s a command. Just look in the Bible. I that the visitors feel welcome, you talk to believe in the Bible and I let it lead me.” them and you listen. I make sure the dining room looks good and that we serve meals that could have been served in actual restaurants.”

Visitors of the humanitarian restaurant of Hineni

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There are too many families in Samaria that need help putting food on the table. To help these desperate families, there’s a programme that provides monthly food packages. Accompanying that support, families Tons of fresh vegetables are given guidance, employment counselling, and financial management assistance, providing a holistic The afternoon is almost over when I arrive at the warehouse of Chasdei Naomi. programme to enable them to get Inside the warehouse, a bit of a surprise is waiting for me: huge crates with back on their feet. In addition to the vegetables including eggplants, onions, and tomatoes. monthly food packages, special holiday food packages are also allocated before and Sukkot. These special be eaten first because you eat less of that…That Yaron Sandrusi of Chasdei Naomi shares: “We get holiday food packages allow struggling battle of survival is rooted deep inside of me. I this straight from the fields, for free. All of it is good was able to get a job as a driver. It didn’t take long families to feel the joy, rather than the quality.” Rabbi Cohen adds: “I would eat it myself, before I had a crate in the back of the bus with burden of the holiday season. that’s the standard for me.” Yaron: “We distribute food to give out the moment I heard of someone this food to dozens of places in Israel. For free. Winter in need. If you haven’t experienced it, you don’t And the people get to take as much as they need. know how horrific hunger is.” Many families are dreading the winter We don’t limit what we give. We let them choose, they know best what they can prepare. They are that is quickly approaching. They fear The work has grown tremendously, but the so strapped already, what a beautiful thing to tell the cold that sometimes forces them simplicity has remained: with the help of many these people: take whatever you need.” to choose between a meal or turning volunteers and based at simple sites, thousands of people receive the basic necessities. on the heat. The combination of the We continue to talk for a bit inside the small office. cold and too little food is particularly Rabbi Cohen explains what brought about the You help provide these people with dangerous for young children and start of this work. “I grew up in extreme poverty. food packages during the holidays. the elderly. Some don’t even have If I managed to find some bread somewhere and I The food packages contain non- proper warm clothing or blankets gave it to my mother, it was put in the top pantry. to offer extra warmth during the First, the other, older bread had to be finished, perishable products like rice, sugar, harsh season. The food packages are which at times had turned black already. It had to and flour. therefore indispensable for the poor in this region.

Christians for Israel helps the communities in Judea and Samaria through CFOIC*. Sondra Oster Baras, director of CFOIC: “Thanks to your contribution, we have helped the most vulnerable communities. Thanks to you, the people in Judea and Samaria know they have real Christian friends. You have made a real difference in the lives of so many.”

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‘Educational, therapeutic, and nutritional support: all necessary components to overcome poverty’

Children of the Jaffa Institute celebrating Hanukkah

Working for the Jaffa Institute, I have become more knowledgeable provide our programme participants with educational, therapeutic and about the impoverished communities in South Tel Aviv and Jaffa than I nutritional support, all necessary components to overcome poverty. ever thought I would. While I spend a good portion of time in the office, People are people, no matter where they come from, and they need your I occasionally get to volunteer with our programme participants and help. The levels of inequality in Israel are truly disheartening and we see the smiling sweet faces of those we help. Spending an afternoon in must work together to make a difference and become a nation that cares one of our after-school centres, you wouldn’t know the kind of hardship for one another. these children face, the empty pantries they go home to, the crowded apartments, or the single parent families they have. The Jaffa Institute The Jaffa Institute operates a free ‘hot meal adds a spark of light to their otherwise difficult lives and gives them hope programme’ to ensure that its students receive at to build a better future for themselves. least one hot, nutritious meal a day. Children not This is why the work of the Jaffa Institute is so important. The Jaffa only get nourished, they also become much more Institute is continuously expanding its programming to serve more attentive students and active participants. In this of the impoverished population in South Tel Aviv, Jaffa, and Bat Yam. way they fight poverty from two sides. You support With our unique approach, we are able to not only address the issue this programme. of poverty, but find a holistic solution to ensure that we serve as many people as we can to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty. We

A privilege to help ‘Almost 1 million children face poverty’ Hunger in Israel? Isn’t that the land of ‘milk and Recently, the National Insurance Institute released its annual honey’? True, but Israel is also a modern state Poverty and Social Gaps report, announcing that 1.7 million people with huge differences between rich and poor. in Israel are living below the poverty line, 780,000 of whom are The government tries to solve this, but is behind children (22% of the entire population). Several days later, umbrella the times. That’s why it’s so important to support aid organisation Latet released its annual Alternative Poverty the work of the Hineni Centre that wants to give Report, reporting that a staggering 30.9% of the population, so many poor, elderly and children a hot meal including 998,000 children live in poverty. While these statistics every day. What a privilege to be able to help! are disheartening in themselves, knowing the individuals they affect brings a new meaning to them. Pim van der Hoff, Board Member Christians for Israel International Volunteers in The soup kitchen as Jerusalem a humanitarian restaurant

The Hineni Centre has moved to a new location since last spring. Now it’s ‘Volunteering on the ground floor, even closer to the Old City of Jerusalem and with a for the less dining room that can hold twice as many people. fortunate in Jerusalem’ A hot meal costs US$ 5 The soup kitchen is called or € 5. Will you help us a humanitarian restaurant In the spring of 2016, we had our first provide food for as many because it’s not about opportunity to spend a week helping people as possible? meals, it’s about people. out at Hineni in Jerusalem. We felt it was a beautiful thing to practically support the less fortunate of Jerusalem. We ended up right in the middle of How many people visit on a daily base? moving from the old to the beautiful, Every day 200 to 220 people join us for a hot meal. That’s over double the number new building. It was a privilege to get of people that came to the old location. This also means that our budget was to be a helping hand preparing and sufficient for the old location, but now there is a shortage of meals every day. distributing meals in this busy time. Fortunately, everyone has been able to eat so far, but more meals are needed.

In November 2016 we got to help out for a second time in the soup kitchen of Benjamin Philip. The work consists of Who are the people that come here? cutting vegetables, sweet potatoes and The vast majority of the visitors are elderly. They are people who made Aliyah so on. The cook takes care of preparing (immigration to Israel) from the former Soviet Union, later in life. Therefore, the nutritious meals. The volunteers fill they have no or little pension and no money for food. small boxes with meals which are taken to the elderly, sick people and which are also given to people who come to eat: to How much does a meal cost? heat up the next day or for a neighbour who couldn’t come themselves. A meal costs € 5,00. There are 7500 meals needed every month. A hot meal consists of soup, bread, vegetables, potatoes, rice or pasta, meat or fish. It’s rewarding to do and we definitely recommend taking a look at Hineni and to help out a few days or longer. If Volunteers are welcome! you’re in the , you might as well contribute helping the Jewish Those who want to take action for the poor of Jerusalem are welcome to come people, who can really use our help. and help. This means cleaning and cutting vegetables and serving meals. This work runs partly on volunteers. Handymen can also help Hineni. Please let us know at least a week ahead of time if you’d like to join us. Contact us at [email protected] It adds value to your vacation and besides: who blesses God’s people, will be blessed.

Kind regards, Margriet and Dick Bassa

Dutch volunteers at Hineni Benjamin Philip (right), director of the Hineni Centre

