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An evangelical Christian, Huckabee first visited Israel more than 50 years ago at 17 and was immediately taken with what he saw as a pioneering, scrappy democracy fighting for independence like early America.
“Unlike for some people who would be in culture shock, I feel very much at home. And I am very comfortable here, and I love it here,” Huckabee, 70 years old, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal at the U.S.
Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate, is the first outspoken evangelical Christian leader to serve as U.S. ambassador to Israel.
By comparison, less than half of U.S. adults and only 45% of Catholics say they view Israel favorably.
The pair arrived in the country just months before the Yom Kippur war in 1973, when a surprise attack by Egypt and Syria overran Israel’s front line.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
