State of Israel
Ambassador Dan Gillerman
Israel became a member of the United Nations on May 11, 1949, a year after it gained statehood. The territory had been administered by Great Britain from 1917 to 1947, and was the subject of an attempted United Nations partition of the territory between Palestinians and Jewish settlers. During a 1967 war with Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, Israeli forces occupied the territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, home to large populations of Palestinian Arabs. Israel continues to occupy these territories to this day, despite numerous attempts at a negotiated settlement and ongoing terrorist attacks by Palestinian nationalists….
