Charlie Kirk honored in Jerusalem as hundreds gather, including officials, clergy and Christians

A memorial successful Jerusalem for slain blimpish activistic Charlie Kirk connected Sunday became a declaration of purpose, arsenic hundreds of Israelis and American visitors vowed to proceed the enactment helium began, according to a report.

The Press Service of Israel (TPS-IL) reported that astir 300 people, including Israeli officials, clergy and U.S. Christians, gathered Sunday to grant the Turning Point USA founder, who was changeable and killed during a speaking engagement astatine Utah Valley University successful September. Many said the lawsuit felt little similar a memorial and much similar a mandate.

Pastor Rob McCoy, 1 of Kirk’s closest confidants, described him successful comments reported by TPS-IL arsenic "faithful, humble, a fantastic hubby and father," and revealed a idiosyncratic subject — a play Sabbath rest.

"He recovered unbelievable state successful turning everything off. From Friday nighttime to Saturday night, nary 1 could scope him," McCoy said. "That bushed grounded him."

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Pastor Rob McCoy, a adjacent confidant of Charlie Kirk, speaks during a Jerusalem memorial connected Nov. 16, 2025. (Yoav Dudkevitch/TPS-IL, 16 Nov. 2025)

McCoy besides said Kirk saw authorities arsenic a mode to fortify society, not a way to power.

"He saw authorities arsenic an on-ramp to accrued humanity," McCoy said. "If helium could get young radical rowing successful the streams of liberty, helium believed they would yet scope its source."

Several attendees told TPS-IL that Kirk’s scope extended acold beyond his audience.

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Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli speaks during a Jerusalem memorial honoring Charlie Kirk connected Nov. 16, 2025. (Yoav Dudkevitch/TPS-IL, 16 Nov. 2025)

Tammy Martin of California said, "I ne'er met Charlie personally, but erstwhile helium was killed, it felt similar losing idiosyncratic I knew."

She credited him with helping Christians recognize the value of supporting Israel. "Some radical you lone spot done a screen, but the information they talk goes consecutive through," she said. "Charlie was 1 of those people."

Robert Whitley, besides from California, told the work Kirk was unmatched successful his quality to link with young conservatives.

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Israeli and American visitors articulation unneurotic successful Jerusalem to observe Charlie Kirk’s legacy, Nov. 16, 2025. (Yoav Dudkevitch/TPS-IL, 16 Nov. 2025)

"He knew however to talk to young radical successful a mode nary 1 other could," Whitley said. "He helped them propulsion backmost against indoctrination and spot Israel and America with existent clarity."

Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli praised Kirk’s subject and resoluteness successful comments to TPS-IL.

"Charlie embodied the deeper meaning of state — responsibility, clarity, discipline," Chikli said. "His decease is simply a tremendous loss, not lone to his household but to the blimpish question worldwide and to each those who saw him arsenic a defender of truth."

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Attendees stitchery successful Jerusalem connected Nov. 16, 2025, to grant the precocious blimpish activistic Charlie Kirk. (Yoav Dudkevitch/TPS-IL, 16 Nov. 2025)

According to TPS-IL, American-born instrumentalist Nissim Black called Kirk "a elephantine — a existent elephantine — and his bequest is simply a bequest you can’t shake."

He noted that Kirk’s motivation condemnation near a void. "He was unapologetic erstwhile it came to morality and unapologetic erstwhile it came to lasting for what was right," Black said. "Even successful his absence, you consciousness it — helium held truthful galore radical together."

Speakers passim the evening returned to 1 of Kirk’s last recorded statements: "In the lack of courage, information is an orphan."

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As the evening ended, attendees said the gathering near them determined to transportation guardant his mission.

"Charlie is gone, but the information helium fought for is not," 1 attendee said. "And it’s up to america now."