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May God bless them and keep them. [IsraelTimes] Passages had brought some 11,000 visitors to communities Kfar Aza and Netiv Ha’asarain the years leading up to the attack
Pro-Israel Christians from the United States, in Israel on a solidarity visit, donated $500,000 to help two communities cope with the trauma of the murder of many of their members by Hamas
 ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
Death Eaters on October 7.
Another extraordinary group of Christians. We’e starting to build a collection of such stories in the Rantburg archives. The delegation of some 20 donors and alumni of Passages, a pro-Israel organization that subsidizes group visits to Israel for young American Christians, split the donation equally between Kibbutz Kfar Aza and Netiv Ha’asara, two communities where button men from Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
butchered dozens of people and set on fire many buildings.
Passages, which was established eight years ago, has had a longstanding connection with both communities because it has brought roughly 11,000 Christian students there on visits several times a year, Paul Webber, Passages’ chief advancement officer, told The Times of Israel on Wednesday.
Webber said that despite the devastation at Kfar Aza, "The trees, the grass, the homes were recognizable" to him. But his contacts in Kfar Aza, who came to the now-evacuated kibbutz to meet the delegation there, were not the same, he said.
"These are people we’ve known for years. And now when we’ve met them they seemed scarred, changed for life. The quiver in their lips as the words left their mouths, you could tell that they’re seeing over and over the horror that they had witnessed," Webber, a 60-year-old father of five who grew up in New York but lives in Arizona, said while holding back tears.
The encounter made the delegation decide to donate toward various psychological treatments and activities, especially for the many young survivors from the affected communities.
Passages, which has an annual budget of about $15 million, is sometimes called "the Christian Birthright" — a reference to the Jewish nonprofit Taglit Birthright Israel program, which has brought to Israel about 800,000 Jews who’d never visited it before. Passages raised the money it donated to Kfar Aza and Netiv Ha’asara in a special charity drive following October 7.
"As an organization that seeks to build bridges of friendship with Israel and the Jewish community, Passages will show up and continue to show up to stand in solidarity with Israel," Scott Phillips, CEO of Passages, said in a statement. "We’ll continue to introduce more and more young Christian leaders in America to Israel’s story." 
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