Israel has frozen co-operation with the UN's cultural agency, UNESCO, accusing it of denying Judaism's connections to the religion's holiest sites. Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett said a Unesco draft decision concerning Jerusalem denies history and encourages terror. He said UNSECO is ignoring thousands of years of Jewish ties to Jerusalem and aiding Islamist terror. <br/><br/>It comes after the body approved a text which repeatedly used only the Islamic name for a hilltop complex which is also the holiest site in Judaism. The site is known to Jews as the Temple Mount and Haram al-Sharif to Muslims.

Israel has frozen co-operation with the UN's cultural agency, UNESCO, accusing it of denying Judaism's connections to the religion's holiest sites. Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett said a Unesco draft decision concerning Jerusalem denies history and encourages terror. He said UNSECO is ignoring thousands of years of Jewish ties to Jerusalem and aiding Islamist terror. <br/><br/>It comes after the body approved a text which repeatedly used only the Islamic name for a hilltop complex which is also the holiest site in Judaism. The site is known to Jews as the Temple Mount and Haram al-Sharif to Muslims.