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2/8 The source was Yahav Lichner, a former Israeli diplomat who joined the UN Population Fund in 2014 after working under Israeli Amb. Ron Prosor in London and NY. The emails come from Prosor’s hacked inbox & were published by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a whistleblower & file-sharing website...

3/8 The emails suggest Lichner’s placement inside the UN was actively cultivated. Prosor asked then-U.S. Amb. Samantha Power to privately support Lichner’s UNFPA application, later giving him a glowing reference. W/in weeks of being hired, Lichner was again advising his fmr. Israeli mission, now...

4/8 In Feb. 2015, Lichner sent Israeli diplomats a “classified internal summary” of UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein’s private Washington meetings. “For your eyes only. Do not forward,” he wrote. The report detailed meetings w/ the WH, Congress, AIPAC, J Street, and human rights groups.