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US Ambassador Huckabee warmly praises Israel's Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu at Samaria conference

The Zioneer Intelligence DeskUpdated 17:28

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U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee delivered a warm personal greeting to Heritage Minister Rabbi Amichai Eliyahu and his wife Sarah at an international heritage conference in Judea and Samaria, jokingly saying the minister's wife deserves most of the credit for their seven children. The embassy did not immediately comment.

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee made a warm public appearance alongside Heritage Minister Rabbi Amichai Eliyahu at an international heritage conference held in Judea and Samaria on Wednesday evening. In a gesture the local the source described as "an extraordinary display of friendship," Huckabee personally greeted the minister and his wife Sarah, who were celebrating their wedding anniversary and the birth of their seventh child. The ambassador jokingly told the audience that "most of the credit for the seven children should go to his wife." The event underscores Huckabee's well-known pro-settlement stance; as The Zioneer has previously covered, Huckabee has been a vocal supporter of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. No official statement from the U.S. Embassy regarding the remarks was immediately available.

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