Shalom Jerusalem Foundation
Honorable Yehudah Glick served as a member of the 21st Knesset for the Likud Party, from 2016 to 2019. When he was elected, he decided to call his office by a name that would express the ideas that he believes in and fights for, since he felt that he came into the Knesset to promote an ideology, rather than his personal political career. He therefore requested – for the first time in the Knesset’s history – that his office be named “Jerusalem of Peace”, instead of “The Chambers of MK Yehudah Glick”.
Yehudah Glick believes that ultimately good will triumph over evil and that peace will come. In order to do so we need to consolidate the status of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount in its center – as the global center for peace and reconciliation between peoples.
The following call of the prophet Isaiah is the very message behind this thinking:
“It shall come to pass in the latter days
Isaiah 2:2-5
that the mountain of the House of Hashem
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
and shall be lifted up above the hills;
and all the nations shall flow to it…
and they shall beat swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore.”
When Yehudah finished his term in the Knesset, he founded the Shalom Jerusalem Foundation, based on these same values. The Shalom Jerusalem foundation endeavors to bring about the new generation of Zionism. The term “Zionism” comes from the word Zion, which is used in the bible when referring to the Temple Mount. In Psalms 1, King David says:
“I consecrate my king on Zion, my holy mountain.”
Psalms 2:6
In recent decades, a certain side of the political map has appropriated the term “peace” to itself, but peace is the name of God, and He is the One who leads the Shalom Jerusalem Foundation in our public doings.