Many Israelis are asking today, 'What does the Lord want from us?' What the Lord is looking for today in His people is one thing – holiness! What the Lord is looking for in His people has not changed since the day He chose us to be His people. 
You shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. Exodus 19:6
Our G-d chose us and commanded us to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. Yet, anyone living in Israel today recognizes that we are a nation that has turned away from our G-d and His covenant. We have not harkened to His voice, and we have turned away from the purpose for which He has chosen us.
Our G-d not only called us to be a kingdom of priests, He called us to be His witnesses to the nations and peoples of the earth.
Ye are My witnesses, saith the LORD, and My servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He; before Me there was no G-d formed, neither shall ...   more »

By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM – Islamic authorities using heavy machinery to dig on the Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site – have been caught red-handed destroying Temple-era antiquities and what's believed to be a section of an outer wall of the Second Jewish Temple.
WND today obtained a photograph of a massive trench the Waqf, the Muslim custodians of the Temple Mount, have been blasting around the periphery of the holy site purportedly to replace 40-year-old electrical cables for mosques on the Mount. The Waqf has steadfastly denied they found or destroyed any Jewish antiquities during their dig.
Possible carved stone from Jewish Temple-era antiquity exposed by digging at Temple Mount in Jerusalem
In view in the picture, which was obtained in conjunction with Israel's Temple Institute, are concrete slabs broken by Waqf bulldozers and what appears to be a chopped up carved stone from Jewish Temple-era antiquity.
Eilat Mazar, considered one of the most prominent Temple Mount archaeologists, analyzed the photo and told WND the damaged stone displays elements of the second Temple era and might be part of a Jewish Temple wall Israeli archeologists charge the Waqf found and has been attempting to destroy. If authenticated, the wall ...   more »

by Hana Levi Julian and Alex Traiman(IsraelNN.com) A large trench being dug on the Temple Mount is destroying a never before uncovered section of the outer wall of the Second Temple. The construction is being supervised by the Wakf—the Muslim Authority acting as custodians to the Temple Mount.
Archeologists have been calling for construction to halt on the trench, which is approximately 1,300 feet long and five feet deep.  The Wakf claims the trench is being dug to replace 40-year-old electrical cables for nearby mosques.
New photos of construction debris from the Temple Mount show carved stones casually dumped in a pile that appear to be a section of the outer wall of the Second Temple, according to archaeologist Eilat Mazar. 
According to Rabbi Chaim Richman, International Director of the Temple Institute, the Wakf is intentionally digging in areas where "undoubtedly the Temple once stood."  "For the first time since the Temple's destruction, a section of the Temple Wall itself has been exposed," Richman said.  "And the Wakf under the guise of laying down electrical pipes has dug a trench, destroying the most important holy artifact ever found to date."
Richman contends that the Temple remains are being "purposely destroyed ...   more »

by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) Archaeologists digging south of Beit She'an in the Jordan Valley have uncovered, for the first time ever, beehives from the period of Israel's kings.
The dig, at Tel Rehov, located between the religious Kibbutzim Sdei Eliyahu and Ein HaNetziv, is being supervised by archaeologist Amichai Mazar of Hebrew University.  Mazar is a nephew of the famed archaeologist Binyamin Mazar, whose archaeologist daughter, Dr. Eilat Mazar, is a member of the Committee to Prevent the Destruction of Temple Mount Antiquities.The tel - a heap of ancient ruins from different periods, one on top of another - at Rehov is twice the size of Tel Megiddo, and the excavation team has found there rich destruction layers. Among the finds there were hundreds of restorable vessels, figurines, cult stands and the only beehives ever found in an excavation of an Iron Age site. 
The discovery of the beehives was made this past summer, and "it is the earliest beehive complex currently known," Prof. Mazar says. "It is dated to the 10th–9th centuries B.C.E." - around the time of King Solomon.
The beehive complex was found to contain three rows of beehives, for a total of 30, and another 70 ...   more »

 .Rockets fall outside town at the same time thousands of children were making their way to kindergartens and schools. 'My daughter called me terrified and hysteric,' one mother says, 'our children are studying under fire'
Shmulik Hadad
While thousands of children were making their way to school Monday morning, the Color Red alert was heard in Sderot, followed by two loud explosions. Two Qassam rockets landed outside of town, causing no injuries or damage.  
Another rocket landed near a kindergarten in town shortly after; several people suffered shock and a house was damaged.  
A mother of a child who attends the kindergarten said: "They called my and said that a rocket landed near the facility. I ran there and found all the children terrified and in tears. The kindergarten teachers tried to calm them."
Another rocket landed later just outside Sderot, causing no injuries or damages. 
Earlier, Palestinian gunmen fired three rockets from northern Gaza; the Qassams landed in open fields near Sderot. No one was injured and no damage was caused in this attack as well.  
An overall of seven rockets hit the southern town during the morning hours.  
Panic and hysteria
Sderot residents told ...   more »

Christian Couple Forced to Leave Israel after 20 Years
Messianic legal adviser: "It’s a negative precedent. This is not something that has been done. It seems to me unreasonable the decision that was made."
By Nicole Jansezian
Ron Cantrell was living out his calling to stand by the Jewish people in Israel when on June 11, 2003 he was at the scene of a suicide bombing that killed 18 people on a bus on Jaffa Road.
“Experiencing terrorism in such a personal way only confirmed my resolve and commitment to the Jewish nation of Israel,” Cantrell wrote on his website.
Four years later, however, Israel’s Ministry of Interior, exercising its “ultimate discretion,” refused the Cantrell’s application to live in Israel and instead ordered them to leave the Land after having been here for more than 20 years.
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