Gilad Erdan

Gilad Erdan, Ayelet Shaked announce they will not run in upcoming election

Former ministers Gilad Erdan and Ayelet Shaked announced they will not run in the upcoming election, citing the lack of a realistic path toward a broad unity government.

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Former UN ambassador Gilad Erdan at a press conference in Tel Aviv announcing the establishment of a new right-wing party under his and MK Yuli Edelstein's leadership ahead of the upcoming general elections, August 6, 2026.
Former UN ambassador Gilad Erdan at a press conference in Tel Aviv announcing the establishment of a new right-wing party under his and MK Yuli Edelstein's leadership ahead of the upcoming general elections, August 6, 2026.

Unity Party leader Gilad Erdan withdraws from election after failed merger talks

Unity Party chairman Gilad Erdan suspends his campaign, citing weak polling and failed efforts to join forces with other parties on the

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Former UN ambassador Gilad Erdan at a press conference in Tel Aviv announcing the establishment of a new right-wing party under his and MK Yuli Edelstein's leadership ahead of the upcoming general elections, August 6, 2026.

Gilad Erdan says Unity Party weighs alliances, seeks broad government without radicals - interview

Erdan said that showing voters “a few parties together that are already above the political threshold” could “give a real boost” to support, as voters would know “the vote is not going to be wasted.”

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MK Yuli Edelstein speaks during a conference at the Reichman University in Herzliya, on January 13, 2026.

Gilad Erdan confirms talks with Benny Gantz on possible election alliance

Gantz also criticized calls to form another narrow coalition without the traditional right, arguing that both a narrow “change” government and a fully right-wing government had failed.

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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.