New York’s mayor-elect plans to make a solidarity visit to Israel. “Just like the people of Israel showed solidarity with us in New York” after the Sept. 11 attack, “we are doing the same,” Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday. The governor of New York state, George Pataki, and the chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Mortimer Zuckerman, plan to accompany Bloomberg when he arrives in Israel on Sunday.
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