US ambassador Mike Huckabee visits Western Wall, places note from Trump in the stones

Newly-appointed US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visits the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, one day after arriving in the country to take up his post.

Footage from the visit shows Huckabee placing a note in a crevice of the wall, a long-standing tradition.

He says that the note is from US President Donald Trump.

“He wrote that with his own hand last Thursday and he sent me to place it here, so I do so with the best wishes of the president,” says Huckabee.

He is accompanied by the rabbi of the Western Wall, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch.

“I can think of nothing I’d rather do than represent a prayer from the President of the United States on behalf of the American people to pray for the peace of Jerusalem,” Huckabee adds in remarks to the press.

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