Tag: Gilad Erdan
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...
Israel’s UN ambassador preps for a busy General Assembly
This week’s meeting in New York between the leaders of Israel and the United States on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly is sure to be a headline-grabber.
But Israel’s ambassador to the...
New Hampshire becomes 37th state to take action against Israel boycotters
New Hampshire became the 37th U.S. state to put an anti-BDS action on its books.
Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed an executive order on Thursday barring the state from investing in companies that boycott Israel...
More than 30 countries boycott UN ‘Nakba’ Day
In a seemingly never-ending war of narratives, the Palestinians got center stage on Monday at the United Nations, though Israel was victorious in dwindling the audience down.
May 15 marked the first official U.N. “Nakba...
Erdan: ‘Tlaib’s ignorance and hate toward Jews and Israel know no bounds’
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan responded to a tweet on May 3 from Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who wrote that “Speaker McCarthy wants to rewrite history but the apartheid state...