For the First Time Ever, Israeli Settlement Leaders Have Been Invited to a US Presidential Inauguration
Mayor of Efrat Oded Ravivi
Mayors of Efrat and Maale Adumim have been invited to Trump’s inauguration ceremony.
The heads of Moetzet Yesha – The Council of Judea and Samaria, received an invitation to President Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony in Washington D.C., according to a report in Makor Rishon. The invitation was passed on to them via the Chamber of Commerce of Orthodox Jews (US), who are connected to Trump’s special advisor Jason D. Greenblatt.
The settlement council will most likely be represented at the inauguration by Mayor of Efrat, Oded Revivi, who also heads the foreign desk for Moetzet Yesha, and Beni Kashriel, the Mayor of Maale Adumim.
In addition, several other people connected to Jewish life in Judea and Samaria have been invited, but according to the report, they prefer not to publicize their invitations.
This is the first time that settlement leaders have been invited to a presidential inauguration.
Yigal Dilmoni, spokesperson for Moetzet Yesha, praised the move, saying it “foretells the new spirit emanating from the US regarding the change in [Washington’s] attitude towards Israel, and in particular, [Jewish] settlement in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley. This new spirit was also expressed by the recent visit of Governor Mike Huckabee last week to Maale Adumim, and we are preparing for it.”
PM Netanyahu won’t be attending the ceremony, and will instead be represented by Israel’s Ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer.
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This whole division of Jews is bad. The idea of “Orthodox” Jews is nothing but ghetto style imitation of other religions that somehow only a small select are truly religious and sadly Jews imitate this even in Rabbinic commentary that makes claims that 80% of Jews died in the plague of darkness when nothing is said about this and the claim makes no sense that God would kill his own people secretly without warning and somehow this would never be found out because it happened during this plague. Their suddenly smaller number would be noticed.
Trump actually is bad for the movement in that it gives legitimacy to the claim that they are a bunch of bigoted fanatics since that is what Trump played on the whole election in blaming minority groups for every problem.
In fact Putin gives special rights to the Orthodox Russian Church and it is ironic the similarities in some of the self righteous behaviors of people that label themselves Orthodox and above others of the same religion.