Cuomo: Israel Trip Was ‘Gubernatorial’ Not ‘Presidential’

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5. Trip just a small respite

Matthew Hamilton
Albany

It was as if Gov. Andrew Cuomo had never left New York.

Cuomo spent his three-day trip to Israel conferring with high-ranking officials, touring tunnels that Hamas has used to infiltrate the Jewish state, and meeting with expatriate New Yorkers and Israelis trying to make their way through the recent crisis. But for a brief period on Wednesday — breakfast time back home — New York's delegation to the Middle East noshed on a New York classic: pizza, with the pies coming from the aptly named Big Apple Pizza.

But for a governor who has tried to keep the focus on New York during his tenure and has rarely left the state, the rest of the trip — his fourth to Israel, but his first as governor — was a break from the norm.

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