The Universal Zionist

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Israel is rising as a military, economic and spiritual superpower. The Universal Zionist introduces you to the people shaping Israel as it steps into its destiny as a Light unto the Nations. Hosted by Rabbi Tuly Weisz, founder of Israel365, each episode brings together rabbis and pastors, scholars, diplomats, and strategists to discuss the ideas shaping Israel's future. The world is changing fast, and the noise — the hostility, the distraction, the discouragement — can feel overwhelming. But Israel's emergence as a spiritual superpower isn't in question. It's inevitable. Join us each week fo

  1. 5d ago

    (13) Yael Eckstein: Why Christians May Soon Need Israel as a Refuge

    Yael Eckstein, president and CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), joins Rabbi Tuly Weisz for a candid conversation about faith, prophecy, and the changing bond between Jews and Christians. Yael shares how she went from a "wild child" with little connection to faith to leading the organization her father, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, built against fierce opposition. She tells the story of Flags of Fellowship, the October 7 memorial movement that has grown to more than 3,000 churches this year. She also reveals how the Fellowship has worked with the IDF to bring aid to persecuted Christians in Syria and southern Lebanon. Together they explore Isaiah's vision of the nations standing with Israel, the biblical command to love the stranger, and why Universal Zionism may make Israel a refuge for Christians as well as Jews in the days ahead. Learn more and join Flags of Fellowship at ifcj.org.

  2. Sep 29

    (12) MK Illouz: The Bible Lesson Netanyahu Must LEARN Before Election Day

    Dan Illouz made aliyah from Montreal at 23, trading a promising legal career for an IDF uniform as a lone soldier. He went on to serve on the Jerusalem City Council and in the Knesset as a member of the Likud. This year, he left the party, gave back his Knesset seat, and joined Avigdor Liberman's Yisrael Beytenu ahead of the October 27th election. In this episode, Illouz explains what drove him out of Netanyahu's party. He talks about his fight to bring Haredi men into the IDF, and why he sees it as essential to Israel's survival. He also shares his frustration over the war's unfinished results and his view that leadership after October 7th must take responsibility. He draws on the Bible to make that case, pointing to Judah, the father of the Jewish people's name, as the model of a leader who owns his failures. Illouz also reflects on his own journey to Israel, and why he believes the return of the Jewish people to their land is an even greater miracle than the Exodus from Egypt. The Universal Zionism podcast explores Israel's role not only as a home for the Jewish people, but as a light to the nations and a source of blessing to the whole world.

  3. Sep 22

    (11) Rabbi Elisha Pearl: The Lubavitcher Rebbe's End Times Warning Israel IGNORED

    The Lubavitcher Rebbe never called himself a Zionist. Yet few people loved the Land of Israel as deeply, or fought as hard to protect it. In this episode, Rabbi Tuly Weisz sits down with Rabbi Elisha Pearl, author of Make Peace: A Strategic Guide to Achieving Lasting Peace in Israel, to explore the Rebbe's teachings on Israel, security and the end of days. The book is now out in Hebrew as Oseh Shalom. They discuss: Why the Rebbe taught that anyone who reads the Bible should see the Jewish return to Israel as a sign of the end times, based on the prophecy of BalaamThe Rebbe's urgent warnings to Israel's leaders about the ceasefire with Egypt, and why he cried out, "I have called, but no one answers" (Isaiah 50:2)His three conditions for Israel to be ready for the Messiah: shleimut ha'Torah (the wholeness of the Bible's teachings), shleimut ha'am (the wholeness of the Jewish people) and shleimut ha'aretz (the wholeness of the land)Why he warned that giving away land, including Gaza, would cost livesThe private conversation between the Rebbe and Benjamin Netanyahu that has never been revealedHow non-Jews can take part in bringing the redemption by keeping the seven Noahide lawsThis conversation brings the Rebbe's teachings on Israel to an audience far beyond Chabad, and shows how much of what he foresaw has come true. Subscribe to the Universal Zionist Podcast for more conversations about Israel, the Bible and the redemption of the world.

