Israel's ambassador to UNESCO Carmel Shama Hacohen (center) (Photo:timesofisrael)

He said that since Audrey Azouley, the new UNESCO Director, took office no bill harming Israel has been approved.

He spoke as Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian officials adopted amended versions of last year's decisions by UNESCO's world heritage committee to list the Old City of Jerusalem and its walls, as well as Hebron in the occupied West Bank, as endangered sites. The new resolutions - adopted through a rare consensus - keep the two sites on the list, but remove phrasing which Israel had considered aggressive.