April/May 1991

Special Report: Inside Israel

Features

Israel: Changing Faces

The face of our world is changing at an incredible rate. Armies moved through the Middle East packing a military punch never before witnessed on the face of the planet.

Yom Haatzmaut

The time was 4:00 p.m. The date was Friday, May 14, 1948. A black sedan pulled up to the front of the Tel Aviv Museum. Out of the back seat emerged a short, white-haired man...

Israel During the Messianic Kingdom Zephaniah 3:9–20

Just one short year ago, hope ran high that the decade of the 1990s would usher in world peace. The buzz words of the day were “Peace in our time.”...

The Regathering of Israel

One of the most debated questions of our day is whether or not present-day Israel is the Israel of the Bible. Menachem Begin, when he was Prime Minister of Israel, ran his government...

An Evaluation of Christian Reconstructionism

Christian Reconstructionism (the teaching of which has been examined in survey fashion in two previous articles) has some commendable features. For example, it has done excellent work in evaluating the devastating effects of secular humanism...

Apples of Gold

Zvi (Joel Of Jerusalem)

In Deuteronomy 20:1 it is written, “be not afraid ... for the Lᴏʀᴅ thy God is with thee.” Here in Israel, we are living in the light of this promise day by day...


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Patriots All

When the first SCUD missiles broke the night skies over Tel Aviv, Israelis raced for gas masks and the world braced for what Israel would do in retaliation to the attacks.

Jewish World Update - News

Israel in the News Apr/May 1991

The European Community, in a major turnabout, has decided to negotiate an enhanced role for Israel in the economically integrated Europe of 1992. The Brussels-based European Community Commission has informally jettisoned its policy of linking...

Getting to Know Israel

“The fifth Gospel”—that’s what one professor of biblical geography called the land of Israel. His point was that the Gospel writers, when presenting the life of Christ, assumed that their readers would know exactly what..

The Israeli Response to the Russian Immigration

In the last year, 200,000 new immigrants came to Israel, most of them from the Soviet Union. In one week during December 1990, 12,000 new immigrants arrived, more than in all of 1988!

Daily News from Israel

News Digest — 8/14/26

Israeli families moved into the reestablished northern Samaria community of Ganim on Thursday (13th), 21 years after Israel evacuated...

News Digest — 8/13/26

Minister of Defense Israel Katz on Wednesday (12th) visited IDF forces operating in the Lebanese villages that border Israel...

News Digest — 8/12/26

IDF troops on Tuesday (11th) eliminated a Hamas sniper who violated the ceasefire and posed an immediate threat to troops...

Netanyahu Pushes Back on Trump’s Gaza Plan—Here’s Why!

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not withdraw...

News Digest — 8/11/26

IDF Chief of Staff LTG Eyal Zamir convened a senior operational forum on Monday (10th), declaring that the military remains prepared for a rapid...

Israel at War: Week 148

“All or Nothing,” summarizes Prime Minister Netanyahu’s response to the Board of Peace’s recommended proposal to end the Hamas War...

News Digest — 8/10/26

Direct negotiations between Israel and Lebanon are unlikely to resume next month, with any potential future sessions delayed...

News Digest — 8/6/26

The Israel Defense Forces announced Thursday morning (6th) that two reservist soldiers were killed, and four were seriously wounded...

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