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Former Arkansas Governor and staunch supporter of Israel Mike Huckabee was among the mispallalim arriving at Kever Yosef on Sunday night the eve of 26 Iyar. The visit was the night before US President Donald Trump lands in Israel for his first official visit since assuming office.
The group of mispallalim numbered in the thousands, led by the head of the Shomron Regional Council, Yossi Dagan. Also present was MK (Bayit Yehudi) Betzalel Smotrich and IDF Central District Commander Major-General Roni Numa.
Huckabee said, “I wish to recognize, even on this week in which the President will come to Israel, that it’s still very difficult for many people to come to the holy sites, and it’s my prayer, as I come here with you, that the holy sites that you and that I embrace will be accessible, and that we will not have to come in the dead of night in order to pray and seek the Lord’s face.”
“It should not be that way, and I hope the day comes when the freedom for God’s people to come and to pray is uninhibited and unhindered by any violence by those who seek to prevent you from being able to say this prayer. That you could do it in the daylight, in the sunshine, and not in the darkness of night,” he added.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem/Photo Credit: מאיר ברכיה)
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I was there but I didn’t see him. I did see countless soldiers in full riot gear, looking exhausted and fed up from the rioting earlier. It’s ironic though – all those heilige men who were dashing off the buses to get to the kever hate Israel and abuse our chayalim, but are only able to visit the kever BECAUSE of the protection the soldiers give them. They are happy to see the soldiers on the buses when it suits them.