Middle East Update

Shmuel Katz
The Koran relates that Muhammad in a single night was transported to heaven by Burak, a horse with wings, a woman’s face, and a peacock’s tail. He was first taken to what the Koran called the “uttermost mosque” - il masjad al aksa. Jerusalem is not mentioned in the story, and there was no [...]

A. Savyon and Y. Mansharof
According to Shi’ite tradition, the Twelve Imams, descendants of the Prophet Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law Ali Ibn Abi Talib, were endowed with divine qualities that enabled them to lead the Shi’ite believers and to function as Allah’s emissaries on earth. However, when the Twelfth Imam, Muhammad Al-Mahdi, disappeared in 941 CE, [...]

Four Arab church leaders based in Jerusalem, one Catholic, 2 Protestant and the other Arab orthodox, issued a scathing attack on Christians who actively support the Jewish state. In a statement they say that. “Christian Zionist doctrines are false teaching that corrupt the biblical message”.