TIMES OF ISRAEL
Will Tzipi Livni be the first Israeli deputy chief of the UN?
by Staff
February 12, 2017

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has reportedly offered a post of deputy secretary-general to former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni. According to the Haaretz daily, Livni, who now heads the Hatnua Party and is number-two on the Zionist Union faction in the Knesset, was asked to join the world body by Guterres himself in a phone call over the weekend. Her appointment would have to be approved by the UN Security Council. The offer comes amid a row at the UN over the proposal to name former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad the organization’s envoy on the Libya conflict. READ MORE