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Swiss authorities said Friday they had seized cultural relics looted from Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, as well as from Libya and Yemen, which were being stored in Geneva’s free ports.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Thursday warned United Nations diplomats they risked becoming “irrelevant” by focusing on anti-Israel resolutions, while ignoring issues like the thousands killed in Syria and North Korea’s nuclear weapons.

Pro-Israel groups will erect a giant Pinocchio effigy across from the United Nations headquarters in New York City in protest of the recent resolutions passed by its cultural body, UNESCO, which deny Jewish and Christian connections to Jerusalem.

Committees of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday adopted 10 resolutions against Israel. The committees were also taking up four other resolutions — on Syria, North Korea, Iran and Crimea.

The chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, MK Avi Dichter (Likud), said Sunday that he would speak with his Russian counterparts about their support for the “scandalous and unconscionable” resolutions recently passed by UNESCO that ignored the Jewish connection to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority is preparing to demand that UNESCO force Israel to return the Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the Jewish state’s most important archeological treasures and proof of Jewish existence in the land two millennia ago.

The international development secretary has received a “major rap over the knuckles” for trying to cut British funding to UN bodies, despite repeated calls for them to stop wasting taxpayer cash.

Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the outlawed northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, is warning against what he calls Israel’s “escalating measures” against the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

TEL AVIV – Christians all over the world have been called upon by the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem to mail bibles to UNESCO leadership in Paris in response to the recent UNESCO resolutions erasing Jewish and Christian ties to the Temple Mount.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday told visiting Italian President Sergio Mattarella that Israel was “gravely disappointed” by Italy’s abstention in a UNESCO vote last month that ignored Jewish and Christian links to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, but was heartened to hear a subsequent pledge from Italy’s prime minister that it would oppose such resolutions in the future.

TEL AVIV – Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) has urged the Vatican to assist in preventing future anti-Israel UNESCO resolutions following Wednesday’s vote denying Jewish and Christian ties to Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – God promised the Holy Land to the people of Israel, Pope Francis said during a speech at the Vatican on Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – The earliest known mention of Jerusalem in Hebrew was found on a First Temple-era papyrus displayed by the Israel Antiquities Authority Wednesday, the same day a UNESCO resolution ignoring Jewish ties to Jerusalem was passed.

TEL AVIV – Donald Trump told a Republican rally in Jerusalem on Wednesday that he loves Judaism and will work to make “America and Israel safe again.”

Israel on Wednesday recalled its ambassador to UNESCO for consultations after the U.N. culture body adopted a second resolution in two weeks that Israeli leaders said ignored Judaism’s connection with one of Jerusalem’s holiest sites.

Israeli politicians from across the political spectrum criticized the approval Wednesday by a UNESCO panel of a controversial resolution that ignores Jewish and Christian ties to the Temple Mount, with opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) labeling it a “blood libel.”

An important panel at the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) on Wednesday morning approved a controversial resolution that ignores Jewish and Christian ties to the Temple Mount.

Israel’s Ambassador to UNESCO, Carmel Shama Hacohen, along with Shahar Azani, StandWithUs’ Northeast Executive Director and Yifa Segal, Director of the International Legal Forum (ILF) on Tuesday officially submitted a petition to UNESCO’s Director General, Irina Bokova.

On the eve of UNESCO’s Wednesday vote in Paris to ratify a resolution denying Jewish ties to Judaism’s holiest site, Temple Mount Sifting Project co-founder and archeologist Dr. Gabriel Barkay dismissed the ballot as an affront to science and history.

TEL AVIV – U.S. lawmakers are pressuring UNESCO members to vote against a resolution Wednesday that ignores Jewish and Christian ties to the Temple Mount.

TEL AVIV – Registration for American voters in Israel have experienced a 60% increase since 2012 as a result of a Republican-led campaign urging dual citizens to register.

Ahead of a new UNESCO vote on a resolution that erases Jewish ties to Jerusalem, the head of the UN cultural agency vowed to combat efforts to undermine Israel’s right to exist, “including those drawing on partial or distorted visions of culture and history.”

JERUSALEM – One week after UNESCO’s executive board ratified a resolution ignoring Jewish and Christian ties to the Temple Mount, the body’s World Heritage Committee is slated to vote on another controversial resolution this Wednesday.

Saying the Jewish people have no connection to Jerusalem is like saying the “sun creates darkness,” Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the weekend.

Twenty-three visiting parliamentarians called on governments around the world to reject the controversial UNESCO vote that denied Jewish ties to the Temple Mount.

The UNESCO vote on Jerusalem shows the international body does not recognize Israel’s right to exist, a European Parliament member said on Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – Donald Trump and Mike Pence will deliver satellite video addresses at a major Republican Party rally to be held near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem next week, Republicans Overseas Israel announced Wednesday.

Tens of thousands of people gathered at the Western Wall throughout the day Wednesday in what appeared to be defiant display of rejection against UNESCO’s Tuesday adoption of a resolution which Israel says denies the deep historic Jewish connection to holy sites in Jerusalem.

The director of the Israel Antiquities Authority on Wednesday slammed UNESCO for its resolution on Jerusalem holy sites, comparing the UN cultural body to Islamic State jihadists.

The UN cultural agency on Tuesday adopted a controversial Arab-sponsored resolution on east Jerusalem which Israel has said ignores Jewish ties to a key holy site.

Mexico has fired its ambassador to UNESCO, Andrés Roemer (pictured) who is Jewish, for protesting against his country’s decision to vote for a resolution denying Jewish ties to Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – UNESCO chief Irina Bokova has received “death threats” after criticizing an Arab-backed resolution denying Jewish history in Jerusalem, Israel’s ambassador to the UN organization said on Monday.

An annual conference to encourage Jewish visits to the Temple Mount is set to take place in the Knesset next month, MK Yehudah Glick (Likud) announced days after UNESCO passed a resolution pointedly ignoring the connection between the Jewish people and its holiest site.

UNESCO’s executive board is expected on Tuesday to ratify last week’s resolution ignoring Jewish ties to the Temple Mount after the Arab group of UNESCO member states, led by Morocco, blocked Israel’s attempt to delay the vote, diplomatic sources told The Jerusalem Post.

Outrage over UNESCO’s approval on Thursday of a resolution that omitted the Jewish people’s ties with Jerusalem continued to grow over the weekend.

Israel suspended cooperation with UNESCO on Friday after the UN cultural organisation adopted two resolutions on annexed east Jerusalem ahead of a final vote next week.