Israel's U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon: "We're a team of about 25 people, and there are maybe 1,000 people that wake up every morning in New York to attack us"
After a short hiatus, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon once again finds himself representing Israel in Turtle Bay, the lion’s den of anti-Israel activity and sentiment.
Danon, formerly Israel’s deputy minister of defense and science, technology and space minister, began his first five-year stint as Israel’s U.N. envoy in 2015, and returned to the post in August 2024.
During a meeting in his New York office on Thursday, Danon told JNS that he had returned to the United Nations after Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre because it is ground zero in the diplomatic war against the Jewish state and he felt a moral obligation to defend his country.