Netanyahu cuts $1 million from UN funds, transfers them to Hebron heritage projects

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided Friday to cut another $1 million from the membership fees Israel pays the UN and use that money instead to build a museum of Jewish heritage in Kiryat Arba and Hebron, as well as other heritage projects in the city.

The move came in response to a UNESCO vote declaring Hebron's Old City—and with it the Cave of the Patriarchs—as a Palestinian World Heritage Site in danger.