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Israelis across the political spectrum fear that Zohran Mamdani’s election as the next mayor of New York City — the city with the world’s second-largest Jewish population — could foreshadow icier relations with the U.S., Israel’s most important ally. Support for Mamdani from almost one-third of Jewish voters only added to the pain.

“Very bad," Hana Jaeger, a Jerusalem resident, told AP. “For the Jews, for Israel, for everyone, it’s very bad. What else can you say?"

Mamdani’s campaign looked at several local economic issues such as the lack of affordable child care and housing. But in Israel, his pro-Palestinian platform is all that matters.

Israeli government officials expressed their outrage sharply, labeling Mamdani , who is Muslim, as an Israel-hating an

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