Unaware of being filmed, she silently prayed and shed tears.

Even hardened Israeli pundits later called her “Ivanka, a member of our people”, applauding her for the quiet moment.

Afterwards she tweeted: “It was deeply meaningful to visit the holiest site of my faith and to leave a note of prayer.”

Ivanka, who converted to Judaism in the Orthodox manner, and her Jewish husband Jared Kushner have come under lots of scrutiny in America for their involvement in the day-to-day doings at the White House.

In the Israeli and Jewish media, the scrutiny is often about something else — their religious observance.

Whenever the couple have done anything that seemed to diverge from regular Orthodox conduct, people endlessly argue about it on social media.

The most recent debate was about a reported rabbinical dispensation to fly on Shabbat.

The media reported that Jared and Ivanka — whose Hebrew name is Yael — were given permission to join the presidential entourage on their flight to Saudi Arabia.

Jewish websites lit up with discussions of how and why they obtained a pass.

Some expressed scepticism and others came up with justifications such as they weren’t the ones flying the plane and that top security officials in Israel are allowed to violate Shabbat for their jobs.

The Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot contacted Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, of New York, who conducted Ivanka’s conversion. But he is reported to have said he did not give the permission to fly on Shabbat.

And no one else seems to have been found who gave “rabbinic permission”.