Danny Danon

Palestinian UN representitive submits candidacy for General Assembly president

Palestine is currently considered a non-member state of the UN and a Permanent Observer with a standing invitation to participate in sessions, rather than a legitimate member state.

Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour addresses a meeting of the UN Security Council on the Israel-Hamas War at UN Headquarters in New York City, US, August 27, 2025.
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, speaks at the conference "Cartography of a Genocide", on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, at Roma Tre University, in Rome, Italy, October 6, 2025.

Francesca Albanese expected to speak at Al Jazeera Forum alongside Hamas leader, Iran's FM - report

Holocaust survivor Sarah Weinstein speaks at the UN General Assembly.

Holocaust survivor gives speech in Hebrew for first time in history at UNGA Holocaust Remembrance

TEXT MESSAGES between the arson suspect Stephen Spencer Pittman and his father during the attack on Jan. 10, 2025.

Man charged with setting fire to Mississippi synagogue targeted it due to its ‘Jewish ties’


'Aid will no longer reach Hamas,' Danny Danon says during UNSC debate

“Israel will not cooperate with a mechanism that strengthens those who kidnapped, murdered, raped and tortured our citizens," Danon said.

 ISRAEL’S AMBASSADOR to the UN Danny Danon speaks during a meeting of the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East and the Palestinian question, in November.

Grapevine April 30, 2025: Identity Theft

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 (Illustrative) EFRAIM ZUROFF, former director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel Office, watches a procession commemorating the Latvian Waffen SS unit, also known as the Legionnaires, in Riga in 2010.

Israel at war: What happened on day 532?

IDF chief appoints external team to review Oct. 7 failures • Hezbollah denies responsibility for rockets launched at northern Israel

 Thousands gather on Kaplan, raising their torches in a powerful call for the return of the 59 remaining hostages.

Danny Danon to UN: Hamas can either negotiate or watch its leadership fall

Israel's Envoy to the UN Danny Danon stressed that comparisons between Palestinian security prisoners and hostages held by Hamas were fundamentally inaccurate and offensive.

 Israel's Ambassador Danny Danon addresses the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in Gaza, at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., November 18, 2024.

Danny Danon: There are 59 Eli Sharabis underground, will you look away?

"You have erased the hostages, spoken about Gaza without mentioning a word about Hamas," he added. 

 Ambassador Danny Danon, Permanent Representative of Israel to the UN, speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting concerning the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question at the United Nations headquarters on March 20, 2025 in New York City.

Israel mourns Bibas family, Oded Lifshitz at UN

"As we stand here today, a hole has been torn in the heart of the Jewish people, a wound that will never heal, a hole that will never be forgotten," said Danny Danon.

 CANDLES ARE lit in memory of Oded Lifshitz, Shiri Bibas, and her children, Ariel and Kfir, in Kiryat Gat, this past Saturday night. Shiva is not only an acknowledgment of loss; it is also a structured path back to life, says the writer.

'Depraved monsters': World reacts to Hamas withholding Shiri Bibas, details of Ariel, Kfir's deaths

As the news of the Bibas kids being identified by forensics and Shiri Bibas not having been one of the remains sent back to Israel, many people expressed their condolences and anger online.

 People gather at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv amid the release of the four slain hostages, Shir, Ariel and Kfir Bibas in addition to Oded Lifshitz.

Danon calls on UN's Guterres to condemn Hamas's 'cruel, inhumane' hostage treatment

Danon addressed the physical condition of the returned hostages, calling it "clear evidence of war crimes" by Hamas.

 Israel's Ambassador Danny Danon addresses the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in Gaza, at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., November 18, 2024.

Danon to ‘Post’: Era of change at UN on Israel possible now under Trump

Danon said that, based on his past experience during Trump’s first term when he was the Israeli ambassador to the UN, a change in attitude is possible.

Israel's UN ambassador Danny Danon addresses the UN General Assembly in New York. September 22, 2024.

UNRWA has failed in its mandate, will cease operations in Israel by Thursday, Danon tells 'Post'

The org's chief tells the UN it has been the target of a "fierce disinformation campaign" to "portray the agency as a terrorist organization."

 A torn UNRWA logo is seen among destruction in Rafah, in southern Gaza, January 22, 2025