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Israel’s Population Has Increased 10-Fold Since 1948 – 10 May 2016

Here is an interesting article with some statistics comparing Israel in 2016 with those at her establishment in 1948, 68 years ago: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=33619

God’s Pattern – 8 May 2016

The period between Passover and Shavuot/Pentecost is full of significant commemorative days here.  Last week was Holocaust Remembrance Day; this week we have Memorial...

The Lamb Lives! – 21 Apr 2016

How good is our God! At the Passover, and for all those subsequent Passovers that the Israelis celebrated (in the past), many lambs were...

Former PM of Israel, Ehud Olmert, Goes to Prison – 15 Feb 2016

Today is both a sad day and a day for rejoicing, as former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert goes to prison for 19 months, convicted...

Light Dispels Darkness

(A teaching article originally spoken on Dec 21, 2007) This Sonday some of us are going to Bethlehem to worship with Arab brothers and sisters...

Inauspicious Beginning of New Year – 3 Jan 2016

The New Year just begun, connected as it is with the birth of the King of the Jews, has had an unpromising beginning here...

November 29

Today is November 29.  For those who believe that the reestablishment of the Jewish homeland in the land promised to Abraham, to Isaac, to...

Israeli Cabinet Approves Plan to Build Five New Negev Towns – 23 Nov 2015

The Prophets of YHVH to Israel foresaw the day when the Negev Desert that is southern Israel will bloom and blossom as a rose,...

Microburst Storms Israel – 27 Oct 2015

The country was inundated with heavy rains, wind, hail, and havoc on Sonday. The first storm of the winter (the clocks were also turned...

Terror Comes to Beer Sheva – 19 Oct 2015

Yesterday evening around 7:30, the Beer Sheva Central Bus Station was the scene of panic as a gunman opened fire inside the station, killing...

Renewed Escalation of Turmoil – 11 Oct 2015

Once again tensions and violence are escalating and spreading in Israel. The Islamic version is that the Temple Mount is strictly theirs, and that...

Beer Sheva Being Touted – 8 Oct 2015

A "package deal", the biggest of its kind in the State of Israel's history, has been agreed to and signed between the government and...

Succot Full Moon Lunar Eclipse – 28 Sept 2015

The special and uncommon series of lunar eclipses the last two years which fell twice each at Passover and at the Feast of Booths...

Haboob Stifles Israel – 20 Sept 2015

This huge and very unpleasant heavy dust yellowed the skies of Beer Sheva and all of Israel for three days last week.  This was accompanied...

Israel’s Largest Artificial Lake Planned for Beer Sheva – 29 Aug 2015

Construction is underway for a major project in the Beer Sheva River Park to build the largest man-made lake in Israel.  The project is...

The Scriptures Keep Us Up-to-Date — 28 July 2015

Middle East news continues to receive wide media coverage around the world.  This is no longer surprising to those who do believe that the Bible...

Jewish and Arab Pastors Celebrate Together at ICB – 17 June 2015

This past week concluded the one-year study program specially set up by Israel College of The Bible (ICB) for a Master's Degree in Pastoral...

Employment Desert – 17 May 2015

Three small Negev cities face severe unemployment.  The towns of Arad, Dimona, and Yeruham are essentially factory towns, dependent on the major industrial chemical companies...

Racism is a Sin Issue, and Is Nothing New – 4 May 2015

Israel has been beset by protests and riots from the Ethiopian Jewish community the last few days, the likes of which have not been...

God’s Grace: Hidden Water Under the Negev – 8 Apr 2015

The Negev Desert of Israel is a unique desert, not least because part of it is within the borders of the Promised Land.  There are promises...

Jesus is Sovereign Lord! – 5 Apr 2015

As the "World Powers" prepare to give "this world" over to Iran and the Islamic powers with a very bad supposed agreement, it reminds...

Israeli Elections 2015

Some of you have written asking what I think about the outcome of the elections last Tuesday, so I will answer that here.  Personally, I was surprised...

Purim 2015: Iran Still Intent on Destroying Jewish People

On the day before Purim, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress to once again warn the...

Negev Segment of Israel Bike Trail Inauguarated – 1 Mar 2015

Israel is a small country with a disproportionate incredible variety of nature and vistas.  It's tourism and nature preserves authorities have developed many sites and...

Dry Nahal Zin Suddenly Becomes Stream in the Negev – 18 Jan 2015

Here is a dramatic video of the exciting effect of heavy rains miles/kilometers away flash-flooding the dry stream bed of Biblical Nahal Zin in...