KeghartBy Garcia Wilde, 30 June 2026
Danny Danon, not related to the billionaire Danons who own France’s largest dairy conglomerate, was nonetheless born with a golden spoon in his mouth. Born in Israel in 1971, his education and career have been meteoric.
After receiving degrees from two prestigious Israeli universities, he graduated from Florida’s International University. Soon after he joined the far-right Likud Party and was elected to the Knesset. Shortly after, at a relatively young age, Danon was appointed Deputy Speaker of the Knesset eventually becoming Deputy Defense Minister. He also chaired an important committee regarding the rights of children.
Despite his busy professional schedule, Danon found time to write two books about Israeli politics. He also held important positions in the Jewish Agency and was active in far-right Betar youth group. He also made Israeli diplomatic history when he was appointed in 2024, for a second term, as Tel Aviv’s permanent representative to the United Nations. The appointment at a crucial time for Israel indicates Benyamin Netanyahu’s confidence in Danon.
Considering the above biography, one would expect Danon to be a smooth customer, a mature politician-diplomat. He isn’t. Danon is uncouth, rude, loud, and intemperate.
On June 29, Danon was involved in a heated argument with Vanessa Frazer, UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children in Armed conflict. Ms. Frazer had committed the crime of documenting the long litany of Israeli military’s crimes against Palestinian children.
Danon demanded:
–Frazer’s report be discarded
–Frazer to “be quiet.”
–Frazer resign.
Shouting at the top of his voice, Danon told Frazer “shame on you” and added that Frazer’s report was a “sham.”
Although he has lived in America for a number years and has attended an American university, Danon has an atrocious-unintelligible accent. His speeches are spiced with “Khizballa teghoghist” and other mispronounced words. You’d think Ambassador Danon had marbles in his mouth. When he raises his voice in anger, he sounds like an angry mastiff with a weird bark.
While Hollywood looks are not expected at the United Nations’ assembly, Danon’s looks have predictably drawn the attention of cartoonists and stand-up comedians. Despite his expensive suits and haircut, his villainous looks–a cross between Dracula’s assistant and a Nazi concentration camp commandant—have made him an easy target for mockery and have distracted fellow ambassadors. Good looks, of course, are not necessary assets for an ambassador, but neither is the scary face or a voice-accent reminiscent of a Bram Stocker Transylvanian psycho.
Far more important is the fact that the Israel’s Foreign Ministry, in its wisdom, has appointed Danon for a second term as its mouthpiece at the most important international forum at a crucial time in Israel’s history.
Tel Aviv might be short of expert diplomatic staff and spokesmen despite the millions it spends to polish its image and have the smoothest spokesmen this side of Eden. That might be the case since several of the top Israeli spokesmen—Jonathan Corrnicus, Mark Regev, David Mincer, and Avi Hyman—were born outside Israel.
Perhaps Danon doesn’t have to worry about his future as a diplomat. He can always launch a movie career as a mad doctor, a psycho from the pages of a Stephen King horror opus.
Keghart
