Gilad Erdan, global president of Magen David Adom, has focused largely on strengthening Israel’s home front in the past year. But when conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated last week, the former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations saw it as part of a global threat.

“Even if Charlie wasn’t killed because he was our friend or ally, to me, it’s the same threat,” Erdan told JNS. “It’s the threat posed by those who want to silence anyone who thinks differently, who prays differently, who holds a different ideology.”

Erdan spoke with JNS at the American Friends of Magen David Adom’s annual gala at Cipriani Wall Street in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday night. The event, which drew about 600 people, honored Meghan McCain, a political commentator who is the daughter of the late sen

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