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Netanyahu UN speech draws attention from Iran, Gaza

The QR code the Israeli premier wore during his address to the General Assembly was scanned more than a million times.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the U.N. General Assembly, Sept. 26, 2025. Photo by Perry Bindelglass/JNS.

More than one million scans of the QR code worn by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his speech at the U.N. General Assembly annual general debate in New York have been recorded in the last 24 hours—with about 30% of them from Iran and Gaza, the prime minister’s spokesperson said on Saturday.

The QR code leads to a website documenting the Hamas-led atrocities of Oct. 7, 2023, in Israel’s northwestern Negev.

In addition, the Prime Minister’s Office released Netanyahu’s U.N. address with Arabic overdubbing, as part of an effort to win over public opinion.

“Much of the world no longer remembers Oct. 7,” Netanyahu said during his speech on Friday. “But we remember. Israel remembers Oct. 7.”

He encouraged attendees to use their phones to zoom in on a QR code lapel pin that he wore that links to a website with graphic images and videos of the Oct. 7 attacks.

Netanyahu then addressed the hostages directly in Hebrew and English, in the hopes that they would hear his message via “massive” speakers he had set up around Gaza.

“Our brave heroes, this is Prime Minister Netanyahu speaking to you live from the United Nations. We have not forgotten you, not even for a second,” he said. “The people of Israel are with you. We will not falter and we will not rest until we bring all of you home.”

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