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Caption transcript for Rebuilding the Ruined Cities: “The Covenant,” Part 1 (2/12)

• 00:05 Caleb Colson: We are heading south in Israel. We're actually three and a half miles from the border of Gaza, -- away. We just passed the site of the
• 00:17 Nova Music Festival near Re'Im. And right now, we're heading to Pri Gan, a moshav.
• 00:21 It's literally 3 kilometers,
• 00:23 I've been told, from Rafah and the Egyptian border.
• 00:27 So, it's an interesting location.
• 00:28 The operation in Rafah is going on right now with the idea of
• 00:32 taking over the facility and clearing out
• 00:35 terrorist holdovers.
• 00:46 Joshua Colson: We're headed to Leket Israel, a national food
• 00:49 bank that is taking care of those in need, especially the
• 00:53 refugees and people from the war on October 7th from Hamas, even
• 00:57 all the way up in to the border of Lebanon in the north.
• 01:00 They're providing them with food and materials.
• 01:02 It's an amazing operation.
• 01:10 That was easy.
• 01:12 There we go.
• 01:19 male: Hi, nice to meet you.
• 01:23 male: Thank you, guys.
• 01:24 female: Hi, my name is -- good to see you.
• 01:28 male: I like your shirt.
• 01:30 Caleb: And our man of the hour, we'd like to speak to Yosi,
• 01:34 farmer at the Moshav.
• 01:36 How are you doing today?
• 01:37 Yosi: Good, thank you.
• 01:39 Caleb: So, we're in your fields.
• 01:41 We're in your territory.
• 01:42 What kind of crops do you grow?
• 01:43 What do you do here?
• 01:45 Yosi: I grow tomato, eggplant, leek, fennel, squash,
• 01:53 zucchini, yeah.
• 01:55 Leket it's a--for me it's a holy company.
• 01:58 It gives you the opportunity to donate even when you don't have
• 02:04 to donate.
• 02:05 It's either you throw it away or you bring it to people that
• 02:09 don't have food.
• 02:10 I mean, it's in the basic of donations.
• 02:13 You don't bring money, you don't bring goods, only food, basic
• 02:18 food, vegetables.
• 02:20 So, the feeling you got as a farmer when you do it, this
• 02:24 is something else--
• 02:27 This is sends you to another dimension.
• 02:28 That's why I call Leket a holy company.
• 02:33 Ray Macdonald: Would you have anything to say to Christians in
• 02:37 America and around the world?
• 02:40 Yosi: What happened to us will happen to you.
• 02:45 Simple as that.
• 02:46 It's not because I'm Jewish.
• 02:48 It's because it's a simple, basic--
• 02:53 We want to live life.
• 02:55 To grow our kids, to become grandfather.
• 02:59 Peaceful life, right?
• 03:01 If you think over there in the West that this has happened to
• 03:06 us because we are Jewish, you have a big mistake, right?
• 03:11 That's what I believe.
• 03:14 Caleb: Well, you were obviously here on October 7th.
• 03:16 What is the story that happened here at this Moshav?
• 03:19 Yosi: This Moshav, I will try to.
• 03:27 6:27 in the morning.
• 03:28 There is Iron Dome is right behind us, like 200 meter, okay?
• 03:32 When she shoot all the houses moving.
• 03:36 Probably I was tired because I didn't hear.
• 03:38 My wife woke me up.
• 03:40 There is a heavy, heavy missiles.
• 03:44 So, I told her put the kids in the shelter room.
• 03:48 So I went outside.
• 03:50 You know, I'm a crazy guy.
• 03:52 I want to--and I saw one of my neighbors like maybe 150
• 03:56 kilometers per hour force like voom.
• 03:59 And I heard shooting, you know, that's not M16.
• 04:05 Lots of shooting from this side, from that side, from that side.
• 04:11 This is the picture.
• 04:12 I opened my eyes, you know, I told my wife, shut the door.
• 04:16 This is something else.
• 04:18 I call--we have like a guy who responsible of--
• 04:22 Caleb: Security.
• 04:24 Yosi: Security. He didn't--
• 04:26 He was in vacation in Eilat, but his second was here.
• 04:30 I call him and he told me, "Listen," on the car they shoot
• 04:38 up on his car like lots of rounds from this.
• 04:41 "I don't know how I am alive.
• 04:43 Let me check if I'm not wounded.
