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Comperatore, 50, was a former volunteer fire chief from the Buffalo Township who loved his family, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said.
“We will FEAR NOT, but instead remain resilient in our Faith and Defiant in the face of Wickedness,” the presidential candidate wrote after the attempt on his life.
The PM sent wishes for a speedy recovery on behalf of the Israeli people.
The footage shows Israelis calling the premier a “traitor,” “Satan” and an “enemy of the people.”
Little is yet known of the gunman, who lived about an hour from Butler, Pa., the site of the shooting
Speakers include Harvard grad fighting campus antisemitism, as well as the head of Republican Jewish Coalition.
“I am horrified by what happened at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania and relieved that former President Trump is safe,” says Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
“Violence can never ever be part of politics,” tweeted Foreign Minister Israel Katz.
The U.S. president later said that “there’s no place for this kind of violence in America” after Trump was shot at a rally in Pennsyvlania.
The shooter and a rally attendee are dead; the former president is safe. The assailant has been identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pittsburgh.
Israel and Jewish issues played a small but explosive role in the presidential debate between Biden and Trump late last month.
New polling shows the president trailing Trump in critical battleground states.