International missionary organizations operated in Israel by foreign churches work among evacuees from the south and north and in assembly areas among security forces, distributing materials encouraging conversion to Christianity under the guise of humanitarian aid.
The Research Division of the Department of Mission Rescue at Yad L'Achim warns of a significant increase in the activity of various organizations engaged in missions. Thus, Jews for Jesus, an organization based in the United States, has significantly increased its activities and recruited hundreds of volunteers for missionary activity wrapped in innocent humanitarian activity.
In an internal video, David Brickner, who heads the organization, writes: "This is a time of crisis, but we are reaching out with both the message of the gospel and very practical needs. Our team consists of over 50 employees and 200 volunteers have been recruited in Israel. We deliver 5,000 packages a week to displaced soldiers and families. We also serve 2,000 meals a day to the evacuees and we serve Israel in a time of trauma with the hope of the (Christian) gospel."
The missionary material distributed to the soldiers, photo: Yad L'Achim
A similar activity is carried out by the American organization "The Service of Kurt Landry". Yad L'Achim says that a religious-looking man with a kippah and tzitzit, who presented himself as an American benefactor, came to a gathering point of soldiers, distributed food and a biographical book and asked them to take a picture with the book so they could receive "many more donations and good things for you." The soldiers who later leafed through the book discovered that the biography is a preaching book full of incitement against Judaism, and it invites readers to accept Jesus.
Another direct activity among soldiers is carried out, for example, by ICF – the Israeli branch of an international Christian preaching organization called International Christian Fellowship, which operates in Tel Aviv as a Messianic church. Pastor Sergei Majuga, who runs the church, walked among soldiers in a gathering area and was photographed handing out missionary books of psalms to them, in which verses according to Christian theology were written.
Speaking at internal missionary panels, Majuga said: "He had the opportunity to preach the gospel and pray for some (to convert).
A soldier receives a Christian missionary book, photo: Yad L'Achim
Yad L'Achim views the missionary activity among the soldiers with severity and says: "As if it is not enough that Israel is currently fighting for its life, and the security forces are giving their lives to defend the people of Israel, the missionaries are trying to harm us behind the scenes. We want to live as Jews and we don't want to be preached to convert by deceit."
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