• 04:45 I will call you back in two minutes."
• 04:47 And he called me back and he told me, "Listen, stay in the
• 04:50 shelter room."
• 04:51 There is full of terrorists in the Moshav.
• 04:54 They took like four houses in the other street.
• 04:59 I saw through that window all the smoke from Kibbutz
• 05:02 Nir Yitzhak.
• 05:04 And I have lots of shooting from that side over there.
• 05:06 There is the rooms of Thai workers from a big company
• 05:10 of potato.
• 05:12 They killed them, lots of them over there.
• 05:15 I bring a knife.
• 05:16 I have 4 sons.
• 05:18 The oldest was like 11.
• 05:19 I gave him a knife and I told him, "Listen, if I go out and
• 05:22 I'm not come back, you're the one to protect."
• 05:25 The other three boys, 10 years old, 8 years old, and 5 years
• 05:30 old, put the blanket.
• 05:32 And my wife was in the WhatsApp of the women of the Moshav.
• 05:35 My cousin, and neighbor and another neighbor.
• 05:41 You know, "Please, where is the army and the mothers," you know.
• 05:45 It's nothing for hours, not helicopter.
• 05:50 This, what you heard before?
• 05:51 The Volcan of the Apache?
• 05:53 12:30 p.m.
• 05:54 What I'm speaking, 6:30 a.m. it started.
• 05:58 Only at 12:30 p.m. there was a helicopter.
• 06:01 There was only two guys with M16 in the Moshav.
• 06:05 One is the guy that they shoot at him and he was like hiding
• 06:09 behind the house.
• 06:10 One guy shoot from his yard to the terrorists.
• 06:14 And there is a Moshav named Shlomit.
• 06:19 Religion people, they hear it in the radio.
• 06:22 "Where is the army? Please help."
• 06:25 And they did something that, this is a great mitzvah, not a
• 06:28 great, this is beyond great mitzvah.
• 06:31 They're supposed to stay in their Moshav and protect
• 06:34 their families.
• 06:36 And what they decide to do is to come to help us.
• 06:41 In the beginning, three guys came, another two.
• 06:43 There was eleven over there with guns.
• 06:45 They live right on the border of Egypt, ten kilometers East
• 06:48 from here.
• 06:50 Three of them died here to save us.
• 06:54 Another officer came from his house and he also died.
• 06:58 Four people died in Pri Gan.
• 07:01 And they gave us life because if not, this Moshav was like
• 07:06 Be'eri, Nir Oz, Kfar Aza, the same.
• 07:09 What came here was commander of them, the Nakba with--they
• 07:14 had everything.
• 07:15 RPGs, the big bombs, everything.
• 07:19 Five motorcycles.
• 07:21 Some people said they look, this is 17, some people say 15.
• 07:25 Nobody knows exactly, even the Shabak don't know exactly.
• 07:29 But they did the fighting for us and save us.
• 07:35 Only 6 p.m.
• 07:38 the army came here.
• 07:40 They pass house by house.
• 07:44 You know, like this.
• 07:45 16 guys and that's it.
• 07:47 On Monday, the army took us here--from here to Eilat.
• 07:51 I came back Wednesday, two days.
• 07:53 I have the Thai workers.
• 07:56 And then since then, I'm here, I never left.
• 08:01 I just left for two days and that's it.
• 08:04 And this is the story of my Moshav.
• 08:08 Ray: Wow.
• 08:10 Yosi: Yeah.
• 08:12 Ray: So, Leket was able to assist you?
• 08:13 Yosi: Yeah, yeah.
• 08:15 They helped me save what damage in October 7th.
• 08:20 You know, they helped me save it.
• 08:24 Caleb: Will you take us on a tour, show us your farm.
• 08:26 Yosi: Let's go. Caleb: Let's go.
• 08:27 Yosi: Let's go.
• 08:33 Joshua: What an incredible story so far.
• 08:34 We're following him to see the crops, to see the things that
• 08:38 they've been growing.
• 08:40 No one died here.
• 08:41 No one was injured.
• 08:42 God protected them.
• 08:44 Those men that came to save them.
• 08:47 This story is so amazing.
• 09:00 Yosi: He send them on his --
• 09:02 Ray: Flak, flak.
• 09:03 male: Flak, flak, that's right.
