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Question for Israeli President
A Question for the President of Israel
by Guy Cohen
August 13, 2026
The President of the State of Israel is elected by the Knesset. Alongside the formal and ceremonial responsibilities of the office, the President carries a much deeper role. He is often regarded as Israel’s number one citizen, someone expected to rise above political and social divisions and seek to bring together the different communities that make up Israeli society.The President does not have to agree with the faith, worldview, or lifestyle of every Israeli citizen. Nor does meeting a particular community amount to theological endorsement of its beliefs. But the President is expected to be the President of all Israelis.
This raises a question that has been on my mind for some time. Is there a community in Israel that is simply too politically or socially costly for the President to publicly embrace?
I am referring to Israel’s Messianic Jewish community. -
Christian Support Falls Short
At the southern steps of the Temple Mount on Shavuot/Pentecost 2023
[This article has been edited to protect the innocent.]Sadly, most of the famous Christian spiritual leaders who are known for fervent support Israel, don’t give the Israeli Messianic body of Messiah the time of day.
They don’t know any of the leaders of the 200+ congregations of Israelis in the faith of Yeshua (Jesus) and it is more convenient for them to stay away from the Israeli Messianic community. The unsaved Israelis they want to have influence with absolutely will not tolerate it if these famous Christian leaders come out in support of the Israeli Jews who proclaim the salvation in Jesus, whom they call by His Hebrew name Yeshua.
A couple of people came on my radar in recent days who have strong ties in Israel with authorities, but zero contact with the Israeli 5-fold ministries in Israel.
That’s right: there are apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers who are Israeli Jews ministering to the people of Israel. I’m not going to put these Christians down by mentioning their names, but all across the field of famous Christians who support Israel, MANY times over 3 decades Messianic Jews have approached them to open up to the Israeli Messianic community and they have rebuffed every approach. -
Anniversaries to Remember
Two years after the bombing of Jerusalem Sbarro Pizzeria My favorite American traditional Jewish commentator, Jonathan S Tobin has written something very close to my heart this morning. I cried reading his editorial just now about the 25th year anniversary of the Sbarro Pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem on August 9, 2001. Since writing this a couple of days ago, I have learned that the son of a well known Israeli Messianic figure was one of the first responders to arrive at the horrific blast scene. Terrorism creates hell-scapes.
Within a week of that bombing I would launch the first Weekly Summary of Prayer Requests from Israeli Ministries. A handful of us would meet every Thursday to pray for them who were in the midst of continual terror attacks all around the country.
My 50th birthday was 2 days before Islamist terrorists chose to bomb a pizzeria filled with women pushing baby strollers. The bomb killed “16 people, including eight children and a pregnant woman, and wounded another 130 persons.”
Our newly formed Israel Prayer group met each week to pray for God’s protection and for thwarting suicide bombing plots with the intel I was gathering directly from inside the Israeli Messianic ministries.
Then in around Oct-Nov 2003, in my first ever trip to Israel, the two ladies I traveled with and I purposed to go to as many of the bombing sites as we could on that 2 week visit. We did go to Sbarro Pizza which had been rebuilt to demonstrate the resilience and determination of Israelis not to brutally driven from the Promised Land. The picture above I took in 2003. My travel companion, Toni, is standing behind the two men in white shirts in front of the Sbarro pizza.
It was sobering for us to visit these bombing sites. We were not there just to visit ancient sites. We knew we were standing among those who are continuing the book of Acts beyond its 28 chapters in the Bible. This is the real Israel. Still biblical. Still contending for God and wrestling with enemies in finding their way back to Him spiritually. -
On Nicaean Council Ruins
Ruins of the Church of the Nicaean Council Hidden Underwater (Video Screensave)
Did you know that after the first century apostles died that there was a gradual loss of connection among the churches established by the Apostle Paul and others among the non-Jewish churches?
Before Paul was arrested in Jerusalem and imprisoned in Rome, he established an offering be set up among all the churches he established. The offerings were collected over about a three year period before Paul, along with representatives from each church, brought the donations to Jerusalem. The donations were for the Apostles to administer. The purpose was to help sustain “the poor” body of Messiah to continue to minister in Israel.By 318 AD no churches had continued sending financial assistance, even though Paul knowingly paid for delivering it with his freedom.