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Shurat HaDin is at the Jewish regiments as well as to aid the forefront of fighting population in case of a national disaster. terrorism and In an appeal to Jewish youth to volunteer safeguarding Jewish in the formation of MDA, the founders rights worldwide urged them to give of themselves, and is dedicated to claiming a great national human value protecting the State of Israel. for the organization. On Wednesday the 30th August, “We must not entrust the care of our Marg and I were invited to attend the heroic soldiers to the sons of a foreign MAGEN DAVID ADOM Appeal Launch nation speaking a foreign language held in The International Hotel in when illness strikes, or when they are Brighton, Victoria. wounded on the battle field……Not in the name of a foreign symbol or Along with other Christian friends under a flag of foreign holiness will from Shalom Israel, Pastors and they utter consolations to our soldiers leaders, we witnessed an evening of lying on the sick-bed…..” information from various members of the Jewish Community involved with About 500 young people volunteered MDA International, including Yonatan for the organization at the time of its Yagadovsky, Federal Labour member, founding. However, only a very few were Mark Dreyfuss and the Keynote Speaker actually chosen to go out to the front to was Nitsana Darshan-Leitner Legal aid the soldiers of the Jewish brigades. Activist/Lawyer from Israel (pictured). In May 1921 the Jewish brigades were disbanded and MDA along with them. However, the medical department, the spirit of the organization, continued to operate and 9 years later the organization would be re-established in Tel Aviv. Following the period of bloody riots in the year 5,681 (1921), large numbers of Jews moved from Jaffa to Tel Aviv. Waves of the Third and Fourth Aliya (immigration of Jews from abroad) brought tens of thousands of Jews to Israel, a large number of whom settled in Tel Aviv. However, the rapid The graduates of the first aid courses special emergency vehicles can be organizational development of the city, She spoke passionately of the manner signed a commitment to volunteer for found, in addition to some 200 lifesaving large number of residents, laying of in which she had initiated, and along the association for one year as on-duty vehicles which can be found in remote infrastructure, construction of buildings with others, had upheld the legal rights volunteers at the MDA station. At the communities and factories operated by and heavy traffic led to an increase in of many Israelis who had been affected same time, intensive activity began MDA trained volunteers. by terrorist acts and the appropriate accidents. There was also a rise in the to raise money for the purchase of charging and indictment of those incidence of bodily injuries due to the ambulances by the “sale of ribbon”, The Volunteers who had committed such acts against quickly developing industry. These and on June 24, 1931, the first Israeli citizens. injuries caused the officials of the first ambulance set out from Dr. Levontin’s Volunteers have founded and been Jewish city to consider the matter of active in MDA since the organization Calling on other precedents where house to the home of the mayor of Tel evacuation of the injured to hospitals got under way. Today over 13,000 highly terrorist acts had been dealt with legally Aviv, Meir Dizengoff. and providing first aid. trained volunteers are active throughout among the nations to highlight the rights MDA expanded its operations within the the country, of which half are youth of Israel to expect the same treatment The father and progenitor of the framework of the renewed communities volunteers serving as part of the crews as victims of terror in their own ancestral association for rapid in Palestine (Eretz on ambulances and Mobile Intensive homeland, she spoke about the legal aid was Dr. Meshulam [MDAs] purpose Yisrael). In 1947, 24 rights of Israel to be back in their own Levontin, who raised MDA associations Care Units and “MDA cadets”, who land and concluded her message by the issue of care and would be to offer were in operation represent MDA’s humanitarian youth making a very clear statement regarding evacuation before throughout the movement activities. Israel’s rights in the sight of God because the city leaders. Dr. medical aid to country equipped of the , Biblically and the Levontin proposed with 28 ambulances Intensive Care the purchase in Egypt clear statement of the Biblical prophets and comprising During the early 1970’s, MDA was the of two sets of bicycles soldiers serving in this regard. approximately 5,000 pioneer organization in Israel developing supporting a bed volunteers. Marg and I were able to speak with for the purpose of in the Jewish the Pre-Hospital Advanced Life Support Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Mark Dreyfuss transferring the sick MDA Friends System, operating Mobile Intensive Care and Yonatan Yagodovsky later and offer and injured in case of regiments as Units and training Advance Life Support them copies of Israel and Christians disaster. His proposal, Societies Medics and Paramedics. Today and the Position Statement well as to aid the however, was not As soon as the prepared by Andrew Tucker regarding approved. At the same organization was The 1950s onwards the Legalities of Israel’s position in the population in time, Chaim Halperin established, societies In 1950, the Knesset ratified the MDA Land and particularly the area known as returned from Egypt, of MDA Friends the West Bank. case of a national Law, designating the organisation as where he had been abroad began to Israel’s National Red Cross Society. MDA I believe it is appropriate to bring a little sent on a mission for disaster. become active. These has since played a major role in providing background to the purpose behind the the fire fighters. There groups have helped lifesaving services during times of war, he saw a modern evening and that was to support the raise funds to set up an terrorist attacks, and for accidents and ambulance and was great work of MDA in Israel. array of lifesaving vehicles, blood services emergencies in peace-time. determined to purchase an ambulance and stations and to purchase medical A Short History of for Tel Aviv. He contacted Dr. Levontin equipment. The society of American Today, MDA operates to the standards Magen David Adom and on June 7, 1930, Dr. Levontin, Chaim Friends was established during the 1930s of the International Committee of the Halperin, M. Rabinowitz, M. Frankel, Dr. and notes 70 years of activity and has, in Red Cross and was officially granted Magen David Adom in Israel was born Eliyahu, Dr. Barzel, and C. Leibowitz met fact, accompanied MDA since the day membership to the organisation in twice: the first time in 1918 at the end of in a café on the Tel Aviv waterfront and it was founded. The society of British 2006. Donations from supporters, such WWI and the second time in 1930. decided to set up an association for rapid Friends notes 60 years of activity. Today as MDA Australia (and its constituent aid, “Magen David Adom, Tel Aviv”. some 20 societies of MDA Friends are The spirit of volunteerism that swept State bodies), enable the organisation active around the world, raising funds for Jewish youth in Palestine eager to help Announcements were published in to purchase ambulances and lifesaving resources required by MDA for its current the British in WWI also gave rise to MDA newspapers calling for residents to equipment and supplies. operations and for development of life in Jaffa and in NY at the same time. It join and volunteer for the association. saving operations. Sources: magendavidadom.org.au was decided to establish a Jewish body Members of the association began first and israellawcenter.org based on the example of the Red Cross. aid training for the residents taught by Today MDA operates 11 operational The body would operate as a volunteer Dr. Alotin, who had previous experience regions with more than 115 stations ______organization, in which doctors, nurses, in first aid training. At its inception, the and dispatch points all over the country. paramedics and other volunteers would volunteer regiment in Tel Aviv numbered In these stations some 300 standard To contact Paul and Marg Longfield: serve. Its purpose would be to offer 100 volunteers who were divided into ambulances and 150 Mobile Intensive [email protected] or medical aid to soldiers serving in the three companies. Care Units, 0410456806 October 2017 The Road to Beersheba is Open… by Barry Rodgers 11 The Australian Light Photo of a past re-enactment Horse Association is of the Australian Light Horse conducting its biggest Charge­—Courtesy of ALHA ever overseas “In the steps of the Light Horse” tour this year to mark the centenary of the charge on Beersheba. One of the highlights will be one hundred riders, riding through the Negev in WW1 uniform following the same route as their forebears did, one hundred years ago. Accompanying the riders are close to eighty non riders. Many of us will also be ...this year’s centennial visiting Turkey, Egypt and Jordan. Kelvin celebrations is much Crombie will be our resident historian. more than celebrating Preparations, lobbying and prayer are paying a military victory off, there are still a few potholes to fill on the road but all major obstacles are cleared. Prime Ministers, Ambassadors, High ranking military ______officers from all countries, Governor that will recognise the importance of Tzemach this October. We have about this battle. twelve Aboriginals travelling with us and Generals etc. are expected to be This was a last ditch stand Barry Rodgers is the present. Although security will be high a couple are direct descendants of those by the Germans and Ottomans to Director of the Australian for obvious reasons, nevertheless this The involved in the action. thwart the advance of the Allies. Light Horse Association, time presents a profound opportunity Australian 11th LHR were coming up to At Beersheba we will be doing a parade a non-profit organisation, for goodwill between our Nations. carry out a dawn dismounted attack, but through the city on horses, led by our whose aim is to preserve There is a growing sense that this year’s before they assembled for this, they were military band and in the afternoon a the history and tradition centennial celebrations is much more opened fire on. Quickly assessing the re-enactment of the charge over the of the Australian Light than celebrating a military victory at situation Major Costello ordered them same ground as we charged in 1917. Horse and its predecessors. Beersheba 100 years ago. to charge, in what was probably the last We will be putting on a concert with At Semakh (Tzemach) railway station charge in WW1 to defeat the our band before the charge and Kelvin Please contact Barry on 0428 662 528 or we will be partnering with the Jewish enemy. Here our Aboriginal Troopers Crombie and MC Barry Rodgers OAM [email protected], if you have any National Fund (JNF) to put on a ceremony were particularly prominent and we will will address the crowd. For us this is questions about this years re-enactment or be honouring them at our ceremony in the crowning moment of our whole trip. the Semakh railway station project.

A Message from Nitsana Darshan-Leitner FOR ISRAELIS, TERRORISM IS AN ISSUE THAT HITS CLOSE TO HOME – LITERALLY.

Israelis living in Israel have endured First, while ISIS and its ilk do not limit their shooting attacks, bus bombings, suicide terrorist attacks to Jewish and Israeli targets, attacks, rockets, knife attacks and arson, they have demonstrated that targeting Jews and Israelis remains among their priorities. all aimed to kill and terrorize as many citizens in Israel as possible. Second, Israelis have much to offer in the global fight against terrorism. We have valuable Terrorism is an ongoing domestic issue that experience and knowledge about what works Israel continues to face, perpetrated by local and what doesn’t work in confronting terrorist groups such as the PLO, the PFLP, the DFLP, PIJ, threats. We have developed plans, protocols Hamas and Hezbollah. Yet, Israel’s struggle with and technologies that can be adapted to the terrorism involves many international aspects as threats faced by other countries. We have well: some of these same terrorist groups have devised advanced methods and systems for carried out terrorist attacks against Israeli and gathering and analysing intelligence. And we Jewish targets abroad; other countries, such have been at the forefront in as Iran and Syria, have provided using laws and legal processes safe havens, weapons and funds to deprive terrorists of resources to terrorist groups targeting Israel; Terrorism is and obtain justice for victims Palestinian terrorist groups and of terrorism. their supporters have sought to use the enemy terrorism to draw attention to their Third, it is the right thing to do. claims, and to bring international of all of Terrorism is the enemy of all of pressure to bear on Israel; and humanity. As a people who has Israel has worked with other humanity. known what it means to be the countries and the international victim of terrorism, we must stand community to cut off resources to up for other victims of terrorism. these terrorist organizations and sanction state As a nation that has had to fight and overcome sponsors of terrorism. terrorism at home, we must also join with others to fight and overcome terrorism abroad. With the rise of al-Qaida, Islamic State (ISIS) and other jihadist groups that seek to carry out a more At Shurat HaDin, we will continue to fight to global program of terrorism, there is a temptation ensure that terrorism is not tolerated in any for Israelis to view these groups’ attacks against forum, and that terrorists are deprived of support non-Israeli and non-Jewish targets as somewhat in any form. of a break from the terrorism “we” face. However, Israelis must not be deceived into believing that Nitsana Darshan-Leitner is an Israeli attorney, human rights the global variety of terrorism is not our problem activist and the founder of Shurat HaDin Center. She’s known for her legal activism, especially lawsuits and as well. We must also be engaged in the global legal actions brought on behalf of terror victims against fight against terrorism, even when it may seem terrorist groups, their leaders and financial patrons. that we are not the primary target. Nitsana Darshan-Leitner in front of the District Court in Jerusalem. Photo: Aviram 12 The Last and Greatest Day of the Feast - by Paul Longfield October 2017

