UNITED NATIONS (AP) — After a 2-hour security screening in Tel Aviv, a 12-hour flight to New York and another hour in Big Apple rush-hour traffic, we were starting to run out of gas. But the oddest part of our journey was still to come.

Crammed into a minibus along with 20 Israeli journalists, we were the final vehicle in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s motorcade as he headed to deliver a crucial speech at the United Nations. Then, suddenly, under a bridge on the FDR expressway, we slowed to a halt. The prime minister’s convoy disappeared in the distance.

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