Gilad Erdan

Gilad Erdan confirms talks with Benny Gantz on possible election alliance

Gantz also criticized calls to form another narrow coalition without the traditional right, arguing that both a narrow “change” government and a fully right-wing government had failed.

|ByYEHUDA SHLEZINGER, 103FM
MK Yuli Edelstein speaks during a conference at the Reichman University in Herzliya, on January 13, 2026.
Former Beit Shemesh mayor and Unity Party member Aliza Bloch in an interview with 'The Jerusalem Post.'

Israel 'abandoned' haredi students, education reform needed, Aliza Bloch tells 'Post' - interview

She criticized the structure of Israel's education system, arguing that the government has ceded too much responsibility for decisions affecting students to bodies outside the public sector.

|BySHIR PERETS
Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel speaks to the media as she announces her resignation as Deputy Foreign Minister at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 14, 2026.

The Israeli Right needs a merger, not another messiah - opinion

Israel’s Right does not lack voters. It does not lack ideas. It does not even lack leaders. What it lacks is the humility to put them on one ballot.

|ByADAM SCOTT BELLOS
Gilad Erdan announces new political party with Yuli Edelstein on August 6, 2026.

'Real Right, real enlistment': Former UN amb. Gilad Erdan announces name of new 'Unity Party'

Former Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan announced on Tuesday that his new right-wing party will be called the Unity Party, with the slogan "Real right. Real enlistment."

|BySHIR PERETS

UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan should be next Israeli prime minister - opinion

Such a job will demand a strong, immovable individual who can take on the slings and arrows that will, undoubtedly, continue to come our way.

MAY 8, 2024ByCOOKIE SCHWAEBER-ISSAN
AMBASSADOR GILAD Erdan holds up photos of women hostages, showing the how they looked before they were taken captive on October 7 and how they look in captivity, during an addresses to the UN General Assembly in January.

Envoy: UN is a dream come true for terrorists seeking to destroy Israel

“The UN cares nothing for Israeli blood. It is a collaborator with the Nazis of our day. Working to ensure Hamas’ survival and even reward them for murder and rape. I have no words,” Erdan stated.

MAY 1, 2024ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
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

US, Israel call on UNSC to condemn Iran’s attack, but no action taken

“The Security Council must unequivocally condemn Iran’s aggressive actions and call for Iran and its partners and proxies to cease their attacks,” US Ambassador Robert Wood told the 15-member body.

APRIL 15, 2024ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Gilad Erdan, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations speaks during a U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss recent developments at the Al Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, US, January 5, 2023.

UNSC to vote on Gaza war resolution after Russia, China veto US text

Erdan called the Council's decision to not condemn Hamas "a stain" that will never be forgotten. 

MARCH 23, 2024ByTOVAH LAZAROFF, HANNAH SARISOHN
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a UN Security Council meeting about his invoking Article 99 of the UN charter to address the humanitarian crisis in the midst of conflict between Israel and Hamas at the UN headquarters in New York City, U.S., December 8, 2023.

'Hold Hamas accountable,' Israel's UN envoy Erdan tells Security Council

Erdan also claimed that there is no country that seeks to avoid an operation in Rafah more than Israel. 

MARCH 22, 2024ByHANNAH SARISOHN
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan addresses the United Nations Security Council as the Council meets to discuss the issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., February 20, 2023.

The Palestinian initiative to suspend Israel from the UN - report

It was also reported that the suspension of membership is a complicated move that requires a vote by all members of the UN Security Council, along with a two-thirds majority of the assembly. 

MARCH 10, 2024ByMAARIV ONLINE
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses the opening of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly

Amb. Erdan 'on the plane back to Israel for consultations,' FM Katz says

Katz cites the refusal of the UN Security Council to discuss the reports of Hamas's sexual abuse * Liberman galls Guterres a "hypocritical and antisemitic man."

MARCH 5, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israel Katz

Grapevine February 2, 2024: On a more serious note

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

FEBRUARY 5, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
UNITED NATIONS Ambassador Gilad Erdan shows a picture of weapons found in Gaza by Israeli troops, at a United Nations Security Council meeting last month.

'Hamas tore off my clothes, threatened to shoot': Gaza hostage tells her story

Mia Regev said Hamas abused her by hitting her injured leg, laughed, and mocked her.

JANUARY 31, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Released hostages Mia and Itai Regev with their father Itai (bottom) with a delegation of UN officials in Israel, including Gilad Erdan, after the Regev siblings spoke of their captivity in Gaza.

'We are still here': UN marks Int'l Holocaust Remembrance Day

Survivors of the Holocaust and October 7 testified before UN ambassadors, accompanied by a photography exhibit depicting how Holocaust survivors have rebuilt their lives.

JANUARY 26, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
"We Are Still Here" photography exhibition attendees.