1. Danny Danon is an Israeli politician and diplomat.
53 Facts About Danny Danon
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From 2015 to 2020, Danon served as Israel's 17th Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and was reappointed to the role in 2024.
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The former leader of the world Betar organization, Danny Danon was elected Chairman of the World Likud.
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Danny Danon was ultimately fired by Netanyahu for criticizing the Prime Minister's willingness to accept a proposed ceasefire.
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In 2015, Danny Danon was appointed to serve as Minister of Science, Technology and Space.
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Danny Danon became Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in 2015, and made history in 2016 by being the first Israeli elected chair of the UN's Legal Committee.
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Danny Danon was born in Ramat Gan to Joseph and Yoheved Danny Danon.
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Danny Danon's father, Joseph Danon, was born in Egypt, and moved to Israel in 1950.
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Danny Danon attended Blich High School and was a member of the Betar youth movement.
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Danny Danon served as an officer in the Education Corps and was released with the rank of captain.
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Danny Danon earned a bachelor's degree in international affairs from the Florida International University, and a master's degree in public policy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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When Danny Danon was 23, his father died from complications related to his injuries.
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When he was 28 years old, Danny Danon was elected Chair of the World Betar Movement.
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Danny Danon's responsibilities included managing the administrative, financial, and educational aspects of the organization in Israel and abroad, and encouraging aliyah.
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From 2004 to 2009, Danny Danon served as the chairman of the Likud faction in the World Zionist Organization.
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Danny Danon's responsibilities included encouraging aliyah to Israel and combating antisemitism.
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Danny Danon served on the board of directors of the Jewish Agency, establishing policy, goals and monitoring the work of the Agency.
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However, the party won only 12 seats in the general election, and Danny Danon did not enter the Knesset.
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In June 2006, Danny Danon was elected chairman of the World Likud organization, defeating Yuval Steinitz MK for the position.
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In July 2007, Danny Danon, described as one of Benjamin Netanyahu's biggest critics from within the Likud, declared his candidacy for the party's leadership.
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In 2008, Danny Danon filed a petition to the Israeli High Court of Justice to rescind the citizenship of former MK Azmi Bishara, who fled Israel after he was suspected of aiding Hezbollah, an enemy organization of Israel, during the 2006 Lebanon War.
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On 8 December 2008, Danny Danon was elected to the twenty-fourth place on the Likud slate for the upcoming election.
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Legislation that Danny Danon promoted included laws granting widows of fallen Israeli security personnel and terror attack victims the rights to receive grants from the government.
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Danny Danon promoted a law in which ensured that pardoned convicts who committed a crime during their parole period would automatically be re-imprisoned.
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Danny Danon was chosen for the fifth placement on the Likud list for the 2013 Israeli legislative election, which determined the composition of the 19th Knesset.
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Danny Danon was reelected and went on to be appointed Deputy Minister of Defense.
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On 15 July 2014, Danny Danon was dismissed as Deputy Minister of Defense position by Prime Minister Netanyahu after publicly criticizing his conduct and his willingness to accept a truce with Hamas during the 2014 Gaza War.
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Danny Danon submitted his candidacy for the 2014 Likud leadership election on 8 December 2014.
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In December 2014, Danny Danon placed 9th in the Likud's internal primary for the 2015 legislative election.
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One of the first decisions Danny Danon made after his appointment as Minister of Science, Technology and Space, was to designate the upcoming year as the year of Pioneering Women in Science and Technology.
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Danny Danon led efforts to increase awareness for science, technology and space among the residents of developing cities in Israel, by increasing the number of science-focused summer camps.
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Danny Danon visited the Sesame Particle Accelerator in Jordan, which Israel is participating in, to broaden the cooperation between the two states.
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Danny Danon served in this position until 27 August 2015, when Prime Minister Netanyahu appointed him as Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN.
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On 14 August 2015, Danny Danon was appointed by Netanyahu to be Israel's envoy to the UN, replacing Ron Prosor.
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Danny Danon stepped down as a Knesset member and minister later in the month.
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Danny Danon became Israel's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN in October 2015.
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The Palestinian representative to the UN, Riyad Mansour, interrupted Danny Danon's speech, violating protocol.
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Ambassador Danny Danon has visited Israel with the Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, where they visited Israelis wounded in the recent wave of terror attacks, and met with the wife of late Richard Lakin, who was brutally stabbed in a terror attack in the capital's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood.
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Danny Danon visited Israel again with US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, where they toured Israel by helicopter and were briefed on the security challenges Israel faces.
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In 2016, Danny Danon led a delegation of 14 ambassadors from the UN to Israel.
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On 31 May 2017, Danny Danon was elected as Vice President of the General Assembly as the representative of the Western European and Others group.
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Danny Danon strongly condemned the UN's repeated denunciations of Israel at the UN.
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Danny Danon likewise delivered a speech to the UN General Assembly in December 2017 in response to criticism of a decision by the US to move its embassy to Jerusalem.
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On 29 June 2022, ahead of an upcoming legislative election, Danny Danon announced his intention to run for a spot on the Likud's electoral list, and won the 15th spot in a party primary held that August.
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Danny Danon unsuccessfully stood for the position of Speaker of the Knesset.
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On 29 July 2024, Danny Danon was chosen to succeed Gilad Erdan as Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations.
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Danny Danon presented his credentials to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, on 19 August 2024.
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In 2013, Danny Danon asserted that the Likud party has no place for anyone supporting a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
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Danny Danon argues for extending Israeli sovereignty over the majority of the West Bank.
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Danny Danon has advocated for punitive attacks against Palestinian civilians and infrastructure, including a suggestion that Israel "delete" one neighborhood in Gaza in response for every rocket launched by Hamas.
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In July 2014, Danny Danon advocated cutting off all electricity and fuel supplies to Gaza to induce Hamas to request a cease-fire.
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Danny Danon published his first book in September 2012, titled Israel: the Will to Prevail.
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In 2022, Danny Danon released a second book titled In the Lion's Den: Israel and the World describing his first term as Israel's Permanent Representative to the UN.