Israel to allow UNESCO inspections in Jerusalem after Palestinians agree to pull damning resolutions.

An eleventh-hour intervention by Russia saved Israel from UNESCO condemnation at Wedensday’s meeting of the General Executive of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation in Paris.

Four Jewish sites are under consideration by a Germany committee for proposal as UNESCO World Heritage sites, it has been announced. The locations, which comprise Jewish cemeteries in Berlin and Hamburg, the Old Synagogue of Erfurt and the federation of SHUM cities, are amongst a group of 24 German historical sites to be considered by a German board for recommendation to the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation as a place of global cultural significance.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center told a meeting of theUNESCO World Heritage Committee in Russia the importance of “ethnic and faith communities” offering “narrative contributions to its host country and universal heritage”, as it slammed the French foreign ministry for supporting a Palestinian heritage application for “a purely religious site”.

UNESCO cuts funding for Palestinian youth magazine over praise for Hitler.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met Tuesday evening with French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace in Paris after symbolically hoisting the Palestinian flag at the headquarters of UNESCO, at a ceremony marking Palestine’s admission to the UN cultural and education body.

No better example exists of the abiding hatred for Jews that has become entrenched in Arab political culture than how the renovation of a ramp leading to Jerusalem's Temple Mount has become the subject of intense controversy.

B'nai B'rith International deplored a decision of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to allow the Arab bloc candidate, Syria, to serve on the body's Committee on Conventions and Recommendations, which "examines communications relating to cases and questions concerning the exercise of human rights."

The Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron is the world's most ancient Jewish site.

PA to sue Israel for ‘destroying’ Arab, Muslim antiquities.