President Trump visited the Ohel, the gravesite of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in honor of the October 7 attacks on Israel.
After arriving at the grave in Queens, New York, Trump prayed.
Take a look:
Former President Trump at tomb of Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson in Queens, NY. pic.twitter.com/FNzZKfbP7L
— CSPAN (@cspan) October 7, 2024
Trump prays at the grave site of Lubavitcher Rabbi https://t.co/R8vlH7Dd72 pic.twitter.com/6F3gdHVR39
— 9 (@victorykn) October 7, 2024
Here’s what The Jerusalem Post reported:
Former US president Donald Trump is set to visit the Ohel, the gravesite of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, on Monday in honor of the one year anniversary of the October 7 massacre, Chabad sources confirmed to The Jerusalem Post.
Chabad confirmed that Secret Service personnel had been on scene for several days now securing the area, located at the Old Montefiore cemetery in the borough of Queens in New York City.
Trump and his transition chairman Howard Lutnick commemorated October 7 by paying homage at the tomb of Rabbi Schneerson, the leader of the Chabad movement, who died in 1994 and is still regarded by many of his followers as the Messiah pic.twitter.com/st1zTpzAec
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) October 7, 2024
President Trump placing a stone on top of the Lubavitcher Rebbes grave. pic.twitter.com/RyXbfMqTvS
— Yossi Farro (@FarroYossi) October 7, 2024
Today, to mark 10/07, I joined President Trump as he met with us Jewish college students, families of American hostages, and Holocaust survivors at the grave of Menachem Mendel Schnnersohn of Chabad-Lubavitch. We prayed for the United States, the land of Israel, and our hostages pic.twitter.com/lkfCaJf1yW
— Shabbos Kestenbaum (@ShabbosK) October 7, 2024
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