According to a report by Times of Israel, on Tuesday January 13, 2026, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar severed Israel’s ties with seven United Nations agencies, declaring Jerusalem would no longer accept what he called systematic anti-Israel bias masquerading as international cooperation.
The withdrawal, effective immediately, targets agencies Sa’ar accused of weaponizing their mandates against the Jewish state. Israel pulled out of the Office of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, UN Women, UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, UN Alliance of Civilizations, UN Energy, and the Global Forum on Migration and Development.
Sa’ar condemned the children’s rights office for placing the IDF on its annual blacklist alongside Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, ISIS, and Boko Haram. Israel stands as the only democracy on that list, forced to share space with terrorist organizations that deliberately target civilians.
“This grotesque moral equivalence disgraces the UN’s mission,” the Foreign Ministry stated. Israel initially suspended cooperation in June 2024 after the blacklisting appeared in the annual report.
UN Women faced expulsion for what Sa’ar called deliberate silence on October 7 atrocities. The agency ignored documented cases of sexual violence committed against Israeli women during Hamas’s massacre, undermining its stated mission of protecting women worldwide.
The UN Conference on Trade and Development and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia produced what Israel termed “virulent anti-Israel reports,” transforming development agencies into political attack platforms. The Alliance of Civilizations, meant to bridge cultural divides, became another forum for targeting Israel.
Sa’ar dismissed UN Energy as wasteful bureaucracy that exemplifies the organization’s inefficiency. The Global Forum on Migration and Development, he argued, undermines national sovereignty over immigration enforcement.
The Foreign Ministry announced ongoing reviews of additional UN partnerships, signaling this withdrawal represents the beginning, not the end, of Jerusalem’s UN reckoning. See More
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