Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make a 24-hour trip to New York this month to address the annual United Nations gathering of world leaders, according to Israel's U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon. Danon said Netanyahu felt he had "no option" but to attend after New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged his arrest over the war in Gaza, accusing the mayor of "doing politics."
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