• 09:04 So he sent the flak and the flak will hit if the flak is on--
• 09:12 So if you hit the flak and not the helicopter,
• 09:14 but I told you that when
• 09:16 you hear that do do do do do do do means he's shooting.
• 09:20 Now he's turning back and he was shooting this direction.
• 09:25 He is shooting the terrorists in the front of our people to push
• 09:30 them away and to cut down as much as we can, okay?
• 09:34 So, that's what is his job.
• 09:36 And then the forces are coming in, okay?
• 09:39 So, that's what they do.
• 09:41 Caleb: So you all guys can farm.
• 09:43 They're shooting the terrorists away so you can farm in peace.
• 09:47 Yosi: Exactly.
• 09:48 Caleb: There are two Apache helicopters up there--
• 09:52 Yosi: Can you catch them?
• 09:53 Caleb: I don't have good enough lens.
• 09:54 They're up there, they're circling.
• 09:57 One protects the other.
• 09:59 Like you said, we're very near the Gaza border, and they've
• 10:02 been pushing back the terrorists so that we can farm in peace.
• 10:05 I mean, what greater joy.
• 10:07 We just saw that they were releasing countermeasures.
• 10:11 A flak from the helicopter just in case a missile is shot, the
• 10:17 missile will chase after that and they will be able to get
• 10:20 away free.
• 10:21 So, they're already doing it right here, which means they are
• 10:23 in a little bit of a situation, a little bit of a danger.
• 10:25 They know that there's a possibility that they could be
• 10:27 fired upon.
• 10:30 Caleb: You see, we're here in your field, you're growing
• 10:32 crops, you've got workers all around.
• 10:35 Tomatoes, is that what we're growing here?
• 10:37 Yosi: I came back to my roots.
• 10:38 This is how my father used to grow.
• 10:41 Today, I think everyone, they grow tomato inside greenhouses
• 10:47 in a different way, but
• 10:49 this is how as a boy, everyday, this was my
• 10:53 work to do.
• 10:55 You see, to put wires, and this is how my father used to
• 10:58 grow tomato.
• 10:59 Now, people from the agriculture office of Israel, they heard
• 11:05 about--they want to come to see us because this is something--I
• 11:08 told you I took a --
• 11:10 I came back to my roots and what happened with Erdogan in Turkey
• 11:13 now I need to send him chocolate, you know, that he
• 11:15 closed the border.
• 11:17 It's good for us as a farmer.
• 11:19 And I grow it with the knowledge.
• 11:24 I learned about fennel because in this area you're not supposed
• 11:28 to grow fennel.
• 11:29 And I succeed to grow fennel.
• 11:31 So, what I did with the fennel in summertime, I do on
• 11:34 a tomato.
• 11:36 And I don't know, but you can take a photo.
• 11:39 Tell me if it's worked or not.
• 11:40 Ray: Tell us about water.
• 11:43 How do you--we're in the desert almost here.
• 11:46 Yosi: All the water here is the sewage of Tel Aviv.
• 11:50 Caleb: Really?
• 11:52 Yosi: Yeah.
• 11:53 All the water, all the fields, everything your eyes can see
• 11:57 came from Gush Dan, Tel Aviv and the city around it.
• 12:01 They take the sewage.
• 12:04 Israel in the water, it's a huge story.
• 12:06 I mean, we took the water from the sea.
• 12:09 They clean it, purify it.
• 12:10 Ray: Desalinate.
• 12:12 Yosi: The water in the sewage go to a huge plant factory
• 12:16 in Rishon LeZion.
• 12:18 They do the process, they clean it, and they send it south to
• 12:23 grow crops--
• 12:24 Ray: Fertilize it.
• 12:26 Yosi: And then you send this water as the vegetables or food,
• 12:28 go back to Tel Aviv.
• 12:29 I mean it's a perfect circle.
• 12:31 Joshua: Nothing's wasted.
• 12:32 Yosi: Nothing wasted, exactly.
• 12:34 Caleb: Do you have any tomatoes that are ripe now?
• 12:36 Yosi: Yeah.
• 12:37 Caleb: I see some green ones down here.
• 12:38 Joshua: You already hungry, brother?
• 12:40 Are you trying to get some more crops here?
• 12:41 Yosi: I think we passed few, yeah.
• 12:43 Caleb: Can you tell us about antioxidants in here.
• 12:47 Yosi: This tomato, called lycopene.
