Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he will “of course” visit New York, despite threats by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to have him arrested under an International Criminal Court warrant.

“I’ll come to New York,” the premier asserted in an interview via video link from Jerusalem with journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times DealBook Summit. “Yes, of course I will.”

Asked by Sorkin, a New York Times financial columnist and the founder of DealBook, if Israel’s longest-serving prime minister would want to talk to the 34-year-old democratic socialist , Netanyahu said, to laughter from the audience gathered at Jazz at Lincoln Center in Manhattan, that he would be open to the meeting if Mamdani “changes his mind and says that we have the right to exi

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