New York City's mayoral candidates duked it out in their first general election debate Thursday night, with contenders Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa sparring over everything from the Israel-Hamas war to the city's education system.

In addition to policy issues, the candidates also made revealing statements as they were asked about their weekly grocery bills and whether they had bought legal marijuana.

Here are some of the notable moments:

The Middle East and religion

Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, wasted little time in trying to clean up comments he had made earlier in the week during an interview on Fox News, in which he sidestepped a question on whether Hamas should lay down its arms.

In the Fox interview, Mamdani said: “I don’t really have opinions about the futur

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