#69 - Yair Pinto Reports From Israel
The Eric Metaxas Show
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Eric speaks with Yair Pinto in Israel as missiles and sirens reshape daily life, and he describes what it is like getting kids into shelters, living through constant alerts, and watching the toll build. They discuss his experience with the IDF, what he says the IDF did differently in Gaza compared with normal warfare, and how headlines and propaganda shape what Americans think they are seeing. And Yair shares what he believes is happening right now, what a prolonged war could look like, and why faith, endurance, and prayer matter in this moment.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome back. As promised, I have someone who is in Israel right now. |
| 0:09.6 | His name is Yair Pinto. He is with TBN in Israel. Yair, thanks for coming on. |
| 0:22.6 | Well, thank you, Eric, for having me. |
| 0:24.6 | And definitely, it's been a crazy three days so far. |
| 0:29.8 | And it seems like it's only got to get worse. |
| 0:33.1 | You know, we had one front in the beginning of this wall, and now we already have two. |
| 0:37.0 | But I'm sure we're going to talk about that in the show well I guess my question to you is first of all |
| 0:42.6 | your story with a name like yair pinto you know you don't sound like you're from Ohio |
| 0:51.1 | where where did you grow up? |
| 0:55.1 | What brought you to Israel? |
| 0:57.1 | I know you're a follower of Yeshua Hamashiyah, as am I, |
| 1:02.4 | but Greeks pronounce it differently, |
| 1:04.1 | but it's the same Jesus. |
| 1:06.1 | But what is your story? |
| 1:07.6 | How did you get to live in Israel? |
| 1:08.8 | And what part of Israel in you right now? Well, I'm in the Jerusalem area. I was actually born and raised here. I'm second generation in Israel. Also, my mother was born and raised here. |
| 1:19.6 | And, you know, you're right. That's actually a very good question about how did I came to follow Yeshua, Messiah, Jesus. |
| 1:28.7 | And that is actually a very, very long story because in Israel you have maybe 0.001% of the Israelis, |
| 1:37.8 | especially the Jews, that are following Jesus as their Messiah. |
| 1:42.4 | So I always grew up as the only follower of Yeshua in my school, |
| 1:46.2 | the only one in the IDF, |
| 1:48.2 | and most likely the only one in my friends group still up until today. |
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