Last week, something happened that almost didn’t.
A bereaved father stood before 200 screens across America and beyond, and told the story of his son Natan, a young combat engineer killed in Gaza who, in his final moments, saved sixteen soldiers from an anti-tank rocket. Avi Rosenfeld had spent decades wrestling with God. But standing at his son’s coffin changed him. “I swore to God I’m going to come off the fence. I’m going to spend the rest of my life dedicated to doing good in his name.”
Two days later, over 150 Jews and Christians joined their voices together in Hallel, the biblical Psalms of praise, to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day. Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, Tommy Waller, and musician Lazer Lloyd led hundreds of believers in fulfilling the ancient call of Psalm 117: “Praise the Lord, all you nations; extol Him, all you peoples.” The nations of the world praising God for His goodness to Israel. Together, in one voice.
None of it was inevitable. You made all of it possible.
In Israel, Yom Hazikaron is Memorial Day, the one day each year set aside to honor the soldiers who gave their lives defending the Jewish state. And Yom HaAtzmaut, which falls the very next day, is Independence Day, the anniversary of Israel’s founding in 1948. The two days are inseparable by design. Before Israel celebrates, she grieves. Before the fireworks, there are funerals. No nation on earth moves so deliberately from mourning to joy, because no nation on earth has paid what Israel has paid to simply exist.
You may have noticed that the news cycle rarely tells stories like Natan Rosenfeld’s. The headlines focus on the political and the inflammatory. They deliberately and systematically leave out the human cost that real families pay, and the miraculous reality of what Israel actually is: the fulfillment of biblical prophecy unfolding in real time.
Israel365 exists to fill that gap. And Israel365 Action, which co-hosted the Yom HaAtzmaut Hallel celebration, was founded after October 7th to go further still: to mobilize Jews and Christians with the truth about Israel, combat the lies and misinformation targeting her, and assert without apology that this land belongs to the Jewish people. When Jews and Christians gathered to sing Hallel together on Israel’s Independence Day, that wasn’t just a celebration. It was a statement.
Your support made both of those moments possible.
If these events moved you, then you already know why this work matters. We need your help to keep doing it, so the next Yom Hazikaron won’t pass in silence, and the next Yom HaAtzmaut will again ring out with Jewish and Christian voices praising God together. Your gift today ensures it will. Donate now.
The Jewish people are still here. Israel is still standing. God is keeping His promises.
So are we, because of you.