Israel has said that it will soon formally announce its exit from UNESCO after the UN General Assembly rejected the US declaration recognizing Jersalem as Israel바카라s capital.
Israel has said that it will soon formally announce its exit from UNESCO after the UN General Assembly rejected the US declaration recognizing Jersalem as Israel바카라s capital.
Jerusalem Post has that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday instructed the country바카라s UNESCO envoy Shama Hacohen to submit a formal withdrawal letter to Audrey Azoulay, the organization바카라s director-general, before the end of the year.
Later, Jersualem Post ran an with the headline, "Bye UNESCO".
The US had already pulled out of UESCO in October this year citing the organisation바카라s anti-Israel bias.
Founded in 1945, UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, is known for its World Heritage tags given to places such as Taj Mahal and the Pyramids of Giza.
Israel바카라s antagonism to UNESCO is well known as UNESCO was the first UN body to recognize 바카라Palestine바카라 as a full member state in 2011. Following this, Israel and the US froze their annual funding of UNESCO.
Recently, Israel has waged a public battle against a series of Arab resolutions in the UNESCO disavowing Israeli ties to Jerusalem and ignoring Jews바카라 ties to their holiest site, the Temple Mount. Also, UNESCO this summer inscribed the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Hebron바카라s Old City under the 바카라State of Palestine바카라 on its list of world heritage sites in danger.
The new composition of the UNESCO executive board, on which Turkey replaced Germany, a country that was supportive of Israel, had also angered Israel.
Announcing Israel바카라s plan to withdraw from UNESCO, UNESCO envoy Carmel Shama Hacohen said (as quoted by Jerusalem Post), 바카라This departure is the best way to express our gratitude to our best and great ally the United States, and in particular to its excellent representative, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley.바카라
바카라UNESCO, led by the Arab countries and the rest of the depressed, frustrated and dark countries of the world, has held a record number of votes that were filled with incitement and lies against Israel and the Jewish nation, that polluted [the organization바카라s] noble values with politicization and diplomatic terror that bordered at times on antisemitism,바카라 he added.