The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 was not the creation of a new national identity; it was the return of the Jewish people to their historic, God-given land. This connection to the ...

Similarly, Judaism had never before considered the kind of return to Israel ... God’s chosen people—chosen for a purpose for which it is responsible. To fulfill this role, the children of Abraham and ...

explaining that it is God’s will that His nation yearns for Eretz Yisrael. Just as the Land was given to Avraham only once he desired it, so she is given to the Am Yisrael (Nation of Israel ...

But on some measures, Jews’ feelings for Israel are equaled or even exceeded by those of white evangelical Protestants. For example, twice as many white evangelical Protestants as Jews say that Israel ...

Eighty-two percent of white evangelical Protestants believe that Israel was “given to the Jewish people by God.” Just 40 percent of U.S. Jews share that belief. From our morning news briefing ...

Christians around the world have visited Israel and Palestine for hundreds of years, seeking God’s favor as ... Custody of the Holy Land and the remaining 35% given to the Dicastery for the ...

“There is no room in our small but wonderful God-given tract for another state ... we need to declare: ‘The land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel.’ Only then can we start ...

"I am Israel," living out what they believe is their God-given calling in "The Land." A descendant of a Holocaust survivor said moving to Israel as a child changed the way she grew up, from ...

Israel’s supernatural claim to Canaan is not continuous in the same way, since its relationship to the land is marked by rupture. What God has given he can also take away, and on at least two ...

Part one of a conversation between John Piper and Jews for Jesus head David Brickner. Do Jews have a divine right to the Promised Land? Are American pastors dismissive of Arab Christians in Israel?

Israel’s war against Hamas ... Christians around the world have visited the Holy Land for hundreds of years, seeking God’s favor as they walk in the holy places where Christ and other biblical ...