House leaders: Tlaib and Omar should be allowed to visit Israel

The US House of Representatives majority and minority leaders said in Jerusalem that Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar should be allowed to visit Israel and Palestinian Authority-assigned areas of Judea and Samaria despite their criticism of the country, JTA reported Sunday.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), who is leading a delegation of 41 Democratic Representatives, many of them newly elected, to Israel and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who is leading 31 Republican lawmakers, met with reporters in Jerusalem Sunday morning.