Danny Danon is Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He previously served as member of the Israeli Knesset from the Likud Party, as Minister of Science, Technology and Space and as Deputy Minister of Defense. During his term in the 18th Knesset, Danon served as Deputy Speaker, Chair of the Special Committee on the Rights of the Child, and Chair of the Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs. In June 2016 he was elected as chair of the UN’s Legal Committee, the first Israeli to ever hold the position.