One for Israel

About One for Israel

One for Israel is a Messianic Jewish ministry based in Israel, founded in 1990 as a Bible college dedicated to training Israeli believers in Jesus (Yeshua) for evangelism and discipleship within their own country. The organization operates the largest Hebrew-language evangelistic website in Israel and produces media content specifically aimed at Jewish Israelis who may have never seriously encountered the claims of the New Testament. The YouTube channel serves as an international extension of that mission, making Hebrew and English content available to a global audience.

Leadership and Identity

Dr. Erez Soref serves as President of One for Israel. A Jewish Israeli by birth, Soref holds a doctorate and worked as a psychologist before dedicating himself full-time to ministry leadership. His background gives the channel a distinctly insider perspective: these are not Christian missionaries arriving from the West, but Israeli Jews who have come to faith in Yeshua and are addressing their own people from within the culture. The ministry team includes both Jewish and Arab Israeli believers, which the organization presents as a visible sign of reconciliation and the fulfillment of New Testament teaching about the unity of Jew and Gentile in Messiah.

Theological Position

One for Israel operates firmly within Messianic Judaism, the movement of Jewish people who accept Jesus as the promised Messiah of the Hebrew scriptures while maintaining Jewish identity and cultural heritage. The channel affirms the full authority of both the Old and New Testaments, presents Jesus as the fulfillment of Torah, the prophets, and the writings, and holds to evangelical doctrines including the bodily resurrection, the atoning death of Jesus, and the necessity of personal faith. The ministry engages deeply with Jewish objections to Christianity, particularly those raised by Orthodox counter-missionary organizations, and produces detailed apologetic content addressing rabbinic interpretations of contested messianic prophecies.

Content and Format

The channel's content falls into several broad categories. Testimony videos feature Israeli Jews describing their journey from secular or religious Jewish backgrounds to faith in Yeshua, and these personal stories form one of the most watched segments of the channel's output. Apologetic videos directly address classic Jewish objections: the virgin birth in Isaiah 7, the suffering servant of Isaiah 53, Daniel's timeline of seventy weeks, and the divine names in Proverbs 30. These are handled with reference to both the Hebrew text and rabbinic literature, and they are intended to be shareable resources for Jewish believers in conversation with skeptical family members or rabbis.

The channel also produces devotional and teaching content exploring the Hebrew roots of New Testament concepts, tracing connections between Passover and the crucifixion, between the Temple sacrificial system and atonement theology, and between Jewish feast days and Christian theology. This material appeals both to Jewish viewers exploring their heritage in a new light and to gentile Christians who want a deeper understanding of the Old Testament background of their faith.

Approach to Scripture

One for Israel approaches scripture with a consistent hermeneutic of Jewish-Christian continuity. The Hebrew Bible is read as pointing forward to Jesus, and the New Testament is read as the completion and climax of the story that began in Genesis. The ministry places strong emphasis on the Hebrew text and on recovering the Jewish context of both testaments. This is not a dispassionate academic exercise: the channel is explicitly evangelistic, and the exegetical work is always in service of the conclusion that Yeshua is the Messiah promised to Israel. That transparent confessional aim distinguishes the channel from academic religious studies content while also distinguishing it from gentile evangelical teaching by its sustained focus on Jewish textual tradition.

Target Audience

The primary intended audience is Jewish Israelis and Jewish people worldwide who are open to exploring whether Jesus is the Jewish Messiah. The channel also attracts a substantial gentile Christian viewership, particularly those interested in Jewish roots theology, Hebrew Bible apologetics, and the theology of Israel and the church. Viewers who appreciate a perspective rooted in lived Israeli experience, who want access to Hebrew-language resources in translation, or who are looking for detailed responses to Jewish counter-missionary arguments will find the channel particularly useful. The combination of personal testimony, careful textual argument, and Israeli cultural authenticity gives One for Israel a distinctive voice in the Messianic and evangelical online space.