  4. Sep 16

    (10) Eyal Turgiman of Lev Haolam: Building the Biblical Heartland Before Millions Arrive

    Is Bible prophecy unfolding in the hills of Judea and Samaria? Eyal Turgiman grew up in Ashkelon, served in the IDF, and then ran from his Jewish identity to Africa and Europe. A near-fatal accident brought him home, and living in Judea and Samaria brought him back to the Bible. Today he is one of the leading builders in Judea and Samaria. His company has built thousands of homes across roughly 25 communities, from Gush Etzion to the Jordan Valley and the hills near biblical Shiloh. He also runs Lev Haolam, a monthly box that brings the tastes and stories of the Land of Israel to tens of thousands of homes worldwide. Many of those homes are Christian families who say it feels like Christmas every month. Rabbi Tuly Weisz and Eyal talk about why Israel's army is unlike any other, how Lev Haolam started as an answer to the BDS movement, and why Israel should never try to be a beach resort. Eyal also shares his vision for spiritual tourism that could bring tens of millions of people to Israel. It is a hopeful look at Isaiah's promise that God's house will be "a house of prayer for all nations" (Isaiah 56:7).

  5. Sep 8

    (09) Yishai Fleisher's BIG Knesset Announcement: Why Ben-Gvir, and What He Brings

    Yishai Fleisher is running for Knesset. In this conversation with Rabbi Tuly Weisz, the Jerusalem broadcaster and longtime Zionist activist announces that he has been added to the Otzma Yehudit slate, his first time on a major list after twenty five years of trying. He tells the story behind Route 60. Four years of lobbying to rename the road that runs through the biblical heartland, past Shechem, Shiloh, Beit El, Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron, as Derech HaTanach, the Biblical Highway. He explains why a road sign is a national strategy, why Israelis do not know the book of Genesis, and why the Ministry of Tourism spent decades selling beaches instead of the land of the Bible. Then the harder conversation. Yishai argues that Judaism has no real offering for the non-Jew who loves the God of Israel, calls the Noahide framework a branding failure, and proposes an Abrahamic path instead: houses of worship that face Jerusalem and follow the Jewish calendar, without asking anyone to convert. Rabbi Tuly answers with a different biblical category, the Ger Toshav, and the two work out what a Ger Toshav visa could look like. Also: Ben Gvir's record at National Security, gun permits, prison policy, and the pastor at the National Religious Broadcasters convention who told the State of Israel exactly what Christians actually want. Hosted by Rabbi Tuly Weisz, founder of Israel365 and publisher of The Israel Bible.

  6. Sep 1

    (08) Dimas Guaico: What Jews and Christians Still Get Wrong About Each Other

    Rabbi Tuly Weisz sits down with Dimas Guaico of Generation Zion on a hillside in Samaria for a conversation that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. It starts with a verse. Isaiah 61:5 promises that strangers will tend Israel's flocks and foreigners will work her fields and vineyards. In Hebrew, that word does not refer to Jews. Jeremiah 31:5 adds the location: vineyards planted again on the mountains of Samaria. Both men are standing on those mountains while they read it, watching Christians and Jews put vines in the ground together. From there the conversation goes where these conversations usually don't. Dimas raises Paul's image in Romans 11 of roots and grafted-in branches, and Tuly takes it seriously — then turns it around. If the Jewish people are the roots, what responsibility do the roots carry for branches that may be withering in America and Europe? What does it mean that the next generation is losing the connection? They visit Gvaot Winery, where petrified grape seeds recovered from clay vats near ancient Shiloh were dated and eventually replanted, producing wine that may descend from the vines of the Tabernacle period. They walk into Shiloh itself, where the Tabernacle stood for 369 years, where Hannah prayed so intensely that Eli assumed she was drunk, and where the Jewish approach to prayer was born. And they lean into the subject both sides have spent decades politely stepping around: the Messiah. Tuly explains the deliberately scandalous bloodline running through Lot, Judah and Tamar, and Ruth of Moab, and why Jewish tradition holds that the Messiah points toward God rather than being worshiped himself. Dimas answers honestly from the Christian side, and neither man flinches. What emerges is not agreement, but something more useful — two people who trust each other enough to disagree out loud. Subscribe for more conversations from the land where the Bible comes to life.

