Gov. Huckabee Sanders visits Western Wall on Tisha B'Av

(JNS) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Sunday alongside her father, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, at the start of her working tour of the Jewish state.

The Huckabees’ visit to the Western Wall, Judaism’s second-holiest site after the Temple Mount, fell on Tisha b’Av, the Jewish national day of mourning for the destruction of both Temples and other tragedies.

They were welcomed by Shmuel Rabinowitz, the Western Wall’s rabbi, who shared with them “an overview of the site’s spiritual and historical significance as a place of prayer, hope a...