The US and Ukraine voted against, as well as Lithuania, Paraguay and Togo; four EU countries abstained in the vote: France, Estonia, Spain and Slovenia.
UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova defended the Jewish historical links to Jerusalem as she addressed the World Jewish Congress (WJC) plenary assembly in New York.
For the first time, a United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, addressed an international gathering of Jewish leaders, pledging pledging ‘’to be on the front lines in the fight against anti-Semitism.
The head of a Beirut-based UN agency has resigned after she was ordered by UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres to remove from the agency website controversial report that charged Israel has established an “apartheid regime” of “racial domination” over the Palestinians.
A resolution against Israeli settlements that Egypt intended to submit to the United Nations Security Council was withdrawn US just over an hour after President-elect Donald Trump said the US should veto it.
The Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, on Tuesday ratified a resolution ignoring Jewish connection to Jerusalem holy sites despite Israel's effort to delay the ratification
United Nations ambassadors from some 30 countries came together this week to celebrate what is believed to be the first official Passover Seder inside the UN headquarters in New York.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed a resolution adopted by UNESO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in which Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall area in Jerusalem’s Old City are totally ignored.
Dani Dayan, the former head of the Yesha Council in the West Bank whose initial appointed as Israel's ambassador to Brazil was opposed by the Brazilian authorities, will become Consul General in New York.
