"Israel has decided to abandon its quest for its first-ever seat on the United Nations Security Council after seeing its low chances of success, Israel Hayom reported.
Israel had been quietly working behind the scenes for more than a year in an effort to win a seat on the 15-nation council in the upcoming elections in June. However, sources within the Foreign Ministry said that Israel did not manage to muster up the necessary majority and will likely inform its allies to remove it from consideration.
Landing a spot on the Security Council would have been a major foreign policy achievement for the Jewish state. The 15-member body is the most powerful of the 6 organs that make up the United Nations, and its powers include the establishment of peacekeeping operations, the establishment of international sanctions, and the authorization of military action through Security Council resolutions..."