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Sunday, May 25, 2025
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Sunday, May 25, 2025
US homeland security chief Kristi Noem lands in Israel, visits Western Wall
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pauses after placing a note at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, during a visit on May 25, 2025. (Alex Brandon / POOL / AFP)
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem shortly after landing in Israel.
Noem was welcomed at the airport by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who tweets that she will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tomorrow and become the first ever US cabinet secretary to “participate in Jerusalem Day.”
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, right, speaks with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee as after she landed at Ben Gurion Airport, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
She is also set to attend a memorial ceremony alongside Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar in honor of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, the two staffers at the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, who were murdered last week in a shooting attack, according to a statement from Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
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