Stan

I’m a South African Gentile believer, a Biblical Zionist, the son of a missionary couple, a Mayflower descendant with a rich Christian heritage. For 26 years I’ve been married to Františka of Prague. We have seven Jerusalem-born children. Three have completed IDF service and are Israeli citizens Israel has been my home for 30 years. In that time I have been a kibbutz volunteer, a journalist, columnist, commentator and writer. I have traveled extensively from Israel – especially to the United States and Australia – to share "God’s case for Israel" with Christians. In 2011 I qualified as a certified Israel tour guide and enjoy the incomparable privilege of showing individuals, families and busloads of Christians around God's Land.

Orpah comes to Bethlehem

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Ruth and Naomi – Bible readers love this romantic and moving tale. Set in the time of the Judges (around 1100 BC) before the Israelites became a kingdom, it tells of a woman forced by famine, together with her husband and two boys, to leave her hometown of Bethlehem in the land of Judah and … Read more

Mysterious ways of Israel’s God

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(Alternative heading: “Sometimes the Enemy overreaches himself”)   The photograph went viral Tuesday: Taken from an angle, it caused a shadow made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pointed finger to effect a short, Hitler-like moustache beneath the nose of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Merkel and almost all her ministers had been in Israel for … Read more

Little worms at Vienna

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“Our enemies are little worms. I saw them at Munich.” – Adolf Hitler, after the Western Powers wilted before his aggressive adamancy at Munich. Instead of sitting like an equal alongside European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Margeret Ashton in Vienna, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Muhammed Zarif should be being hauled onto the carpet. The … Read more