Israeli Parliament Honors Fundamentalist Christian Group
Episcopal News Service. May 14, 1991 [91120N]
The Israeli parliament recently presented its Speakers Award to-the International Christian Embassy (I.C.E.), a Jerusalem-based fundamentalist organization that has promoted Israel as a democratic, tolerant, peace-loving country. It marked the first time the award was issued to a Christian institution. Johann Luckhoff, director of the fundamentalist group, said the $7,500 prize money would enable I.C.E. to step up its campaign to transport Soviet Jews to Israel "and also to raise more support for Israel all over the world." The "embassy" was set up in 1980 in the wake of the international furor sparked by Israel's formal annexation of the eastern sector of Jerusalem, seized from Jordan in the 1967 war. Jerusalem had been set aside as an international zone under the 1947 United Nations resolution that partitioned Palestine.