Yechiel Eckstein

Tel Aviv, IFCJ open new shelter for Israel's homeless

HaGagon's goal is to "provide a home for addicts living on the streets while maintaining a sense of human dignity," the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality said.

 A homeless person sleeps in the street on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on September 23, 2020, during a nationwide lockdown
Alon Davidi with Fellowship founder, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein z”l,  at the Sderot Conference for Society and Fellowship in 2014

IFCJ had immediate, life-saving impact in Israel during coronavirus crisis

An illustrative photo of the new headquarters of The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews in Jerusalem.

International Fellowship of Christians and Jews cancels Jerusalem center

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein in his office, the day before he died

Rabbi Eckstein’s final interview


Unto the Nations: Life lessons from Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein not only distributed more charity for the Jewish people than anyone else in history, he brought about a revolution in Jewish-Christian relations.

RABBI YECHIEL ECKSTEIN greets new olim who arrived in Israel in 2015 on a IFCJ-funded flight

No Holds Barred: How Christians went from enemies to best friends

On a miraculous transformation.

Christian supporters of Israel march in a parade.

Interfaith Relations: Evangelical-Jewish relations after Eckstein

How will the death of the IFCJ’s charismatic founder affect the future of Christian support for Israel?

RABBI YECHIEL ECKSTEIN and his daughter Yael at Mount Arbel in the Galilee

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein's daughter steps into the late rabbi's shoes

Yael Eckstein had known that she would be taking over for her father at the fellowship.

IFCJ Global Vice President Yael Eckstein with a Holocaust survivor

First Olim flight lands in Israel since Rabbi Eckstein's death

Olim on the flight were from Kiev, Odessa, Kharkov and Kropyvnytskyi.

First immigrant flight lands in Israel since Rabbi Eckstein's death.

14 Days: SACRED AWE

Ori Ansbacher, 19, was brutally murdered in Jerusalem’s Ein Yael forest on February 21, and was buried in her hometown of Tekoa the next day.

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The Human Spirit: His world was a wide bridge

In Chicago, Eckstein was the first Jew many of the Evangelical pastors had ever met and they were willing, even eager, to support Jews, Israel and Soviet Jewry.

RABBI ECKSTEIN plays guitar and sings ‘From the Summit of Mount Scopus’ last month at Hadassah University Medical Center on Mount Scopus, where he dedicated the Lokomat robotic walking machine.

Remembering Rabbi Yehiel Eckstein

“He felt that the best way to touch them would be to address them in their own language, to lower as much as possible all the barriers.”

Rabbi Yehiel Eckstein greets arrivals on a 2015 Fellowship-funded aliyah flight.

Hundreds come to pay final respects to IFCJ founder Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein

“Yechiel was like the sun that shines one the world, and he shone on all Jews everywhere,” said Rabbi Berel Lazar.

Funeral of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein

Israeli-American Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein dies at 67

Eckstein raised over $1.3 billion, and until his death raised more than $140 million a year, mostly from Evangelicals, to assist Israel and the Jewish people.

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein

From the Ukraine to the Gaza border: IFCJ brings 400 more olim

The olim came to Israel to escape economic hardship and the ongoing violence of the Ukrainian civil war.

A mother and daughter from Ukraine arrive at Ben Gurion airport last week courtesy of International Fellowship of Christians and  Jews.