Israel Knesset Christian Allies to Present KCAC Women’s Council

By Israel News Agency Staff

Jerusalem-----May 21......The Israel Knesset Christian Allies Caucus (KCAC) will meet to launch the KCAC Women’s Council on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 4:00PM in the Knesset’s Lecture Hall.

An Israel board of directors in Jerusalem and an international board of directors in Washington will govern the Women’s Council through a joint steering committee. MKs Amira Dotan and Orit Noked and former MKs Gila Finkelstein and Gila Gamliel will represent the Israel board at this meeting.

Kay Arthur, Chairwoman of the international board, will represent the international board at this meeting along with renowned Christian leader Jane Hansen, president and CEO of AGLOW.

Israel MK Yuri Shtern, founder and chairman of the caucus, commented, “The modern struggle for women’s rights is based on the values revealed in the Ancient Bible. By establishing a women’s council, our caucus aims to create strong cooperation between Israeli politicians, Israeli women’s rights activists, and faith based women’s rights campaigners and politicians abroad.”

The Israel Knesset Christian Allies Caucus, established in 2004 during the sixteenth Knesset, is continuing to promote this new relationship between Christians and Jews in the current seventeenth Knesset. For over two years, this body has succeeded in opening formal and direct lines of communication between the representatives of the Jewish people and Christian leaders around the world.

The goals of the Christian Allies Caucus in Israel are to recognize the contribution Christians in America, Europe, and around the world are making to the security of the State of Israel and the welfare of the Jewish People. The Caucus brings to the attention of the people of Israel the unqualified support Christains have given, and continue to give, to Jewish aspirations in the Land of Israel. This Christian lobby also provides Christian and Israel leaders with a Knesset forum where they can meet face-to-face and so enhance communication and cooperation beetween them. And finally to reach out to all Christians in order to mobilize support for Israel.