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A sunset over Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area.
I Have No Other Country
IFCJ Canada  |  October 9, 2024
We have had an extremely hot summer in Israel. In the last week or so, there has been a slight drop
Yael standing outside Kiryat Soup Kitchen, surveying damage
Soup Kitchen Meal Deliveries Continue in War Zone
IFCJ Canada  |  September 19, 2024
No one is safe when rockets fall… not elderly, or families, and not even the very places meant to provide care and protection during times of crisis: like a Fellowship-supported soup kitchen.
Bishop Paul Lanier praying.
A Prayer for Israel’s Broken-Hearted
IFCJ Canada  |  September 6, 2024
Bishop Paul Lanier comes to us live with a prayer for the six hostages murdered in Gaza.
Released hostage Louis Har speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv on June 26, 2024.
‘To the Families of the Hostages, I Say Be Strong’
IFCJ Canada  |  August 23, 2024
Now free, Louis Har speaks with writers at JNS and shares his hope that all the hostages come home and that the families of those taken stay strong. Har spent 129 days in captivity by Hamas in Gaza after being kidnapped on October 7:
Food warehouse and packing food boxes for communities in the north of Israel in case of terrorist attack.
Northern Communities Launch Emergency Plan
IFCJ Canada  |  August 21, 2024
As Israel braces for a possible attack from surrounding terrorist groups, we’ve helped to provide a plan to deliver food to homes in the line of fire, especially for the weakest and most vulnerable, reports Ynet News:
150 French olim arrive in Israel on a Fellowship aliyah flight. Crowd holds a Fellowship sign saying "Welcome To Israel"
Defiant of Iranian Threat, Over 150 French Jews Make Aliyah
IFCJ Canada  |  August 9, 2024
With worries over rising and unchecked anti-Semitism across the globe, many Jewish people are choosing to make aliyah (immigrate to Israel) even amid rising tensions and threats of a direct attack from Iran.
View of the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel.
What Is the Temple Mount?
IFCJ Canada  |  August 9, 2024
The Temple Mount, known in Hebrew as Har HaBayit, is a site of immense religious, historical, and cultural significance, situated in the heart of Jerusalem’s Old City. This sacred place, which rises approximately 740 meters above sea level, has been a focal point of religious devotion and political tension for millennia. Revered by Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike, the Temple Mount draws visitors with its historical and spiritual depth, past and present converging in a uniquely powerful way. 
farm, Israel
$2 Million Food Security Initiative to Support Israeli Farmers
IFCJ Canada  |  July 25, 2024
The Fellowship along with it’s global partners are teaming up with with HaShomer HaChadash to pro
As Israel Battles Terror in the North, Fellowship Soup Kitchens Still Serve 
IFCJ Canada  |  June 27, 2024
The Fellowship supports 21 soup kitchens in Israel, which are all the more important as tensions and violence heat up in Israel’s north. And we are increasing our emergency funding. The Jerusalem Post tells us more: 
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Shavuot: ‘I’ll Have to Give You a Rain Check’
IFCJ Canada  |  June 13, 2024
Writing at The Times of Israel, Adele Raemer, (check out her Nourish Your Biblical Roots episode here), shares why this year she’s asking for a rain check on Shavuot, the Jewish Pentecost:
Bishop Lanier From Auschwitz
IFCJ Canada  |  June 6, 2024
This week Fellowship Ambassador Bishop Paul Lanier is in Poland visiting the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, where the Jewish people were isolated and murdered in the Holocaust. Confronted in person by this dark chapter in history, Bishop tells us he’s left with no words, only tears, and asks us to pray. 
Project Spotlight: Aliyah
IFCJ Canada  |  May 8, 2024
Even in the middle of a war on Israel, The Fellowship continues to bring new olim (immigrants) home to Israel. This time from Ukraine! Even though these Ukrainian olim know Israel is at war, they still decided to take a leap of faith.