UNESCO

PA Aims for Full Membership in UNESCO

The Palestinian Authority plans to request full membership in the UNESCO organization as part of its statehood bid.

The PA has a new idea to prevent Jewish growth in Hevron and Bethlehem.

Israel to stop working with UN organization after it declares Rachel’s Tomb to be a mosque.

Netanyahu attacks UNESCO decision to recognize Rachel’s Tomb as a mosque as an “absurd” attempt to “detach Nation of Israel from its heritage.”

A group of international experts is pondering how to protect Israel's heritage sites from being destroyed by vandals and natural disasters.

The Egyptian Culture Minister - who said Hebrew books should be burned - lost his bid to head UNESCO. Egyptians blame the “Jewish lobby.”