"The mayor's statement, I think it is a disgrace. Shame."
@Ofir_Akunis reprimands Mayor Zohran Mamdani for his comments conflating Israel's actions in Gaza to the October 7th attacks on Wednesday's "The Record with Greta Van Susteren." @greta
Being the spokesperson for the Israeli Embassy in Washington over the past three years has been one of the most challenging and demanding experiences of my life. It has meant navigating crisis after crisis, and facing moments I never could have imagined.
One of the hardest came this morning.
I was with Ambassador @yechielleiter in New York, on our way to an interview about the UNGA, when he received the devastating news that his son, Neria, had been injured in a terror attack.
Just moments earlier, we had been preparing for a full day of interviews. In this morning’s interview on @Newsmax — our last interview before we received the news — the Ambassador spoke about the unimaginable reality we have been living with in Israel, and made this point around the same time the terrorist attacked his son:
“We sent in our troops on the ground to prevent mass bombings, we lost our children because of this, and still get accused of committing a genocide.”
The Ambassador has already endured the unimaginable loss of his eldest son, Moshe, who was killed in Gaza almost 3 years ago.
Please keep Neria, and the entire Leiter family in your thoughts and prayers. 🙏
New York City should never be a place where Hamas terrorists are turned into heroes.
Yet flyers are calling on New Yorkers to rally and pay tribute to Hamas terrorist Anas Al-Sharif, who led a Hamas terror cell, advanced rocket attacks against Israelis, and publicly celebrated the October 7 massacre as Jews were murdered, raped, and kidnapped, all while posing as an Al Jazeera “journalist.”
Recovered documents by the @IDF from Gaza leave no doubt: Al-Sharif was no reporter. He was a Hamas operative hiding behind a press badge.
This is not solidarity. This is the glorification of terrorism.
Holocaust survivor Anka Bergman went into labor as she arrived at the concentration camp Mauthausen in 1945. She climbed off a coal truck without help and onto a cart, says her daughter, Eva Clarke. https://t.co/V1vTYHwYG5
“He saved my life—and paid with his own.”
As Hamas terrorists opened fire at the Nova Festival, Yaniv Serudi was shot three times—but kept driving to save his fiancée, Sivan Simcha Cohen.
She was wounded. He was killed protecting her.
She lay under fire for 10 hours before being rescued.
She survived. He didn’t.
Now, she’s healing, step by step—with his courage in her heart.
🔗https://t.co/tZpBFA3kZN
@amNewYork
"We just saw the Nazis of our time, the ayatollahs."
— Ofir Akunis, Consul General of Israel in New York, said Iran crossed "all the red lines" by attacking Israeli schools and hospitals
@Ofir_Akunis@SharlaMcBride
I penned a @nytimes guest essay about last week's depraved attack at a Jewish community event in Washington.
As a former staffer at Israel's consulate in NY, this cowardly act of terror hits especially close to home.
Read here: https://t.co/AMJ7SExgTy
https://t.co/EfjLGxmwii
I penned a @nytimes guest essay about last week's depraved attack at a Jewish community event in Washington.
As a former staffer at Israel's consulate in NY, this cowardly act of terror hits especially close to home.
Read here: https://t.co/AMJ7SExgTy
https://t.co/EfjLGxmwii
New York Consul general of Israel, @Ofir_Akunis joins @johnrobertsFox to discuss the 2 Israeli staffers who are dead after the attack at a DC museum.
#AmercaReports
Thanks @WJWeek for the opportunity to discuss a little of my Jewish journey and some other exciting 2025 developments (including becoming a Dad and my next professional stop later this month).