Gilad Erdan

Editor's Notes: The argument splitting religious-Zionist households before Israel’s election

Israel elects 120 members of Knesset by proportional representation; nobody has ever won a majority, 61 is the only number that counts.

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Photo illustration | Potential center-right political players Dedi Simchi, Ayelet Shaked, Yoaz Hendel, Gilad Erdan, Ofer Winter, Benny Gantz and Yuli Edelstein.
Korin Gideon standing in the house,at the Big Brother reality show, during the final at Neve Ilan studio, April 6, 2016.

'Today's arena is social media': Korin Gideon on politics, body confidence, life in public eye

Gideon revealed that former cabinet minister and UN ambassador Gilad Erdan approached her about a possible move into politics ahead of Israel’s 2026 national election.

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Amb. Gilad Erdan, Magen David Adom, Global President, Israel’s former Ambassador to the UN

Ex-UN ambassador Erdan says he's working to establish new right-wing party, sees himself as PM

The remarks came amid recent reports that senior figures on Israel’s political right have been holding talks on forming a new “statesmanlike” right-wing party, informally referred to as “Likud B.”

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara cast their vote during the elections for the Likud Central Committee, at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, November 25, 2025

Members of Israel's Right in talks to form new party as alternative to Likud

The initiative, informally described as “Likud B,” is being advanced by right-wing figures, many of whom have had strained relations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Grapevine February 2, 2024: On a more serious note

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

FEBRUARY 5, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
UNITED NATIONS Ambassador Gilad Erdan shows a picture of weapons found in Gaza by Israeli troops, at a United Nations Security Council meeting last month.

'Hamas tore off my clothes, threatened to shoot': Gaza hostage tells her story

Mia Regev said Hamas abused her by hitting her injured leg, laughed, and mocked her.

JANUARY 31, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Released hostages Mia and Itai Regev with their father Itai (bottom) with a delegation of UN officials in Israel, including Gilad Erdan, after the Regev siblings spoke of their captivity in Gaza.

'We are still here': UN marks Int'l Holocaust Remembrance Day

Survivors of the Holocaust and October 7 testified before UN ambassadors, accompanied by a photography exhibit depicting how Holocaust survivors have rebuilt their lives.

JANUARY 26, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
"We Are Still Here" photography exhibition attendees.

Erdan to UN: The Middle East is fighting a cancer

Erdan called out hypocrisy from his colleagues at the United Nations and noted that Hamas is continuing to plan attacks.

JANUARY 24, 2024ByJOANIE MARGULIES
Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan holds the picture of a child kidnapped in the October 7 attack by Hamas, on a birthday cake during a plenary meeting on the 'Use of the veto - Item 63: Special report of the Security Council', in the General Assembly Hall at UN headquarter

Erdan to ICRC rep: Red Cross 'covers up' Hamas's heinous crimes

The ambassador emphasized that it is clear that if Hamas regains its capabilities, it will attempt to carry out another massacre against Israeli civilians.

JANUARY 11, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israel's Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan meets with the Permanent Observer of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to the UN Laetitia Courtois, January 10, 2024

Israel's Gilad Erdan commemorates Kfir Bibas's first birthday at UN

"I ask that Kfir's birthday cake remain here on the podium as a painful memory so that everyone who comes up to speak here today will remember Kfir and our duty to bring him home."

JANUARY 9, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Kfir Bibas, 10 months

Houthi attacks on Red Sea ships are 'precursor to dark future,' Erdan tells UNSC

"This is not an 'Israeli problem,' it is not even a 'Middle East problem.' This is a threat to the entire world," Israel's ambassador to the UN said.

JANUARY 4, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting about the invoking of Article 99 of the UN charter to address the humanitarian crisis in the midst of conflict between Israel and Hamas at the UN headquarters in New York City, U.S., December 8, 2023.

Netanyahu thanks Biden for backing Israel after UNSC vote on Gaza aid

Gilad Erdan thanked US for standing on Israel's side throughout the negotiations on the UN Security Council resolution and maintaining defined red lines; resolution does not condemn Hamas.

DECEMBER 23, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Ambassador Gilad Erdan at a UN Security Council meeting on Operation House and Garden in Jenin, July 27, 2023.

UN envoy revealing Hamas head's number inspired by NYT Israel critic - opinion

Even if it was not Gilad Erdan’s intention, the sign that he held up at the UN this week rhetorically turned the tables on an arch-critic of Israel, Thomas Friedman.

DECEMBER 17, 2023ByRAFAEL MEDOFF
ISRAEL’S UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan holds up a sign, last Tuesday, with Hamas-Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar’s phone number, urging the assembled UN delegates to call him.

Israel’s UN envoy: Hamas attacked al-Aqsa Mosque, Iron Dome came to defense

Gilad Erdan's comments were made after Hamas launched rockets towards the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

DECEMBER 16, 2023ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan addresses the United Nations Security Council as the Council meets to discuss the issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., February 20, 2023.