All Israel News
by Emir Phillips
22 December 2025
Scripture told us to expect a Jewish return to the land before a national turning to Messiah. That “return in unbelief” can help evangelicals resist the new antisemitism, avoid romanticizing any government, and pray more biblically for Israel and her neighbors.
Not long ago, a secular Israeli friend tried to explain why, after building a successful life in North America, he was still thinking about going “back home” to Israel.
He is not religious. He is not part of a settler movement. He is weary of war and politics. Yet he told me, almost apologetically, “I don’t even know why. It’s like there’s a magnet. I just feel I belong there.”
That “magnet” is everything and nothing at once: family, Hebrew, history, trauma, culture — and, if Scripture is to be believed, the hand of God.
What makes his story so striking, especially for readers of ALL ISRAEL NEWS, is that…