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Trump visits Western Wall
US President Donald Trump has become the first sitting US president to visit the Western Wall.
This he did immediately he arrived Israel in the afternoon of Monday, May 22.
It would be recalled that former Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, also visited same Western Wall sometime in 2013 when he was in Israel.
L-R: US President Trump at the Western Wall earlier today and former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan at the wall in 2013
The Western Wall is considered holy due to its connection to the Temple Mount. The Wall is the holiest place where Jews are permitted to pray.
Trump heard a lesson about the site's significance from Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz (center right) and Mordechai Elias (center left), who leads the Western Wall Heritage Foundation
The women as they left the Western Wall after their visit. The wall is known as Judaism's holiest prayer site
President Trump was spotted in a black kippah during his visit to the holy site. He was given a Jewish prayer book and a Bible by the Rabbi of the Western Wall, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch.
The White House has not yet said what the president or first lady wrote on the prayer notes they left at the Western Wall.
Trump prayed at the site and placed a handwritten note between the 2,000 year old Herodian stones.
