The foreign media came up with all kinds of biblical comparisons as millions of locusts invaded southern Israel earlier this month, crossing the border from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.  A headline in the German newspaper Die Welt read: “Like in Biblical Times.” A Canadian news website wrote that “it’s hard not to draw references to the Bible when a swarm thought to contain 30 million insects buzzes over an ancient city days before Passover.”

It’s also “hard not to draw references to the Bible” when it comes to the rebirth and existence of the State of Israel.

"I will bring back my exiled people Israel; they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them,” says the LORD your God." Amos 9:14-15