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Watch out where your church’s money goes:

The Jewish Agency is to appoint a Christian representative to its board of directors for the first time, following an agreement this week with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) to increase cooperation between the organizations.

The IFCJ raises funds for Israeli and Jewish causes among American Evangelical congregations. IFCJ president Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein has been accused of cooperating with fundamentalist Christians and missionaries, and some ultra-Orthodox rabbis have banned using the money he raises.

However, Eckstein has gained a position of influence and an open door to Israeli leaders due to the tens of millions of shekels he has funneled to Israel annually. A decade ago he was made an agency director, due to the large sums of money he raised for the organization.

According to the agreement between the agency and the IFCJ, Eckstein will raise NIS 180 million among Christian communities in the next three years for immigration and absorption, and a Christian member of the IFCJ will be placed on the agency’s board…Read on!

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