Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, will travel to New York next month to attend a UN conference on policing, Haaretz reported this week.
The minister is expected to head up a delegation from the national security ministry to attend the annual UNCops summit.
Under the title “Investing in Peace”, the conference will take place between 7 and 8 July and will see security ministers and police chiefs around the world discuss “strengthening international peace, security and development for all" through national and transnational police forces.
Ben Gvir will attend despite criticising the UN for several years.
In June 2024, after Israel was placed on a blacklist for harming children in conflict zones, he stated that “the UN has allied itself with Hamas and has become a collaborator of terror".