In this season of the Feast of Tabernacles, often referred to in the Northern Hemisphere as the Fall or Autumn Feasts, we have a number of special days ordained of God and recorded by Moses which are of special significance. “Whoever puts The Season of Sukkot or Tabernacles his trust in Me, as From Leviticus 23:1-43 the Scripture says, V2.”Tell the people of Isra’el: ‘The designated times of Adonai which you rivers of living are to proclaim as holy convocations are my designated times. ….. 24.”Tell water will flow from the people of Isra’el, ‘In the seventh month, the first of the month is to be for you a day of complete rest his inmost being!” for remembering, a holy convocation announced with blasts on the shofar. – Yeshua …and bring an offering made by fire to Adonai.’ “ John 7:37-39 CJB The Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur V26. Adonai said to Moshe, 27 “The tenth day of this seventh month is Yom-Kippur; you are to have a holy convocation, you are to deny yourselves, and you are to bring an offering made by fire to Adonai. 28 at all. The first hour of the day saw of Sukkot a procession of priests went came to rest on each one of them. You are not to do any kind of work us attending to the daily offering; down to the to bring They were all filled with the Ruach on that day, because it is Yom-Kippur, following this we were engaged in up to the Temple a golden container of HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) and began to make atonement for you before prayer - afterwards, the additional water sufficient to last throughout the to talk in different languages, as the Adonai your God. offering. Then we ate, and it already seven days of the feast. The water was Spirit enabled them to speak…’ The Feast of Booths (Sukkot) became time to attend to the afternoon brought up with great ceremony. The service. And this was followed by shofar was blown and the pilgrims who – Acts 2:1-4 V34. ‘On the fifteenth day of this the celebration of the had come to Jerusalem for the feast seventh month is the feast of Sukkot festival of the It is significant that what Yeshua was which lasted the entire waved their lulavs as the priests carried for seven days to Adonai. 35 On water libation referring to in John 7:37 was typified night, and we would begin again” the water around the altar. The great the first day there is to be a holy traditionally with…. Hallel ( 113-118) were recited.’ convocation; do not do any kind of – Jerusalem Talmud, Sukkah 5 Commencing with Psalm 113:1-3…. 1. Rainfall of the coming year. ordinary work. 36 For seven days Men, women and children participated you are to bring an offering made ‘Halleluyah! Servants of Adonai, in the immense joy of the water libation The Holy Spirit was referred to as the by fire to Adonai; on the eighth day, give praise! Give praise to the name - some directly, while others stood and former and latter rain, both then and now. you are to have a holy convocation of Adonai! Blessed be the name of watched. Special elevated balconies and bring an offering made by fire to Adonai from this moment on and 2. Prayers for blessing on the were constructed to enable the righteous Adonai; it is a day of public assembly; forever! From sunrise until sunset earth and its produce. women of Israel to watch the wise men do not do any kind of ordinary work. Adonai’s name is to be praised.’ CJB of the Sanhedrin as they danced. The growth of the church was dependent You are to observe it as a feast to Then the priest on duty poured out the Adonai seven days in the year; it is At dawn, the assembly proceeded on the presence of the Holy Spirit, both contents of two silver bowls: one held a permanent regulation, generation with melody and song to the spring then and now. water and the other held wine. This was after generation; keep it in the of Shiloach, at the foot of the walls of an act of prayer and an expression of 3. On a deeper level, it was seventh month….42 You are to live Jerusalem. One priest carried with him dependence upon God to pour out his also directly connected to the in sukkot for seven days; every citizen a special golden decanter and filled it blessing of rain upon the earth. On the of Isra’el is to live in a sukkah, 43 so with the sparkling spring water. Then reception of prophetic inspiration. last or “great” day of the feast, the water that generation after generation of the congregation ascended again to the libation rite reached its climax. The Three of the most obvious outcomes you will know that I made the people Temple, led by the priest who bore the priests circled the altar seven times and of the coming of the Holy Spirit was of Isra’el live in sukkot when I brought golden vessel. Arriving at the Temple, then poured out the water with great the supernatural ability to speak with them out of the land of Egypt; I am he brought the decanter up to the altar, pomp and ceremony. This was Hoshana Tongues, to interpret the Tongue and Adonai your God.’ “ and poured the water into the silver cup Rabbah, the great “HOSHIANA,” (which to Prophecy, all under the anointing of at its corner. CJB (Complete Jewish Bible D.Stern.) translated is “save now”). the Holy Spirit. These giftings have been This ceremony is connected to the Sukkot and the Water Libation It is no coincidence that Yeshua chose placed in the New Testament church rainfall of the coming year, and it was this occasion of (the until He comes. Ceremony (meaning the accompanied by yearning and prayers great day of Salvation and Praise), the pouring out) for blessing on the earth and its This very event marked the birth of the last and greatest day of Sukkot to make produce. On a deeper level, it was also Church, the beginning of all that took From Jewish Traditions the declaration that “If a man is thirsty directly connected to the reception of place in the Book of Acts and ultimately let him come to me to drink.” Yeshua There were so many precious prophetic inspiration* the means by which the believers would proclaimed himself to be the Great commandments to be fulfilled in the Holy carry on the work of Jesus beginning at Temple during the holiday of Sukkot, It was in this context and during this Provider, the Redeemer of Israel who led Jerusalem, then Judea, Samaria and to and they were so time-consuming, the most special occasion on the Last Day the people through the wilderness. He the uttermost parts of the Earth. Talmud notes that there was practically of the Feast that Jesus was both present is the great light shining in the darkness, no time left for sleeping! and He presented Himself with these and his body is the great Temple which This Living Water is poured out upon all amazing words… was raised up after being destroyed as who ask for the Holy Spirit…. even the the final sin offering. He provided the Rivers of Living Water Gentiles! (Acts 10:45) final and greatest atonement for his Now on the last day of the festival, people Israel and for all nations.’ *templeinstitute.org/water_libation_festival.htm Hoshana Rabbah, Yeshua stood and ______And in speaking specifically of the Holy cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him Spirit, He, as the Baptizer in the Holy Spirit Paul and Marg keep coming to Me and drinking! would have been speaking of the ‘Promise Longfield are Whoever puts his trust in Me, as the of the Father’ coming to them shortly after available to Scripture says, rivers of living water His Death, Resurrection and Ascension to conduct both ” will flow from his inmost being! sit at the right hand of the Father. Sabbath evenings (Now he said this about the Spirit, and to teach on the whom those who trusted in him were ‘The festival of Shavu`ot (Pentecost) Festivals and their to receive later — the Spirit had not arrived, and the believers all gathered relevance to the yet been given, because Yeshua had together in one place. Suddenly there Christian Church not yet been glorified.) came a sound from the sky like the today. Find out how easily this can be done roar of a violent wind, and it filled the “Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chanina said: – John 7:37-39 CJB with detailed guidelines from this ministry. whole house where they were sitting. For more information, contact them During the days of the water libation ‘The third daily ceremony was the rite of Then they saw what looked like on or ceremony, we barely got to sleep [email protected] the water libation. 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« « « Short News Gallipoli and Beersheba – « Yom Kippur - Holiest Day « 100 By Kees de Vreugd, Theologian, Christians for Israel International, and Editor of Israel and the Church ‘No More Uprooting of « Settlements in the Land of More than Military Battles Children are playing on the streets of Israel,’ Netanyahu Vows By Kelvin Crombie, Author of ‘Gallipoli – The Road to Jerusalem’ and Documentary ‘31 October - Destiny’s Date?’ Jerusalem. Even on the main roads there is no traffic. Men walk to the synagogue, Addressing a special ceremony marking 50 years since the liberation of Judea and >> Significance of the the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) In July 1917 Lord Rothschild submitted a Beersheba, thereby setting up a decisive clothed all in white. The air is filled with a Samaria, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin whose initial task was to protect the Suez proposal to the British Government that charge by Australian Light Horsemen to very special atmosphere. It is the Netanyahu vowed never to allow the Gallipoli Campaign Canal from an expected Turkish attack. pending the ultimate defeat of the Turks affect the final capture. By about 6 pm atmosphere of Yom Kippur, the Day of uprooting of a Jewish community in the Land of Israel. “This is the inheritance of Concerning the Gallipoli Campaign in Atonement, the most solemn, most sacred These Anzac soldiers were from the New the British Government would view with Beersheba was in Allied hands. our forefathers, this is our country,” he said. 1915 Winston Churchill wrote in his book day on the Jewish calendar, a day on Zealand Mounted Rifles and the favour the establishment of a Jewish During the same period, the War Cabinet “We came back here to stay forever. We The World Crisis: which even many secular Jews attend the Australian Light Horse, and became part national entity in Palestine. in London discussed and then voted in uprooted settlements, and what did we synagogue services. get? We got missiles. That will no longer be ‘From the uttermost ends of the earth ships of the Desert Mounted Corps. Consideration was given to this proposal favour of accepting the Zionist proposal. the case. In defiance of those who want us Yom Kippur is the tenth day of the month and soldiers are approaching the eastern During 1916 they repulsed the Turks from over the following months, and following Most of those who voted in favour had to uproot - we will deepen our roots, build, Mediterranean in fulfilment of a destiny as the Sinai, thereby protecting the Suez approval by the United States of America some form of Christian upbringing and Tishri, the culmination of the season of strengthen and settle.” ten days of penitence starting with Rosh yet not understood by mortal man... The Canal. But then at the end of 1916, a new the British War Cabinet was set to discuss would have known of the Jewish US Ambassador to Israel’s Hashanah. By doing penitence, you are arrival of the Anzacs in Egypt created the government came into power in Britain and finally vote upon this Zionist connection to the land of covenant Daughter Makes Aliyah nucleus of the army needed to attack the led by Prime Minister David Lloyd George proposal on 31 October 1917 - the 400th promise, an understanding due to their coming to terms with your fellow man heart of the Turkish Empire.’ and Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour. anniversary of the official beginnings of knowledge of the Bible – a product of the and with God. Only then, Yom Kippur will atone for the sins. What was Churchill alluding to with This new government favoured an the Protestant Reformation. Reformation. those words ‘in fulfilment of a destiny as yet offensive campaign with the ultimate Allenby meanwhile endorsed a plan for an The events of 31 October 1917 laid the >> Affliction not understood by mortal man’? objective of not only defeating the attack upon the weaker eastern end of the foundation for the Jewish people being In the Bible, Yom Kippur is described as a Ottoman Turkish Empire but of driving Turkish defence line – at Beersheba. able to return officially and legally to their also be the only day on which the High day for the destruction of the temples, are When Turkey entered the War against the day of ‘affliction of the soul’ and atonement them out of the two provinces of Beersheba, the town associated with land and to ultimately establish their own Priest would pronounce the ineffable holy fast days. Yom Kippur, however, is Allies, the big question was the concern of sins (Lev. 16:29-34, 23:27-32; Num. 29:7). for the future of the Turkish Empire. Mesopotamia and Syria. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (to whom God state on 14 May 1948. Name of God. certainly not a day of mourning. What does it mean, to ‘afflict your soul’? Everything is directed on the cleansing of US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman’s Once the Gallipoli Campaign began that had sworn on oath the land of Israel) The goat for Azazel is sent into the desert, daughter, made Aliyah to Israel, along with >> Entering the Land of There seems little doubt that the battles Jewish tradition has interpreted it as the body and spirit, the confession of sins, question was no longer academic, it means, in Hebrew, ‘the well of the oath’ – after the High Priest has put the sins of 232 other immigrants from North America of Gallipoli and Beersheba both played a most stringent form of fasting: eating, and obtaining forgiveness, in the strong became real. Covenant Promise - 1917 where Abraham and Abimelech swore an the people on the goat by laying his hands brought on a special flight chartered by decisive role in this dynamic, a dynamic drinking, marital relations, use of conviction, that God, who is merciful, will Nefesh B’Nefesh. The EEF entered into Turkish Palestine oath to each other. on its head. This goat is not a sin offering. Politicians in London, Paris, Petrograd which may very well have been linked to cosmetics, and leather footwear are bestow forgiveness. Rather, it carries away, out of sight, the “We’re so proud of our daughter Talia,” said and elsewhere, as well as Jewish and Arab (the land of Israel) in early 1917. But two The planned attack at Beersheba was that ‘destiny as yet not understood by mortal forbidden, as well as washing any part of Friedman. “She’s always wanted to live in nationalists, were now all involved in serious defeats at Gaza caused the scheduled for 31 October 1917. man’ alluded to by Churchill. the body other than the fingers and the sins of the people, while atonement is The services start on the eve of Yom Israel and she’s realising her dream and the offensive to stall. Military adjustments done by the sacrifice in the Temple. Kippur. The most well-known prayer of whole family is very proud of her and we’re trying to determine what would replace Kelvin Crombie is an author and Australian eyes. This fast is observed from sunset to Ottoman control over their Empire. One were needed, and a new commander was >> Beersheba and nightfall on the following day. Besides, the the evening is the Kol Nidrei, which is here to greet her and to give her a hug and historian, and has lived in Israel for almost to wish her great success here in Israel. location, in particular, took on sent out named General Edmund Allenby. Balfour - 31 October 1917 >> Repentance famous for its melody outside , too. twenty-five years. He developed a childhood Bible forbids to do any kind of work, We’re very excited.” importance – the ‘Holy Land’, the land of calling the day in Hebrew a ‘ Simultaneously there were serious On that day British Infantry and New interest in Israel while reading of Australia’s After the destruction of the second The day is filled with prayer, confessing The flight’s other newcomers include a Israel, southern Syria or Palestine. considerations relating to the future Zealand and Australian horsemen military involvement in the Middle East Shabbaton’, a day of complete, solemn rest. temple in 70 AD, it was no longer possible sin and pleading on God’s mercy. The diverse mix of people from 19 US states governance of Palestine. Britain had to be attacked Beersheba. By midday, the during both World Wars. He also gained an to perform the temple cult, including the concluding prayers culminate in the and two Canadian provinces, including 21 >> Anzac Mounted Forces >> Temple sacrifices. Instead, prayer became the Shema: ‘Hear o Israel, the Lord is our God, families, 75 children, 6 sets of twins and 26 sure that at the War’s end she was not facing British infantry had achieved most of early interest in the Australian Light Horse medical professionals. Protect the Suez Canal a potential protagonist on the east side of their stated goals. Then in the mid- (mounted infantry) involvement in the The Bible gives a detailed description of central liturgy. The day of Atonement the Lord is One’, the proclamation of the Following the withdrawal from Gallipoli, the Suez Canal. Discussions then began in afternoon, the New Zealanders captured Middle East. The Australian and New the rituals that are performed by the High itself replaced the Azazel ritual as means Lord as God (1 Kings 18:39), and a final and Ten Years of Hamas in Gaza many of the Anzac soldiers became part of Priest in the temple on Yom Kippur. The of atonement. But even in temple times, liberating blowing of the shofar. In one of earnest with the Zionist Organisation. Tel el Saba, the ancient town of Zealand soldiers were known as ANZAC’s. The special coordinator for the Middle East High Priest has to take two he-goats and the sacrifice was deemed senseless, if it the central prayers, Avinu Malkenu (Our peace process (UNSCO) recently published present them before the Lord. He has to was not accompanied by teshuva, Father, our King), God’s mercy is begged, On 31 October 1517 Martin Luther openly challenged the Roman Catholic Church, a report which plainly described how the cast lots over them. One is to be sacrificed repentance. Penitence, prayer and charity not because of the merit of man, but only people in Gaza have fared after Hamas marking the 'official' beginning of the Protestant Reformation. The central message of as a sin offering. The other is the can avert an evil decree and make that you for His own sake: Our Father, our King, violently mounted a coup in 2007. the Reformation was the need for a personal relationship with Jesus. It also resulted in scapegoat, literally in Hebrew: the ‘one for are inscribed in the Book of Life for the do so for the sake of Your great and Although the report also criticises Israel, the Bible being translated into numerous languages. Azazel’. coming year. mighty and awesome Name, that is called the report clearly shows the way that Hamas’s regime makes the Gaza Strip Almost simultaneously two other major movements began: the formation of the out over us! The High Priest sprinkles the blood of the increasingly uninhabitable. Under Hamas, Ottoman Turkish Empire, and the age of discovery when the European maritime >> Solemn, Not A Sad Day sin offering on the ‘mercy seat that is on the Then, after nightfall, the fast is broken Gaza’s population is oppressed and limited nations sought direct access to the regions of India and the East. ark of the testimony’. It is the only day of Fasting is usually understood as an with a light supper, and immediately in their freedom. The terror movement and its suborganisations are guilty of human These three movements resulted in British involvement in the land of Israel (Turkish the year that he may enter the Holy of expression of mourning. All mourning preparations for Sukot, the Feast of rights violations, including torture and Palestine); in order to preserve its trade link to India and the eastern empire - Holiest. In later times, Yom Kippur would days, like the ninth of Av, the mourning Tabernacles, start. abduction. The report fears that due to (Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere); and to present Jesus to the peoples of that these conditions, Hamas’s intransigence and the growth of the population, Gaza will region. become uninhabitable in 2020. From the early 1840's Prussian-German involvement began in the land of Israel, initially associated with the British. This involvement resulted in the visit to Jerusalem of the Body of Rabbi in Mexico Digital Archive German emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, to open the new German Church on 31 October 1898. Germany was forging a closer link with the Turkish Empire. This link saw Turkey join with Germany in the First World War. Turkey's decision Pulled from Earthquake Rubble meant the Dardanelles and Suez Canal became strategically important. Several Courtesy of Jewish Telegraphic Agency campaigns were fought in the Eastern Mediterranean between 1915-1918 with British, Anzac (Australian and New Zealand) and Indian soldiers fighting against the Turks, Volunteers from Israel’s Zaka search-and- The Zaka volunteers in Mexico have been to assist in search and rescue. iAid, which Germans and Austrians. rescue organisation pulled the body of a working with the Mexican Jewish rescue is funded by Cycura Inc. and The Ted local rabbi from an office building that and recovery organisation Cadena since Arison Family Foundation, sent a 15- The national library of Israel has introduced In the event of an ultimate Turkish defeat the Allies had to determine the future status collapsed in a massive earthquake that hit 19 September, including throughout Rosh member team, which has helped to locate a digital archive of Jewish manuscripts. The of the regions controlled by Turkey, including Palestine. On 31 October 1917 the British Mexico. Hashanah and Shabbat, in accordance the bodies of several people in a school archive is accessible for everyone and War Cabinet agreed to establish a national home for the Jewish people in the land of contains almost half of all handwritten with Tawil’s rulings. and a residential building. Israel. On that same day British and Anzac troops won a key battle at Beersheba, a Rabbi Haim Ashkenazi had been working Jewish texts from various countries, such as in the office building when the 7.1- A 71-member delegation of Israeli soldiers Meanwhile, 25 former Israeli soldiers who Afghanistan and Spain. With around 45,000 victory often associated with the famous charge of the Australian Light Horse. magnitude earthquake struck central arrived in Mexico, including a search-and- are volunteering at a school in Mexico manuscripts in the archive, there are prayer books, scriptural passages, commentaries, This documentary looks at these four major events which occurred on the 31st Mexico on 19 September 2017, rocking rescue team and engineers who will help City teaching English, Mathematics and October. The links are such that it almost seems as if they were destined to occur on literature and academic papers in diverse Mexico City and causing hundreds of assess the structural integrity of buildings other subjects evacuated 460 students at languages, including Hebrew, Yiddish and the same day. buildings to collapse. affected by the earthquake. The chief rabbi the school following the first earthquake Judeo-. The archive is named Ktiv, He served as the rabbi of the Kehillat of the gave the group and are credited with saving their lives. which is Hebrew for ‘written word’. The project was started up by Ben Gurion in the To purchase 'October 31 - Destiny's Date?' DVD Magen David synagogue and was an in-law permission to travel on Rosh Hashanah. The ex-soldiers are volunteering through the Heros for Life NGO. early fifties. He devoted himself to the by Kelvin Crombie, go to: visionstore.org.au of Rabbi Shlomo Tawil, chief rabbi of the Two Israeli aid organizations - IsraAID collection Jewish texts, scattered in libraries SKU 12411DVD AU$24.95 (Plus p&p. Postage may vary depending on country) Magen David Jewish community of Mexico. and iAid - also sent delegations to Mexico and archives all over the world. History | Political October 2017 08 Tishrei - Kislev 5778 Remains of the “Two-State-Solution” 50 Years after the Six-Day-War By Johannes Gerloff, Theologian, Journalist, Lecturer and Author

