Meeting Argentina’s foreign minister in Jerusalem, Ohana invites President Milei to address Knesset

By Sam Sokol 3 February 2025, 1:24 pm

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Sam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"

(L) Argentine Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein and (R) Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana in the Knesset on February 3, 2025 (Knesset Spokesperson – Noam Moskowitz)

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana invites Argentine President Javier Milei to address Israel’s parliament, calling him the “most pro-Israeli president in the history of Argentina.”

Ohana extends the invitation in a conversation with Argentine Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein during which he thanks the South American nation for “its firm stand by Israel from the very beginning.”

Werthein “is a Jew with pro-Israeli positions, who supports Argentina’s association with free democratic countries like the United States and Israel,” the Knesset speaker notes in a statement praising him for declaring Hamas a terrorist organization.