About the site editor

Stan Goodenough

Stan Goodenough is an experienced journalist who has written about politics in South Africa and the Middle East for such organizations as The Daily Dispatch of East London, South Africa, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Post, and the Virtual HolyLand website.

A South African gentile resident in Israel for 12 years, Stan became a believing Christian as a young boy, drifted during his teen years, but was led to recommit his life to serving a gracious God.

After volunteering on kibbutz and moshav in the mid-80s, he returned to South Africa to freelance as a press photographer before working as a political reporter covering the last years of the apartheid era.

From 1991 to 1999, Stan edited the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem's Middle East Intelligence Digest, writing on the "peace" process: its conception from Madrid to Oslo, the violence it unleashed - including the unprecedented wave of anti-Israel sentiment - and the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the internal conflicts it exacerbated and diplomatic fruits it bore. Binyamin Netanyahu's rise to power was also followed closely.

From January 1999 to December 2000, Stan was editor-in-chief of Virtual HolyLand (VHL), a website designed to communicate Israel to the Christian world. With the collapse of VHL's parent company, he began work on Israel My Beloved which, in June 2001 came under the auspices of the International Christian Zionist Center.

Stan, his Czech wife, Franceska, and their six Israel-born children live in Jerusalem, across the valley from Mount Zion and the Temple Mount.