Part of the original map of Mark Sykes and George Picot Israel became an occupier with the Six-Day-War during the first days of June 1967. Thus, or somewhat similar, it seems from a present perspective, considering current axioms commonly accepted concerning a solution of “the” Middle East conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Accordingly, there is talk about ‘the borders of 1967’ when the lines that separated the Gaza strip and West Bank before 1967 from the Jewish State of Israel are the issue. From 1949 until 1967 the Gaza Strip was administered by Egypt, however, never annexed. During the same time, the West Bank was under the rule of the Hashemite Emir Faisal, Abdallah’s brother, as Considering the feelings and way of Khalaf alias ‘Abu Iyad’ adopted it during a Kingdom of Jordan. On 24 April 1950, representative of his father Hussein, the thinking of those people, who are visit to Hanoi in the 1970’s from the King Abdallah I formally annexed these ‘King of the Arabs,’ had then agreed to a immediately impacted by the discussion North Vietnamese. disputed territories. This annexation was Jewish homeland in Palestine. In his of a Two-State-Solution, Jews and Arabs The northern Vietnamese communists never recognised by neither the UN nor famous exchange of letters with Chaim alike, the historical developments of the reached the goal of this strategy in 1975 the Arab League, except Great Britain and Weizman, leader of the Zionist past one hundred years are highly when the last American soldier fled by Pakistan. In retrospect 1967 somehow movement, he even promised on 3 January relevant. The rejection of any Two-State- helicopter from the roof of the US feels like the birth year of the idea of two 1919, to ‘to encourage and stimulate Solution by the Arabs in the years 1947 Embassy in Saigon. According to Fishman, states for two peoples as a solution of this immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large through 1949 is strongly present in Jewish any Two-State-Solution would be conflict and the somewhat ideal end of ‘politicide’ – political suicide – of the the Israeli occupation of ‘Palestine’. Even secular, Hebrew-speaking, Jewish State of Israel. True, already the UN Resolution 181 of 29 Israelis who still emphasise, that a Two- November 1947, saw the solution of the cosmopolitan Palestinians express State-Solution is in the best interest of the Palestine problem in the creation of two State of Israel, that Israel’s character as entities, an Arab and a Jewish state. complete unashamedly their view Jewish and at the same time the Likewise true is that the political democratic state cannot be protected representatives of the Jewish population scale’. At that time ‘Palestine’ included not as well as Palestinian thinking until today. otherwise, have one goal only: To get rid of what was then the British Mandate of just the territory of today’s Israel and the It was the Arab negotiation partners who of the Palestinians, and especially of Palestine accepted this ‘Two-State- Palestinian Authority, but also the whole prevented the use of the terminology Israel’s responsibility for them. Half a Solution’ – even though they were not of what is today the Hashemite Kingdom ‘borders’ for the cease-fire lines in the century ago ethnic cleansing would have really excited about it. All Arab leaders of Jordan. The Faisal-Weizman- cease-fire treaties on Rhodos early in 1949 been acceptable to a worldwide public who had a say at that time on the other Agreement enthused about the ‘racial because they refused to recognise a Jewish opinion as a solution for ethnic and side rejected the United Nation’s kinship and ancient bonds existing between state in whatever borders. From 1949 until territorial conflicts. Today this is out of separation plan of November 1947, just as the Arabs and the Jewish people’ and 1967 all of the territory that today question. Therefore, there seems only one they had rejected all its predecessors, promised, ‘the closest possible collaboration according to the international community solution: The creation of a state in which including the suggestions of the Peel in the development of the Arab State (on the should be reserved as ‘Palestinian territory’ the Palestinians are able to determine Commission of 1937, which might be seen territory of today’s Syria, Iraq, Jordan and for the creation of a ‘’ was their own fate by themselves. from this perspective as mother of all Saudi Arabia) and (a Jewish!) Palestine’. in Arab hands – either administered by However, what even the most Palestinian Two-State-Solutions. The UN Resolution But: Is this relevant at all for a Egypt or annexed by Jordan. As far as I friendly Israelis are willing to offer their 181 became historically unique in as far as consideration concerning the current know, nobody demanded the creation of a neighbours as ‘state’, is unacceptable as its implementation was answered by a discussion of a Two-State-Solution? – For Palestinian state during this period, ‘state’ even to the most dialogue minded whole community of states with war. the United Nations, certainly. In spite of all certainly not ‘side by side’ with the Jewish Palestinian nationalists. Before 1937 there had been hardly any talk national aspirations, like those of the State of Israel. about dividing the territory between the Kurds, the UN cling to an order of states, Today, representations of the Even those Israelis who cling to a dream and the that was imposed upon the Orient by the development of a Two-State-Solution of a Two-State-Solution and therefore into two states. The impression of victorious powers after . The refer to the agreements of Madrid and enjoy hardly any backing in their own Britain’s dividing its mandate of Palestine decisions of the European politicians at the Oslo, as well as to a whole series of UN society, in the best, most generous case in 1922 might have been still too fresh. At beginning of the 20th century were also resolutions starting at the end of the Six- offer to their Palestinian neighbours an that time, the British had given more than highly relevant for those fighters of the so- Day-War: None of these legally binding autonomy, that can be called ‘state.’ 75% of the territory to the Hashemite called Islamic State (ISIL or ISIS) who documents speaks about ‘two states for To the point, nobody who knows the Emir Abdallah and called it ‘Transjordan’, proclaimed ‘the end of Sykes-Picot’ when two nations.’ Already the agreement of political situation in and around Israel even though it had been originally they destroyed not too long ago the border Camp David, that sealed the peace and pursues a prospering, secure and entrusted to them by the League of demarcations between Syria and Iraq. between Egypt and Israel on 17 September Jewish Israel can imagine a ‘Palestine’ with Nations in order to create a Jewish Finally, 90-year-old settler leader Elyakim 1978, promised just an autonomy to the an air force like Israel; a ‘Palestine’ with a homeland – not to divide it. In April 1920 HaEtzni alludes to them when justifying Palestinians, but not an independent state naval fleet like Israel; a ‘Palestine’ that the Conference of San Remo, as a result of his life in Kiryat Arba near Hebron from a of their own. manages its own airspace or electronic the , had already legal point of view: “On the basis of the Joel Fishman of the Jerusalem Center for sphere as if there were no Israel. divided between Arabs and Jews what decisions of the League of Nations I, as a Public Affairs, a think tank that is remained of the Ottoman Empire in the member of the Jewish people, have a right Netanyahu friendly, sees any Two-State- Levante, Mesopotamia and the Arab to settle in Palestine. This right cannot Solution as an instrument of a political Peninsula. even be denied by a Jewish State of Israel.” ‘Salami tactics’. Arafat’s companion Salah Continued on page 9... History | Political October 2017 October 2017 Theology 09 08 Tishrei - Kislev 5778 Tishrei - Kislev 5778