• 12:49 That's the color of it.
• 12:51 It's not supposed to be red.
• 12:52 Caleb: It's not supposed to be red.
• 12:53 Yosi: It's very high in antioxidant called lycopene.
• 12:55 Very sweet.
• 12:57 Joshua: He wants to get younger because he's starting to age a
• 12:58 little bit, so he wants to eat your tomatoes.
• 13:00 Caleb: So you guys, look.
• 13:02 This is a tomato.
• 13:03 Yosi: That's it.
• 13:05 And over there in July, I'm going to plant more tomato.
• 13:11 Caleb: In that big empty field right there.
• 13:14 Yosi: Yeah.
• 13:15 And this will harvest until September.
• 13:18 And this one also until September.
• 13:20 What I will plant in July will start in September.
• 13:23 So, when you stop this one, you know, you make it a chain.
• 13:27 Joshua: And what part of this process does Leket step in now?
• 13:30 So he's growing everything.
• 13:31 Ray: Just what I was gonna ask about harvesting.
• 13:33 Yosi: When I start to harvest, I need to gain back what I
• 13:36 spent, right?
• 13:37 Caleb: Yeah.
• 13:38 Yosi: In the end, when the tomato doesn't look so well, you
• 13:41 know, and I mean, it's not worth to send it to the market, but
• 13:45 there is plenty of.
• 13:47 Then you could leket, leket.
• 13:49 Before, I'm going to kill this field, come have us take
• 13:54 everything to your own people and that's it.
• 13:58 Joshua: They're getting the best in essence as far as flavors--
• 14:00 Yosi: Exactly.
• 14:02 Joshua: So not only are they getting something from like, but
• 14:03 they're getting the very best.
• 14:04 I love that.
• 14:06 Yosi: The market is cuckoo.
• 14:07 Joshua: What man sees on the outside is the ugly one.
• 14:09 God's like, "No, I see your inner beauty and you're
• 14:11 delicious so come here and feed my people."
• 14:13 Caleb: This to me is like the first fruits kind of you're
• 14:16 giving the best of your portion to God.
• 14:18 You're giving the best to the needy and God honors that.
• 14:21 That's really cool.
• 14:23 Ray: I'm Ray MacDonald and I work within the Christian
• 14:27 community for Leket Israel, the national food bank.
• 14:30 A lot of times I'm asked, "Leket, what does that--what
• 14:34 is that?
• 14:35 What does that mean?"
• 14:36 Well, it's a biblical word, it's a Hebrew word.
• 14:38 It's actually a mitzvah, a commandment.
• 14:42 We see it in Leviticus chapter 19, verse 9 where it talks about
• 14:47 the agricultural laws.
• 14:49 "When you reap the harvest of your field, you're to leave the
• 14:54 edges and you're not to gather the gleanings of your harvest."
• 15:00 So, what it meant actually, technically is when the
• 15:04 harvesters would go through the field, if anything dropped on
• 15:09 the ground, the moment it hit the ground, it no longer
• 15:13 belonged to the farmer, to the harvesters.
• 15:17 It belonged to the needy by law.
• 15:22 And really a beautiful picture of it is found in the book of
• 15:25 Ruth and we know what happened.
• 15:29 Ruth, a Gentile woman, a Moabite woman, married to a Jew, her
• 15:35 husband dies.
• 15:36 Naomi says, "Go back to your people," her mother-in-law.
• 15:41 And what did she say?
• 15:43 She said, "Absolutely not.
• 15:44 I wanna stay with you, giving you the right translation.
• 15:48 Where you go I--I will go where you lodge, I will lodge.
• 15:52 Your people will be my people and your God will be my God."
• 15:58 So, they didn't have enormous resources when they got into the
• 16:03 land of Israel and she connected with a relative of Naomi's, a
• 16:08 fellow by the name of Boaz, and he allowed the mitzvah of
• 16:15 leket to be performed on his farm.
• 16:20 So, the harvesters would go through and the needy could
• 16:23 follow behind them and pick up anything that dropped on
• 16:28 the ground.
• 16:30 In fact, we see Boaz telling his men intentionally drop for her
• 16:36 and do not embarrass her, depending upon the translation
• 16:41 you're reading.
• 16:42 And that's a key word is embarrassed.
• 16:47 So, she and the needy were entitled to the gleaning by law
• 16:53 as decreed by God.
