In response to vote declaring the Cave of the Patriarchs a Palestinian World Heritage Site, Netanyahu cuts $1 million from Israel's fees to the UN and transfers them to Jewish heritage projects in Hebron.

Israel slammed a UNESCO resolution passed on Friday declaring Hebron's Old City—and with it the Cave of the Patriarchs—as a Palestinian World Heritage Site.

In response to the decision, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to cut another $1 million from the membership fees Israel pays the UN and use that money instead to build a museum of Jewish heritage in Kiryat Arba and Hebron, as well as promote other heritage projects in the city.

This is the fourth time the State of Israel has reduced its funding to the UN in protest of anti-Israeli decisions.


Israel cut $6 million in January in protest of UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which condemned Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank; $2 million in late March in protest of "hostile resolutions" adopted by the UN Human Rights Council; and $1 million in protest of a previous UNESCO decision failing to acknowledge Jewish ties to Jerusalem.

After the four cuts, Israel will only pay the UN $1.7 million a year in contributions. The cuts leave Israel in arrears to the UN, and it risks losing its voting rights at the world body.

Netanyahu protested the fact UNESCO determined the Cave of the Patriarchs was a Palestinian site, "meaning not Jewish... Is this not a Jewish site?! Who's buried there? Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Sara, Rebecca and Leah. Our patriarchs and matriarchs!"

The prime minister also took issue with the declaration of the site as a world heritage site in danger. "Only where Israel is present, like in Hebron, the freedom of religion for all is guaranteed," Netanyahu said. "In the Middle East, mosques, churches and synagogues are being blown up everywhere else—where Israel is not present. We will continue protecting the Cave of the Patriarchs, the freedom of religion for all, and we will also continue protecting the truth."

President Reuven Rivlin asserted the decision "once again proves this is a body determined to continue spreading anti-Jewish lies, while at the same time sticking to its silence while the regional heritage is being erased by brutal extremists."

A spokesman for Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the decision was a "moral blot" on UNESCO. "This irrelevant organization is promoting fake history. Shame on UNESCO," said spokesman Emmanuel Nachshon.

Israel's Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon called the vote "a disgraceful decision that destroys any shred of credibility UNESCO had left," adding that "this grave attempt to cut the ties between Israel and Hebron and the graves of the fathers and mothers of our people is an ugly move, which is offensive to the Jewish people."

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