On Feb. 3, the night before his press conference with President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with 14 prominent American evangelical Christian leaders at Blair House, across the street from the White House. Figures such as Jentezen Franklin, Franklin Graham, Robert Jeffress, John Hagee, Tony Perkins and several other key pastors gathered in a 90‑minute closed‑door session orchestrated by the newly designated U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee.
It’s revealing that Netanyahu’s first meeting was not with American Jewish leaders but with American evangelicals.
In a subsequent CBN interview, Franklin, senior pastor of Free Chapel, a multisite church based in Gainesville, Georgia, recounted that Netanyahu expressed gratitude for evangelical leaders’ steadfast support of Israel during the war in Gaza. Second, the prime minister voiced deep concern that younger American Christians were beginning to withhold the blind allegiance their elders have long offered.
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