Israel's ambassador to UNESCO, the UN’s cultural body, said Tuesday he was urging his government to reconsider its decision to quit the organization, saying it had halted its "anti-Israeli resolutions" over the past year, AFP reported.
In December, Israel announced it would leave UNESCO in protest of its continued approval of anti-Israel resolutions. The announcement came several months after the U.S. State Department declared that the U.S. would be leaving UNESCO by 2019 due to its anti-Israel bias.