Ivanka Trump has re-emerged in Israel this week, smiling beatifically as her father’s admirers cheer and cameras click. She’s radiant, modestly dressed — and, by the way, did you know that when she converted to Judaism in 2009, her father didn’t even know she was going to do it?
Now you do, because of course the president of the United States added a lengthy aside about all of that, one hour into his speech at the Knesset on Monday. That’s after she and Jared spent the weekend addressing crowds at a rally in Tel Aviv, doing a victory lap for something they weren’t even really supposed to have had anything to do with.
