Organized by Brit Olam–The Noahide World Center, the five-day gathering, held during the week of November 8, 2026, was modeled on the First Zionist Congress convened by Theodor Herzl in Basel in 1897.
Noahides are non-Jews who follow the biblical Seven Laws of Noah, including belief in one God, establishing courts of justice, and prohibitions against murder, theft, idolatry, sexual immorality, and eating flesh from a living animal. Thousands practice the tradition across more than 70 countries on six continents.
At Jerusalem’s Seven Arches Hotel, overlooking the Mount of Olives, delegates signed the Megillat Bnei Noach, or Scroll of the Noahide Covenant, in the presence of Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion and Rabbi Oury Cherki, president of Brit Olam.
The Hebrew document expresses the signatories’ commitment “to make a covenant with the people of Israel and its Torah.”
Participants also established an international Beit Din, a rabbinical court providing voluntary religious guidance to Noahides.
“Zionism achieved the material liberation of the Jewish people. Now we have to ask what comes next,” Cherki said.
Delegates attended religious studies and workshops, visited the City of David, Shiloh and Beit El, and prayed at the Western Wall.
President Isaac Herzog received representatives of the movement in Jerusalem and was presented with a certificate.
Among the participants was Rod Bryant, a former evangelical pastor from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who founded NETIV Virtual Torah Learning in Houston, Texas.
Emilia Goritz traveled from Argentina with her son, Misael Kurtz, while Solia Centenode Baglivo represented Bolivia, where she helped expand a Noahide community from two to 40 members.
Rabbi Chaim Goldberg, Brit Olam’s CEO, said the congress sought to connect individuals studying independently with established communities.
The gathering received the blessings of Israel’s chief rabbis.
Source: Iwpost.com
