United Nations
Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and New Right Party leader Naftali Bennett turn down the post; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may offer it to Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis.
Members of Congress and the State Department have been calling for Kevin Moley’s resignation.
In two hours of presenting before the committee, the Palestinian Authority blamed Israel for its problems related to discrimination, devoting only a few minutes to its own policies and practices.
Meanwhile, American Jewish organizations condemn the stabbing of Dvir Sorek, 19, and ask the international community to take action against the Palestinian Authority’s “pay to slay” policy.
Meanwhile, the Israeli prime minister is planning to travel to Kiev, where he is expected to meet with the country’s first Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
Annual U.N. report on Children in Armed Conflict calls to investigate the deaths of Palestinian children in 2018, but doesn’t explicitly condemn Israel. Palestinian U.N. envoy: omission “undercuts efforts to put an end to the criminal violations against children around the world.”
At her confirmation hearing last month, Craft, who served as an alternate delegate to the United Nations under U.S. President George W. Bush, vowed to fight the international body’s anti-Israel bias, in addition to calling out anti-Semitism.
The allegations are currently being probed by U.N. investigators.
Internal report alleges top agency officials, including the commissioner-general, have committed a raft of violations, including “nepotism, discrimination, retaliation and other abuses of authority.”
The United States reportedly refused to agree to text of a resolution criticizing Israel for demolishing buildings in a P.A.-controlled area of eastern Jerusalem.
U.S. Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt tells the U.N. Security Council “international consensus is not international law,” and that Jerusalem is “today and forever” the capital of Israel.
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon shares new evidence on Iran’s use of civilian channels to arm Hezbollah • Lebanese ambassador: Danon’s speech a “direct threat.”
