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‘I served you as the mayor’: Outgoing NYC mayor tells Israelis in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

MEM, November 17, 2025

New York’s outgoing mayor, Eric Adams, said during his visit to Israel that he “served” Israeli Jews as the mayor of the US city, Anadolu reports.

“I wanted to come back here to Israel and let you know that I served you as the mayor,” Eric Adams said on Sunday in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

Adams departed New York on Saturday for “a multi-day trip” to Israel to meet government officials and visit religious sites, according to his office.

“But I want to continue to have the title that’s more important to me than anything: I’m your brother,” Adams said.

He will leave the office to his successor, mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, on Jan. 1, 2026.

Elected on Nov. 4, Mamdani, 34, became the first Muslim and South Asian mayor of the nation’s largest city.

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In Israel, Adams Raises Doubts About Safety of Jews in New York

NYT, November 16, 2025

With less than two months remaining in office, outgoing Mayor Eric Adams of New York landed in Israel over the weekend to meet with business and political leaders and to discuss rising global anti-Semitism.

Unspoken but implicit in his agenda was a desire to draw a clear contrast between his relationship with the Jewish community and that of Zohran Mamdani, a critic of Israel who will become New York’s first Muslim mayor when he is sworn in on Jan. 1, 2026.

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On final visit to Israel as mayor, Adams makes a closing argument against Mamdani

Forward, November 17, 2025 

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) —

Outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams embarked on a multi-day swing through Israel, billed as both a show of solidarity amid rising antisemitism and a farewell visit. But it was also something else: likely the last international trip a New York City mayor will take for years, a point Adams wanted to underscore.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a strident critic of Israel, has pledged not to visit the country, breaking with a tradition upheld by every mayor since 1951 to demonstrate solidarity with Jewish constituents at home. He has also vowed to end the city’s decades-long practice of investing millions in Israeli government debt securities and has said he would order the arrest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he lands in New York.