March 15th is indeed the Ides of March in Syria. Mars, the God of War, descended on Syria on this date eleven years ago and has never left, though he is also busy in Ukraine and other places. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad managed to cling to power for more than a decade, first with help from Hezbollah and Iran followed by Russia after 2015. Earlier this month, representatives of the United States, the United Nations, Arab and European countries called once again for a ceasefire, humanitarian ...
Mar 15, 2022•28 min
Monika and Yair host Emmanuel Kilem and Lion Cooke, the founders of VdD7 Ministries, meaning “The Mighty Men of David” in Spanish. Over the for the past 5 years, the two have traveled to spread the good news of the Gospel of Peace from Jerusalem to over 70 nations as the Holy Spirit leads them to see the power and love of God manifested for His glory. Teaming up with ministries around the world, they have dedicated their lives to seeing the John 4:23-24 generation raised up to continue preparing...
Mar 13, 2022•28 min
Jonathan and Yair unveil potential implications the Russia-Ukraine crisis may have on the world as we know it. The two underlined the Christian principle of sacrifice and emphasize why it is important for nations to make sacrifices for each other in order to preserve their core principles and ideals. Amen. You are welcome to join our audience and watch all of our programs - free of charge! TV7 Israel News: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/563/ Jerusalem Studio: https://www.tv7israelnews....
Mar 13, 2022•28 min
Please join host Michael Kerem for an in-depth discussion with special guest Tim Buttom, who is the facilitator for Big Love Moldova, an organization that provides humanitarian aid to Ukrainian refugees in neighboring countries in Europe. This report includes personal testimony from Eastern Europe. Join us in prayer for the people in need, and please consider supporting the Ukrainian refugees at https://www.stewardship.org.uk/pages/BigLoveUkraine. “Loving in deed and in truth.” 1 John 3.16-18. Y...
Mar 12, 2022•28 min
One does not have to live in the Middle East in order to view the Ukrainian conflict with concern and compassion, but for those of us in this region there are extra dimensions which bear watching. What does Russia’s decision to invade its neighbor mean regarding the threat and use of force elsewhere? Has the military performance on either side met expectations? Can the United States and NATO be counted on in a similar crisis? And what about the specter of nuclear weapons? Panel: Host: Jonathan H...
Mar 12, 2022•27 min
With the Russia-Ukraine crisis overtaking all other international phenomena, the issues discussed in this episode include: diplomacy, deterrence, intelligence use by policymakers, sanctions, nationalism and breakaway states, United Nations institutions (Security Council and General Assembly), NATO, nuclear weapons, navigation by smaller countries between big powers, military aid without intervention, and above all - the legitimacy and effectiveness of premeditated war in 2022. Panel: - Host: Ami...
Mar 11, 2022•42 min
Apart from the nuclear file, Iran’s activities in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iraq - compounded by maritime aggression in the Arabian Gulf and its vicinity - brought home to pro-Western regional governments the need for wider and deeper military and security cooperation. Two of the major lynchpins in this new array of forces are CENTCOM’s Fifth Fleet and the Israel Defense Forces’ Air Force and Navy. Panel: - Jonathan Hessen, Host. - Amir Oren, Editor at Large, Host of Watchmen Talk and Powers in ...
Mar 08, 2022•28 min
Jonathan emphasizes that it is very hard to determine what information is truthful during times of war, as both sides manipulate information. As followers of Christ we are comforted to know that he is always in control! So we should seek his will and trust in Him. You are welcome to join our audience and watch all of our programs - free of charge! TV7 Israel News: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/563/ Jerusalem Studio: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/18738/ TV7 Israel News Edito...
Mar 06, 2022•28 min
Please join host Amir Oren for the first of a two-part interview with Brigadier General (Res.) Yuval Bazak, who served as an Infantry officer in the Golani Brigades and other command positions in the Israel Defense Forces for more than 30 years. While leading Israeli troops from platoon to brigade levels, he conducted counter-terror campaigns in Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank, In addition to active involvement in the IDF Conceptual Lab dealing with the military’s present and emerging challenges...
Mar 05, 2022•28 min
Tensions between Russia and Western countries, as well as international organizations such as the European Union over the war in Ukraine will certainly affect other issues on which there was up-to-now common ground between the parties. A case in point is the nuclear deal being essentially renegotiated in Vienna between Iran and the parties to the 2015 agreement. If Russia is now in a hostile stance towards the United States and its allies, it may tilt towards Iran regardless of the Islamic Repub...
