Sarah Huckabee Sanders Completes First Trip to Israel as Arkansas Governor

Sarah Huckabee Sanders completes first trip to Israel as Arkansas governor

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders returned to the U.S. on Sunday following a nearly weeklong trip to Israel aimed at boosting Arkansas’ diplomatic and economic ties with the Jewish state. The trade delegation was Sanders’ first official visit to Israel as governor and her first time visiting the Jewish state since her father, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, was confirmed to his role in April.  “It was an amazing trip,” Sanders told J…

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 an...