Trump becomes first sitting U.S. president to visit Jerusalem’s Western Wall as he and Jared stop to pray at Judaism’s holiest site
Donald Trump prayed at Jerusalem’s Western Wall on Monday, slipping a prayer note between the stones
Melania, Ivanka and Jared all took their turns praying at the wall that originally supported the Temple Mount in the first century B.C.
Trump wore a navy suit, a red tie and a black skullcap
Barack Obama visited the Western Wall in 2008, when he was a presidential candidate; the note he left behind was stolen and later published
By David Martosko, US Political Editor
DailyMail.com
22 May 2017
Donald Trump on Monday became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall – the holiest site where Jews can pray – and left a prayer note there in accordance with Jewish custom.
Located in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, the Western Wall is a section of one of four original retaining walls King Herod built in the first century B.C. to support the Temple Mount.
It is also the only remaining portion of the Second Jewish Temple, which stood in Jerusalem until the Romans destroyed it in 70 A.D. as they put down a Jewish revolt.
It has been U.S. policy for the last 50 years to not recognize East Jerusalem as part of Israel, making a visit to the wall a political minefield.
But Trump, clad in a navy suit, red striped tie and black kippah, strode into the Western Wall Prayer Plaza in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday before placing his hand on the stone wall and praying for 30 seconds, slipping a note inside a crack between the stones.
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