• 16:56 And there's a really fascinating Hebrew word called
• 17:00 "Tzedakah," "tze-dakah."
• 17:04 Abraham is described as being a "Sadiq," a righteous, a
• 17:09 generous man.
• 17:11 So the word "tzedakah" combines those two ideas of justice and
• 17:19 charity and it's based on the notion that everything that we
• 17:24 own, everything that we have, guess what, we're not gonna take
• 17:28 it to the grave with us.
• 17:30 It doesn't belong to us.
• 17:31 It's strictly the goodness of God, everything that we have.
• 17:36 If you can't come to Israel, you can give of your finances.
• 17:41 You can partner with an organization just like Leket and
• 17:46 you can visit our website christianfriendsofleket.org and
• 17:52 you can make a donation and without even visiting the
• 17:56 country, you can be a blessing to Israelis in need.
• 18:18 male: Who wants tomatoes?
• 18:21 male: Pick me, pick me, pick me.
• 18:24 male: You like this?
• 18:25 Lena Bachevsky: If you hear any suspicious booms, we will also
• 18:27 notify other people, but our strategy here is to lay down
• 18:29 face forward, covering our heads because it's too close for us to
• 18:33 reach a bomb shelter, and the biggest danger is that we
• 18:36 stumble and fall on our way there.
• 18:38 Therefore, make sure that you just lay down, cover your head,
• 18:41 and hope for the best because Hashem is guarding us, right?
• 18:46 If you believe.
• 18:47 Lena: My name is Lena.
• 18:49 I'm originally a tour guide.
• 18:51 Today, I'm hired by Leket Israel as part of a project that we
• 18:54 initiated together with the organization that I'm the vice
• 18:57 president of.
• 18:58 The tour guide association of guides who work with incoming
• 19:03 tourism in Israel who, according to what's happening right now
• 19:07 and because of the war, have been struggling to find work and
• 19:12 we together with Leket Israel that have been supporting the
• 19:15 farmers from the first day of the war, initiated this project
• 19:19 that kind of makes a win-win situation for all of us.
• 19:22 We get to support some of the tourism industry and we help the
• 19:26 volunteers to manage themselves during the day to make it easier
• 19:30 on the farmers to do more work that we come here to do.
• 19:35 Joshua: The more I hear about Leket Israel the more I find
• 19:36 that they keep doing more and more things.
• 19:38 Lena: They're not stopping.
• 19:40 Joshua: It's incredible.
• 19:41 Well, one second I was in a car in the desert and the next
• 19:44 second I'm here.
• 19:45 Where am I at right now because I'm surrounded by beautiful
• 19:47 delicious tomatoes in the middle of nowhere it seems like?
• 19:50 Lena: Well, this nowhere is actually one of the most nice
• 19:53 and pleasant areas to live in 99% of the time and
• 19:59 unfortunately it has been quite hellish in the last few months.
• 20:03 We are now in Pri Gan, which is part of an area of settlements
• 20:06 in the southern part of the envelope of the western Negev
• 20:11 around the Gaza Strip.
• 20:12 Pri Gan had a massive battle on the 7th of October that ended up
• 20:17 becoming, in the headlines, the Battle of Pri Gan versus many
• 20:21 many places that unfortunately we refer to as the massacre of
• 20:24 this community or that community.
• 20:27 There were casualties from the defense forces of the
• 20:31 community and some of the other people that lived here, but
• 20:36 let's say the amount of people that came to attack this
• 20:40 community was high enough to make those numbers a lot higher.
• 20:44 And it's true heroism of people like actually the farmer that we
• 20:48 are helping today that prevented that from happening.
• 20:53 Caleb: We've heard so many stories of all these communities
• 20:56 coming together, helping each other out.
• 20:58 The kind of story that you're about is helping those who have
• 21:01 been affected by the war, people who don't have food, people who
• 21:05 don't have the basic necessities.
• 21:08 How are y'all doing that here with gathering these crops?
• 21:11 Lena: So the thing is that the farmers for years and years have
• 21:14 been the donors.
• 21:15 Those were the strong people in the equation that were providing
• 21:19 us food to donate, to bring over to the needy.
• 21:23 Unfortunately, the tables turned and things really
• 21:26 changed dramatically.
