Ivanka Trump
“History has shown that those who embrace the Jewish people benefit, and those who persecute the Jewish people ultimately face spectacular defeat,” the president-elect’s son-in-law wrote.
The former president and 2024 candidate’s daughter and son-in-law had said late last year that they wouldn’t be part of the campaign.
Arabella Rose Kushner is the eldest child of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
The visit triggered invective against her for praying at the Jewish site and for converting to Judaism.
They left prayer notes between the cracks of its stones, as is customary.
The daughter of and adviser to the U.S. president was accompanied to the Old Montefiore Cemetery by Rabbi Zalman and Toba Grossbaum, directors of Chabad of Livingston, N.J.
Chabad Rabbi Levi Shemtov has been a spiritual adviser to Ivanka and husband, Jared Kushner, a senior adviser on the president’s Middle East peace team, since the couple arrived in Washington, D.C.
Beitar Jerusalem thanked the president for recognizing Jerusalem and moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv to the capital, saying it would now be called “Beitar Trump Jerusalem.”
The embassy will at first operate out of the U.S. consulate space in Jerusalem; the construction of a brand-new complex is in the works.
