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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 478

Audrey Azoulay

Illustrative: The Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)
June 18, 2024, 2:43 pm
AI could spread false and misleading information on Holocaust, UNESCO report warns
UN education body says flaws in programs or deliberate action by hate groups could cause artificial intelligence systems to question Nazi murder of Jews, fueling antisemitism
By David Klepper
Tell es-Sultan in Jericho on September 29, 2011 (Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA)
September 17, 2023, 12:41 pm
UNESCO votes to list ruins near ancient Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine
Israel slams Palestinians’ ‘cynical use of UNESCO’; Jerusalem quit the UN cultural body in 2019 for moves it said were designed to diminish the Jewish connection to the Holy Land
By AP and ToI Staff
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay speaks during the opening ceremony of the UNESCO Extended 45th session of the World Heritage Committee at the al-Murabba Palace in Riyadh on September 10, 2023. (Fayez Nureldine / AFP)
September 10, 2023, 7:37 pm
In first, Israeli officials in Saudi Arabia for UNESCO conference
Bureaucrats and diplomats attend World Heritage meeting, after US asked Israel to withdraw efforts to secure visas for foreign and education ministers
By Lazar Berman
File: A photo shows the UNESCO logo during a speech by its director-general to announce the United States' request to return to the institution, at the organization's headquarters in Paris, France, on June 12, 2023. (Alain Jocard/AFP)
July 11, 2023, 10:01 pm
US officially rejoins UNESCO, five years after Trump’s withdrawal
Washington retakes membership of body amid concerns China is filling the vacuum it left behind when it quit over alleged anti-Israel bias
By AP and ToI Staff
Police detain journalist Farida Rustamova holding a poster which reads 'Journalism Freedom,' during a protest outside the main headquarters of the country's top domestic security agency, the FSB, on Lubyanka Square in Moscow, Russia, Aug. 21, 2021 (AP Photo/Denis Kaminev, File)
May 3, 2023, 11:58 am
‘Freedom of the press is under attack’: UN sounds alarm over global assaults on media
Guterres stresses unfettered press is foundation of democracy, WSJ editor calls for Russia to free Evan Gershkovich; watchdog says 55 journalists, 4 media workers killed in 2022
By Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS
A general view of UNESCO prior to the opening of General Conference in Paris, France, November 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Benjamin Girette, file)
February 10, 2022, 6:06 am
Israel tells Biden administration it won’t oppose US returning to UNESCO — report
Both countries left United Nations cultural organization in 2019 due to alleged anti-Israel bias; Washington is now looking to counter Beijing’s influence in agency, Axios reports
By ToI Staff and Agencies
A poster reading "I am Samuel" and flowers outside the school where slain history teacher Samuel Paty worked, on October 17, 2020, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris. (AP/Michel Euler)
October 22, 2020, 6:28 pm
France probes contact between Syria jihadist and suspect in teacher beheading
In search for accomplices, anti-terror investigators establish that Abdullah Anzorov spoke with Russian-speaker from Idlib, telling him he’d ‘avenged the Prophet’ after beheading
By Sylvie MALIGORNE and Jurgen HECKER
Andre Azoulay, adviser to the Moroccan king, poses for a picture at the 'Bayt Dakira' (House of Memory) Jewish museum, in Morocco's Atlantic coastal city of Essaouira on December 14, 2019 (FADEL SENNA / AFP)
January 20, 2020, 8:03 am
Morocco’s House of Memory spotlights Jewish-Muslim coexistence
Project showcases objects donated by local families alongside stories of members of the Jewish community; King Mohammed VI visits center to examine artifacts and hear of the work
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Fleeing Iraqi civilians walk past the heavily damaged al-Nuri mosque as Iraqi forces continue their advance against Islamic State militants in Iraq's Old City of Mosul, July 4, 2017. (Felipe Dana/AP)
September 12, 2019, 12:44 am
Reconstruction of landmark Mosul mosque to begin in 2020
UNESCO chief asks that some of $100 million earmarked for restoration of Iraqi city go to synagogue and Christian religious sites
By AP and ToI Staff
A parade float at the Aalst Carnaval in Belgium featuring caricatures of Orthodox Jews atop money bags, March 3, 2019. (Courtesy of FJO, via JTA)
March 22, 2019, 5:32 pm
At UNESCO, Austria and Poland slam Belgian carnival with anti-Semitic puppets
UN cultural body to consider stripping carnival of recognition; it’s the agency’s duty ‘to be vigilant and uncompromising regarding such occurrences,’ says UNESCO director
By Cnaan Liphshiz
File: French Jews hold Israeli flags as they demonstrate against UNESCO, near the cultural agency's Paris headquarters, July 17, 2017. (Serge Attal/Flash90)
January 1, 2019, 1:01 am
69 years after joining, Israel formally leaves UNESCO; so, too, does the US
UN cultural agency’s efforts to convince Washington and Jerusalem fail; ‘we aren’t going to be a member of an organization that deliberately acts against us,’ Israeli envoy says
By Raphael Ahren
From left to right, Commissioner for Education and Academia of the World Jewish Congress Jean de Gunzburg, Governing Board Chair of the World Jewish Congress David de Rothschild, UNESCO'S Director-General Audrey Azoulay, World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder and CEO and Vice President of the World Jewish Congress Robert Singer sit under two giant screen during the presentation of the website to counter Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism at the UNESCO headquartered in Paris, France, November 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
November 19, 2018, 9:49 pm
UNESCO launches Holocaust education website, as Israel mulls leaving
UN body teams up with World Jewish Congress to inaugurate interactive project with aim of battling ‘increased hate’ against Jews
By AP
UNESCO'S director-general, Audrey Azoulay, in Paris, France, November 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
October 11, 2018, 12:17 am
UNESCO defangs anti-Israel texts, drawing praise and one ‘strange’ Israeli jeer
Non-binding decisions were result of Israeli-Arab negotiations, but Israel’s envoy to UN slams move as proof of agency’s ‘lies and biases’
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets then-US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, September 28, 2018, in New York. (Avi Ohayon /GPO)
September 29, 2018, 9:47 pm
PM was to attend UNESCO anti-Semitism event, backed out because of US — report
Western diplomats tell Channel 10 that scathing Netanyahu statement on organization is ‘fake news,’ decry premier’s ‘sad, upsetting behavior’
By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting with US President Donald Trump (out of frame) on September 26, 2018 in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)
September 26, 2018, 10:00 pm
PM rejects invite to UNESCO anti-Semitism event, confirms Israel will leave body
Netanyahu says Israel will be honored to rejoin ‘if and when UNESCO ends its bias against Israel, stops denying history, and starts standing up for the truth’
By Raphael Ahren
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