Charlie Kirk was a great friend of Israel and of the Jewish people generally. Via InstaPundit:
The reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder in the Jewish and Israeli communities is unlike anything I have ever seen. Everyone is eulogizing Charlie — everyone. Every politician, rabbi, and just everyday citizen— everyone feels impacted.
A rabbi went on Fox News and called him “the…
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) September 11, 2025
Prime Minister Netanyahu weighed in:
Most interesting to me was this reminiscence in the Jerusalem Post: “A Christian activist believed in me and in my Judaism. His name was Charlie Kirk.” The author was a secular Jew at the University of Oregon whom Charlie recruited to run for a post in student government. The story is rather funny, and the effort failed. But it changed the author of the article:
He flew in canvassers, drilled us on messaging, and set the pace. He was up before everyone, did not drink coffee, and still had more energy than the room combined. We argued a lot about the meaning of life, including a long dinner where the two of us debated euthanasia, abortion, and religion.
He quoted Scripture from memory, but what stayed with me was not a verse. It was his conviction that moral truths exist outside of us, that God is an objective reality, not a construct. He forced me to ask whether I was living as if God was real, and whether I was honoring a tradition I barely understood. He never tried to convert me. What he said instead changed my life: “It’s important that you be Jewish.”
That exhortation took hold, as the author relates. He realized, later, that at the time Charlie was only 22 years old. Characteristically, Charlie put the mission first:
The irony still makes me smile: a Christian activist sent me down the path to becoming an Orthodox Jew. On his last night in Eugene, one of my running mates dropped Charlie at his hotel before an early flight. At check-in, his card was declined. He had spent it all on our race for travel, outreach and food, and had not even left enough for his own room. The mission came first.
The whole piece is worth reading. It is a nice insight into Charlie Kirk in the early years.
