Darryl Strawberry planned to take his evangelical ministry — speaking about his life and the ills of drug and alcohol addiction — to Israel in November.
That plan was discarded by the former Mets slugger after the recent outbreak of conflict in the region between Hamas and Israel. Strawberry first visited Israel in 2018 and said he was overwhelmed by the experience.
In a sense he felt at home.
“My wife was shocked that people know me over there,” Strawberry told Post Sports+ this week. “But the majority of my friends that live in New York are Jewish, and I’ve been around with them for a very long time. A lot of people who live in the States go over there [to Israel], too, so I was recognized by a lot of Jewish people when I was over there who knew me from the Yankees side and knew me from the Mets side.”



