December 24, 2017

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that his country will withdraw from the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO at the end of next week.

Netanyahu had already announced in October that Israel would pull out of UNESCO following a decision by President Donald Trump to withdraw the United States from the agency for its alleged "anti-Israel bias."

"I instructed the Foreign Ministry at the end of the week to withdraw from UNESCO," Netanyahu said at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting.

"I think that this is necessary in light of the biased, unilateral and absurd attitude of the organization toward us and also in the background of the United States' strong stance in the U.N., which we welcome," he continued.

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