Charlie Kirk was in high spirits and “in a combative mood” just before kicking off his American Comeback Tour at Utah Valley University, said a rabbi friend who spoke to him for an hour the night before his death.

Rabbi Pesach Wolicki , 55, an American-born cleric who lives in Israel, met with Kirk via Zoom on Tuesday night.

“He was excited to get back out on the campus tour,” said Wolicki, who said he often spoke to Kirk before public appearances to advise him on how to “defend Israel effectively.” 3

“ We became good friends ,” Wolicki told The Post, calling the 31-year-old activist “unbelievably courageous” in the face of so many Gen Z conservatives who “were turning on Israel.”

That “worried the heck out of him,” said the rabbi. “He held fast and it wasn’t easy.”

Often th

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