Tag: Gilad Erdan
As Erdan leaves UN post, he urges creation of world body with ‘noble values’
Gilad Erdan, the outgoing Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, has called out the United Nations for a new display that fails to include Israeli victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks.
In an...
Easier for Netanyahu to amplify Israel’s messages in US election season, Erdan tells JNS
Addresses to joint sessions of the U.S. Congress are always high-profile speeches, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can expect to share the Jewish state’s views and priorities with an even larger audience than...
Israel rejects UN official’s explanation for leaving Hamas’s use of human shields out of...
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Jewish state’s mission to the United Nations reacted harshly to a U.N. official’s claim that a limited word count was responsible for the exclusion of Hamas’s...
‘There is a problem of deep rot at the United Nations’
The United Nations has always been an extremely challenging arena for Israeli representatives. During the six months of Israel’s war with Hamas, with pro-Hamas protesters flooding the streets outside and supporters of the terrorists...
UN delegation in Israel for look at security situation
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations is leading a delegation of U.N. envoys on a tour of the country for the first time since Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre.
Prior to the outbreak of the war,...
UNGA passes resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire
The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution on Tuesday calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas.
Out of the 193 members of the world body, 153 voted in favor of the...
Israel to mark 76th anniversary of UN partition plan
Israel plans to mark the 76th anniversary of the U.N. partition plan at the world body's headquarters in New York on Wednesday, Ynet reported.
On Nov. 29, 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passed Resolution 181 by a...
Yad Vashem: Ambassador’s yellow-star UN protest dishonors Holocaust victims
The head of Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial on Tuesday criticized Israel's U.N. ambassador for donning a yellow Star of David during an address to the U.N. Security Council, saying the stunt "dishonors both...
Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not occur in vacuum’
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen blasted U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday for remarks in which he appeared to justify Hamas's Oct. 7 murder rampage in the western Negev.
"It is important to also recognize...
At diplomatic event in New York, rare consensus of support for Israel
Defending the Jewish state at the United Nations is like being in a lion’s den, as former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon and others have said. On Wednesday, biblical Isaiah references...