Credit:  Gary Raynaldo  /  © Diplomatic Times /   Danny Danon, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations at press conference prior to speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East  at world headquarters in New York. File 

By Gary Raynaldo    DIPLOMATIC  TIMES

UNITED  NATIONS    –  NEW  YORK –  The government of Israel approved Gilad Erdan as the new Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations and the next Ambassador to the US, i24news reports.  Erdan will be replacing  Danny Danon, the outgoing Permanent Representative of Israel to the UN.  Erdan will leave his post as Likud Regional Cooperation Minister and take over from Danon at the UN.  Born in Ramat Gan,  Danon, the 49-year-old member of Likud Party assumed the office on Oct. 15, 2015.  Erdan will serve as the UN envoy for three years and will take up diplomatic duties as the Israel’s ambassador to the US after the next American president takes office in January 2021.  Erdan’s dual ambassadorships is very unique.  Danon’s term as Israeli ambassador to the UN  was to have finished at the end of 2019, but due  to Israeli elections and re-elections and re-relections (scheduled for early March), just before the year ended Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu extended Danon’s term until May 2020, hamodia.com reported. 

Outgoing UN Ambassador  Danon says world is gradually changing its perspective on Israel

“After five years in the halls of the United Nations and with an eye towards the future, I found out that at the United Nations, you have hostility towards Israel. There is a double standard, but you can create change.” -JNS 

-UN Ambassador   Danon

 New US Ambassador To Face “Challenges of Iran as well as old and new anti-Semitism” 

Credit: Wikipedia  /  Gilad Erdan is an Israeli politician and diplomat.  Erdan is the new Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations and will be the next Israeli ambassador to the United States.

Erdan is looking to represent Israel with pride: 

“I am going to represent Israel with tremendous pride. These are difficult days for Israel and the US — and in particular for US Judaism. The corona virus hit many and it is threatening the lives of citizens and their livelihoods. We must show solidarity with our brothers who are fighting abroad for the existence of Jewish lives.This is a central mission. In the coming years we expect many challenges: Iran, and old and new anti-Semitism.”

-Gilad  Erdan said -Times of Israel

Credit: Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem /  U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Israeli Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan before their meeting at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, June 11, 2018.

Erdan previously served as a member of the Knesset for Likud from 2003 to 2020, as well as holding several ministerial positions, including Minister of Environmental Protection (2009–2013), Communications (2013–2014), Home Front Defense (2013–2014), Interior (2014–2015), Minister of Public Security (2015–2020), Minister of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy (2015–2020) and Minister of Regional Cooperation (2020).

Critics Claim Erdan Has “Anti-Palestinian Views”

Critics claim that Erdan has been given senior roles within the far-right Likud Party as well as the government solely because of his anti-Palestinian views”  –   Middle East Monitor reports.