Israel Awareness Day

Faith Bible Chapel

International flags of Israel and USA line walkway of modern two-story Faith Bible Chapel building.
Entrance walkway beside Faith Bible Chapel lined with flags of Israel and USA.
A man wearing an eye patch holds car door open for Pastor Robert Hooley/
Pastor Robert and Carol Hooley with two men.
Pastor Robert Hooley and Carol Hooley chat with three men.
Carol Hooley seated at cafe table showing photo album.
Natke Nir shakes hands with Robert Hooley standing with Carol Hooley.
Photo layout of Israeli Brigadier General Natke Nir and moments from his career.
Exuberant crowd of young people joins Pastor Bob in greeting Nature Nir upon arrival for Israel Awareness Day.
Carol Hooley and Natke Nir tour exhibits at Israel Awareness Day.
Natke Nil and Carol Hooley stand in front of wall mural of children riding in a bus.
Natke Nir smiles with one hand on the barrel of a full-size tank mockup with a young man.
A wax figure soldier wearing a helmet looks through binoculars half out of the hatch of a full-scale Israeli tank mockup in front of a wall of maps and photos titled Battles of the Six Day War.
Natke Nir shows Robert Hooley significant areas of a map illustrating military actions of Israel.
Wall-mounted collage of hand-painted illustrations showing locations of battles with arrows representing military movements, with photos of military leaders.
Collection of children's drawings of scenes from the life of Brigadier General Natke Nir.
Three men laugh together.
Robert and Carol Hooley smile with a friend.
Five women and three men sing and clap in cozy café performance.
Illustrated map of Sinai Peninsula with arrows showing military movements of the 1956 Sinai Campaign.
Avigdor Kahalani, Carol Hooley, Robert Hooley smile and embrace.
Robert Hooley, Avigdor Kahalani and Carol Hooley admire full-size reproduction people in roped-off display titled The Ingathering of the Exiles.
Collage of photos in mattes mounted on wall surrounding mural of battle tank.
Brigadier General Avigdor Kahalani smiles as he speaks from pulpit.
Two rows of large prints of colorful Chagall stained glass windows.
A boy and a girl share a camel costume as other young children sing and a boy in front holds a sign that reads To Jerusalem.
Twelve tribes of Israel represented in dodecagon stained glass wood inlay art piece suspended from ceiling.
Five examples of elaborate needlework showing words such as Shalom as well as historic Jewish monuments and symbols.
Fifteen same-sized circular plates, white with painted icons and insignia mounted in a large circle on a blue wall.
Handcrafted Star of David made of various colors of wood.
Fifteen or more members of International Singers plus Robert and Carol Hooley sit around a large table with Menachem Begin, Elisha Noy, and Brigadier General
Two men with military decorations on their shirts have a serious talk.
Audience watches large circle of dancers in bright red and white, women alternating with men.
Jubilant Orthodox Jews lift hands shouting for joy.
Eight dancers in blue and white against backdrop of painted old world stone arches.
Lively dancing by costumed dance troupe.
Colorfully dressed ladies dance with men wearing fatigues before painted Israel marketplace.
Dressed up young boys and girls hold hands dancing barefoot in circle around First Bible Chapel insignia on gymnasium floor.
Two men and two women in military dress sing a five tiers of seated choir members and members of congregation look on.
Two men in uniform sing on stage as seated audience looks on.
Barefoot Israeli soldiers go through dance routine in decorated gym.
Singers in suits and sparkly gowns perform beneath large menorah.
Circle of alternating women and men pressing hands together dancing barefoot in colorfully decorated gym.
Circle of men and women dancers step lively in gym decorated to resemble an Israeli fortress as audience watches from all sides.
Audience watches performance in decorated gym, Natke Nir and Carol Hooley seated in front.
Large seated congregation in modern church watches singers, orchestra and choir in large multilevel dais.
Little boys in red shirts with matching Orthodox yarmulkes alternate with little girls in red dresses, all holding hands and forming a circle on large church dais, as seated choir and orchestra members look on.
Children's choir assemble on stage.
Choir of toddlers singing on stage.
Children standing on large dais ready to sing facing woman director.
Full choir sings as orchestra plays on stage.
Children dance in couples in front of painted scenes of Israel market and ice cream shop.
Barefoot children dance in a circle as large crowd watches.
Alternating girls and boys hold hands and dance in a circle.
Bucolic harbor scene mural, full-scale rock wall set pieces and arched doorways installed atop smooth indoor basketball court.
Gymnasium decorated with castle walls and Stars of David, a menorah, and circles for the Twelve Tribes of Israel, a raised musician's stage in one corner.
High-ceiling gymnasium filled with large set pieces of stone walled fortress, a lion resting amid artificial trees, and a large domed building.
Makeshift café and ice cream shop.
Cloth-covered walls and dining tables decorated with Stars of David and Israeli flags.
Combined painted mural and diorama depicting the Biblical David being anointed.
Handmade baskets and other goods for sale in artistically recreated Jerusalem market.
Mural depicting German WW II death camp trains. Text reads: The trains lead to the death camps. The Nazis said "Your family will stay together as you relocate to the east."
Diorama featuring three-dimensional soldiers, one of which is parachuting from the ceiling, and a mural of the lamb laying down with a lion with the words And that day will come.
Mockup of the Ark of the Covenant viewed by visitors to Israel Awareness Day.
Scale model of steps leading to dais and proscenium with small figures, one of which is Chaim Weizmann.
Scale model of steps leading to dais and proscenium with small figures beside full-size mannequin statue of Chaim Weizmann.
