IFCJ Founder Yechiel Eckstein Is Dead: Top Israeli Rabbi Dies Of Heart Attack In Jerusalem

IFCJ Founder Yechiel Eckstein Is Dead: Israeli Canadian Rabbi Dies Of Heart Attack At Age 67 In Jerusalem

International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein Dies Suddenly At Family Home

Top Israeli Rabbi, Yechiel Eckstein has died.

He passed away due to sudden heart attack on Wednesday the 6th of February 2019 at his family home in Jerusalem.

His organization, International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) worked to unite the Jews and Christians all over the world.

With his vision, IFCJ raised over $1.4billion for projects in Israel mostly from evangelical donors around the world.

Most people who saw him weeping in TV adverts were moved to support his ministry and because of his tender loving care and compassion for suffering Jews, he helped repatriate over 730,000 Jews back to Israel.

His organization, helped hundreds of thousands of low-income Israelis, ailing and poor Holocaust survivors in Israel and the former Soviet Union, and low-income Israeli minorities, including Arabs, Bedouin and Druze.

Yechiel Eckstein funeral

Yechiel Eckstein funeral held yesterday Thursday the  7th of February 2019 at the Eretz Hachaim Cemetery in  Jerusalem.

He is survived by his wife, Joelle Eckstein and daughter, Yael Eckstein.

May his soul rest in peace.