As an organization and spiritual family working widely throughout the Middle East, the story and significance of Israel has always been woven into FAI’s DNA…
With a limestone and varied volcanic geological base, residents of the the Golan Heights are making some of the best and most unique wine in the world.
It was the base of operations for Syria’s militarized Golan. It’s now a memorial to the Israeli spy who plundered Damascus of state secrets to pave the way for the IDF to take the Heights in June 1967.
Often called the “Masada of the Golan,” Gamla is the first place testifying to this timeless truth: If the Golan falls, Jerusalem falls. Come find out why.
October 6 was the holiest day in the Jewish calendar year of 1973—Yom Kippur. It was also the day Egypt and Syria launched a coordinated attack against the Israeli State. Many battle sites stand as immortal memorials to the Israeli lives lost in the brutal Yom Kippur War.
In early June 1967, Israel launched a preemptive counter-attack against her neighbors, all of whom were conspiring to squash the Jewish State. By the end of the week, Israel secured two pearls: the City of the Great King, and the Golan Heights.
Since the Israelis secured it fifty years ago, the fate of the Heights has been in question. This year—2020—is a significant year of transition to settle the fate of the Golan Heights.
An ethno-religious minority spread across Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, the Druze are a unique people group with an incredible history and an uncertain future.
With Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan all converging against the Golan Heights, they are both a bulwark against threatening storms and a strategic base of operations to engage the Middle East with the Gospel.
