The Group Forging a “Judeo-Christian” Zionism for the New MAGA Age | Jewish Currents

Israel365’s decades of outreach to Christian Zionists has made it a power player from the World Zionist Congress to the White House.

“Since its founding in 2012 by the American-born Israeli Orthodox Rabbi Tuly Weisz, Israel365 has dedicated itself to advancing the Israeli far-right’s cause with the American evangelical public. The group has achieved this using a digital media wing that produces a steady stream of what Weisz has called “Biblical journalism”; a publishing arm that produces an Israel-themed Bible, along with an array of religious books; a charity wing that raises funds for ventures ranging from farms in West Bank settlements to winter gear for Israeli soldiers; and a marketing wing that connects Israeli companies with Christian consumers. Thanks to this outreach, Israel365 has become an established face of biblical hasbara for US Christians.

This steady drumbeat of faith-based diplomacy has built crucial connective tissue between Israeli settler leaders on the one hand and MAGA movers and shakers like Steve Bannon, the Heritage Foundation, and evangelical leaders like Paula White-Cain (director of Trump’s White House Faith Office) on the other. For the hardline religious nationalists on both sides of this biblical romance, this partnership offers a way to achieve shared political goals. Building on the victories of the first Trump administration—the moving of the US embassy to Jerusalem, launch of the Abraham Accords, and more—such groups are now seeking the full Israeli annexation of the West Bank, an escalation of the exterminationist war on Gaza, and Jewish sovereignty over the Temple Mount.”

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