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A unique online Bible centered around the Jewish people’s connection to the Land of Israel was launched on the Internet just over a week ago

A unique online Bible centered around the Jewish people’s connection to the Land of Israel was launched on the Internet just over a week ago. The project, called The Israel Bible, was initiated by an organization called Israel 365 that is based in the city of Beit Shemesh, located in central Israel.

“We’re certainly living in critical times where support for Israel is more divisive than ever and solidifying Biblical support for Israel among the Christian Zionist community is more important than ever at this moment,” Rabbi Tuly Weisz, founder and director of Israel 365, told Tazpit Press Service (TPS). Rabbi Weisz’s organization uses videography and photography to display Israel’s religious significance and attributes.

The Israel Bible project provides readers and subscribers with a number of educational features. In addition to the commentaries written by ten of Israel’s leading educators and tour guides explaining the Jewish people’s connection to the Land of Israel, the Bible also comes equipped with interactive Google maps showing the various locations of numerous events in the Bible throughout the Land of Israel.

While Israel has traditionally received a significant amount of support from the evangelical Christian community, Rabbi Weisz told TPS that providing this educational tool for Christians as well as Jews is of significant importance in light of current developments.

“The evangelical voice on Israel is being pulled away from us by the BDS movement, which is really looking to chip away at evangelical support for Israel,” noted Rabbi Weisz. “This Israel Bible, which is directed at the Christian Zionist evangelical market, can help evangelicals become more knowledgeable of what the Bible says about Israel and to whom Israel belongs as well as the source of the Jewish right to the Land of Israel.”

BDS (the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel) has attempted over the last several years to convince members of the Christian evangelical community to adopt an anti-Israel theological position.

“Last week (March 7-10), there was a Christ at the Checkpoint, anti-Israel, pro-BDS evangelical conference in Bethlehem,” Rabbi Weisz related.

The conference was run by the Bethlehem Bible College and a number of Palestinian and international evangelical Christians were invited to the conference in order “to challenge evangelicals to take responsibility to help resolve the [Israeli-Palestinian conflict]” and to “create a platform for serious engagement with Christian Zionism and an open forum for ongoing dialogue between all positions within the evangelical theological spectrum.”

“It was not a Catholic conference. It was an evangelical conference,” Rabbi Weisz noted. “They don’t like that evangelicals are associated with being pro-Israel and they are trying to get the evangelical community to question the Jewish claim to Israel.”

Rabbi Weisz said that the only way to get evangelicals to question the validity of the Jewish people’s claim to the Land of Israel is to add details and perspective to the Bible that were not there beforehand.

“The only way to get evangelicals to question the Jewish people’s right to the Land of Israel is by rewriting the Bible and by reading things into the Bible that are simply not there,” Rabbi Weisz explained. “For example, they say that God rejected Israel and that He had a covenant with Israel and then rejected His covenant and replaced Israel.”

“They would claim therefore that we have no right to the land and that we are stealing it from the ‘rightful’ Palestinian owners of the land,” continued Rabbi Weisz.

The Israel Bible has already reached milestone numbers of subscribers and readers.

“We have approximately 10,000 people who have signed up for their own personalized reading plans in just the past few weeks since we’ve launched the website,” Rabbi Weisz shared with TPS.

The Bible also encourages the dissemination of informational and educational content on social media.

“We incorporated innovative technology allowing people to get points for commenting, asking questions, and sharing,” explained Rabbi Weisz.

Rabbi Weisz remains very hopeful and optimistic that The Israel Bible project will succeed in spreading knowledge and awareness in the evangelical Christian community about Israel’s just and rightful claim to the Land of Israel.

“We’re hopeful that the Israel Bible will provide people with the educational ammunition to refine their beliefs and to understand that God gave the Land of Israel to the Jews eternally, did not revoke His covenant, did not break His promise and did not replace the people of Israel at any point ever.”

Jonathan Benedek (TPS)

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