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The 52-year-old has ambitious plans to create affordable housing and launch a kollel, among other projects.
Sylvia Santana’s recent trip stirred anger among her Arab Muslim constituents.
“We must respect the members of all religions,” said Herzog during a visit to the Stella Maris Monastery in Haifa.
“I have love in my heart for everyone. I support the Jewish community and all faiths, and I’m against all hate!” said the Oscar-winning actor.
The prominent preacher was previously incarcerated for two years after promoting ISIS.
It “is a stark reminder that brutal consequences of unchecked hatred and bigotry did not end with the Holocaust,” said Menachem Rosensaft of the World Jewish Congress.
“We are fulfilling the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King to bring African Americans to Israel,” said Cathelean Steele, national project coordinator at the Atlanta-based Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry is investigating the report.
“We’re spending into the nine figures to fight antisemitism. We need a more coordinated and collaborative approach,” Malcolm Hoenlein, vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents, told JNS.
At the CUFI Summit in Washington, the former governor and ambassador said that the president, the United Nations and congressional Democrats fail on Israel and American Jewish issues.
“There’s an aggressive silencing of the Jewish voice in the public sphere,” the merchant’s attorney said.
“I’m a Muslim, we don’t burn (books). I want to show that we have to respect each other,” said the Muslim activist.
