Yechiel Eckstein, rabbi who befriended evangelicals, dies at age 67
Through the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews that Eckstein founded, evangelicals have contributed more than $1 billion to Jewish causes.
Yechiel Eckstein of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Some rights reserved by FellowshipCam.
Yechiel Eckstein, a rabbi who developed deeper ties between evangelical Christians and Jews, died of heart failure February 6 in Jerusalem. He was 67.
Since he founded the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews in 1983, evangelicals have contributed more than $1 billion—with an average of $76 per donor—toward causes such as social programs for Jewish people in the diaspora and Israel and helping Jews immigrate.
Pat Robertson said in a statement, “Words cannot express the sorrow I feel at the untimely passing of my dear friend.”
