WORLD ISRAEL NEWS
Day after US and Israel quit UNESCO, French Jew named as new chief
by Associated Press
October 15, 2017

UNESCO’s executive board voted Friday to make a former French government minister the UN cultural agency’s next chief after an unusually heated election that was over- shadowed by Middle East tensions. The board’s selection of Audrey Azoulay, a French Jewess, over a Qatari candidate came the day after the United States and Israel announced that they intend to pull out of UNESCO because of its anti-Israel bias. The news rocked a weeklong election already marked by geopolitical resentments, concerns about the Paris-based agency’s dwindling funding and questions about its future purpose. READ MORE

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