As he made his journey to Jerusalem to carry the FIRST donation from ALL the Churches, prophets came out warning Paul that if he continued forward, he would be arrested. Paul already knew there would be harsh consequences for him delivering this important financial gift to the Apostles in Jerusalem for sustaining their ministry and for assisting Jewish believers in Israel.
In Paul’s letters to the churches four out of six times that Paul uses the phrase, “the poor,” he is clearly in context referencing the poor believers in Judea. One of the remaining two is in reference to himself. (Ro 15:26, 1 Cor 16:1, 15; 2 Cor 9:1, :12-13). They were of the Jewish people, but were shunned because of faith in Yeshua. It has been much the same today as then and it the reason for much of the lack of financial blessing among the body of Messiah and their ministries in Israel. -
Seed Bed of Genesis
Grok created image “In the Beginning”
Last Days Content Found “In the Beginning”
From the Seed Bed of Genesis Part 1I began to reread the Genesis chapters about God’s call on each of the Patriarchs beginning with Abram wanting to confirm the accuracy of my memory and verify my facts. It was to make sure the article I was writing, the Barren Matriarchs of Israel, was true to the biblical account. The details of how Abram’s call by God was necessary. As I began to reread about Abram’s call, I found much, much more than I had ever seen before. It was supposed to be a ‘quick’ fact check but God had other plans. When I came upon The War of the Kings it was out of nowhere! I did not remember ever really seeing it, but as I saw it now, it was clear to me it had application for the days we live in. The deeper I studied the brief account, the more convinced I became that it was something we needed to know for the days we live.
That discovery made me slow down in my reread of Genesis to take a more focused sweep of God’s “seed bed” of all his plans. In the past I learned that God progressively revealed His plans throughout the Bible and throughout the expanse of human history. Genesis is the seed bed of the main thing God is doing among us. He is creating a family. Genesis is the account of the first human beings God chose for His family. That makes their experiences of critical importance to us because He is still in the process of forming us for His family too.
God’s purpose in calling out Abram is the same purpose He called you out too: ‘in order to form a more perfect union’. We are to be a unity of Jew and the peoples of the nations who are God’s family. It is a family that transcends the families of Adam and Eve. God is going to restore the Garden of Eden for a family He has formed for Himself. Whether you are a Messianic Jew or a Christian in any nation, it will serve us well to look earnestly at the way God “formed” the first individuals chosen to be in His family.
Referring to accounts in Numbers 16 and 25, Paul tells the Corinthian church, 1 Cor 10:1-4,
“I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. “
The scripture did not say in vain: their lives were recorded to be examples for us who followed in covenant faith in Jesus. Paul tells them explicitly a few verses later in 10:11:
“Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.” -
Two Shall Become One
Consider the mystery of Ephesians 2:15-16 making of Jew and Gentile “one new man” with Ephesians 5:32 “great mystery” of “Two Shall Become One”
For months I have heard Christian prophets giving me wonderfully encouraging words that built me up in the midst of relentless warfare that has been beating me down.
My mind was set to endure all things for the sake of what God has given me to do, but at times the mental exhaustion of it has had me really worn out. I have struggled to overcome the realization that my mailings on behalf of Israeli believer ministries has just about been wiped out. But I have had no real way to assess just how wiped out the lists actually are.
I just knew I had to find an alternative way to keep moving in advocacy for the body of Messiah in Israel.
Of course this was not the entirety of the battles I’ve faced. The beat down was happening on many fronts.
But back to the encouraging words of the Christian prophets. I haven’t paid any attention to Christian prophets for years – a decade and a half probably because I was so put off with the ZERO understanding most have for Israel’s place in God’s full vision for us. I only started listening to Christian prophets again after the attack on IHOPKC/Mike Bickle shut down the leading Christian prophet (of the slim to almost none) who ever considered Israel and how God cherished the Jews and His intent to restore Israel.
It flabbergasts me still that there is so much God has revealed in His Word about that, and in the biblical prophecies that have unfolded in our natural eyes in the past century. How could a prophet miss such things?