Yamil Santoro, a lawmaker in Buenos Aires’s municipal legislature, says he is seeking to have the city’s rechristen a street named for Palestine for the Bibas family instead.
A bill recently submitted by Santoro would change Estado de Palestina, or State of Palestine, in the city’s central Almagro neighborhood, to Familia Bibas, in honor of Shiri Silberman Bibas and her two young sons, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, who were kidnapped on October 7, 2023, and murdered in captivity. Their bodies were returned on Thursday and over the weekend.
The mom and her children were dual citizens of Israel and Argentina.
The main obstacle to the name change is an existing law from October 1998 that restricts designating street names for a person until 10 years have passed since their death.
Santoro tells La Nacion newspaper that the law may be circumvented by changing the street to the name of the family.
He adds they have not reached out to the Bibas family yet. “We will wait for a reasonable amount of time to pass before reaching out to talk.”
The streets Estado de Palestina and Estado de Israel famously intersect, drawing onlookers daily.
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