• 21:28 And sometimes actually we deliver the food that we collect
• 21:31 here to the evacuated communities whether fresh
• 21:34 or cooked.
• 21:36 So they don't have to think about cooking for their families
• 21:39 that are struggling with trauma and post trauma and reliving the
• 21:44 trauma and it's been a hard week for the family of the farmers
• 21:48 here because any kind of booming or an alarming raises a lot of
• 21:52 the tensions.
• 21:54 Caleb: But yet you have volunteers here no matter the
• 21:57 situation which may look dire and they're giving
• 22:00 of themselves.
• 22:01 Why are so many people here?
• 22:03 Why do they--do they feel safe or is it just they're giving of
• 22:05 their heart?
• 22:06 Lena: We, by this, kind of understood that safety is not
• 22:12 necessarily something that we always have.
• 22:14 That's the reality of things.
• 22:16 We are not as safe as we thought we were anywhere and that's why
• 22:20 I believe this is a big like side track, right?
• 22:25 Of the main topic of food saving.
• 22:27 I really do believe that this is one of those wars that will
• 22:30 determine our safety as a society not just Israeli, okay?
• 22:38 And I think that many people feel that back home too.
• 22:41 I think for people who support and understand that this is a
• 22:44 war between Israel and terrorism versus just Israel and Gaza,
• 22:48 some ways coming here kinda relieves them from that tension.
• 22:51 To come to be part of something bigger and greater, to
• 22:54 participate in something that is meaningful and important to you.
• 22:58 To be active and not just, you know, waiting for your future to
• 23:04 happen and to make sure that we actually have a better future.
• 23:07 I think that over the course of all these years we learn to
• 23:10 understand that if we don't do it, nobody else will.
• 23:13 And there are amazing people here that get it and that's why
• 23:16 they are here and some of them are here, not for the
• 23:18 first time.
• 23:19 They flew here for the first time three months ago and
• 23:22 they've been coming and coming and coming since.
• 23:26 Caleb: Well, I can tell you're a tour guide.
• 23:27 You're in charge of a mass group of people and there's order in
• 23:30 the midst of chaos, but I appreciate you taking the time,
• 23:33 Lena, to talk to us about this--.
• 23:34 Joshua: I've got one question.
• 23:36 Lena: Sure.
• 23:37 Joshua: Can you show us how to pick a couple of tomatoes?
• 23:39 Let's do it.
• 23:40 Lena: Tomatoes, Roma tomatoes are full of flavor and the
• 23:44 scent, but they have this little stem here that we want to press
• 23:49 to the other side so that when we release the tomato it stays
• 23:53 full and protected.
• 23:54 Caleb: Nothing leaks out.
• 23:56 Lena: Nothing leaks out.
• 23:57 Give it a taste.
• 23:58 Caleb: Really?
• 24:00 I'm the guy who gets to eat everything on this trip.
• 24:04 It's ready too.
• 24:06 Lena: It's ready too.
• 24:07 Caleb: I'm having a lunch of tomatoes here, but it's
• 24:10 fantastic because these are fresh, more fresh than anything
• 24:11 I've ever tasted.
• 24:13 Lena: Yeah, and we can just eat it like that.
• 24:14 Caleb: Thank you for showing us. Lena: You're welcome.
• 24:15 Caleb: This is amazing.
• 24:17 Really good tomatoes.
• 24:18 Lena: They are really good.
• 24:22 Joshua: Well, that's incredible.
• 24:24 Our first cliffhanger, our first to be continued.
• 24:26 Next week you get to see the second half.
• 24:28 Caleb: It's real cool, guys.
• 24:30 I mean, that experience of going to Moshav Pri Gan,
• 24:33 it's life changing.
• 24:34 It sort of reminds me, Josh, of the story of Nehemiah in
• 24:36 the Bible.
• 24:38 After the Jews returned from exile in Babylon, they were
• 24:40 tasked to rebuild the walls of the sea of Jerusalem, but their
• 24:44 enemies did not want them to do.
• 24:46 So, God encouraged Nehemiah not to be afraid.
• 24:49 So Nehemiah had his soldiers build the walls of the sea with
• 24:52 one hand and with the other hand, they held a weapon just
• 24:56 like you'll see as he's walking around his farm carrying his M16
• 25:00 rifle, but it was so amazing.
• 25:02 We were surrounded by IDF soldiers the entire time.
