Vice President Mike Pence will visit Israel on January 22 and 23. The White House says he will visit the Western Wall, Israel's Holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem, and Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
I've got another suggestion: let Pence add to his itinerary a stop at one of Israel's immigrant absorption centers. It might provide some fresh and useful perspective on the American controversy driven by President Donald Trump's reported desire to get more immigrants from countries like Norway and fewer from countries like Haiti.
The 28-year-old woman who lives in Concord, New Hampshire has lost one daughter permanently and has lost a second daughter for periods in the past, because of drug use and theft to support it. She has been clean for a while now, she says; she seems to believe this is her last chance.
