Kathy Hochul, Grieving Her Father’s Sudden Death, Presses On in Israel

Written by on October 19, 2023

It began as a standard, if solemn ritual: On the second and final day of her wartime trip to Israel, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York placed a handwritten note into a limestone crack of the Western Wall, a Jewish site in the Old City of Jerusalem.

In the letter, Ms. Hochul expressed sympathy for Israel, the victims of the Hamas attacks and “all the innocent civilians lost as . . .



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