As Trump's eyes and ears in Israel, Huckabee’s role as ambassador will be vital - editorial

If there’s anyone who doesn’t need an introduction to Israel, it’s the new US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee.

The 69-year-old former Arkansas governor and two-time presidential candidate has, by his own account, visited Israel scores of times since his first trip to the Holy Land after he finished high school just before the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

A conservative, Envangelical pastor, Huckabee has led thousands of participants on solidarity missions to Israel over the decades and has long identified with those Israelis who support continued and developed sovereignty in Judea and Samaria as the biblical heartland of the Jew...
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