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Thursday, May 30, 2002 Sivan 19, 5762
Israel Time: 09:51 (GMT+3)
Program links U.S. evangelicals with Israel
By Yair Sheleg
The warm relations that have existed for many years between Israel and evangelical
Christians in the United States are set to be improved in the near future with the
launch of a program called "Stand with Israel."
The program, aimed at institutionalizing evangelical support for Israel, is the
brainchild of Rabbi Yehiel Eckstein, president of the International Fellowship of
Christians and Jews.
For the last 25 years Eckstein, an Orthodox rabbi from Chicago, who settled in Israel
about a year ago, has been heavily involved in relations between the Jewish and
Christian communities in the United States.
For the last eight years he has headed the Jerusalem Friendship Fund that collects
donations from the evangelical community in aid of immigration and welfare projects
in Israel. To date, Eckstein says, the fund has distributed around $60 million.
Eckstein now wishes to use his connections to deepen evangelical support for Israel
and talks of setting up a Christian version of the pro-Israel lobby on Capitol Hill,
the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
In order to realize his idea, Eckstein has enlisted the support of Ralph Reed, the
head of the Christian Coalition and one of the leaders of the Republican Party.
Eckstein and Reed plan to act on two fronts: the Christian leadership and the general
public.
Eckstein plans to enlist prominent Christian leaders such as Christian Coalition
founder Pat Robertson and the preacher Jerry Falwell, whom he plans to invite next
month to the program's founding convention in Washington and then, further down
the line, to Israel, for a meeting with senior Israeli figures, including Prime
Minister
Ariel Sharon.
As far as the grassroots campaign goes, Eckstein says, the plan is to set up an
Internet site where supporters of Israel will be able to register themselves. "We hope
that within a year we will have a million registered supporters," Eckstein said. The
site will enable users to send letters of support for Israel to Congressmen and will
provide information about Israel and its policies.
The organization has set September 9 as a day of support for Israel in all the
evangelical churches in the U.S. The date was not incidental. It falls 2 days before
September 11 when Americans will mark the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks
on the United States.
"Millions of Americans will attend church on that day, among them President Bush
and the leaders of the Republican Party," Eckstein said.
This year, September 9 also happens to be the second day of Rosh Hashanah,
giving it, from Eckstein's point of view, an additional symbolic Judeo-Christian
connection.
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