Israel’s ambassador was elected on Wednesday to serve as vice president of the United Nations’ General Assembly, a year after being elected to head a permanent committee at the UN for the first time. Ambassador Danny Danon will serve as vice president of the General Assembly when the UN convenes its next session...

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The head of the United Nations told leaders from the Simon Wiesenthal Center that “denial of Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitism,” the Jewish organization announced in a press release on Tuesday. Speaking at his offices at the UN headquarters in New York, Secretary-General António Guterres discussed the UN’s role in countering growing anti-Semitism...

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The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah is “now more militarily powerful than most North Atlantic Treaty Organization members,” a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations wrote in an op-ed published Monday in The Wall Street Journal. Hezbollah is now “10 times as strong now as it was in 2006, and its...

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Yarok Technology Transfer, an innovation-based developer of fast, accurate tests for the food industry, today announced it has received the United Nations International Award 2017 for “Innovative Ideas and Technology on Agribusiness.” The Jerusalem-based company was honored for its fast testing system that is able to detect the presence of...

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The cultural organization of the United Nations on Tuesday adopted a third resolution indicating that Israel has no historical or legal right to any part of Jerusalem, ignoring the Jewish people’s millennia-old bond with the city. The UNESCO resolution, which was voted on as Israel celebrated its 69th Independence Day, was introduced by Algeria, Egypt,...

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All 100 members of the U.S. Senate signed a letter Thursday urging the United Nations to stop unfairly targeting Israel. The senators noted that while the U.S. co-founded the UN “with the intention of saving future generations from war,” today many member states and agencies “are using the U.N.’s privileged platform to...

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United Nations Secretary General António Guterres pledged Sunday to be “on the front lines in the fight against anti-Semitism” and said “the modern form of anti-Semitism is the denial of the existence of the State of Israel.” "The modern form of anti-Semitism is the denial of the existence of the State of...

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United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the demonstrated anti-Israel bias at the UN was her “biggest surprise” upon taking the post in an interview with Fox News on Sunday. “They’re not talking about Syria, they’re not talking about Iran,” Haley said of the monthly Security Council meetings devoted...

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This Is What It Looks Like When America Leads The United Kingdom is following the United States’ lead in saying “enough is enough” to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced last Friday that they are “putting the Human Rights Council on notice” because of...

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Washington’s ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday slammed efforts to boycott Israel, saying that they bear “no connection to any reasonable definition of justice.” Nikki Haley condemned the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign at a UN event called Ambassadors Against BDS, which was organized by the Israeli mission to the...

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