Trump's handwritten wish for peace placed in Western Wall

• The new US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, began his mission with a symbolic gesture in Jerusalem. On Friday, he placed a note with a message from President Donald Trump in the Western Wall.
• The note contained Trump's handwritten wish: "For peace in Israel – DT." Huckabee conveyed that the president wrote it by hand and asked him to place it in the Western Wall.
• The ambassador was accompanied by the rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinowitz. Huckabee, wearing a yarmulke and a yellow ribbon on his lapel, said a short prayer.

The new US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, began his mission with a symbolic gesture in Jerusalem. On Friday, he placed a note with a message from President Donald Trump in the Western Wall. The note contained Trump's handwritten wish: "For peace in Israel – DT." Huckabee conveyed that the president wrote it by hand and asked him to place it in the Western Wall.

"What an honor it is for me to come on behalf of the president of the United States, President Donald Trump, and to present a prayer that he handwrote, gave to me last Thursday at the White House, with the instruction that my first act as ambassador would be to take his prayer — praying for the peace of Jerusalem — and to bring it to the wall, and to pray that there would in fact be, peace in the land," Huckabee said in a conversation with reporters.

The ambassador was accompanied by the rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinowitz. Huckabee, wearing a yarmulke and a yellow ribbon on his lapel, said a short prayer. The Western Wall is considered the most important Jewish sanctuary in the world, as it is the remains of a Jewish temple destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD.