Published July 11, 2021 at 5:51 pm
Abroad. During a meeting with the President of Israel in the White House, Joe Biden went down on his knees and swore eternal fidelity to Israel, reports the Israeli newspaper Kipa.
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The ceremonial gesture was performed by the President of the United States in connection with his Israeli colleague Reuven Rivlin visiting the White House last week.
During the meeting, Joe Biden stated, according to Kipa, that his commitment to Israel is “well known and written in stone”. The US president also described his “indisputable support for Israel's self-defense”.
He had then also fallen to his knees. Also present at the meeting was Reuven Rivlin's ultra-Orthodox chief of staff, Rivka Ravitz, who spoke about her twelve children, which preceded Joe Biden's gesture.
Rivka Ravitz attracted attention in 2015 when she herself refused to bow to the pope because he wore a cross. , writes National File. It ended with the pope hiding his cross with his hand and bowing to her instead, which offended Catholics.