Wife of Brazil’s Bolsonaro wears Israeli flag T-shirt to vote

The first lady also blessed Israel on a post on social media. 

By Debbie Reiss, World Israel News

Brazil’s First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro, an evangelical Christian, wore a T-shirt with an Israeli flag when she cast her ballot in the country’s presidential elections on Sunday.

Her husband, President Jair Bolsonaro, is up against former president and left-winger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

The first lady also blessed Israel in a post on Instagram alongside a photo of her wearing the T-shirt.

“May the blessings of our God be upon Brazil and Israel. God, homeland, family and freedom,” she wrote in a post that has garnered almost a million likes.

Israeli flags are often seen at Bolsonaro’s rallies, and many of his supporters are evangelical Christians, even though he is Catholic.

Brazil has the fastest-growing evangelical Christian community in the world.

Bolsonaro had pledged to follow in Washington’s footsteps and move Brazil’s embassy to Jerusalem, but instead settled with establishing a trade and investment office in the Israeli capital.

In 2019, Bolsonaro became the first foreign head of state to make an official state visit to the Western Wall.

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Bolsonaro and Lula are neck and neck in the race, with the former president just ahead of Bolsonaro by 2%, according to polls.

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