Mar 04, 2022•27 min
Less than three months before general elections are to be held in Lebanon, the country is in turmoil though not yet in one of its periodic civil wars. The most severe problem is the collapse of the economy, spreading misery to many walks of the population, though not to a corrupt and incompetent elite. The governor of the central bank is suspected of using his decades-old job as a sort of a 'political mafia accountant.' Hezbollah ignores Lebanon’s interest in peace and quiet on its borders by pr...
Mar 01, 2022•28 min
onathan and Amir seek God’s Word in the Bible for the times we live in. The hosts encourage you, our viewers, to spend time reading the Word of God to find peace in your lives. You are welcome to join our audience and watch all of our programs - free of charge! TV7 Israel News: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/563/ Jerusalem Studio: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/18738/ TV7 Israel News Editor’s Note: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/76269/ TV7 Israel: Watchmen Talk: htt...
Feb 27, 2022•28 min
Jonathan and Yair discuss the Russia-Ukraine crisis, and even though its geographically located far from Israel and the Middle East, we at TV7 Israel keep saying that everything has direct or indirect implications for the Peace of Jerusalem. As a family of believers, we are called to pray for the situation and ask God to intervene. Psalm 23 1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 3 He restoreth my soul: he ...
Feb 27, 2022•28 min
Please join us for discussion on the Russia-Ukraine crisis, including roles assumed by NATO and the European Union. Additional topics include efforts to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal between Iran and world powers. Co-Hosts: 1. Amb. Danny Ayalon, Israel's Former Ambassador to the United States and Deputy Foreign Minister & Lecturer at NYU. 2. Col. (Res.) Dr. Eran Lerman, Israel’s Former Deputy National Security Adviser, Vice President of the Jerusalem Institute fo...
Feb 26, 2022•28 min
The Israel Air Force is widely recognized as one of the world’s best organizations of military aviation. It excels in air-to-air combat, air-to-ground strikes and surface-to-air intercept; the last mission being assigned in the Israel Defense Forces to this branch rather than to the Army. Yet what has been a remarkable record against ‘birds of prey’ is more questionable when ‘mosquitoes buzz.’ Last week, a small Unmanned Aerial System penetrated Israeli airspace from Lebanon and managed to safel...
Feb 25, 2022•27 min
Earlier this month, the U.S. Special Forces Operation against the leader of Da’esh (or ISIL) Ibrahim Quraishi (also known as Hajj Abdullah) was apparently successful on two levels: it removed from the scene a supreme commander who had a major role in the Islamic State’s efforts to regroup and once again take over parts of Syria; and it also raised the possibility that Da’esh will not be able to function under a single authority of a so-called “Caliph,” but from now-on act in a decentralized fash...
Feb 22, 2022•27 min
However the situation vis-à-vis Russia unfolds, the latest tensions within Europe’s most eastern theater will have far-reaching ramifications – not only for the continent, but the entire world. At a time when the United States and its allies in Europe, Australia and elsewhere work tirelessly to maintain a so-called “rules based international order,” Russia and China aim to redefine the existing global structure by means of “strategic competition” with hopes of realizing a refined version that co...
Feb 21, 2022•58 min
Jonathan and Yair discuss Iran’s aspirations in the Middle East. and how revival of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal could help the Islamic Republic achieve its malign goals. You are welcome to join our audience and watch all of our programs - free of charge! TV7 Israel News: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/563/ Jerusalem Studio: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/18738/ TV7 Israel News Editor’s Note: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/76269/ TV7 I...
Feb 20, 2022•28 min
When Xi Jinping met Vladimir Putin ‘love was in the air,’ or at least mutual interests. Joe Biden’s evident traits are of course somewhat different than Donald Trump’s. Erdogan rubs some of his counterparts the wrong way. Merkel is out - what now? And so on, the old question in a new setting: how does an individual leader’s unique weight - light or heavy - change international equations? Does it really matter, optics aside, who runs great powers and who happens to run against or alongside them? ...
Feb 18, 2022•42 min
However the Russia-Ukraine crisis unfolds with its political and military dimensions, the Middle East is more than a curious bystander watching a tense face-off in the neighborhood. It will have significant implications for the relative power and influence of Russia and the United States. The value of alliances, formal ones such as NATO and less formal ad-hoc coalitions in Syria and elsewhere, will be tested. Governments from Beirut to Baghdad and Ankara to Amman will reassess their policies. So...
