Senator Tina Smith [D-MN] met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday.
By HAGAY HACOHENUS Senator Tina Smith [D-MN] and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (photo credit: HAIM ZACH/GPO)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Minnesotan Democratic Senator Tina Smith who is currently in Israel.Smith is the first non-Jewish politician to represent Minnesota in forty years having taken over from Al Franken in 2018, the Forward reported.The 40-year streak began in 1978 with Rudy Boschwitz and continued with Paul Wellstone and Norman Coleman, ending with Franken. California now hold the longest record of being represented by a Jewish-American politician with a Jewish senator since 1992.
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