Dear ELIJAH LIST Readers:

Many of you on the ELIJAH LIST are among the myriads who choose to BLESS ISRAEL on a regular basis.

Here is a link to copyrighted story about many ORTHODOX RABBIS who are seeking God in prayer for help against the West Nile Virus. We need to join them in prayer and let them know that we are doing so.

Click on this link to read the article:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Middle_East/2000-09/israeli220900.shtmlh Already, 13 people in Israel have died of this Virus since August.

We, as believers must also be seeking God for the same thing for the U.S. A number of people in New York have also died.

We are not among those who FEAR but among those who TRUST God. Nevertheless, this is a serious virus and we must begin to seek God for protection--both for Israelis and in all other countries.

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Some could not click on the link for this article so I'm sending it again for those who want to read it. It was found at:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/

The publication is "THE INDEPENDENT" out of the U.K.

FOR THOSE WHO DESIRE TO BLESS ISRAEL . . . ISRAELI ORTHODOX RABBIS ASK GOD FOR HELP AGAINST WEST NILE VIRUS

This is a call for the CHURCH to pray for and bless Israel as yet another force comes against Israel (and many other countries as well). Israel is in the middle of a record- breaking drought. With the potential for war just around the corner, this is yet one more "hit" against Israel.

Israeli rabbis ask for help against West Nile virus
By Phil Reeves in Jerusalem
22 September 2000

A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews, led by a prominent rabbi, were due to gather at midnight yesterday on a hilltop in Israel to pray for divine aid.

But their entreaties were not, for once, over the division of the holy city of Jerusalem, or hostile Arabs, or the wayward behavior of Israel's boisterous secular classes on the sabbath. They concerned an altogether smaller and currently more deadly subject: the mosquito.

According to the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv, Rabbi David Batzri, a leader within Jerusalem's large ultra-Orthodox community, planned last night's "anti-mosquito" prayer meeting in the hope of putting an end to the West Nile virus, which was this week declared an epidemic by the Health Ministry.

Thirteen people, aged from 54 to 90, have died from the virus in Israel since August, and 180 have been diagnosed with it, although thousands more are likely to be infected, suffering only mild symptoms. Although healthy people usually recover from the disease, there has been a wave of panic among Israelis. Callers yesterday jammed local authority switchboards demanding pesticides be used to keep the mosquitoes at bay. Councils reported more than 1,000 calls a day, nearly 10 times the number received during the hype over the millennium cyber-bug last year. One official said some people had phoned merely to inform the authorities that they had spotted a mosquito at home.

The virus, which killed seven people in New York last year, is transmitted solely by mosquitoes which have bitten infected animals or the chief culprit birds. It can cause encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) and meningitis, both of which can be fatal, particularly among the elderly or those already suffering from a chronic medical condition.

This year's upsurge of the virus which has been present in Israel for decades is believed to have coincided with the seasonal migration of birds across Israel from Asia and Europe to Africa for the winter.

Steve Shultz THE ELIJAH LIST
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