ISRAEL WATCH: 7.18.20 - So Many Jews are Returning to Israel

So Many Jews are Returning to Israel that the Government is Worried they won't be Able to Absorb them - by Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz - www.breakingisraelnews.com "Lo, I am sending for many fishermen -declares Hashem- And they shall haul them out; And after that I will send for many hunters, And they shall hunt them Out of every mountainand out of every hill And out of the clefts of the rocks." Jeremiah 16:16, (The Israel BibleTM) Unlike immigration to other countries, olim to Israel are welcomed as long-lost brothers, educated and housed at great public expense. A combination of coronavirus and anti-Semitismis creating conditions expected to bring millions of Jews home. But the Israeli government, already stretched to the limit, is concerned they may not be able to fulfill the prophecy in the proper manner. The Knesset's Immigration, Absorption, and Diaspora Affairs Committee met last Wednesday to discuss a major dilemma: Jewish immigration is expected to double nest year butbudgetary constraints will make it difficult, if not impossible to absorb them into Israeli society. Earlier this month, Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog reported to the committee that an estimated 250,000 people, mostly young people, will immigrate to Israel withinthe next three to five years. Herzog added that the number of people who have contacted the Jewish Agency about Aliyah from English-speaking countries has increased by 50%, and by 70% from French-speaking countries. Israel could receive as many as 90,000 new immigrants in 2021 - nearly three times the number of immigrants in 2019. Jewish Agency CEO Amira Ahronoviz presented the official Aliyah statistics for 2019: 35,000 immigrants, including 24,651 from the Commonwealth of Independent States; 3,963from European countries; 3,539 from North America; 1,746 from Latin America; 663 from Ethiopia; 442 from South Africa; 318 from Turkey and other Middle Eastern countries; and 189 from Australia and New Zealand. In 2009, only 16,000 people made Aliyah. Though these declarations are certainly cause for celebration as manifestations of the prophesied ingathering of the exiles, coping with immigration to Israel requires preparingphysical vessels to receive the divine blessings. MK David Bitan (Likud) emphasized that Israel must prepare for a large wave of immigration in the next year and a half due to the fact that large Jewish communities overseashave seen a significant number of corona-related deaths, alongside the rising anti-Semitism around the world. The Israeli government goes to great efforts to help new immigrants with job placement, housing options, scholarships for new immigrant university students, and languageskills. In the meeting on this subject last week, Bitan noted that immigration to Israel was being hampered by a shortage of consuls in Israeli embassies in the US. He also noted a shortage of manpower in Nativ, an independent administrative unit in the PrimeMinister's Office that is in charge of determining the eligibility to immigrate to Israel from the US and Eastern Europe based on the Law of Return. The Law of Return gives Jews the right to come and live in Israel and to gain Israeli citizenship. Though simple in concept, the law raises issues of defining Jewish identityand, as a result, is controversial and complicated. The committee called for making the citizenship process shorter than it currently is. Requests to make aliyah are processed in roughly four months. The pandemic has madethe process longer and more difficult. MK Zeev Elkin (Likud), who is in charge of Nativ, said that even prior to the corona crisis, people would have to wait about six months for an appointment at the IsraeliEmbassy in Moscow to check their eligibility for immigration. "The significance of this is that anyone who decides to make Aliyah will be able to actually do it only a year from now," he said. "In the meantime, he can, of course, change his mind, and we willlose this oleh (immigrant)." According to Minister Elkin, Nativ's budget for 2015 was $23.2 million but was reduced due to budgetary constraints to its current amount of $16.2 million. Nativ Director Neta Briskin-Peleg told the committee, "There are no shortcuts in checking eligibility. It is a complex, gentle (process) that takes time." During the process,she explained, Nativ also has to deal with the "document forging industry." Rabbi Jeremy Gimpel, founder of the Land of Israel Fellowship Program, noted that immigration to Israel embodies the prophecy as described by Jeremiah. Lo, I am sending for many fishermen -declares Hashem- And they shall haul them out; And after that I will send for many hunters, And they shall hunt them Out of every mountainand out of every hill And out of the clefts of the rocks. Jeremiah 16:16 "The prophet Jeremiah speaks of two stages of the ingathering of the Jewish People back to the land of Israel," Rabbi Gimpel told Breaking Israel News, noting that we areclearly entering a new stage of this prophecy. "Looking at history, it seems as though country by country, the exile is being shut down. From Arab countries, Ethiopia, Russia, France, and the rest of Europe... Now America is being shaken. It seems to be anew part of this larger process of return." Rabbi Gimpel emphasized that despite being prophecy, aliyah is, after all, produced through real-world means, requiring money. "Israel has absorbed more immigrants per capita than any other country in the world," Rabbi Gimpel said. "It isn't easy but it the foundational purpose of the State of Israelis to provide a national home for the Jewish People." How Israel Rescued The Promised Land From Devastation And Neglect - By James Sinkinson/JNS.org - https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=4164 Last week I toured much of northern Israel, from the Jezreel Valley and the Lower and Upper Galilee regions to the Golan Heights. The natural beauty of this part of Israel,as well as the explosive proliferation of agriculture, was striking and inspiring. The abundance of flora in Israel today makes it easy to forget that this land at the turn of the 20th century was a parched wasteland. It also raises the questions: Howdid this miraculous transformation take place, and who was responsible? On his visit to Palestine in 1867, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) called the Sea of Galilee "a solemn, sailless, tintless lake, as unpoetical as any bath-tub on earth." Onthe other hand, last week I found the Kinneret (its Hebrew name) a sparkling blue jewel surrounded on its north, south and west by vegetable fields, orchards and forests. Traveling by horseback through the Jezreel Valley, Clemens noted: "There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent--not for 30 miles in either direction. Thereare two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent habitation. One may ride 10 miles, hereabouts, and not see 10 human beings." Clemens continues, "Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. ... Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spellof a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies." According to Allon Tal's 2002 book, Pollution in a Promised Land, the Jezreel Valley around 1900 remained an undeveloped swamp--described as "barren and boring, a miserableplain without a tree or river ... all in ruins." Tal relates how one traveler in 1905 described mud so deep that the mules fell and the donkeys almost vanished in it. It wasn't until 1924 that Zionist settlers finished the herculean two-year task of convertingthese marshes into the rich, fertile farmland of today. Later, in 1918, following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, Herbert Samuel was named British High Commissioner of the Mandate for Palestine. In his 1921 "AnnualReport on the Civil Administration," Samuel wrote: "It is obvious to every passing traveler, and well-known to every European resident, that the country was before the War, and is now, undeveloped and under-populated. Themethods of agriculture are, for the most part, primitive; the area of land now cultivated could yield a far greater product. There are in addition large cultivable areas that are left untilled. The summits and slopes of the hills are admirably suited to the growth of trees, but there are no forests. Miles of sand dunes that could be redeemed, are untouched, a danger,by their encroachment, to the neighboring tillage. The Jordan and the Yarmuk offer an abundance of water-power; but it is unused... "After the persecutions in Russia forty years ago [1880] ... Jewish agricultural colonies were founded. They developed the culture of oranges and gave importance to theJaffa orange trade. They cultivated the vine, and manufactured and exported wine. They drained swamps. They planted eucalyptus trees. They practiced, with modern methods, all the processes of agriculture." Palestine's devastation can be attributed to many factors, mostly centered on poverty. At the turn of the century, an estimated 70 percent of the area's Arab inhabitantswere subsistence farmers. They took what they needed from the land--including unreplenished wood for fire--and allowed unrestrained sheep and goat grazing, as well as the hunting of native species, like the Syria bear and small deer, to extinction. While early Zionists saw Palestine as " a land without people for a people without land," there were some 700,000 people living in the area at that time, most of them Arab. However, Jewish immigration--bearing great intention and aspirations--had begun. Within a few generations, it would transform this neglected, relatively barren territoryinto a lush cornucopia of food and forests with a majority Jewish population. Fast-forward to the fruitful land I witnessed in northern Israel last week. What happened in the 100 years between 1920 and 2020? Wisely, the Zionists focused on agriculture to support Israel's growing population of both Jews and Arabs. The new immigrants purchased land that was largely semi-arid,much of which had become untillable due to deforestation, soil erosion and neglect. These pioneers cleared rocky fields, built terraces, drained swamps, planted trees, fought soil erosion and desalinated salty land. Today, Israel is a major exporter of fresh produce and a world leader in agricultural technologies, notwithstanding the reality that Israel's geography is not naturallyhospitable to agriculture. More than half of Israel's land area is desert, and its climate and dearth of water resources discourage farming. Imagine: Only 20 percent of Israel's land area is naturally arable. Yet Israel now produces some 95 percent of its own food requirements. Much of this success, of course, is owed to Israel's phenomenal, groundbreaking inventions in agricultural and food technology--starting with drip irrigation and water desalination.Israeli dairy cows are the most productive on the planet. Even more astounding: Since Israel attained independence in 1948, the total area under cultivation has skyrocketed by a factor of 2.6 to approximately 1.1 million acres.In just the past 50 years, agricultural settlements have grown from 400 to 750. Agricultural production has expanded by a factor of 16--300 percent greater than Israel's population growth. Wine also represents a thriving, expanding agricultural enterprise in Israel. Today, in a territory only one-thirteenth the size of New Zealand, just about the size of NewJersey, Israel supports some 320 wineries. (Trust my personal research: The output of these vines is uniformly excellent.) As for Israel's abundant forests, we can thank millions of North American and Israeli donors to the Jewish National Fund and its parent, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, which haveplanted more than 240 million trees in Israel. This effort alone has transformed the Land of Israel--providing groves, woods and forests of conifer, deciduous and fruit trees all over the country. In short, the Israeli miracle is far greater than the unsurpassed achievement of creating one of the world's most successful and powerful nations--made up of millions ofJewish refugees from all over the globe, most returning to their homeland in just 150 years. It's more, too, than reviving and reinventing the Hebrew language after 3,000 years. Israel is also the miracle