Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog at police headquarters on Thursday. Adams spoke briefly to reporters after the meeting, where he called New York the “Tel Aviv of America.”
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The Israeli president, whose role is mostly ceremonial, did not speak. Adams, meanwhile, took only one question: Why was the meeting scheduled for police headquarters?Herzog’s entourage initially rushed past members of the NYPD’s Jewish fraternal organization, the Shomrim Society, who had assembled for a photo opportunity with him. He returned and Adams introduced him to Rabbi Alvin Kass, the longest serving police chaplain in NYPD history, whom Adams referred to as “my brother.
Lt. John Mahom showed off the room’s 13 living room-sized monitors, which displayed 59 different views of the city’s major bridges and surveillance footage from areas like Times Square and Penn Station. Also on display were graphics depicting aircraft flying through the region, a crime incident map, four TV news stations, and the times of day in several U.S. and international cities. The 16 rows of workstations were mostly empty, and were last used over the Fourth of July, according to Mahom.
Adams has focused political energy on Jewish issues in the past. This spring he attended a flag raising for Israel. Last month he created what he called the “city’s first Jewish advisory council.”
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