Top Trump official: US ‘envisions’ Kotel as being part of Israel

Palestinians fume as Greenblatt heads to Jerusalem in advance of Pence.

US President Donald Trump places a note in the stones of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City May 22, 2017.

US President Donald Trump places a note in the stones of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City May 22, 2017.

(photo credit: REUTERS / JONATHAN ERNST)

ByMICHAEL WILNER, TOVAH LAZAROFF

DECEMBER 15, 2017 20:33

Updated: DECEMBER 17, 2017 00:45

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