The president’s address, which drew immediate notice from Jewish groups, focused on the need for the international community to counter what he described as the “cancer of violent extremism.”
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations slammed its members for “their complicity in allowing organizations like Hamas to continue to exist in the Middle East.”
Some 32 countries wrote a letter to a committee of the United Nations General Assembly in support of Israel’s bid to have the international body recognize Yom Kippur as an official holiday.