Scale model diorama of an elaborate court, with miniature figures seated and standing above in overlooking gallery.
High court depicted in miniature diorama made of wood with nine miniature characters all in military costume.
Sign on wall reads "Theodor Herzl at First Zionist Congress -- 1897" next to diorama full-size figure of Theodor Herzl speaking from courtroom lectern as crowd of two-dimensional people looks on from gallery above.
Diorama of tank, jeep, troop carrier and soldiers advancing on gate of old world stone fortress.
Diorama display of old world and not-so-old buildings in Israel.
Scaled down 3-D diorama of fortress with crenellated walls and towers against painted arid hillside village.
Scale model of fortress with crenellated walls and two-story oval building made of columns and arches, set against painted arid hillside village with camels.
Diorama bedroom with miniature Eli Cohen.
Full scale model of Menachem Begin.
Two dioramas, one with a sign reading "Packen Hall" with small 3-D figures in each, behind full size wax figure of Golda Maier smiling as she sites with an open book in her lap.
Wax model of man in jacket beside sign reading "The Twisted Road to Auschwitz."
Wax statues of Nazi guard and three Ku Klux Klan members in white robes and pointed hoods in display of various forms of anti-semitism throughout history.
Two hooded KKK-styled mannequins with a display listing worldwide anti-semitism actions.
Stacked black-painted oil drums set against wall of news clippings, quotes, and a chart showing levels of U.S. Anit-Semitism.
Mural depicting scenes of WW II German Concentration Camps with placard reading 6,000,000 dead.
Prisoners flop in three levels of crude bunks in artistic depiction of German concentration camp squalor.
Mural plus costumed mannequin illustrates Nazi soldiers forcing men to dig.
Wax figures of a woman, holding cloth-swaddled baby and leading young boy away from barbwire-fence barrier, behind which stands a figure of a man beneath a Soviet Union flag
Photo layout of Israeli fighter jets and display of model tanks and jets.
Large mural of face of Levi Eshkol superimposed over scene of fighter jets strafing farmland with a tank and tractor and a scale model wax figure of Levi Eshkol.
Two opposing sets of model tanks aim their guns at each other.
Audience members Pastor Hooley with Brigadier General Shaike Bareket clapping hands.
Man speaks from pulpit at Faith Bible Chapel.
Brigadier General Shaike Bareket at lectern as choir members look on.
Robert Hooley clasps his hands around microphone as he speaks from church pulpit, members of choir and congregation seated in rows looking on.
People seated and standing listen earnestly to a seated man speak.
Lady dancers in traditional black dresses, white aprons, and white hair covering shawls, perform as guests and male dancers look on in decorated gym.
People moving past International Singers records and tapes store.
Jewish wedding bride, groom and two attendants in formal suits.
A man and a women standing on each side of a small table pray as a young boy looks on.
Recreation marketplace with fruit and balloons and many other specialty stalls.
Hanging baskets, woven jugs and other items on display in artist's model of Israel market.
Eyepatch-wearing replica full scale soldier beside four diorama windows depicting scale parachuters.
Children's depiction of Jerusalem's Western Wall.
Eyepatch-wearing full scale wax figure of Moshe Dayan with two other military leaders
Model display of Israeli watch tower with guard.
Israeli traditional marketplace recreated in Faith Bible Chapel gymnasium.
Café tables in artistically rendered life-size marketplace built in the gymnasium of Faith Bible Chapel.
Painted trees and countryside with ocean behind are backdrop of recreation outdoor café featuring small square tables and carts filled with flower pots.
Three puppets.
Model temple with gold foil covered columns and crenellated walls protecting it.
Robert Hooley with special guests at Israel Awareness Day
Seventeen well-dressed men and women pose for a group portrait outside.
Camouflage-painted war plane mockup and two wax figure soldiers kitted out with handheld radio and rifles.
Four soldiers in fatigues reenact part of the raid on Entebbe International Airport.
In full-size 3-D diorama, camouflage-wearing, rifle-toting soldier statue holds a large portable radio standing in darkness with a black diplomatic flag-bearing Mercedes tilting to one side just behind him.
People take in wall mural illustration of a city in Israel.
Pastor Robert Hooley with two guests.
Older gentleman in suit speaks from pulpit as members of choir and congregation look on from tiered rows of seats.
Standing ovation of congregation for Pastor Robert Hooley's special guest.
Robert Hooley with arm around shoulder of good friend.
Blue walled display celebrating "The Vote For Partition, November 29, 1947, Dawn of a New Israel"
Large murals and maps illustrate Israel's War of Independence 1948.
Heat map showing the Arab League, Egypt, and Israel and basic facts of each in 1979.
Three-part 3-D diorama showing part of an Olympic stadium, cutaway view into apartment, and airport with model helicopters, with a display label reading Munich.
1973 Yom Kippur War illustrated by a figure of an armed soldier confronting seated figure in synagogue.
Wax mannequin of Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin with a chart of facts.
Three wax figures resembling political leaders Sadat, Carter, Begin at Peace Accord.
View from the choir looking at congregation as three women sing.
Pastor Robert Hooley with children and soldier in uniform.
Pastor Robert Hooley speaks into microphone on stage of International Singers.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon seated with Robert Hooley.
Robert Hooley listens while another man reads from a letter of recognition of his good works.
Pastor Robert Hooley at lecturn holding up a booklet.
Robert Hooley smiles and side-hugs grateful man with hand over heart.
Pastor Robert Hooley speaking from pulpit as congregation looks on.