Israel’s deputy attorney general won a seat on the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. The vote that returned Judith Karp to the post she has held since 1995 came after last week’s overwhelming General Assembly decision to call for an international meeting on Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel is excluded from sitting on many U.N. permanent committees because it does not belong to a regional group, but Israelis have been elected to other committees as individuals.
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