Dennis Avi Lipkin, aka Victor Mordecai was born in Flushing, New York and grew up in the greater New York City area. He moved to Israel in 1968. Avi completed high school in New York and two years of college at New York University, Washington Square majoring in Sovietology and Spanish/Latin American studies at Hebrew University. He served in the IDF from for a year as part of the IDF spokesman for the Judea and Samaria Command. His reserves duty includes artillery reserves 1973 to 1989 and then as an officer in the IDF Spokesman’s Office from 1989 to 2001. Avi has worked in different capacities in international commerce based in Jerusalem. He has also worked as senior editor and translator in the News Department of the Government Press Office as part of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s office at Beit Agron. In the early nineties, Avi began lecturing in Christian churches and synagogues in the US as well as appearing on radio and TV, and in 1991 he studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary as part of the MA program. He has spoken in over 1,000 churches and synagogues internationally and has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV shows worldwide. He has written five books: Is Fanatic Islam a Global Threat? Christian Revival for Israel’s Survival, Islamic Threat Updates Almanac #1, Israel’s Bible Bloc, and Islam Prophesied In Genesis. Avi is married to Rachel, they have two sons and 8 grandchildren.