Feb 14, 2022•27 min
Monika and Yair host Joshua and Anastasiya Gooding, who coordinate the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem prayer initiatives to connect individuals, local prayer groups, pastors, churches, national and international prayer leaders around the globe. The ICEJ mission presents special opportunities for all believers to become part of a global prayer army that covers every time zone, continent and country. Isaiah 62:6-7 I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; They shall [f]never hold ...
Feb 13, 2022•28 min
Jonathan and Yair discuss Iran’s aspirations in the Middle East in light of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal, as well as the Islamic Republic’s impact on Israel, the region and the entire world. You are welcome to join our audience and watch all of our programs - free of charge! TV7 Israel News: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/563/ Jerusalem Studio: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/18738/ TV7 Israel News Editor’s Note: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/...
Feb 13, 2022•27 min
Please join host Michael Kerem for an in-depth discussion with special guest David Demian, the Facilitator of the Watchmen for the Nations and the Global Family organization, and an Egyptian residing in Canada with a heart for Israel and the nations. This episode concentrates on the worldwide view of the Church, persecution of the Christian community and more. You are welcome to join our audience and watch all of our programs - free of charge! TV7 Israel News: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/s...
Feb 12, 2022•28 min
The bargaining between the United States and Iran, whether formally and indirectly in Vienna or elsewhere and through other channels, is evidently approaching its endgame. The indicators include a waiver on sanctions related to nuclear work in Iranian facilities, reversing a Trump-era policy and serving as a good will gesture on the part of the Biden administration. U.S. President Joe Biden himself talked with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, in what was obviously a preface to an announce...
Feb 11, 2022•28 min
The war-torn country of Yemen is seen by analysts as a territory of limited strategic value with some ability to threaten vital shipping lanes in the adjacent Red Sea. And while local groups are vehemently fighting for control over this impoverished territory, the conflict is not only an internal one but rather is part of a regional struggle factoring-in Iran, Saudi Arabia and even Turkey. Panel: - Jonathan Hessen, Host. - Amir Oren, Edit Panel: - Atte Kaleva, Finnish Parliament Member. - Col. (...
Feb 08, 2022•27 min
Jonathan and Yair explore the Russia-Ukraine crisis and its potential implications on the world and Israel. They also discuss the danger of misinformation, as well as the critical importance of responsible journalism. You are welcome to join our audience and watch all of our programs - free of charge! TV7 Israel News: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/563/ Jerusalem Studio: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/18738/ TV7 Israel News Editor’s Note: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/ser...
Feb 06, 2022•27 min
Please join host Amir Oren for the third of a three-part interview with former Knesset Member and IDF Commander DR Maj. Gen. Ret.) David Tzur. David “Tzuri” Tzur began his military career as a Paratrooper, during which he participated in many raids. He later joined and ultimately commanded the Coastal Plain District Police and Israel's National Counter Terror Unit for the IDF (known by its Hebrew acronym as “Yamam). Tzur was decorated for bravery for his part in missions of the elite unit, inclu...
Feb 05, 2022•28 min
When Israel looks at its northern borders, it tends to view the neighboring countries of Syria and Lebanon as ‘one front with two sectors and half-dozen elements.’ There are the military forces under the control of Damascus and Beirut; the Shi’ite political movement and heavily armed militia Hezbollah, Iranian units and proxies, a resurgent Daesh and the Russian presence in and above southwestern Syria, with a deconflicting mechanism separating it from Israeli attacks against the others - mostly...
Feb 04, 2022•27 min
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has apparently made a strategic decision to bury the hatchet and normalize Turkey’s relations with Israel. For the last several months, there have been small and symbolic signs of Erdogan’s willingness to chart a new course with the Bennett government, after a dozen years of tension with the one headed by Netanyahu. There were phone calls with senior Israeli officials; Erdogan praised Bennett’s “positive attitude” and his Foreign Minister wished his Israeli...
Feb 01, 2022•28 min
Jonathan and Amir discuss regional events throw a biblical lens. In this episode they touch base on the International Holocaust Memorial Day, and look back at prophesies made by Ezekiel. Ezekiel 37:11 12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 13 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you u...
Jan 30, 2022•28 min
