Kristi Noem lands in Israel days after DC embassy killings

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem traveled to Israel over Memorial Day weekend at the behest of President Donald Trump, a visit that follows shortly after the shooting deaths of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C.

Noem landed in the Jewish nation earlier Sunday, where she was greeted by Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz and said a prayer for the two embassy staffers, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, who were killed on Wednesday evening outside a museum in Washington. Noem then visited the Western Wall, a holy site, writing in the visitors’ book that “Israel is the chosen people, and the United States stands by you.”