Incoming U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee joined Chabad-Lubavitch of Arkansas for the lighting of the menorah on the first night of Chanukah in Little Rock, Ark. The menorah lighting in the state’s capital city has become somewhat of a family affair over the last nearly-three decades. Huckabee, who served as governor of Arkansas for 10 years, first lit the menorah with Chabad in 1996, the year he assumed office as governor. The tradition was continued by Gov. Asa Hutchinson and picked up by Huckabee’s daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was elected governor of Arkansas in 2023, when she joined Chabad in the grand menorah lighting at the state capital on the first night of Chanukah.