Our President and Global CEO Yael Eckstein remembers October 7 two years later in an op-ed with Townhall.com:
I have seen that love with my own eyes. As President and Global CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, I walk the narrow streets of Israel and travel the wide roads of America, and I see His presence through the people of faith that I meet—Christians and Jews who see Israel not through the fog of newsprint or the blur of the screen, but through Scripture. They open the Bible and read of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and they know that to bless Israel is to love God’s people and to live out His Word.
And so, two years later, The Fellowship and our millions of supporters carry on this work of blessing God’s people. We build shelters to shield children from rockets. We build trauma centers where wounds are healed and lives are made whole again. We build new lives for refugees fleeing persecution, simply for their faith, and we welcome them to their biblical homeland. And we build bridges—of faith, of friendship, and of fellowship between Christians and Jews.
One of these bridges is adorned with flags. Flags of Fellowship is a global movement in blue and white. Outside churches and synagogues, and in yards and campus quads, tiny hands and wrinkled hands plant Israeli flags in the ground, each one remembering one of the 1,200 lives lost on that dark day two years ago, and each one a proclamation of God’s love.