... Continued from page 8. retreated during the past decades, but Palestinians express complete unashamedly Therefore, it is idle to try to evaluate the only rockets and other security-related their view: “The crusaders were two Two-State-Solution from a European or Remains of the “Two-State-Solution” In the foreseeable future ‘Palestine’ will challenges. This is true for the Sinai hundred years in Palestine. The Jews will American point of view. The West should never be really sovereign side by side with Peninsula which it returned to Egypt in not rule here for such a long time.” finally draw its lesson from the Sykes- a Jewish Israel, for example, concerning the early 1980’s. This is true for Southern The question is not, whether from a Picot agreement, that divided the 50 Years after the Six-Day-War its external borders, nor will it be able to Lebanon from where Israel retreated in Ottoman Empire towards the end of Western point of view, in the framework of freely determine its own foreign policy, By Johannes Gerloff, Theologian, Journalist, Lecturer and Author spring 2000. And this is true for the Gaza Western thinking and on the basis of a World War I into British and French e.g. invite its Iranian friends for military Part of the original map of Mark Sykes and George Picot Strip, from where Israel evacuated all Western logic a Two-State-Solution would spheres of interest and, thus, became the training in in a similar way, Israel became an Jewish settlements in 2005. be the best or even the only plausible basis of the order of states that formed Israel performs military exercises with occupier with the Likewise, on the Palestinian side, there is answer to the Palestinian-Israeli mess. All the Orient during the past century. Germans or Americans in the Negev. Six-Day-War hardly anybody who pursues a viable Two- decisive would be, whether those who are A political order that was invented in the during the first From an Israeli point of view, the formula State-Solution. As early as 2006 the directly or indirectly involved in this West can be implemented and kept alive days of June 1967. ‘land for peace’ which is one of the basic Palestinian electorate voted with conflict will be able to recognise a Two- in the Middle East only by means of Thus, or ideas of the concept of a Two-State- overwhelming majority for the radical- State-Solution as ‘their’ objective, whether dictatorships and, therefore, is doomed to somewhat similar, Solution has been led ad absurdum during Islamist Hamas, for whom the recognition they identify with it, and actively pursue it, failure in any case. it seems from a the past years. of a Jewish state on any Islamic ground is even if this demands painful sacrifice. Up present Actually, the Jewish state has not gained in principle unacceptable. Even secular, until know neither the Israeli nor the The ‘Arab Spring’ and its horribly bloody perspective, peace for any piece of land from which it Hebrew-speaking, cosmopolitan Palestinian side seems to be ready for this. fruits are the best evidence to this. considering current axioms commonly accepted concerning a solution of “the” Middle East conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Accordingly, there is talk about ‘the borders of 1967’ when the lines The Gates of Jerusalem that separated the Gaza strip and West Bank before 1967 from the Jewish State of By Rev. Henk Poot, Christians for Israel Netherlands Israel are the issue. We read that the names of the twelve that he belongs now because he has also From 1949 until 1967 the Gaza Strip was , the main entrance to the Old City tribes of Israel will be on the gates of received a share of the inheritance administered by Egypt, however, never future Jerusalem. Not as a recollection of amongst the Saints. And all of that matters, annexed. During the same time, the West the past, but as a sign of their presence in but what he does is praise God! That is the Bank was under the rule of the Hashemite Emir Faisal, Abdallah’s brother, as Considering the feelings and way of Khalaf alias ‘Abu Iyad’ adopted it during a the city of the great King. first fruit of the Spirit in his life. Kingdom of Jordan. On 24 April 1950, representative of his father Hussein, the thinking of those people, who are visit to Hanoi in the 1970’s from the King Abdallah I formally annexed these In :18 we read that Zion’s gates One does not naturally praise God. We are ‘King of the Arabs,’ had then agreed to a immediately impacted by the discussion North Vietnamese. disputed territories. This annexation was are called ‘Praise’. This is presumably a often occupied way too much by our own Jewish homeland in Palestine. In his of a Two-State-Solution, Jews and Arabs The northern Vietnamese communists never recognised by neither the UN nor reference to Psalm 100: “Enter His gates salvation, our own preservation and our famous exchange of letters with Chaim alike, the historical developments of the reached the goal of this strategy in 1975 the Arab League, except Great Britain and with thanksgiving and His courts with own faith. Before we realise it, much of Weizman, leader of the Zionist past one hundred years are highly when the last American soldier fled by Pakistan. In retrospect 1967 somehow praise” (verse 4). Jerusalem will soon be full our supposed praise is about ourselves, movement, he even promised on 3 January relevant. The rejection of any Two-State- helicopter from the roof of the US feels like the birth year of the idea of two of praise to God and the Lamb. I cannot about what has happened to us. But I 1919, to ‘to encourage and stimulate Solution by the Arabs in the years 1947 Embassy in Saigon. According to Fishman, states for two peoples as a solution of this emphasise enough how important this think that real praise means being immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large through 1949 is strongly present in Jewish any Two-State-Solution would be conflict and the somewhat ideal end of praising of God is, even now. completely focused on God. We do not ‘politicide’ – political suicide – of the the Israeli occupation of ‘Palestine’. praise Him in the first place because of Even secular, Hebrew-speaking, Jewish State of Israel. >> Praising God who He is for us, but because of who He is True, already the UN Resolution 181 of 29 Israelis who still emphasise, that a Two- While preparing a sermon on Cornelius, a in Himself. We praise His name, and we November 1947, saw the solution of the cosmopolitan Palestinians express State-Solution is in the best interest of the centurion of Caesarea (Acts 10), I was glorify His awesome deeds (Acts 2:11). Palestine problem in the creation of two State of Israel, that Israel’s character as touched when I read what he does first entities, an Arab and a Jewish state. complete unashamedly their view Jewish and at the same time the when the Holy Ghost descends on him: he >> Unity God’s people. For, after all, it is also Israel’s Jerusalem, when they enter the gates of Likewise true is that the political democratic state cannot be protected begins with glorifying God. One might It could well be that if we magnify God, calling to praise God (:21). the city with songs of praise to honour the representatives of the Jewish population scale’. At that time ‘Palestine’ included not as well as Palestinian thinking until today. otherwise, have one goal only: To get rid expect that he thanks God for his delivery church walls will become smaller, schisms In any case, the unity of God’s children Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit of what was then the British Mandate of just the territory of today’s Israel and the It was the Arab negotiation partners who of the Palestinians, and especially of or the remission of his sins or for the fact will heal, and we will take our place beside will soon be visible and audible in there. Palestine accepted this ‘Two-State- Palestinian Authority, but also the whole prevented the use of the terminology Israel’s responsibility for them. Half a Solution’ – even though they were not of what is today the Hashemite Kingdom ‘borders’ for the cease-fire lines in the century ago ethnic cleansing would have really excited about it. All Arab leaders of Jordan. The Faisal-Weizman- cease-fire treaties on Rhodos early in 1949 been acceptable to a worldwide public who had a say at that time on the other Agreement enthused about the ‘racial because they refused to recognise a Jewish opinion as a solution for ethnic and side rejected the United Nation’s kinship and ancient bonds existing between state in whatever borders. From 1949 until territorial conflicts. Today this is out of Year 5778 - After Creation of the World separation plan of November 1947, just as the Arabs and the Jewish people’ and 1967 all of the territory that today question. Therefore, there seems only one they had rejected all its predecessors, promised, ‘the closest possible collaboration according to the international community By Johannes Gerloff, Theologian, Journalist, Lecturer and Author solution: The creation of a state in which including the suggestions of the Peel in the development of the Arab State (on the should be reserved as ‘Palestinian territory’ the Palestinians are able to determine Commission of 1937, which might be seen territory of today’s Syria, Iraq, Jordan and for the creation of a ‘State of Palestine’ was Apple slices dipped in honey signify that Israel celebrates Rosh Hashana, the irredeemable wicked) are only briefly the sea shore in order to symbolically their own fate by themselves. from this perspective as mother of all Saudi Arabia) and (a Jewish!) Palestine’. in Arab hands – either administered by the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana. The birthday of mankind, for two days. opened and immediately closed again. In throw their sins into the water. God However, what even the most Palestinian Two-State-Solutions. The UN Resolution But: Is this relevant at all for a Egypt or annexed by Jordan. As far as I ‘start of the new year’ has to be sweet. That In Scripture, Rosh Hashana is mentioned those cases, judgment does not require forgives sin. He is merciful and does not friendly Israelis are willing to offer their 181 became historically unique in as far as consideration concerning the current know, nobody demanded the creation of a is why honey cakes and pomegranates are as Tru’ah, ‘a blast of trumpets’ (Leviticus 23: any further consideration: life for the eternally cling to his anger. During this neighbours as ‘state’, is unacceptable as its implementation was answered by a discussion of a Two-State-Solution? – For Palestinian state during this period, served on Rosh Hashana. The blessing of 23-25). Blowing the Shofar, the ram’s horn, righteous; death for the wicked. ceremony, (which is called Tashlich, the ‘state’ even to the most dialogue minded whole community of states with war. the United Nations, certainly. In spite of all certainly not ‘side by side’ with the Jewish the New Year is to be as manifold as the is an important part of the congregational In the third book, however, most people Hebrew word for ‘throwing’), texts such as Palestinian nationalists. seeds of that splendid red fruit. Psalm 103:8-13 are recited. Before 1937 there had been hardly any talk national aspirations, like those of the State of Israel. prayer in the synagogue at Rosh Hashana. are listed, their fate still undecided, before about dividing the territory between the Kurds, the UN cling to an order of states, Today, representations of the Even those Israelis who cling to a dream Fish is a symbol of abundance, fertility The sound of the shofar recalls Abraham’s God. That book is closed only on the great Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav (1772-1810) Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea that was imposed upon the Orient by the development of a Two-State-Solution of a Two-State-Solution and therefore and multitude. It should not be missed willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac. Day of Atonement, the Yom Kippur. says: The main joy of Rosh Hashana is a into two states. The impression of victorious powers after World War I. The refer to the agreements of Madrid and enjoy hardly any backing in their own during the feast meal and should be eaten Chassidic Jews explain it as a wordless cry During the ten days between Rosh fruit of repentance. A new beginning is Britain’s dividing its mandate of Palestine decisions of the European politicians at the Oslo, as well as to a whole series of UN society, in the best, most generous case with the head if possible. “The Lord from the depths of the heart: “For our sins Hashana and Yom Kippur, the faithful possible. That is why the Chassidim in 1922 might have been still too fresh. At beginning of the 20th century were also resolutions starting at the end of the Six- offer to their Palestinian neighbours an makes you a head, not a tail. You will only we have no excuse, no justification before implore the mercy of God and ask for rejoice in face of judgment. They know: that time, the British had given more than highly relevant for those fighters of the so- Day-War: None of these legally binding autonomy, that can be called ‘state.’ strive upwards, not downwards” God.” forgiveness, as they want to be enrolled in “We are loved by our Heavenly Father. He 75% of the territory to the Hashemite called Islamic State (ISIL or ISIS) who documents speaks about ‘two states for To the point, nobody who knows the (Deuteronomy 28:13). In Judaism, we taste The orthodox Rabbi Shlomo Riskin from the Book of Life. wants to draw us to Himself.” Just as the Emir Abdallah and called it ‘Transjordan’, proclaimed ‘the end of Sykes-Picot’ when two nations.’ Already the agreement of political situation in and around Israel and see, touch and understand what is the Efrat hears in the shofar’s sound our Their pleading, however, is not sufficient, prophet (7:20) foretold, “You show even though it had been originally they destroyed not too long ago the border Camp David, that sealed the peace and pursues a prospering, secure and message of the biblical feasts. protest against the imperfection of this as long as it is directed only to the Eternal faithfulness to Jacob, loving kindness to entrusted to them by the League of demarcations between Syria and Iraq. between Egypt and Israel on 17 September Jewish Israel can imagine a ‘Palestine’ with Beginning with a festive meal on the eve world. Above all, however, the shofar in One. According to Jewish tradition, God Abraham, as you have sworn to our Nations in order to create a Jewish Finally, 90-year-old settler leader Elyakim 1978, promised just an autonomy to the an air force like Israel; a ‘Palestine’ with a of 20 September 2017, the first day of the the Bible announces judgment, which is forgives only sins between God and man. fathers from the days of old.” homeland – not to divide it. In April 1920 HaEtzni alludes to them when justifying Palestinians, but not an independent state naval fleet like Israel; a ‘Palestine’ that month of ‘Tishrei’ in the year ‘Tav Shin why Rosh Hashana is alluded to as a Day Guilt and shortcomings between man and Therefore, full of hope we greet each the Conference of San Remo, as a result of his life in Kiryat Arba near Hebron from a of their own. manages its own airspace or electronic Ayin Chet’, 5778. Judaism writes numbers of Judgment, Yom HaDin. his neighbour must be reconciled between other during these days here in Israel the Treaty of Versailles, had already legal point of view: “On the basis of the Joel Fishman of the Jerusalem Center for sphere as if there were no Israel. in Hebrew letters and calculates its Talmudic tradition speaks of three books them. Therefore, Rosh Hashana leads into with: ‘Shanah Tovah UMetukah’ – ‘A good divided between Arabs and Jews what decisions of the League of Nations I, as a Public Affairs, a think tank that is calendar from the creation of the world. A presented to the Almighty on New Year’s a time of reflection, of repentance and of and sweet year!’ And: ‘Chatimah Tovah’ – a remained of the Ottoman Empire in the member of the Jewish people, have a right Netanyahu friendly, sees any Two-State- day starts from the creation story in the Day. They list the lives of each individual. a new beginning. ‘good entry’ in the Book of Life. Levante, Mesopotamia and the Arab to settle in Palestine. This right cannot Solution as an instrument of a political Bible. On Tishrei 1 man was created, The Book of Life (for the righteous among On the afternoon of the first New Year’s Peninsula. even be denied by a Jewish State of Israel.” ‘Salami tactics’. Arafat’s companion Salah Continued on page 9... according to Jewish tradition. Therefore, the nations) and the Book of Death (for the day, Jews gather around rivers, lakes or on 10 Our Projects | Film Review October 2017 Tishrei - Kislev 5778 “I’m Not Alone”- Greatest Act of Kindness for Holocaust Survivors By Jerusalem Foundation

