He visited Israel with his father in 2009 a year before the first I pad was released.
Via NJ Com
A rapt audience filled the historic Temple Beth-El on Kennedy Boulevard on Friday night to listen to Sen. Cory Booker give a wide-ranging speech as the featured speaker at the 30th annual Sabbath service in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
Booker spoke about his special connection to Israel and the Jewish faith.
While studying at Oxford, a young Booker developed a relationship with a Rabbi, Shmuley Boteach, and eventually became president of the Oxford L’Chaim society, a Jewish student group at the university. Booker spoke about how his experience at Oxford helped him develop a deeper understanding of the need to embrace those different from himself.[…]
Booker went on to tell the audience about a trip to Israel he took with his parents. One night, Booker’s tour guides took him to the desert to talk around a campfire. Booker was astonished when he learned that a nearby mountain in view was Mount Nebo, which is referenced in King’s “I have been to the mountaintop” speech, his last before he died. Booker played the speech to the group of men on his iPad as they stood around the campfire.
“Those powerful words hung in the desert air,” Booker said.
Booker continued his speech by railing against what he called the “injustices” of America’s criminal justice system.
“There is a shame that hangs over our nation,” said Booker. “This is not the America we believe in. Are we reflecting the courage of the man (King) we celebrate?”