March 2, 2021 - Five years ago, there were fifteen thousand Jews in Israel who converted to Christianity. Today, missionaries boast that the number has doubled to thirty thousand.

November 9, 2025 - This distinction is in the process of being formalized into law, as the Likud government is currently drafting legislation to grant this request. This new attitude is founded largely by the perception by some that only in Israel the Christian population is growing due to natural increase and no state persecution, seeing the entire Middle East, except Lebanon, as where Christianity is and has been rapidly on the decline.

April 24, 2025 - Few Israelis analyzed in this study say they have no religion (1%). After accounting for oversamples of Christians, Druze, Jews who identify as Haredi and Jews who live in the West Bank, the religious distribution of the survey’s respondents closely resembles the religious distribution of the adult population published in the 2014 Statistical Abstract by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics.

September 3, 2025 - The mass conversion of the Jews plays a central role in dispensationalism. Hal Lindsey, one of the most influential American promoters of dispensationalism, wrote in The Late Great Planet Earth that, per Ezekiel (39:6–8), after Jews fight off a "Russian" invasion, Jews will see this as a miracle and convert to Christianity.

2 days ago - According to Lester L. Grabbe, although there are "various references to proselytizing in the literature from the Greek and Roman periods", "it seems unlikely that there was a major 'mission' on the part of the Jews to gain Gentile converts." Other historians believe that conversion during the Roman era was limited in number and did not account for much of the Jewish population growth, due to various factors such as the illegality of male conversion to Judaism in the Roman world from the mid-second century. Another factor that made conversion difficult in the Roman world was the halakhic requirement of circumcision, a requirement that proselytizing Christianity quickly dropped.

We have found a measure of favor among a small but growing number of mainstream Jewish leaders who, sensing the sheer breadth of Jewish orientations worldwide, want to make room for us at the Jewish table. Finally, we have had a profound impact on an impor­tant segment of the Christian Church, the Evangelical community.

4 days ago - The 1981 declaration took a more assertive stance, challenging the religious justification for Israel’s claims to the land, demanding a full cessation of U.S. military aid to Israel, and denouncing American policies that restricted the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Both declarations represented a growing Christian movement that sought to oppose pro-Israel evangelical perspectives and bring attention to Palestinian political and humanitarian concerns.

March 28, 2023 - Jewish parents were not concerned that their children would convert to Christianity, they were confident in their secular Israeli Jewish identity. Government officials, however, both secular and religious, were concerned about the growing trend and in 1968 passed the first “anti-missionary ...

Answer (1 of 10): What proportion Israeli Jews convert to Christianity each year? I am sure there are converts to both Christianity and Islam, but there are (as far as I know) no published statistics. It is more common for a person to marry outside their religion than to convert - and easier, si...

March 22, 2023 - A bill making religious proselytization punishable by jail time induced alarm among Christian Zionists in Israel and around the world, despite assurances by government officials that it would not become law. The proposal, submitted by United Torah Judaism’s Moshe Gafni and Yaakov Asher, claims that “missionary groups, mainly Christians,” have stepped up efforts to convert people in Israel.

January 5, 2024 - The Christian population in Israel has experienced constant growth. In 2021, their number rose to 182,000 with an increase of 1.4%, and in 2022, the registered growth was 2%, reaching 185,000 according to the CBS’ data.

Answer (1 of 2): sounds doubtful Between 2018 and 2022, the fertility rate among Jewish women dropped from 3.17 to 3.03 children per woman. Among Muslim and Christian women, the drop was even more pronounced: from 3.20 to 2.91 among Muslims, and from 2.06 to 1.68 among Christians...

October 27, 2025 - While Christians are vanishing from much of the Middle East, in Israel, their communities are growing, protected, and free. The Jewish state is the only country in the region where Christianity is thriving, a fact often ignored by those who ...

October 22, 2025 - By Charles Gardner — Amid all the bad news emanating from the Middle East, the church in Israel is growing and there has been a sixfold increase in Jewish followers of Jesus since 1998.¹ · Speaking to Christians in Doncaster on the importance ...

June 14, 2024 - He is also the first Israeli to lead the organization, a point emphasized in the group’s announcement of his appointment. Abramson’s rise makes him a prominent new face of a perpetual Christian missionary effort aimed at converting Jews into belief in Jesus as the Messiah. After serving on staff for years, he takes over an organization that, without much notice from the Jewish community, has grown into a global operation with a budget of more than $33 million and a staff of about 250 spread across 13 countries.

May 2, 2023 - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long touted Israel’s commitment to religious freedom, saying in 2018: “If you are a Christian in the Middle East, there’s only one place where you are safe. There’s only one place where the Christian community is growing, thriving, prospering.

Jews for Jesus remains as it was established: a poorly veiled and deceptive cover for a full-court effort to convert Jews to Christianity.

2 weeks ago - The 19th century saw at least 250,000 Jews convert to Christianity according to existing records of various societies. Data from the Pew Research Center that as of 2013, about 1.6 million adult Americans of Jewish background identify themselves as Christians, most are Protestant.

September 5, 2025 - There is a long history of Jewish conversion to Christianity, both voluntarily and forced conversion. What follows is a partial history of some of the well known forced conversions. Jewish Christians were the followers of a Jewish religious sect that emerged in Judea during the late Second ...