As we move farther and farther away from and visits by multi-lingual volunteers to Jerusalem Foundation’s Café Europa’s third birthday celebration the horrific events of the Holocaust, more survivors’ who are homebound. and more survivors find themselves alone. The very same survivors who speak of the With every passing year, survivors lose pain of loneliness, also speak of the joys of their connections to friends who have participating in the Café Europa experienced their horrors. programme. As one survivor put it, “Café One of the greatest acts of kindness we Europa is where I can socialise, hear a can show Holocaust survivors is to hear concert, or just read and relax.” And their stories, giving them a platform to another noted, “Café Europa is so much express their feelings and process their more than coffee - I am always happy to past while ensuring dignity in their old be there.” age. As one survivor put it, “loneliness is Bringing joy to Holocaust survivors is a the hardest for an elderly person - even challenging yet crucial task, for many still harder than an illness.” suffer from the emotional and traumatic That’s where Jerusalem Foundation’s Café wounds of one of the greatest horrors of Europa project steps in, providing the 20th century. meeting places for Jerusalem’s 20,000 One Café Europa participant recalls Holocaust survivors, offering social and having her mother pack a suitcase, not can share experiences with others who partners in this important project. cultural programmes, as well as realising that she would never see her understand their pain. “It is the one place Not much time is left, and it is important professionals who help ensure that the again. “I was 9…I didn’t know. My mother where I feel surrounded by those who that we continue to bring light to those survivors receive the full government didn’t prepare me.” truly understand me,” said a survivor. who have experienced the greatest benefits they are entitled to. Café Europa has been a safe space for Café Europa has been a flagship project darkness of our time. If you want to There is also a ‘Café on Wheels’ survivors to process their trauma, a warm for Christians for Israel around the world, donate, you can fill out the response programme that brings computers, books, and welcoming environment where they and we are honoured to have them as our coupon on page 12. ‘Whose Land?’ - Film Review By Bryce Turner, Christians for Israel New Zealand

