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

Danon to replace Erdan as Israel’s UN Ambassador

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Israel Katz both announced Danon’s return to the UN, where he previously served as the country’s ambassador from 2015 to 2020.

JUNE 9, 2024ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
MK Danny Danon at the annual IPU conferance

Danny Danon welcomes former UN envoy Nikki Haley for her solidarity visit to Israel

Former presidential candidate and UN envoy Nikki Haley visits Israel, accompanied by former UN envoy Danny Danon, to meet officials and assess security challenges.

MAY 26, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Former Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley in Re'im, southern Israel, May 27, 2024

Nikki Haley to arrive in Israel next week for ‘solidarity visit’

Haley criticized the UN’s double standard regarding Israel and said UN institutions’ treatment of Israel had led to the October 7 Hamas massacre.

MAY 23, 2024ByELIAV BREUER
Ambassador Danny Danon and Ambassador Nikki Haley entering the UN General Assembly Hall

'South Africa came to attack Israel': Anti-Israel proposals defeated at IPU

Israel's delegation, led by MK Danny Danon, successfully stopped the attempt to pass both proposals, which were ultimately voted down. 

MARCH 26, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
MK Danny Danon at the annual IPU conferance

Israel, US timetables out of sync, but relationship is strong, Likud MK Danon says

Forcing a Hamas surrender can be an alternative to the Rafah invasion, Danon and Sa'ar say.

MARCH 21, 2024ByELIAV BREUER
"Not satisfied with what the UN is not doing with this report." MK Danny Danon

All Rafah terrorists must be purged - opinion

The only path to victory for Israel in this fight hinges on uprooting Hamas from Rafah.

MARCH 16, 2024ByDANNY DANON
SMOKE RISES during an IDF ground operation in Khan Yunis, as seen from Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, this week. Rafah is Hamas’s gateway to the outside world, providing it with the resources required to sustain its operations and continue to wage war, says the writer.

Sky News apologizes for comparing IDF to Nazis in Danny Danon interview

Danon was interviewed by Sky News about an article he wrote for the Wall Street Journal, where he advocated for the voluntary resettlement of Gazan civilians to surrounding countries.

JANUARY 26, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Danny Danon visits the Bedouin village Khan al-Ahmar, in the West Ban, January 23, 2023.

Israel 'doing things wrong' in Gaza war, Likud MK Danny Danon claims

Danny Danon stated in an interview that the Israeli government is doing things wrong in the Gaza war.

JANUARY 3, 2024ByMAARIV ONLINE
Danny Danon visits the Bedouin village Khan al-Ahmar, in the West Ban, January 23, 2023.

‘I won’t sit with a Jew’: Students tell of violence, antisemitism on campus

Experiences of open hatred of Jewish people from other communities were not uncommon among students.

DECEMBER 31, 2023BySAM HALPERN
Pro-Israel student leaders meet with former Israeli ambassador to the UN, MK Danny Danon.

Israel-Hamas War: Likud MK presents 5-point plan for post-war Gaza

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: Likud MK Danny Danon sees a vacuum and presents an Israeli plan for the 'day after' the war in the Gaza Strip.

DECEMBER 15, 2023ByHERB KEINON
LIKUD MK Danny Danon (left) visits Khan al-Ahmar in January with fellow MK Yuli Edelstein. ‘Whenever there are wars, people leave and seek better futures elsewhere.’