Senior UN official allegedly leaked confidential info to Israel — reports

A senior United Nations official has allegedly been caught feeding confidential UN data to Israel.

The allegations center on Yahav Lichner, a former Israeli diplomat who served in the UN system before taking up his current post as UNICEF’s Washington director.

Leaked correspondence reportedly shows him sharing internal UN reports and arranging private briefings with Israeli officials while working at the organization. The revelations are now raising questions over whether his previous ties to Israel were ever properly scrutinized.

To discuss this we speak with David Lopez, a consultant for human rights and UN mechanisms at the International Association for Human Rights and Social Development.