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Israel Katz

Israel Katz is an Israeli lawmaker and member of the Likud Party. He currently serves as the country's foreign minister after serving as energy minister for two years in a rotation deal with Eli Cohen.

Katz has served many other ministerial roles in the past, specifically as transportation minister, agriculture minister, intelligence minister, and finance minister.

He is considered a hardliner in Israeli politics regarding peace and security, supporting settlements and West Bank annexation, but has also advocated for the establishment of an autonomous Palestinian entity.

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 World Central Kitchen (WCK) barge loaded with food arrives off the Gaza coast, March 15, 2024

UK summons Israeli envoy over death of World Central Kitchen aid workers

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Turkey's Erdogan threatens to 'send Netanyahu to Allah,' Israel summons envoy

 Israel Katz, Foreign Minister to the United Nations points at family members of hostages in the audience during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the conflict between Israel and Hamas, at U.N. headquarters in New York, US March 11, 2024.

Israel calls for global coalition in war against rising antisemitism

European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 24, 2021

Israel FM, Palestinian Authority PM could be invited to Brussels as EU agrees to sanction settlers

 Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis is seen with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, on May 1, 2023

Science Minister Akunis appointed Israel Consul General to New York

 Israel Katz, Foreign Minister to the United Nations points at family members of hostages in the audience during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the conflict between Israel and Hamas, at U.N. headquarters in New York, US March 11, 2024.

The whole world should hear Israel Katz's message to the UN Security Council

 Foreign Minister Israel Katz delivers a speech at the UN Security Council debate on sexual violence committed on October 7 by Hamas, March 11, 2024.

'End your silence, declare Hamas a terror organization,' FM Israel Katz urges UNSC

 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres exits the press room after speaking at the United Nations prior to a meeting about the ongoing conflict in Gaza, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, U.S., November 6, 2023

Katz to Guterres: You're biased on Oct. 7 because victims were Jewish

 People visit the United Nations Headquarters as delegates of the Security Council delayed for one extra day the vote on a proposal to demand that Israel and Hamas allow aid access to the Gaza Strip, December 20, 2023

'It cannot be that the world remains indifferent': FM Katz, hostage families to speak at UN

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Foreign Minister Israel Katz wishes a blessed Ramadan holiday to Muslims in Israel and around the world.

FM Israel Katz addresses Muslims in Israel and around the world as Ramadan begins

 A PROTEST against the sexual violence committed in the October 7 massacre – and the international silence afterward – takes place outside UN Headquarters in New York City earlier this month.

Israel is right to highlight Hamas's sexual crimes

 Israel Katz attends the Special Committee for Oversight of the Israeli Citizens' Fund at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, July 4, 2023.

Israel launches global public diplomacy campaign amid UN sexual violence probe

 Israel Katz

FM Katz calls on global female leaders to come out against findings of UN sexual violence report

 Israel Katz

Amb. Erdan 'on the plane back to Israel for consultations,' FM Katz says

 Foreign Minister Israel Katz speaks at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on February 16, 2023

Israel FM issues directive against unilateral Palestinian statehood