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Erdan to UN: The Middle East is fighting a cancer

Erdan called out hypocrisy from his colleagues at the United Nations and noted that Hamas is continuing to plan attacks.

JANUARY 24, 2024|ByJOANIE MARGULIES

Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan holds the picture of a child kidnapped in the October 7 attack by Hamas, on a birthday cake during a plenary meeting on the 'Use of the veto - Item 63: Special report of the Security Council', in the General Assembly Hall at UN headquarter

Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen speaks during a meeting on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas at UN headquarters in New York, US, October 24, 2023

Israeli FM: Meeting with UN head canceled after defending Hamas massacre

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan called for Antonio Guterres to resign.

OCTOBER 24, 2023|ByTOVAH LAZAROFF

Ambassador Gilad Erdan at a UN Security Council meeting on Operation House and Garden in Jenin, July 27, 2023.

UN Ambassador Erdan bashes Abbas’ ‘peaceful resistance’ comments at UNGA

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas used his platform at the UN General Assembly to bash Israeli actions and defend Palestinian terrorism as "peaceful resistance."

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israeli police officers during clashes outside the Al Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem's Old City on April 17, 2022.

'Palestinian terrorists' to blame for Temple violence, Erdan tells UNSC

"The only ones, the only ones, breaking the status quo on the Temple Mount are the Palestinian terror groups inflaming the holy sites," said Israel's Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan.

APRIL 25, 2022|ByTOVAH LAZAROFF

Strategic Affairs Ministry to form anti-BDS legal network

The ministry is planning to invest NIS 3.25 million on the project in its first two years.

DECEMBER 20, 2018ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

Minister of Public Security and Strategic Affairs Gilad Erdan

Minister calls to suspend Rajoub from Olympic Committee for incitement

Rajoub was banned from FIFA games for inciting violence and hatred against soccer superstar Lionel Messi, and Erdan called on the IOC to take similar action.

OCTOBER 2, 2018ByLAHAV HARKOV

Jibril Rajoub in his office in Ramallah on December 7, 2015

Gilad Erdan: Israel is making progress against terrorism and BDS

Erdan is responsible for the fight against BDS in the Strategic Affairs Ministry, and the steps he has taken in that battle are controversial and unconventional.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018ByGIL HOFFMAN, TAMARA ZIEVE

Erdan: Criminalizing weed has failed

Israel has one of the world’s highest per capita rates of legal cannabis use, with more than 21,000 people medically licensed to use marijuana.

JUNE 21, 2018ByTAMARA ZIEVE

A worker touches a cannabis plant at a growing facility for the Tikun Olam company near the northern city of Safed

Erdan: Israel needs to stand up to Erdogan’s ‘antisemitism’

Erdan said that – in retrospect – Israel might have erred in signing the reconciliation agreement with Turkey in 2016.

APRIL 2, 2018ByHERB KEINON

TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan greets the audience during a ceremony to mark the 16th anniversary of his ruling AK Party’s foundation in Ankara, August 14.

Senior minister slams 'antisemitic' Haaretz over ‘Israel Massacre Forces’

Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan lashed out against Haaretz over a recent "antisemitic" headline.

APRIL 1, 2018ByGIL HOFFMAN

A wounded Palestinian is evacuated during clashes with Israeli troops, during a tent city protest along the Israel border with Gaza, demanding the right to return to their homeland, the southern Gaza Strip March 30, 2018

Netanyahu investigation: Everything you need to know

Here is a guide to Netanyahu's career, some possible candidates to succeed him, and what effect any change in leadership might have on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and across the Middle East.

MARCH 26, 2018ByREUTERS