TODAY: McCarthy Addresses Israeli Parliament [VIDEO]

The Times Of Israel reports:

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy called Israel “a blessed nation” in Jerusalem on Sunday, a day before he was set to address the Knesset. “Israel you are a blessed nation,” McCarthy wrote in the Western Wall visitors’ book after landing at Ben Gurion Airport, adding: “Our shared values unite a bond that will never break.”

The California Republican is leading a bipartisan group of 20 US congressmen, who joined Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch in prayer at the Kotel. McCarthy placed a traditional note in the Wall, and said he was looking forward to the 75-year-old nation’s next 75 years.

The Knesset speaker had extended the invitation to Israel when he called McCarthy in January to congratulate him on being elected speaker of the House, after a bitter vote that saw the far right of the GOP revolt against him. Only one other House speaker has given a speech in the Knesset plenum — Newt Gingrich in 1998.

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