(Times of Israel) UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid on Monday made a rare visit to Jerusalem’s Western Wall and Temple Mount on the last day of [his] three-day visit to Israel and the West Bank.
Javid, who comes from a Muslim family, donned a traditional Jewish skullcap as he toured the Western Wall holy site and placed a note between the stones of the ancient retaining wall.
The minister was accompanied at the Jewish shrine by the director of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, according to a statement from the religious NGO that administers the site, but no Israeli government officials.
Javid on Monday also visited and prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, and the nearby Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
