Twenty nine years after surviving a 21st birthday bikini biker adventure together, two older, wiser, and achier friends celebrate another milestone birthday with a trip to Iceland.
In an interview Monday with The Jewish Press, Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon outlined a plan of action aimed at leveling the playing field against the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement. In less than two weeks, Jews around the world will start getting some much needed back-up in the battle against BDS, as Danny Danon, Israel’s envoy to the UN, rolls out a plan of action designed to unite, organize, and train those on the front lines.
One of the Israeli inventions being featured is the Respimometor, from RespiDx, for early diagnosis of pneumonia. NEW YORK – Israeli invention and technology will take center stage at Monday’s joint event hosted by Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor and Canadian Ambassador to the UN Guillermo Rishchynski.
A year and a half ago his appointment as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations made headlines around the world. This week Danny Danon sat down with The Jewish Press to talk about his experiences on the job. Danon: Coming from Israeli politics, I thought it would be more relaxed here in the UN but actually that’s not the case.
Israel’s SpaceIL enters Google Lunar XPrize Competition and attempts to land the first Israeli spacecraft on the moon, a senior MFA official tells UN. “No one has territorial claims in space. It belongs to us all,” Benjamin Krasna, Bureau Head for Asian and Economic Affairs at Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the U.N.
The Prime Minister wasted no time in getting down to business and reminded the GA, within moments of ascending the podium, that when he’d stood there three years ago only Israel, out of all 200 countries represented, was opposed to the nuclear deal with Iran. “We opposed it because it threatened our future, our very survival,” said Netanyahu, reiterating Israel’s conviction that lifting the sanctions would only hasten Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons.
What’s written on the chalkboards of “My Piece of Happiness” are as diverse as the people holding them, but each holds a clue as to what makes us all tick. Call it a sense of peace, fulfillment, satisfaction, or meaning, it’s a return to our earliest ideals, the things we valued in childhood and might have lost along the way.
New York, June 19, 2018 – An art exhibition featuring the paintings of Israeli children and adults with disabilities opened on Tuesday at the South Wall of United Nations Headquarters in New York. “We spoke a lot today about disability,” Danon in his opening remarks, “but what we see here is ability.
(UN HEADQUARTERS, NYC) It was without a doubt the main attraction on Tuesday, opening day of the General Debate – the annual event where hundreds of dignitaries and Heads-of-State convene at the UN General Assembly to discuss global issues. Even the most blasé New Yorkers, normally unimpressed by the pesky motorcades, barricades, Swat Teams, Secret Service, and rooftop snipers that clog their city each September, tuned in to hear what US President Donald Trump had to say.
The Israeli ambassador’s startling departure from the scheduled script came several minutes into his speech where, after accusing Palestinian leadership of rewarding terrorist families with monthly salaries and holding up notorious killers as role models, he introduced a young red headed girl sitting quietly behind him.
Unlikely art exhibit draws world attention to fallen Israeli soldiers held by Hamas. Leah Goldin still speaks of her twin sons in plural even though one of them, Lt. Hadar Goldin, was killed in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge two summers ago. “They were only 15 years old during our sabbatical year in Cambridge,” explains Mrs.
Over 1500 Anti-BDS activists bridged political, geographic, religious and generational divides to pack the UN General Assembly Hall for an anti-BDS summit hosted on Tuesday by Israel’s Mission to the UN. The event kicked off a larger initiative aimed at consolidating efforts to contend with the Boycott Divestment and Sanct
“Who says it’s not fun to be in the UN?”. Ambassador Danny Danon asked the crowd in the gym at United Nations International School (UNIS) on Thursday. “My colleagues and I are used to debating in the UN General Assembly,” he continued, “but today we compete in a different arena.”. Israel’s envoy to the UN was welcoming diplomats – and their wives – to a game of mamanet, Israel’s largest social-sport project specifically targeting mothers.
In a chiffon-ly veiled response to the current political climate in the United States, designers at last month's New York Fashion Week showed Fall/Winter collections subtly but unmistakably designed to evoke feelings of safety and protection.
