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Yael Eckstein, president and CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians & Jews, speaks with an elderly Jewish aid recipient in Israel. (Photo courtesy of International Fellowship of Christians & Jews)

Meet the Jewish woman raising millions from evangelical Christians to alleviate poverty in Israel

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 9, 2002 file photo, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein gestures as he walks outside an El-Al plane that brought about 400 North American Jews to Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel. Eckstein, an Israel-American rabbi who raised hundreds of millions of dollars for Israel by promoting closer ties with evangelical Christians around the world, has died on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

Yechiel Eckstein, rabbi who built ties with Christians, dies

Associated Press