Danny Danon

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

Stephen Spencer Pittman was charged on Monday with maliciously damaging or destroying a building by means of fire or an explosive, according to an affidavit filed in US District Court in Mississippi.

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA
TEXT MESSAGES between the arson suspect Stephen Spencer Pittman and his father during the attack on Jan. 10, 2025.
US ambassador to the UN Michael Waltz (L) and Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon (R) before a UN Security Council meeting to consider a US proposal for a UN mandate to establish an international stabilization force in Gaza at the UN headquarters, New York, November 17, 2025.

UN Security Council to hold emergency session on Israel's recognition of Somaliland

Somaliland hopes that recognition by Israel will encourage other nations to follow suit, increasing its diplomatic heft and access to international markets.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD, JERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERS
Members of the United Nations peacekeepers (UNIFIL) look at the Lebanese-Israeli border, as they stand on the roof of a watch tower ‏in the town of Marwahin, in southern Lebanon, October 12, 2023.

UN spends approximately $100 million in funding to target Israel yearly, new report shows

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon told The Jerusalem Post that the figure reflects a network of UN bodies, committees, and mechanisms structurally embedded in the organization’s budget.

|ByAMICHAI STEIN
On of the assailants grabs a Jewish man on a train.

Video shows Jewish man assaulted on NYC train, Danny Danon labels it 'deeply disturbing hate crime'

“This is a deeply disturbing hate crime targeting young Chabad men on a train in New York, whose only act was sharing the light of Hanukkah,” Danon posted on X/Twitter along with the footage.

|BySAM HALPERN

Likud MK: Israel must clamp down on terror at all costs - opinion

Likud MK Danny Danon: It is Israel’s duty and responsibility to our people to clamp down on terror at all costs so that no more innocent lives are needlessly taken.

APRIL 17, 2023ByDANNY DANON
DEFENSE MINISTER Yoav Gallant listens to Rabbi Leo Dee at the Dee family’s shiva at their home in Efrat, on Thursday

Should Israeli politicians vote with their conscience over party? - opinion

Amid the battle cry of saving our democracy from what is called the autocratic or dictatorial endgame of this judicial reform plan, there is an ongoing argument about the very essence of democracy.

MARCH 20, 2023ByDAVID JABLINOWITZ
MK YULI Edelstein (right) presides over a session of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee at which National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir briefed committee members on the affairs of his ministry, last month.

Israeli MKs from coalition, opposition call for judicial reform compromise

Those that signed it were Likud MKs Yuli Edelstein and Danny Danon as well as two opposition parliamentarians from the National Unity Party Gadi Eisenkot and Chili Tropper.

MARCH 1, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli opposition MKs are seen putting on Israeli flags in the Knesset plenum ahead of a planned vote on judicial reform, in Jerusalem, on February 20, 2023.

Herzog judicial reform proposal stalls as Likud MKs express loyalty

In a press conference on Monday, Lapid urged certain Likud members not to support the judicial reform.

FEBRUARY 14, 2023ByELIAV BREUER
Danny Danon and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Entire coalition signs bill to block High Court ruling, reappoint Deri

Likud MK Danny Danon reportedly was the only MK who did not initially agree to sign the bill immediately but then eventually signed as well.

JANUARY 31, 2023ByELIAV BREUER
Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri at a party meeting, in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 30, 2023.

Netanyahu must raze Khan al-Ahmar despite int'l pressure, Likud MKs say

The High Court of Justice ruled in 2018 that the structures in Khan al-Ahmar could be razed but this never ended up happening.

JANUARY 23, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Likud MKs Yuli Edelstein and Danny Danon visit the Bedouin village Khan al-Ahmar, in the West Bank on January 23, 2023.

Danon: Israeli Judicial reforms should not be passed hastily

Danny Danon: Israeli ministerial legal advisers' jobs are to help the minister set policy and advise him, but not set policy instead of the minister.

JANUARY 19, 2023ByELIAV BREUER
Danny Danon

Grapevine January 18, 2023: Saturday night live

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JANUARY 18, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
DANEL JAFFE breaks a glass at his wedding as his bride, Roni, his mother, Tamar (in blue), the bride’s mother, Yael Levin, and the groom’s father, Zalli Jaffe, look on.

Likud's Danon criticizes appointment of Ron Dermer as minister

Dermer, a former ambassador to the United States, was appointed Israel's strategic affairs minister by Netanyahu.

JANUARY 1, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Ron Dermer enters the Knesset plenum on December 29, 2022.

Disgruntled Likud MKs could maneuver against Netanyahu

Prominent Likud members and MKs did not receive the ministerial posts they hoped for - several already voiced their displeasure with the PM.

DECEMBER 29, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
PM Netanyahu with several of his ministers at the swearing-in ceremony of the new government in the Knesset, December 29 2022.