US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits Israel, Middle East
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday that President Trump had asked her to head to Israel for a whirlwind trip as a show of solidarity after two Israeli embassy employees were gunned down in Washington DC last week.
Noem offered up Trump’s condolences after Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky — a young couple who were about to get engaged — were shot dead by a suspected anti-Israel terrorist last Wednesday.
“President Trump extends his greetings and his grief to all of you and he stands with you as we fight this hatred in the world,” Noem said at a news conference early Monday with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar.
She added that Milgrim and Lischinsky’s lives “will bring a unity among us that will help us defeat our enemies.”
Her remarks came after Noem had met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday.
Her jaunt in Israel followed a stop over in Bahrain where she visited a naval base — meeting with coast guard personnel, serving meals and signing autographs.
The glammed-up Homeland Security was pictured touring the historic Qal’at al-Bahrain Fort on camelback before holding a sit-down meeting with Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa at the Sakhir Royal Palace.
