Israel vs Saudi Arabia: UN Voting Alignment
How often do Israel and Saudi Arabia vote the same way at the UN General Assembly? Agreement over every shared roll-call vote since 1946, by year, decade, and topic — plus the resolutions where they split.
Overall agreement
29.0%
of 5,410 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946
Agreement by year
Agreement by decade
| Decade | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 46.0% | 87 |
| 1950 | 44.5% | 393 |
| 1960 | 47.0% | 432 |
| 1970 | 46.5% | 755 |
| 1980 | 28.3% | 1,241 |
| 1990 | 22.1% | 745 |
| 2000 | 14.1% | 865 |
| 2010 | 18.2% | 891 |
| 2020 | 0.0% | 1 |
Agreement by topic
| Topic | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| Israel–Palestine | 2.4% | 1,021 |
| Nuclear weapons | 20.3% | 802 |
| Disarmament | 30.4% | 1,016 |
| Colonialism | 19.0% | 859 |
| Human rights | 19.6% | 963 |
| Economic development | 33.2% | 650 |
Biggest splits
| Resolution | Date | Israel | Saudi Arabia |
|---|---|---|---|
A/RES/ES-10/19 Status of Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-21 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/84 Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-07 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/31 Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-04 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/15 Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/14 Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/13 Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/12 Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/11 Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/4 Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-01 | no | yes |
A/RES/71/95 Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2016-12-06 | no | yes |
Frequently asked questions
How often do Israel and Saudi Arabia vote together at the UN?
Israel and Saudi Arabia voted the same way in 29.0% of 5,410 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946.
Do Israel and Saudi Arabia agree on human rights votes?
On human rights resolutions, Israel and Saudi Arabia mostly disagree: they voted the same way in 19.6% of 963 shared human-rights votes at the UN General Assembly.
When did Israel and Saudi Arabia last disagree at the UN?
Among their biggest recent splits, on 2017-12-21 Israel voted "no" and Saudi Arabia voted "yes" on A/RES/ES-10/19 (Status of Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly).