JERUSALEM POST
Danon to ‘Post’: UN quietly admires Israel, but publicly bashes it
by Danielle Ziri
December 12, 2015

Two months after taking office as ambassador to the UN, former minister of science, technology and space Danny Danon seems to have found his bearings. “I have been in the position for two months but it feels like two years,” he told The Jerusalem Post, sitting on the leather couch of his office in the Israeli Consulate in New York, located on a block of Second Avenue renamed “Yitzhak Rabin Way.” When asked about his first impressions on the job, Danon said there is “a public UN and a quiet UN…During the day, I have many meetings with ambassadors and officials and quietly you see that there is a lot of appreciation, I would even say admiration for Israel,” he explained. However, he said, publicly, the UN exhibits a strong anti-Israel bias. “There are many countries whose sole mission at the UN is to bash Israel,” he said. READ MORE