The president of the Zionist Organization of America praised his close friend — the late Connecticut senator and vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman — as a remarkable man with steely integrity and gentle humor.

Appearing Wednesday on Newmax’s Rob Schmitt Tonight, ZOA’s Mort Klein paid tribute to his longtime friend shortly after the startling news of the death of Lieberman, 82, was announced.

“Joe Lieberman was a man of extraordinary integrity, the likes of which you rarely see in politics,” Klein said. “He would decide on the issues as to whether they were right or wrong, not whether his party was pushing for that certain issue.”

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