• 25:06 They had an entire regiment on the Moshav and they literally
• 25:09 had Apache helicopter circling us, but God always kept us safe.
• 25:12 Joshua: Yes, he did.
• 25:14 You might have remembered at the beginning when Yosi says that
• 25:17 they didn't just shoot at us or kill us because we're Jews.
• 25:20 And to explain that a little bit better, what he was saying is
• 25:23 that Hamas is out to get rid of everyone.
• 25:25 The enemy is out to kill all of us.
• 25:27 He's not just specific to one, he wants to annihilate every
• 25:30 single person, and they are headed to the West next.
• 25:32 That is their plan.
• 25:34 We've heard from so many who have talked about the details
• 25:36 and intelligence that they found showing that that's the case.
• 25:38 So, if you're in America and you're thinking that your pro
• 25:40 Hamas sign is gonna get you saved when they show up, you're
• 25:43 being foolish because they are looking to annihilate you
• 25:45 as well.
• 25:47 They are looking to annihilate anyone who is not on their team
• 25:49 inside and that's what he was trying to share for us.
• 25:51 Caleb: And that's the nature of Satan guys, to steal, kill,
• 25:54 and destroy.
• 25:55 And that's why he sent those soldiers, Hamas terrorists to
• 25:58 Moshav Pri Gan to wipe out these Israelis.
• 26:01 But a miracle happened like Lena said.
• 26:03 You didn't look in the news story and see the massacre of
• 26:06 Pri Gan.
• 26:07 Instead, there was a battle that took place because they called
• 26:09 out for help, and another Moshav, Shlomit, just 12 minutes
• 26:13 from them came and sacrificed three of their farmers to save
• 26:18 the other people's lives.
• 26:19 I mean, isn't that the greatest commitment to love one another,
• 26:21 to give up one's life for their friends, and that's what Yeshua
• 26:25 did for us and did for his Jewish people, sacrificing
• 26:28 himself on the cross so that they could have eternal life.
• 26:31 Joshua: We knew that God called us to shoot this series because
• 26:33 of the importance of how we need to support Israel.
• 26:37 There are so many ministries there right now who are doing so
• 26:40 many incredible things.
• 26:41 I know that when I've traveled the world, people always ask me
• 26:43 when I come back, "Who's a ministry I can trust?"
• 26:46 How can I make a difference.
• 26:47 In the upcoming episodes in this series, we're gonna highlight
• 26:50 those ministries that are truly making a difference, boots on
• 26:53 the ground in Israel and how they're doing it and how you can
• 26:55 do this and be a part of volunteering ministry and
• 26:59 whatever God calls you to do.
• 27:00 So we're putting a QR code on the screen right now.
• 27:02 When you click on this, when you take a picture with your phone
• 27:04 and it pulls up the page, it's gonna give you links to all the
• 27:07 different ministries that we've worked with in Israel.
• 27:09 You need to pray and see how the heavenly Father would have you
• 27:13 donate, volunteer, be a part, because now is the time.
• 27:17 We don't have a lot of time left on this earth, and it is our
• 27:19 time to support Israel and to do what God has called to do.
• 27:23 Caleb: And as you go, guys, don't forget to
• 27:26 [speaking in Hebrew].
• 27:27 Joshua: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 27:30 male announcer: We hope you've been blessed by this
• 27:32 week's broadcast.
• 27:34 To learn more about "Zola Levitt Ministries" and how to donate,
• 27:37 please visit Levitt.com.
• 27:39 You'll find all our past television programs, our monthly
• 27:42 newsletter, the Levitt Letter, where we focus on current events
• 27:45 in Israel, and check out Zola Tours to learn about our study
• 27:49 tours to the Holy Land.
• 27:50 Follow our social media sites @OurJewishRoots for even
• 27:54 more relevant and inspirational content concerning Yeshua and
• 27:57 his chosen people.
• 28:00 male: 20 years in, but we have an amazing team in Israel, over
• 28:04 150 people working for us.
• 28:07 We will probably this year have 60 to 70,000.
• 28:11 Joshua: Where their covenant is to give to the people of Israel
• 28:13 in need.
• 28:15 Behind me you have people who have only one requirement, show
• 28:17 up and receive.
• 28:19 And so, they have facilitated presenting the needs of these
• 28:22 people in all different forms or fashion so that all these people
• 28:26 have to do is show up and come and accept.