Kat touches down in Tel Aviv

Gov. Hochul flew into Tel Aviv Wednesday as she began a 30hour trip to Israel that she described as a “solidarity mission” amid the war with Hamas.

The 65-year-old Democrat began her sojourn with a security briefing at the airport, which she paused to speak with Michael Herzog, the Israeli ambassador to the US, according to pool reporter Luis Ferré-Sadurní of The New York Times.

Herzog told her deliveries of aid to Palestinians had been approved, but he warned, “If [Hamas] interferes, we stop,” the report said.

Hochul then rode in an armored SUV to Kibbutz Shefayim in and toured a hotel that had been converted into a shelter to meet with Israeli families displaced by the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, Ferré-Sadurní said.

Among Hochul’s constituents, there are more Jews in New York City than Tel Aviv and Jerusalem combined.