Stan is a South African gentile who for three decades has called Israel home. He is married to a Czech national, Frantiska, and the couple have seven Jerusalem-born children, three of whom were granted Israeli citizenship after completing their service in the IDF. The rest of the family are permanent residents.
A news journalist by profession, Stan has worked as an accredited tour guide for the last 11 years, using Scripture and the geography and history of the Land and People of Israel to teach Christians about the ever-relevant centrality of this nation to the Bible and to our faith.
Before moving to Israel, Stan was a political reporter for the South African newspaper, the Daily Dispatch, during the final years of the apartheid era. In 1991 he joined the staff of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ), serving as editor of the monthly Middle East Intelligence Digest and helping launch the online ICEJ News Service in the earliest days of the Internet age. In this capacity, he was in Madrid, Spain to cover the first international Middle East Peace Conference, and since then has extensively reported on the “land-for-peace process” as it has passed through its stages, from Oslo to Annapolis and beyond.
“Whether writing or guiding,” says Stan, “my prayerful purpose is to communicate primarily to Christians a Bible-based understanding of how the LORD works in and through the realm of politics to restore Israel and prepare the way for the Messiah’s reign.”
Out of view, and for many Christian visitors completely out of mind, lies the most significant site in all the Land of Israel; indeed, in all the world. It is the geographical core of everything redemptive God is working to accomplish on the earth: a small, limestone hillock that is The Mountain of the Lord.
The visiting president serenaded the Jews about their Biblical roots in this land, shed tears over the Shoah, and emphasised that Israel will always be able to rely for her security on the United States of America. In 2022, however, that America is a broken reed.
As Israel’s 24th Knesset writhed in its death throes, Christian watchers – let alone Jews – were conflicted over whether or not they wanted to see Netanyahu returned as prime minister.
“We’re not going to fight this fight on the basis of politics. We are going to fight it on the basis of faith” – Ambassador David Friedman.
The currency for securing Saudi Arabia’s cooperation with the US is an intensified American push for the creation of a State of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital.
Amid swirling rumours about the return to power of Binyamin Netanyahu, US President Biden “postpones” a visit reportedly aimed at bringing Saudi Arabia into the Abraham Accords.
As a political entity, Israel is as sinful as America, France, China… you name it. To suggest otherwise is to miss the wonder of what God has done, and is doing. At the same time, no Christian can cast stones at the Jewish state
Surely Jews don’t need a Gentile to cry out against their division and sinat achim? They know, far, far better than I ever could, what fratricidal discord has cost their nation
From the point of view of no-one less than the Creator of Heaven and Earth, this Land belongs, exclusively and forever, to the Jewish people
Israeli President Isaac Herzog caused a stir in the Christian world with recent remarks regarding prophecy and the Jewish state’s miraculous rebirth