Significant showings of British performance. Having spent considerable documentary/filmmaker Hugh Kitson’s time in the Middle-East, including being newest release are set to coincide with the directly on the ground during the Gaza NEW! upcoming Centenary of the Balfour conflict of 2014, Kemp’s long and Declaration. Having had its world exemplary career with the British Army is premiere in August, showings in Australia reflected in his direct, clear and will be closely followed by events in New unswerving manner. Even when the facts Zealand and then around the world. presented can only invoke scorn for some of Kemp’s own countrymen, he remains In a temporary departure from his usual professional and focused. Confidently operation at Hatikvah Films, Hugh boldly navigating the minefield of international tackles the political elephant in the room, opinions, Kemp willingly lays his own the issue of Israel’s legitimacy and the reputation and credibility on the table, in rights of the Jewish people over the land. the interests of ensuring that the viewer Vastly different to other films produced has the full story. by Israelis or other Jewish sources, this production deals fairly with documents Kitson’s film delivers a well-developed and evidence, often showing the actual progression of positions with a text on camera for the viewer to draw commendable objectivity. A diverse line- their own conclusions. up of international and local experts bring immeasurable knowledge and experience Opening, however, with a collection of to the documentary, squarely facing the video clips, news media items and even viewer with essential information from bites from an animated children’s’ show, international law and history, right the viewer is immediately introduced to through to archaeology, all the time in an the depth and passion of the Palestinian authoritative and yet succinct manner perspective. In what can only be that even a much lesser-qualified viewer categorised as blatant propaganda, claims can easily understand. International of Palestinian ownership over various lawyers and archaeologists aside, Kitson’s towns and cities escalate in successive own skill set is obvious, albeit behind the clips until the inevitable claim over the scenes. The production quality is whole land booms from the screen. Just as excellent, the editing conveying a sense of the viewer starts feeling a growing urgency but yet a deliberate and focused uncertainty, even indignation, Colonel pace. For those just entering the battle- (Ret.) Richard Kemp CBE takes command. zone that is Middle-East opinion, this film Colonel Kemp then proceeds to take the will go a long way towards combating the viewer on a journey through the spectrum blatantly one-sided arguments bandied of legal arguments with what can only be about in the world media. The legal described as military efficiency. Uniquely evidence is dealt with so thoroughly that DVDs available for $20 from c4israel.com.au/store qualified to address this most thorny of even those already holding an educated topics, Kemp offers an admirable view will come away with new material. October 2017 Commemorations 11 Tishrei - Kislev 5778 Letters of the Aleph-beit: Lamed By Kees de Vreugd, Theologian, Christians for Israel International, and Editor of Israel and the Church

The lamed is the letter L. The original The Levites, who carried the objects of Shimon bar Yochai is found in the Land The root lamed means: to learn, to sign probably represented an ox goad, a the tabernacle in the desert, were of Israel. The Talmud (Hulin 92a), teach. The Torah says in Deuteronomy staff to drive oxen. From this old sign, between the ages of thirty and fifty. however, cites Rabbi Judah, who says 6:7: Impress them (the commandments) our letter L also derives. In its present When Jesus began His ministry, He was that there are “thirty righteous amongst on your children. Thereby we know that form, the lamed is higher than the other about thirty years of age (Luke 3:23). the nations of the world”. It is a we also have to continue studying Torah letters. As the middlemost letter of the homiletical exposition of the thirty ourselves. Otherwise, how could we Of rabbi Shimon bar Yochai (beginning aleph-bet, it dominates the other letters. pieces of silver (:12). teach Torah? of the 2nd century), the saying is handed Therefore, the lamed is sometimes seen down: “The world cannot exist with less Rabbi Ulah gives another interpretation On a deeper level, however, this tells us as a symbol of the King of kings. than thirty people who are as righteous of this verse: it is the thirty mitzvoth that the Torah is always new. In the The numerical value is thirty. Thirty is a as our father, Abraham.” More known, (prescriptions) which the sons of Noah study of Torah, we always remain a remarkable number in Biblical tradition. probably, is the later tradition of the 36 took upon themselves, although they child, always receptive for new insights, He, who reaches the age of thirty, righteous amongst the nations, for the keep only three of them. These thirty always hearing. reaches his full strength, Jewish oral sake of whom the world remains in mitzvoth are included in the seven tradition tells us (Sayings of the Fathers). existence. The thirty righteous of Rabbi Noahite commandments. World Jewry Adopts Unique Traditions Courtesy of Breaking Israel News

