Israeli Prime Minister Answers Whether He Is Worried About Being Jailed In Nyc By Zohran Mamdani

After Zohran Mamdani, New York City's starring mayoral candidate, pledged to apprehension Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits nan city, Netanyahu responded to questions astir whether he's worried. 

In December, Mamdani, who identifies arsenic a antiauthoritarian socialist and is nan Democratic Party’s nominee for New York City mayor, said, "as mayor, New York City would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu."

"This is simply a metropolis that our values are successful statement pinch world law. It’s clip that our actions are also," Mamdani said, referring to nan International Criminal Court issuing an apprehension warrant against Netanyahu arsenic good arsenic Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. 

Netanyahu met pinch President Donald Trump astatine nan White House connected Monday evening to talk a scope of topics, including Iran and Israel’s ongoing warfare pinch Hamas.  

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Left: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a property convention successful Jerusalem connected December 9, 2024. Right: Zohran Mamdani, New York State Assemblyman and mayoral campaigner for New York City, speaks astatine an emergency rally held by nan Working Families Party to knock nan Trump administration, aft ICE agents arrested Ras Baraka, politician of Newark and New Jersey Democratic campaigner for governor, astatine Foley Square successful New York, New York, U.S., May 10, 2025.  (MAYA ALLERUZZO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images and REUTERS/Bing Guan)

When asked whether he was worried astir nan anticipation of facing apprehension successful America’s largest city, Netanyahu said, "I'm not concerned astir that."

The premier curate added, "I'm going to travel location pinch nan President Trump and we'll see." 

He went connected to opportunity that Mamdani’s threat is "silly successful galore ways, because it's conscionable not serious."

Trump besides chimed in, saying, "We don’t cognize who nan politician is going to beryllium yet, but this is simply a communist. He's not a socialist. He's a communist, and he's said immoderate really bad things astir Jewish people."

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accompanied by U.S. President Donald Trump (L), speaks during a meal successful nan Blue Room of nan White House connected July 07, 2025 successful Washington, DC.  (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

"He mightiness make it," Trump said. "But, you know, it each comes done nan White House. He needs nan money done nan White House. He needs a lot.

"He's going to behave. He'll behave. He amended behave. Otherwise, he’s going to person large problems." 

Hearkening backmost to an earlier mobility asked by reporters, Netanyahu said, "what is serious" is whether location tin beryllium a two-state solution successful Gaza that does not airs an existential threat to nan Israeli people. 

"Look, there's capable craziness successful nan world, but I conjecture it ne'er ends," he said. "After October 7th, group said nan Palestinians had a state, Hamas authorities successful Gaza, and look what they did pinch it. They didn't build it up. They built down 2 bunkers into panic tunnels, aft which they massacred our people, raped our women, beheaded our men, invaded our cities and our towns and our kibbutzim and did horrendous, horrendous massacres, nan benignant of which we didn't spot since World War 2 and nan Nazis, nan Holocaust."

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, hands President Donald Trump a files during a gathering successful nan Blue Room of nan White House, Monday, July 7, 2025, successful Washington.  ((AP Photo/Alex Brandon))

"So group aren't apt to say, let's conscionable springiness them different state. It'll beryllium a level to destruct Israel," he added. "We'll activity up a bid pinch our Palestinian neighbors, those who don't want to destruct us, and we'll activity retired a bid successful which our security, nan sovereign powerfulness of security, ever remains successful our hands."

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"Now, group will opportunity it's not a complete state. It's not a state, it's not that, we don't care," he said. "You know, we vowed, ‘never again.’ Never again is now, it's not going to hap again."