  7. Aug 25

    (07) Trump Asked Her One Question in the Knesset — Rabbi Elie Mischel on Why She Couldn't Answer

    President Trump stood before the Israeli Knesset during one of the most emotional celebrations in recent memory — the release of the hostages — and in the middle of his speech, he turned to Miriam Adelson, widow of Sheldon Adelson and one of his most devoted supporters, and asked her a question that cut straight to the heart of Jewish identity in America. She never answered. In this episode, Rabbi Tuly Weisz sits down with Rabbi Elie Mischel, author of the new book Countdown: American Jews and God's Plan for Redemption, to unpack why that moment matters so much more than it seemed. This isn't really about loyalty to America — it's about where the heart of the Jewish people truly belongs. Drawing on the Book of Esther, the story of the Exodus, and the biblical case for Jewish nationhood, Rabbi Mischel explains why American Jews are being forced to confront their identity in a way they haven't in generations, and why rising antisemitism may be part of a much bigger, prophetic picture. Whether you're Jewish, Christian, or simply curious about what the Bible says about Israel's role in the world, this conversation will change how you see the headlines. Countdown is available now at Israel365store.com.

  8. Aug 18

    (06) Israel 2048: Barak Seener on the Third Temple, Biblical Borders, and the Next 22 Years

    Barak Seener, author of 'Israel 2048: a Bluprint for a Rising Asymmetric Geopolitical Power' https://henryjacksonsociety.org/publications/israel2048/ What will Israel look like in 2048, when the Jewish state celebrates its 100th anniversary? On this episode of the Universal Zionist Podcast, Rabbi Tuly Weisz sits down with geopolitical strategist Barak M. Seener, Senior Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society and founder of Strategic Intelligentia. Seener is the co-author, with Dr. David Wurmser, of the landmark report "Israel 2048: A Blueprint for a Rising Asymmetric Geopolitical Power." Seener argues that October 7 ended what he calls Zionism 1.0, the defensive, reactive posture Israel held from its founding through October 6. In its place, Zionism 2.0 has emerged, defined by preemptive action, air dominance over Tehran, and power projection thousands of kilometers into Yemen. But he warns that Israel's vulnerability is conceptual, not kinetic. Without a national mission rooted in Jewish civilizational identity, Israel will remain tactically dominant yet strategically exposed, mistaking operational victories for strategic ones while its enemies reconstitute faster than Israel can degrade them. The conversation turns to identity. While the West drifts from its Judeo-Christian foundations, Israel is rediscovering its biblical identity for the first time since 1948. Seener explains why the cyclical pattern of the Book of Judges is the key to understanding where Israel stands right now, and why compression has always led to expansion in Jewish history. Rabbi Weisz then presents ten predictions for 2048, and Seener responds to each. Among them: the Abraham Accords expanding to replace NATO as the region's security architecture, Israeli universities becoming the world's top study abroad destination, a demographic realignment sending diaspora Jews toward Christian communities, Israeli hospitals serving the entire Middle East, biblical borders from the Nile to the Euphrates, and a new category of citizenship formally recognizing Christian Zionists and supporters of Israel worldwide. The episode closes on the boldest predictions of all: Jerusalem hosting the 2048 Summer Olympics, and the dedication of the Third Temple. Seener agrees with one and pushes back on the other, arguing that the Temple must not come as a response to Jewish persecution alone, but as something all the nations of the world cry out for together. For Christians who love Israel and want to understand what Scripture, strategy, and the last two years reveal about the decades ahead. Israel365 builds relationships between Jews and Christians in support of Israel. Subscribe for more conversations on the Bible, prophecy, and the Jewish state.

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Israel is rising as a military, economic and spiritual superpower. The Universal Zionist introduces you to the people shaping Israel as it steps into its destiny as a Light unto the Nations. Hosted by Rabbi Tuly Weisz, founder of Israel365, each episode brings together rabbis and pastors, scholars, diplomats, and strategists to discuss the ideas shaping Israel's future. The world is changing fast, and the noise — the hostility, the distraction, the discouragement — can feel overwhelming. But Israel's emergence as a spiritual superpower isn't in question. It's inevitable. Join us each week fo

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