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, brought harissa, cumin, and honey, as well A group of Bnei Menashe arrive at Ben Gurion Airport began at sundown on Wednesday 20 as spices from their original lands of September and ended at sundown on Marrakesh, Oran, and Tunis, including Friday 22 September. For Jewish families anise, olive oil, rose water, and pine nuts. around the world, Rosh Hashanah is celebrated in synagogue and with family, >> friends, and food. Throughout the diverse Rosh Hashanah in Ethiopia is observed and wide-flung Jewish world, different for one day, in comparison to the two-day cultures have adopted different Rosh holiday observed in the rest of the Jewish Hashanah traditions, some influenced by . In Ethiopia, there are three their country’s culture, such as in prayer services, including one before Ethiopia, where the shofar tradition is dawn. Rosh Hashanah is also known as restricted to the kessim, (the village elders), Zikir. In Ethiopia, like elsewhere, it is or in Cuba, where 10 grapes are eaten at traditional to wear white clothing and midnight. But what binds the Jewish have large feasts, often with lamb – the people together during Rosh Hashanah is most expensive meat available. the fundamental importance of passing Although Ethiopian Jewish traditions are Because of their relative isolation from midnight the eve of Rosh Hashanah, on traditions through food, togetherness, often distinct from that of rabbinic the mainstream Jewish population, Indian Cuban Jews enjoy 12 grapes, one for each and prayer, as well as a longing to traditions, many of the religious rituals Jewish communities have been largely month. According to folklore, this celebrate the next Rosh Hashanah in a and customs of the Ethiopian Jewish influenced by Indian tradition, displayed practice stems from Cuba’s Spanish roots. rebuilt Jerusalem. population are almost identical to the through traditional Rosh Hashanah foods. Spanish grape growers may have type of Judaism practiced in the period of >> France Lamb and goat is often ordered from a instituted this tradition when they were the Second Temple. The French Jewish community is the farm, slaughtered, and split amongst faced with an overabundance of harvest, largest in Europe and the third largest in The elders in Ethiopian villages blow the families to make biryani, an Indian dish of and needed to offload some grapes. With the world. But even with such a strong shofar and are the only ones capable of spiced rice, saffron, and lamb. everyone in the community enjoying community in France, over 10% of the reading Jewish texts in the ancient Ge’ez The traditional chicken dish served is grapes, the grape farmers were certainly French Jewish community has immigrated dialect. They instruct the entire village on mahmoora, chicken cooked with enjoying a sweet start to the new year. to Israel, largely in the last decade. how to prepare for the holiday, share tomatoes, spices, almonds, and raisins, Longing for Jerusalem is a part of their >> Israel Biblical stories from ancient scripts, and served on a bed of pilau rice. Milk halwa is identity, as is true around the globe. ‘emphasize our long-held aspiration to another traditional Rosh Hashanah dish In Israel, Rosh Hashanah is a two-day French Jews of North African descent celebrate Rosh Hashanah ‘next year in of the B’nei Israel. Women traditionally holiday where, like during Shabbat, follow a Rosh Hashanah Seder (ritual), in Jerusalem.’ wear colorful saris for Rosh Hashanah businesses are closed. Religious Jews which various foods are presented on a attend lengthy synagogue services and >> India services, while men wear custom-made plate, each to symbolise what Jews desire shirts, pants, and vest suits. B’nei Israel festivities also center on the home, where for the next year. It is traditional to recite Indian Jewish communities have existed have carried these traditions from India to festive meals are prepared for family and a prayer over each food. since ancient times, although a majority Israel when they have immigrated. friends. During the week prior to Rosh The foods include the traditional apples of them have made aliyah. The B’nei Israel Hashanah, thousands of Jews flow to and honey for a sweet new year, leeks and descend from persecuted, lost tribes of >> Cuba midnight selichot prayers held at the spinach to represent the removal and Israel who settled in modern-day After Fidel Castro came to power, almost Western Wall and in synagogues, disappearance of one’s enemies; dates, so Mumbai; the Cochin Jews descend from 95% of Cuba’s Jews fled, as it was too requesting forgiveness and expressing that one grows as high as palm trees; the Portuguese inquisition; and the difficult to maintain religious traditions. repentance for one’s sins. squash so that unfavourable verdicts are Baghdadis hail from Iraq. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Jewish Like elsewhere throughout the world, the broken; sesame and pomegranate, so one’s Recently, a community in India known as life is being slowly rebuilt in Havana, shofar is blown and it is customary to dip merits grow as numerous as seeds; fish, to the Bnei Menashe, has claimed descent where two-thirds of Jewish Cubans live. apples in honey to symbolise a sweet new multiply like fish in the sea; and lamb’s from one of the ten lost tribes of Israel. Rabbis from South and Central America year. head, so the people of Israel are the head According to Michael Freund, founder of came to teach the Jews of Cuba about Traditional foods include honey cake and of the nations. Shavei Israel, the history, traditions, and religious traditions, and thus their round challot, braided sweet bread, which A typical Rosh Hashanah dish in France is customs of the Bnei Menashe convinced holidays reflect an interesting mix of symbolises the yearly cycle and circle of quiche à l’oignon, an onion quiche, him of “the validity of their claim that Jewish traditions. life. It is also customary to perform emerging from a traditional French they are in fact descendants of a lost tribe Cubans have a tradition of eating grapes tashlich, shaking out one’s pockets and quiche – sans pork, of course. French of Israel.” They have expressed, like other for good luck on New Years, so the Jews of throwing breadcrumbs into an open body holiday cooking has also been influenced Jews in exile, a deep yearning to return to Cuba have adapted their Rosh Hashanah of water to symbolically cast away one’s by its North African immigrants who Israel after 2,700 years. traditions accordingly. 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Generation“Israel Saved My of Life” SurvivorsNews from By Koen Carlier, ChristiansChristians for for Israel Israel Aliyah Aliyah Fieldworker Fieldworker First Home in the Homeland By Orly Wolstein, First Home in the Homeland Project Manager Some time ago we visited the family of problem:consular checkthe doctors and, of in course, Ukraine on had the not day Anatoly Melnik. They have one daughter, issuedof their an departure, official statement. took them Michael to Boryspil a son-in-law and a grandson. We learned neededInternational it for his Airport flight near to Israel, Kiev! but he many interesting details from this family’s decidedDeparture to wasleave early at his in own the morning,risk. so history. Anatoly’s mother miraculously Finally,during theafter night, many Christians weeks, we for received Israel’s a car escaped the Babi Yar shooting, but his callwas fromparked his near wife. their She house.thanked everyone grandmother was shot 30 September 1941. forThe their family help. did After not have a thorough enough medical,words to For many years Anatoly's mother wanted theexpress Israeli their doctors gratitude. decided Anatoly’s not to wife cried amputate his legs, just a small part of his to go to Israel with her son’s family. But all the time. Daughter Anna hugged and right foot. Michael is doing well, and is they were not sure about their plans. kissed us. We are literally, as it is written: currently in rehabilitation, waiting for a Ultimately she decided to fly on her own we are carrying them on our shoulders... prosthesis. Summer is a time for many Jewish come true for many olim. When they and died a week before her flight to Israel. Now we are praying for the safe absorption families that are still in diaspora to arrive in Israel, we are there to take Because they are new immigrants in WeAfter have that, known the family 67-year-old decided Michael to postpone for of the family in Netanya, Israel. think about going back home. them to one of our 44 kibbutzim of the Israel, everything was paid for by manytheir plans years. for His aliyah. only sonBut hasAnatoly attended The Lord appeared to us in the past, Families with children usually plan "First Home in the Homeland" all over insurance. Michael feels like he’s been manypromised activities his mother over the before years her organised death saying: “I have loved you with an their Aliyah at the end of August to Israel! reborn! “Israel saved my life,” he bythat the he Jewish would Agency, take her including grandson summer to the everlasting love; I have drawn you with coincide with the start of the school responded happily. Their son is also soon Samara (Central ), camps!land of herMichael forefathers. knew that We hetalked would a lot go to unfailing kindness”. :3 year in September. Summer is a leaving for Israel, then the whole family Syktyvkar (North of Russia) Israelabout oneGod’s day, plan however, for His aspeople often and happens, Eretz season of dreaming, planning and will be together. thatYisrael. ‘journey’ was often postponed. >> Babi Yar, the greatest packing for the Jewish community. In Samara, some participants that had already applied for the programme MichaelAnatoly decidedwas then to struck make with aliyah severe together The Jewish Agency, with the support massacre of Jews that managed to have an additional diabetes.with his wife. It was By so that bad time that histhe daughter doctors Help with of Ofek Israeli, organised three interview with Elena Kovarsky. She was saidand herthat family they had said to that amputate they too both didn’t his tookTransportation place in a single day SovietAliyah version fairs of and history, seminars a glorious in different battle of tried to destroy the evidence of the massacre able to give them an answer during the legs!want Michael to stay in was Ukraine. shocked. He realised Exactly 75 years ago, 29-30th September 1941 victoryplaces and around hardly anythe worldeye for in the June. victims.” by grinding and burning the bones. The three Only a few Jews from Ukraine leave meeting and gave them their new thatSome it monthsmeant he before would the slowly flight, die. Anatoly The in the ravine Babi Yar near Kiev 33,771 Jews Babi>> Yar Kievis the biggest (Ukraine) once-only bloodbath hundred prisoners that had to excavate the amputation cost a lot of money, and there so quickly. It is a process that often address as of 1 September. suffered a stroke, after which he has been were killed by the Nazis, ten days after the of theThe Holocaust. Aliyah fair The in JewsUkraine from was Kiev huge, remains were killed afterwards. was no rehabilitation! He asked the Jewish takes a long time. Nevertheless, In Syktyvkar, the Jewish community is confined to a wheelchair. His wife does German occupation of the Ukrainian capital. expectedwith 40to beorganisations brought to labour from Israelcamps. The ravine is a tree park now. Since 1974 Agency for advice. They were shocked to more and more people want to get quite small; historically it was a place of her best not to lose courage, to take care The massacre is at the centre stage during a Theyattending, had to hand and over over their 2500 possessions visitors. and there is a monument near the ravine, but the hear of Michael’s situation. After many their documents ready so that when deportation during Soviet repressions. and to support Anatoly in everything. She conference this week in Kiev. “If you take the clothes.Volunteers In the ravine, from Christiansthe victims forhad Israel to line inscription doesn’t mention any Jewish calls between Jerusalem and Vinnitsa it is needed, they can quickly leave However, sixty participants attended the lost more than 15 kilos because of her Jewish history out of the Ukrainian history up inUkraine rows of and ten Elenalying down Kovarsky, on the the soil, face victims. In 1991 a menorah was placed in (Ukraine), they suggested that Michael and Ukraine. They often have to travel seminar and learned more about Jewish constant worries. In Ukraine, it is then the history of Ukraine is irrelevant”, says down.director The Germans of the First shot Home them within the commemoration of the murdered Jews. his wife make Aliyah as soon as possible. huge distances to reach the Embassy traditions and the meaning of Aliyah. impossible to fall ill. The Ukrainian Holocaust expert Timothy Snyder to the machineHomeland, guns, covered worked the together bodies withto a thin Upon arrival in Israel, he would be taken or Consulate. medical system is usually unable to participants of the conference. “Who doesn’t layerpresent of mud options after which to Jewish the next families group had to hospital for a thorough investigation. rehabilitate patients. If you are lucky wantChristians to be responsible for Israel for assists what with has to lieon on how top to of properlythem. About start thirty a new Jews life Itenough was like to thefind fast an institutionforward button that wasis hit. happenedtransportation chooses toby beusing without our ownhistory. It survivedin Israel; the two-day real issues SS-orgy such ofas blood.learning Within a day, an interview at the Israeli vans or by hiring small and large willing and able to take care of you, it has to do with who you want to be as a In theHebrew following and months helping again children thousands to of Embassy in Kiev took place, visas were buses to bring groups to the embassy costs a lot of money, which the family of nation. Nations were not built on oblivion Jews,adapt Roma, to communiststhe new environment. and Russian obtained, and they left for Israel. or airport. The average cost for the Anatoly doesn’t have. but responsibility. It is never too late to show prisonersIsrael ofhopes war wereshortly killed to welcomeat Babi Yar. 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