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An estimated 75,000 Christian pilgrims are now in Israel to celebrate Christmas and many will visit Bethlehem, especially tonight on Christmas Eve. By the time the Christmas season is over, "about two million people will have visited Bethlehem in 2013," which Israeli tourism officials note is "almost double the 2012 figure of 1.18 million" people.
The Times of Israel reported that Jerusalem partially returned to life Tuesday morning, after a heavy winter snow storm left the capital isolated and largely shut down over the weekend.
Municipality urging everyone to stay indoors as weather conditions worsen; electric corp. declares national state of emergency; tens of thousands left without power.
School called off in the capital and its environs, areas of the West Bank; snow expected to spread to Negev on Friday.
Deal signed in Washington aims to provide the region with more drinking water while replenishing the ailing salt lake.
YNet News reported that a new study draws a picture of a worrying situation across wide swaths of Israeli society. According to the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel study, published on Wednesday, 35% of Israelis have reached a state of severe distress.
Please join The Joshua Fund in wishing all of our friends a very blessed Chanukah. The Feast of Dedication – Chanukah (Hanukkah) that literally means “Dedication”– is celebrated in 2013 beginning at sundown Wednesday, November 27th and continuing through Thursday, December 5th.
Court rules measure has expired, state worries cancellation of curfew may fuel new protests between Morsi activists, government supporters
As you join The Joshua Fund in praying for the peace of Jerusalem and throughout Israel, please also be praying for healing and comfort for the five Israeli soldiers wounded in Gaza, and for calm to be restored on the Israeli borders. Read the article in Haaretz by clicking the link.
Since its very beginning, The Joshua Fund has sought to bring help to the poor and needy in Israel through local distribution centers that provide food directly to those in need. The most recent statistics that have been released by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) show a continued increase in those who are at risk of falling below the poverty line.
Joel C. Rosenberg shares an update on the situation in Syria and how The Joshua Fund is ministering inside the country and to those who are refugees fleeing the violence.
Learn more about the portable distribution center kits that will assist in the deployment of food and other life sustaining supplies to communities directly affected by such circumstances.
We ask you to join The Joshua Fund in praying for the people of Syria as the atmosphere is increasingly hostile toward the country’s Christians. Please pray for peace in the region, and for the basic needs of the people, for food, water and shelter amid the violence that increasingly is targeted toward Christians.
President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged from a meeting united on the fact that Iran must show concrete proof that it is dismantling its nuclear program.
Prime Minister Netanyahu in Washington for talks with President Obama and Vice President Biden.
Joel C. Rosenberg shares an update on the situation in Syria and discusses how you can be praying for the people of Syria during this critical time. Joel also talks about the work The Joshua Fund is doing in this war-torn country.
On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Sukkot, seven days for the LORD... on the eighth day, there shall be a holy convocation for you. - Leviticus 23:34
The semiannual mass priestly benediction service — or Birkat Kohanim -- took place Sunday morning at the Western Wall. Tens of thousands of Jewish worshippers crowded the plaza to receive the blessing from the Kohanim, descendants of Aaron who make up the priestly caste.
