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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 646

Argentina

Fans of the All Boys soccer club in Argentina carry a mock coffin in the colors of the Atlanta football club, which hails from a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Buenos Aires, and draped with the Israeli flag ahead of a match between the two teams on June 30, 2025. (Screen capture via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 1, 2025, 10:48 am
Argentina probing ‘antisemitic acts’ at soccer game against team from Jewish area
Fans of the All Boys Club carried Israeli flag-draped coffin, told rivals to ‘clear off to Israel,’ raised banner calling for ‘death to the genocidal state of Israel’
By Agencies
Firemen and policemen search for wounded people after a bomb exploded at the Argentinian Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA in Spanish) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 18, 1994. (Ali Burafi/AFP)
June 26, 2025, 10:34 pm
Argentina to try 10 Iranians, Lebanese in absentia over 1994 bombing of Jewish center
US, Argentina and Israel have long said Iran and Hezbollah were responsible for AMIA attack, which killed 85, and Iran’s Khamenei faces an arrest warrant for it
By Sonia AVALOS
Argentinian President Javier Milei laughs as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a special Knesset plenum session in honor of the visiting South American leader, June 11, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 11, 2025, 10:16 pm
Milei, visiting Knesset, says Argentina to move its embassy to Jerusalem in 2026
Argentinian president warmly welcomed by Netanyahu, Ohana and Lapid, who all praise his pro-Israel stance, welcome him as a ‘true friend’
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
An El Al plane parked at Ben Gurion Airport, May 7, 2025. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
June 5, 2025, 3:01 pm
Argentina’s ambassador to Israel says El Al to begin direct Buenos Aires flights
Axel Wahnish predicts formal announcement from national carrier will be made next week, sees long-haul flight as result of improved relations between two countries
By Juan Melamed
Nazi documentation found in boxes stored at the basement of the Justice Palace, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 11, 2025. (Handout / ARGENTINA'S SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE / AFP)
May 12, 2025, 10:43 am
Nazi material seized by Argentina in World War II found in top court’s basement
Postcards, photographs and propaganda material that arrived on Japanese ship in 1941 sparked concerns among authorities that the items could affect Argentina’s wartime neutrality
By Reuters
A federal police agent holds two photos and the identity card found in the house in which the man believed to be Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele lived, June 7, 1985. Photo on left shows Mengele eating. Photo on right shows Mengele during a picnic with friends and in the middle is the identity card. (AP Photo)
May 6, 2025, 7:30 pm
New documents shed light on ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele’s escape from Nazi Germany
Notorious German SS officer and physician of Auschwitz requested to travel from Argentina to West Germany in 1959 using his real name, sources reveal
By Zev Stub
Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann stands in a protective glass booth flanked by Israeli police during his trial June 22, 1961, in Jerusalem. (Photo by GPO)
May 2, 2025, 6:39 am
Argentina declassifies over 1,800 files on Nazi ‘ratline’ escape routes after WWII
Documents, whose release the Simon Wiesenthal Center pushed for, can now be viewed through the Argentine National Archive
By Grace Gilson
The names of bombing victims and the Spanish phrase "Memory and Justice" cover a wall after a ceremony was held to mark the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center that killed 85 people in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, July 18, 2024. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)
April 11, 2025, 9:20 am
Argentina seeks arrest of Iran’s Khamenei for 1994 bombing of AMIA Jewish center
Argentine court ruled last year that Iran and Hezbollah were behind attack that killed 85 people in Buenos Aires; lead prosecutor says no immunity for Iranian supreme leader
By Grace Gilson
A federal police agent holds two photos and the identity card found in the house in which the man believed to be Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele lived, June 7, 1985. Photo on left shows Mengele eating. Photo on right shows Mengele during a picnic with friends and in the middle is the identity card. (AP Photo)
March 26, 2025, 10:37 am
Argentina to declassify documents about Nazi ‘ratline’ escape routes after WWII
Following a promise by president Javier Milei last month, documents including banking and financial transactions will be publicly released
By Zev Stub
People wave orange handkerchiefs in honor of the Bibas children as they demonstrate for the release of all remaining hostages held in Gaza since Hamas's October 7, 2023, onslaught on Israel, in Buenos Aires on February 24, 2025. (JUAN MABROMATA / AFP)
February 25, 2025, 5:39 pm
Buenos Aires Jews hold massive demonstration on behalf of Bibas family
Some 15,000 take to the streets to commemorate the dual Israeli-Argentine citizens killed and held captive by Hamas, and to thank President Javier Milei for his support for Israel
By Michelle Mendeluk
From the trials of Adolf Eichmann, which will be examined in 'Eichmann -- The Devil Speaks,' the first series produced by Tadmor Entertainment and MGM (Courtesy GPO)
February 24, 2025, 1:50 am
Argentine president opening files on Nazi ‘ratlines’ that trafficked Eichmann, Mengele
Up to 10,000 Nazi war criminals fled Europe using these escape routes. Javier Milei pledges to declassify files related to how his country settled 5,000 of them
By Matt Lebovic
The Transamerica Pyramid Center in San Francisco is illuminated in orange in memory of the Bibas family, February 21, 2025. (Foreign Ministry)
February 22, 2025, 11:36 pm
Landmarks, monuments worldwide light up in orange in memory of Bibas family
Argentina’s Obelisco illuminated with photo of murdered family, Brazil’s Christ the Redeemer glows orange, and Myanmar’s only synagogue is draped with orange banner
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
A man in northern Israel holds a sign portraying Shiri Silberstein Bibas, whose body Hamas falsely claimed to have released, and her sons, Ariel, 4, and baby Kfir, whose remains were in fact handed over, on February 20, 2025. His sign reads 'The Bibas family: We will not forgive and we will not forget!' (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
February 21, 2025, 2:30 pm
US threatens ‘annihilation’ after Hamas returns bodies of Bibas boys without their mother
Argentina declares 2 days of mourning as terror group returns bodies of dual-citizens Ariel, 4, and baby Kfir, along with body that Hamas falsely claimed was mother Shiri Bibas
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Argentinian President Javier Milei visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on February 6, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 15, 2025, 2:01 pm
Argentina’s Milei wins ‘Jewish Nobel’ for Israel support, in break with tradition
South American president, who says he plans to convert to Judaism after leaving office, becomes first non-Jew and first head of state awarded $1 million Genesis Prize
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Yuval Vagdani, the Israeli soldier who was forced to flee Brazil after a war crimes probe was opened against him by the Brazilian government. (Social media; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
January 8, 2025, 4:55 pm
IDF soldier who escaped war crimes investigation in Brazil arrives in Israel
Yuval Vagdani was subject of probe for allegedly filming himself destroying residential building in Gaza; says having to flee Brazil ‘felt a little like a bullet in the heart’
By ToI Staff
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