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Topic: Bolivia

April 11, 2013
9:31 am

Guatemala's ambassador to Israel Alfredo Vasquez Rivera (R) meets with Israeli president Shimon Peres at his inauguration ceremony held at President Peres' residence in Jerusalem in 2010. (photo credit: Isaac Harari/FLASH90)

Guatemala recognizes state of Palestine

In joining eight other Latin American nations, the country claims the move will jump-start a peace agreement with Israel

March 17, 2013
9:49 pm

Kosher for Passover rolls at a Jerusalem bakery; some people can't live without their bread substitutes, even for seven days (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash 90)

The quinoa conundrum

The nutrient-rich faux grain could be your new Passover staple

By Phyllis Glazer

February 21, 2013
6:11 am

A poster of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez decorates a motorbike near the military hospital where Chavez is allegedly receiving treatment in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday (photo credit: AP/Ariana Cubillos)

Bolivian leader unable to visit Chavez in hospital

Since his reported return to Caracas on Monday, no images have been released of the ailing Venezuelan president

January 20, 2013
10:52 am

Illustration of cocaine user in a bar in Jerusalem, Israel. (photo credit Michal Fattal / Flash90)

3 Bolivians nabbed smuggling cocaine into Israel

Ben Gurion Airport officials stop men with seven kilograms of the drug, arrest two others following investigation

By Stuart Winer

December 27, 2012
8:03 pm

Jacob Ostreicher, an Orthodox investor from Brooklyn, has been freed from prison in Bolivia but will remain under house arrest after paying $14,000 as bail. (AP/File)

Freed Haredi man: Bolivia’s Jewish community was ‘disappointing’

US Jewish businessman Jacob Ostreicher, who remains under house arrest in South America, claims local Jews are afraid of their government

December 18, 2012
10:59 pm

Haredi American released from Bolivian prison

Jacob Ostreicher had been held without charges for 18 months in alleged extortion effort by government officials

December 14, 2012
9:02 pm

US legislators have asked Bolivian President Evo Morales to intervene in a case that has resulted in corruption charges against his own officials. (Photo credit: CC BY/Sebastian Baryli via Flickr.com)

US lawmakers urge Bolivian president to release Ostreicher

Haredi businessman from Brooklyn has been held without charges for more than 18 months

December 12, 2012
5:32 pm

New York businessman Jacob Ostreicher, right, consults with attorney Abel Montano at a courthouse in Bolivia, where he's being held without charges. (AP)

After 28th hearing, Orthodox man jailed in Bolivia calls case a joke

At a proceeding attended by actor Sean Penn, judges refuse to free man seen as victim of extortion conspiracy

December 11, 2012
8:50 pm

With Sean Penn’s help, US Jew jailed in Bolivia may be released

A growing extortion scandal suggests a conspiracy to confine Jacob Ostreicher, an Orthodox agriculture investor from New York

By Carlos Valdez and Frank Bajak

November 27, 2012
8:27 am

Top Bolivian official allegedly got rich off jailed Jewish-American’s holdings

Jacob Ostreicher, detained for 18 months without charges, says he fears for his life now that government officials are suspected of corruption

By Paola Flores

August 29, 2012
5:21 am

Guards stand outside the US embassy in La Paz, Bolivia (photo credit: juhauski72/Flickr)

Bolivian police seize two tons of uranium

From the web Radioactive material was stored near US and Spanish embassies in La Paz, reports Fox News

July 27, 2012
9:40 am

Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Nouhailler, Flickr)

Three Israeli travelers killed overseas

From the web Ynet: Two vacationers perish in car accident in Bolivia; Man on pre-army trip dies mysteriously in Andorra hotel room

June 15, 2012
8:36 am

Congressman Christopher Smith visits American Jew jailed in Bolivia

Businessman Jacob Ostreicher on hunger strike to protest his imprisonment

June 8, 2012
4:50 pm

Congress holds hearing on hasid imprisoned in Bolivia

Former FBI official says: In Jacob Ostreicher’s case ‘there is a complete absence of any concrete, tangible evidence on even a microscopic scale’

June 7, 2012
10:37 am

House committee to hold hearing on hasidic Jew held in Bolivia

US lawmakers and Ostreicher’s family believe the US State Department has not provided an adequate response

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