Prince Charles marked Israel’s Independence Day last week by attending a religious service at London’s St. John’s Wood Synagogue. Flanked by British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and Israeli Ambassador to England Dror Zeigerman, the prince, wearing a white kippah, was greeted at the entrance by a Jewish day-school choir before being escorted to a place of honor inside the synagogue.
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