Israel’s Mission to the United Nations has lodged a complaint with the UN General Assembly president for allowing the US premiere of a controversial film on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict inside the UN headquarters in New York.

Serry criticizes gov't decision to build 400 units in W. Bank as Fogel family, killed in Itamar terror attack, laid to rest; Yishai: 1000 housing units for every person murdered''; PA calls building ''wrong, unacceptable.''

B’nai B’rith International praised the recent agreement reached by Israel and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to create a center to encourage and promote Holocaust education and battle its denial worldwide.

Ron Prosor, Israel's ambassador to Britain, has been appointed as the Jewish state's ambassador to the United Nations.

The Islamist Hamas has said it would stop the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) from teaching Palestinian children in Gaza about the Holocaust.

The United Nations Security Council votes February 26, 2011 on a resolution on peace and security in Africa.

Navi Pillay's comments come at UN Human Rights Council meeting, the first time the 47-member rights body convenes to discuss the possible violations of one of its members.

The American Jewish Committee called on the United Nations General Assembly to suspend Libya’s membership in the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Israel on Friday called for the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table without preconditions after the United States vetoed a UN Security Council vote condemning Jewish settlements.

UN human rights chief Navi Pillay sharply criticised Israel on Friday for ignoring the harm done to Palestinians by its Jewish settlement policy and the construction of a vast West Bank barrier.