NASCAR, America’s biggest stock-car racing organisation, will feature its first Israeli driver on August 13, after a Jewish lawyer put up $60,000 of his own savings to make it happen.
Alon Day, 24, from Ashdod, will make his debut at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, driving the number 13 car as part of the MBM motorsports team – and he has David Levin, a Florida resident and racing fan, to thank for the opportunity.
Mr Levin told USA Today that he was watching the invocation before the start of a race when he heard Phil Robertson, the star of reality TV show Duck Dynasty, telling the crowd to “pray that we put a Jesus man in the White House.”
Mr Levin described the comment as “pretty insulting”.
