Israel has urged UNESCO’s 58-member Executive Board, which is set to gather Tuesday in Paris, not to promote “fake” history by approving on Palestinian-backed resolution that rejects Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem.

"Tomorrow Israel is going to celebrate its 69th Independence Day. Shortly after, Israel will be celebrating 50 years to the reunification of Jerusalem and 3000 years of Jewish history in our historic capital. Tomorrow, even as we celebrate, UNESCO will be voting against Israel's right to sovereignty in its capital city, Jerusalem,’’ said Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely.

"This is absurd. We have become used to the concept of 'fake news'. Well, welcome to 'fake history',’’ she added.

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is set to pass a resolution that indicates rejection of the Jewish state’s sovereignty in any part of Jerusalem. The resolution also harshly criticizes the government for various construction projects in Jerusalem’s Old City and at holy sites in Hebron, and calls for an end to Israel’s blockade of Gaza without mentioning attacks from the Hamas-run Strip.

The resolution on ‘’Occupied Palestine’’ as it is titled was submitted to UNESCO’s Executive Board by Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar and Sudan. It will most likely pass, given the automatic anti-Israel majority in the 58-member body. Its wording as of Monday was slightly less harsh on Jerusalem than previous resolutions, in that it does affirm the importance of the city to the “three monotheistic religions.”

"UNESCO has long been politicized and unfortunately has become a tool in the service of Palestinian propaganda against Israel. Such absurd and historically baseless resolutions undermine UNESCO's mission of safeguarding humanity's cultural heritage,’’ Hotovely said.

"We, as Israelis, don’t need UNESCO's approval of our history in our land. However, for the countries voting tomorrow, I must say in the clearest terms: if you cherish history and affirm UNESCO's duty to respect historical truth, there is no choice other than to vote against this latest attempt to subvert international institutions in order to attack Israel."

Israeli diplomats were busy the last days to try to prevent an European-Arab agreement that would see the council’s European members either vote in favor or abstain in exchange for a slightly softer text.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was said to be making phone calls to European leaders in a bid to convince them to reject the resolution.

According to Israeli officials quoted by The Times of Israel, Germany was a driving force behind a deal that would see all EU states abstain in exchange for the removal of the most incendiary anti-Israel passages.

However, Italy has announced that it would vote against the resolution.

Last October, 24 member states of UNESCO’s General Conference backed a resolution entirely ignoring Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall and referring to it solely by its Muslim name of Al-Haram Al-Sharif.

Six countries voted against and 26 abstained, and the resolution was adopted by the UNESCO’s Executive Board a few days later.

Five of the 11 EU member states on the Board voted against the text. The other six abstained.