Why NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is starring in Netanyahu’s election campaign

“It really shows the deterioration in Netanyahu’s international status,” Nimrod Nir, a political psychologist and researcher, told NBC News.

TEL AVIV — Rarely has a local American politician loomed as large over an Israeli election as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose face literally looms over Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway.

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