TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday condemned the “horrible Islamist attack” in New York and sent his condolences to the victims and their families before pledging to help “defeat the scourge.”
TEL AVIV – Israel’s UN envoy Danny Danon on Sunday slammed Hamas over the discovery of a tunnel underneath a UN-run school in Gaza, accusing the terror group of using schoolchildren as “human shields.”
Israel’s ambassador criticized a United Nations human rights official Thursday for urging economic and travel sanctions against Israel to force a withdrawal from the West Bank.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s standing at the United Nations is slowly improving as that of the Palestinians is on the wane, the country’s envoy to the world body said in an interview published by the Hebrew newspaper Makor Rishon on Friday.
The U.S. announced that it is withdrawing from UNESCO Thursday, citing long-standing concerns of significant anti-Israel bias at the body.
UNITED NATIONS — U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley secured another significant win at the Security Council Wednesday when a resolution renewing the mandate of the UN’s peacekeeping mission included tougher language on tackling Hezbollah — a resolution that was also celebrated by Israel.
Gaza’s Islamic Hamas rulers welcomed U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the isolated territory Wednesday by demanding he work to lift the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the strip and save it from a humanitarian crisis.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has taken a helicopter tour of the Israel-Gaza border, viewing the volatile front from the air before visiting the isolated territory.
NEW YORK CITY — Israel Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon called Saturday for the United Nations to get tougher against Hezbollah, urging the Security Council to adopt a tougher mandate for the body’s peacekeeping mission in the region.
A museum in Queens has backtracked after initially canceling an agreement with Israel’s U.N. mission to host an event.
TEL AVIV – Iran recently used a Star of David as a target for a ballistic missile test, Israel’s envoy to the UN said Wednesday, releasing satellite images of the site to the United Nations Security Council.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon lashed out at comments made by former special envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi during a meeting of the Security Council on Tuesday, in which Brahimi quoted a Palestinian woman describing Gaza as a concentration camp.
TEL AVIV – Following the discovery of terror tunnels under two UN-run schools in the Gaza Strip, Israel has appealed to the Security Council to condemn Hamas and do everything in its power to stop the terror group exploiting its own facilities, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
TEL AVIV – The secretary-general of the United Nations was roundly condemned Tuesday by both Jewish American and Israeli leaders for a statement slamming the ongoing “occupation” of Palestinian territories.
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s support for Israel has been bringing the winds of positive change into the corridors of the United Nations, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon told Breitbart News in an interview.
NEW YORK, NY — Breitbart Jerusalem Editor-in-Chief Aaron Klein lambasted the unadulterated, anti-Israel bias of the “fake news media” on Sunday, during the Israel Day Concert in Central Park saying, “the time has come for Israel to troll the world with the truth…because the fake news media won’t do that.”
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon was elected as vice president of the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, marking a major triumph for the Israeli mission to the international body.
TEL AVIV – The mother of an American student who was killed in a Palestinian terror attack in the West Bank in 2015 called on the internal community on Tuesday to put immediate pressure on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to end its monthly salaries to terrorists and their families.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday thanked the U.S. Senate for “standing up for Israel at the UN” after all 100 senators signed a letter to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres Thursday calling for an end to the “unacceptable” anti-Israel bias at the international body.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two leftist females with the CODEPINK activist organization disrupted the launch of the Middle East Forum’s Israel Victory Project in Congress on Thursday before security removed them from the historic meeting in the Rayburn House Office Building.
The glorification of Palestinian terrorists like Marwan Barghouti — the jailed Fatah leader who is currently leading a hunger strike — “not only distances us from peace, but dishonors the memories of the innocent victims,” Israel’s UN envoy Danny Danon declared on Thursday.
JERUSALEM, Israel — U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to launch a Tomahawk missile attack against a Syrian airbase last week received praise from Israeli politicians from across the political spectrum.
TEL AVIV – Israel condemned the ramming and knife attack in London on Wednesday, offering solidarity with the British people and condolences to the families of the victims.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres distanced himself from a new UN report that accuses Israel of implementing “an apartheid regime.”
TEL AVIV – The United Nations Security Council must “publicly condemn” Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s threat to strike nuclear plants and other sites in Israel, the country’s UN ambassador said over the weekend.
A lecture by Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon was disrupted Monday as supporters of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divest and Sanctions campaign burst in on the event.
TEL AVIV – In the wake of the U.S. block on former Palestinian Authority prime minister Salam Fayyad to be the United Nations envoy to Libya, Israel’s ambassador to the international body Danny Danon praised the start of a “new era” in which the U.S. stands “firmly beside Israel.”
Iran on Tuesday warned the United States against “creating new tensions” over its ballistic missile tests as Washington called for urgent talks at the UN Security Council on the issue.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for UN envoy Nikki Haley this week slammed what she called the UN’s bias against Israel and the international body’s failure to address other, more pressing world problems.
TEL AVIV – The anti-settlement resolution “inspired the terrorist in Jerusalem” to carry out the truck-ramming attack last week, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations told the Security Council Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday for disavowing the UN Security Council’s resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity as a “flagrant violation of international law.”
And, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised Saturday night: just as in the first Chanukah, a redemption is coming.
Jewish groups have come out against the Obama administration’s decision to vote against Israel on Friday by deciding to abstain from voting on a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a halt to Israeli construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.
The office of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Friday’s vote at the United Nations Security Council in favor of an anti-Israel resolution, calling it “shameful” and blasting President Barack Obama for ganging up against the Middle East’s one true democracy.
Diplomatic efforts over a UN Security Council resolution demanding that Israel immediately halt settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are “not yet resolved,” said Israel’s envoy to the world body on Thursday.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon slammed UN General Assembly President Peter Thomson for wearing a Palestinian flag scarf at a special meeting Tuesday to mark “Palestinian Day.”
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon welcomed the selection Wednesday of Nikki Haley to represent the US at the world body, calling the South Carolina Governor “a longstanding and true friend of Israel” and an “outspoken fighter against the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement in her state and throughout the US.”
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon sent a letter to the UN Security Council revealing newly released intelligence indicating that Tehran is transporting arms and ammunition Hezbollah in Lebanon via civilian flights.
While BDS activists have failed to get American educational institutions to boycott the Jewish state, they are succeeding in “miseducating a generation of future leaders” about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, internationally renowned legal expert Alan Dershowitz warned on Wednesday.
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon led a conference at UN headquarters Wednesday in New York City, aiming to organize legal efforts to combat the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.