Israel Today speaks with Arabs serving in the IDF to dispel claims of racism and apartheid in the Holy Land
Author - David Lazarus
David is a Jewish Israeli Yeshua (Jesus) believer and has been a teacher/communicator of the Jewish roots of the New Testament for more than 35 years. He has traveled to over 25 nations teaching on the Hebrew Scriptures and Israel. David served on the Steering Committee of Israel’s National Hebrew-Speaking Pastors Conference defining and communicating relevant issues affecting local Messianic congregations in Israel as well as organizing and teaching conferences for Messianic Jewish and Christian leaders around the world.
After serving as a Combat Medic with an IDF Tank Battalion in the First Lebanon War, David went on to earn university degrees in Biblical Studies, Communications and Journalism. Together with his wife Michaella they served as Senior Leaders of the Hebrew-speaking Beit Immanuel Congregation in Jaffa, Israel since 1987.
David and Michaella have four married children and a growing generation of grandchildren.
More articles from David Lazarus
Israel is about to go to the polls, and just as with every national election, the outcome of this one is being touted as “critical” to the future of the Jewish state.
The perceived desecration of Islamic symbols and figures prompts violent Muslim protests just about anywhere in the world these days.
It’s not only Jesus, the reason for the season, who was Jewish; many Christmas hit songs were written by Jews
Mirroring Christian movements, there are deep divisions within the Messianic Jewish movement, and recent debates over theological issues threaten to create major rifts between factions.
Guy Cohen grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family and became a follower of Jesus at age 23. He now leads a Messianic Jewish congregation in the city of Akko (Acre).
A ruling by Israel’s rabbinical courts has instructed the Interior Ministry to register as a Jew a woman who had been baptized a Christian.
A Modern-Day Saul of Tarsus
The son of a rabbinic family from Iraq who once persecuted the followers of Jesus has come to believe that Jesus is Messiah.
Part II
Like most stories about Israel’s coming of age, the development of the nation’s currency is a tale filled with unlikely twists.