Award winning actor and director Blair Underwood has been tweeting throughout his current visit to Israel
Upon arriving to Israel, Blair met with Miss Mehereta Baruch Deputy Mayor of Tel-Aviv at his hotel. Mehereta is an Ethiopian Jew and came to Israel with her family. She arrived in Israel at age 10 without her parents, who followed years later and now she is the Deputy Mayor of a major city like Tel Aviv.
During his second day, Blair toured a military base in Tel Aviv. Growing up in a military family, he always had tremendous respect for military personnel. Underwood especially admired the fact that every young person in the State of Israel must spend (3 years for boys and 2 years for girls), in The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
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