of restoring a depleted, deteriorating land through determination, ingenuity and back-breaking work. While some resent Israel's revitalization of its indigenous national territory, Israel has, in effect, rescued the land of Palestine. Beautiful, thriving Israel today supportssome 9 million Arabs and Jews--almost 13 times more people than in 1900, all enjoying one of the world's highest standards of living ... and the best food in the Middle East. End-Times Eye on Israel - Terry James - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/ These commentaries have mentioned before Satan's sleight-of-hand in diverting attention from what's really going on, like in the old shell game called thimblerig. The pea is placed under the one of three shells and the player is invited to guess which shell the pea is under after the shells are shuffled. The shuffling increases in speed, and soon thehuman eye can't follow the movement to keep up with the shell concealing the pea. In most cases, the player ends up the loser after betting on being able to pick the correct shell. Like in the matter of globalist activity, where Satan and the demonic and human minions hide their true efforts to bring in their changed world order (with distractions of such activitiesas those of the cancel culture), the evil one diverts attention from things involving the number-one sign of these end times. He, for example, foments revolution within this nation and others of the Western world. All the while, the nation Israel and the entire Middle East region are being rearranged, setting the stage for the great, end-times play that will see the triumphant return of Christ. The devil, in his sin delusion, believes he is orchestrating the demise of God's chosen people. But it is the Lord who is the master director. His omniscient hand has already written the propheticscript that will soon unfold. So wise observers should keep their eye-their spiritual senses-on what's happening that involves Israel. We must do this despite all of the other troubling distractions that otherwise plagueus. And there is more than enough going on in Israel and vicinity to keep us transfixed. For example, Israel is at the center of accusations that Iran's nuclear program has suffered yet another setback. The following explains: Kuwait's Al-Jarida newspaper on Friday reported that Israel was responsible for a Thursday "accident" at an Iranian nuclear facility in Natanz. It is believed that the Natanz facility is used to enrich uranium. According to the Al-Jarida report, the explosion was caused by an "Israeli cyber attack" which targeted the computers which control the pressure gauges inside gas containers. Tehran has allegedlylost 80% of the uranium hexafluoride gas it needs in order to enrich uranium. The report also claimed that Israel is responsible for the Parchin blast which occurred last week. On Thursday, Iran's state news agency IRNA published an editorial warning that "if there are signs of hostile countries crossing Iran's red lines in any way, especially the Zionist regime(Israel) and the United States, Iran's strategy to confront the new situation must be fundamentally reconsidered." ("Natanz 'Accident' Was Israel's Fault," Middle East/Israel National News, Reuters, July 3, 2020) Iran, ancient Persia, is prophesied by Ezekiel the prophet to one day help lead a coalition to assault Israel in the Gog-Magog battle. Israel, as well as President Donald Trump for the US,has vowed Iran will never achieve development of a nuclear weapon. The mountains of the area known in Bible times as Elam is where much of Iran's nuclear program is hidden. Those mountains are prophesied to suffer some sort of catastrophic event. So, it isprudent to keep our eyes on this volatile region. The entire international community, including Israel's future attackers-Russia, Iran, Turkey, and others-are in a froth over Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to annex partsof the Jordanian valley. It's especially interesting that Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church has weighed in on the annexation plan. The following story frames the matter: The Vatican, in a highly unusual move, summoned both the US and Israeli ambassadors to express the Holy See's concern about Israel's moves to extend its sovereignty to Jewish settlements andthe Jordan Valley in the West Bank. A Vatican statement on Wednesday said meetings with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's secretary of state, and US Ambassador Callista Gingrich and Israeli Ambassador Oren David, took placeon Tuesday. A senior diplomatic source told Reuters that Parolin met the two envoys separately, a detail which was not clear in the Vatican statement. It said Parolin, the Vatican's top diplomat, expressed "the concern of the Holy See regarding possible unilateral actions that may further jeopardize the search for peace between Israelisand Palestinians, as well as the delicate situation in the Middle East." Israeli leaders decided in May that cabinet and parliamentary deliberations on extending Israeli sovereignty to Jewish settlements and the Jordan Valley in the West Bank, in coordination withWashington, could begin as of July 1. But with no agreement with Washington yet on the modalities of the move under a peace proposal announced by U.S. President Donald Trump in January, and talks with the White House still underway,no cabinet session was scheduled for Wednesday. The Vatican statement reiterated its position in support of a two state solution, saying "Israel and the State of Palestine have the right to exist and to live in peace and security, withininternationally recognized borders." ("Vatican Summons US, Israeli Envoys over Annexation Moves," Reuters, July 2, 2020) Pressures are building to produce a two-state solution to what the world of diplomacy sees as a Jewish problem. Just like in Hitler's demented mind, the globalist mindset, infected by luciferian insanity, is to blame Israel for all potential threats of war in the region. The anger against the Jewishstate and the Jewish people of the world will get much worse, according to Zechariah 12:1-3. Keep your eye on Israel, no matter what else is going on.