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President Isaac Herzog (right) with Chile’s President José Antonio Kast, May 8, 2026. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO)
May 8, 2026, 9:47 pm
Chile to return ambassador to Israel after more than two years
Right-wing president José Antonio Kast tells visiting Herzog he wants to restore ties, expand cooperation after sharp deterioration of diplomacy under leftist predecessor
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Venezuelans living in Chile celebrate in Santiago on January 3, 2026, after US forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. (Javier TORRES / AFP)
January 3, 2026, 11:06 pm
‘My joy is too big’: Venezuelan emigrés celebrate Maduro ouster, wonder what’s next
Cheers break out on streets of Chile, Peru and Spain, as emigrant communities welcome US military raid on Caracas; 1 in 5 Venezuelans have left the country since 2014
By Reuters
Jose Antonio Kast, presidential candidate for the Republican Party, arrives to vote during the presidential runoff election in Santiago, Chile, December 14, 2025. (AP/Matias Delacroix)
December 15, 2025, 6:34 am
Chile’s far-right Kast wins landslide election against communist opponent
President-elect, son of a Nazi party member, is latest right-wing leader to ascend to office in Latin America; rival Jara was outspoken critic of Israel
By AFP and ToI Staff
Supporters of presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast, of the Republican Party, attend a rally ahead of the presidential runoff election in Temuco, Chile, December 11, 2025. (AP/Esteban Felix)
December 12, 2025, 3:24 pm
Chileans polarized ahead of presidential election as far-right candidate poised to prevail
José Antonio Kast, son of a Nazi party member, is frontrunner in fierce campaign against communist Jeannette Jara, an outspoken critic of Trump, Maduro, and Israel’s war in Gaza
By Isabel Debre
Presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast of the Republican Party, waves to supporters after early results in the general elections in Santiago, Chile, November 16, 2025. (AP Photo/ Esteban Felix)
November 17, 2025, 9:47 pm
Hard-right former lawmaker Kast leads in Chile’s polarizing presidential runoff
Nearly 70% of votes go to right-wing candidates in first round, but neither main contender receives over 50%, so second round of voting to be held on Dec. 14
By Isabel Debre
Presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast of the Republican Party waves a flag during a campaign rally ahead of general elections, in Santiago, Chile, Nov. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
November 16, 2025, 8:46 am
Chilean far right looms large in election dominated by crime, threats of deportations
Chileans blame violence on gangs from other Latin American countries; projected winner, the son of a Nazi officer, has praised Pinochet and would be 1st far-right leader since dictator
By AFP
Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Nancy Shevell leave a Yom Kippur service at Circulo Israelita de Santiago, Oct. 12, 2024. (Courtesy Circulo Israelita de Santiago)
October 13, 2024, 4:40 pm
Paul McCartney spotted rocking Yom Kippur services in Chile
The British music legend, whose wife is Jewish, has attended High Holiday prayers in the past, and has been described as having a ‘love affair with all things Jewish’
By ToI Staff and JTA
Chile's Palestino soccer team and their jerseys, which replace the numeral 1 with an outline of the entirety of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. (photo credit: Facebook/Club Deportivo Palestino)
September 9, 2024, 4:02 pm
Chile’s ‘Palestino’ soccer team wears its anti-Israel politics on its sleeve — and jersey
In sport where athletes are penalized for flaunting political affinities, club in country with largest Palestinian diaspora community outside Middle East is an unabashed exception
By AP and ToI Staff
A banner depicting Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kissing the University of Chile rector, Rosa Deves, is displayed by students who are demanding the university break relations with Israeli universities, during an anti-Israel protest in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, June 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
June 27, 2024, 6:41 am
In Chile, a pro-Palestinian campus occupation turns witch hunt for ‘Zionist’ faculty
Feeling abandoned by the university, at least two pro-Israel lecturers are preparing to leave UMCE in Santiago over fears for their safety amid student agitation
By Canaan Lidor
File - Chilean air force female personnel walk by a US Boeing C-17 Globemaster military transport aircraft during the XIX Air and Space Fair (FIDAE) in Santiago on March 29, 2016. (Martin Bernetti/AFP)
March 6, 2024, 8:39 am
Chile cancels Israeli participation in Latin America’s largest aerospace fair
No official reason given for decision; left-wing government of PM Gabriel Boric has been critical of ‘disproportionate’ response to October 7 Hamas onslaught
By AFP and ToI Staff
Chile's President Gabriel Boric, right, gestures next to Mexico's President Manuel Lopez Obrador during joint declaration at La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, September 10, 2023. (AP/Esteban Felix)
January 19, 2024, 3:46 am
Mexico, Chile refer Israel and Hamas to ICC over possible war crimes
Mexico City and Santiago ask International Criminal Court to examine events since October 7 to establish ‘potential criminal responsibility’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Daniel Jadue in 2015. (Wikimedia commons)
January 5, 2024, 7:49 pm
Chilean mayor under fire for saying being Jewish is a ‘supremacist conception’
Daniel Jadue, a onetime presidential candidate of Palestinian descent, also says it’s a ‘contradiction’ to be both a Jew and a leftist
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A reinforced platoon of soldiers ready for battle moves out, in search of 'suicide squad' in Santiago, Chile, allegedly formed by government sympathizers, September 13, 1973, after the coup two days prior against president Salvador Allende. (AP Photo)
September 15, 2023, 1:33 am
What happened in Chile on the ‘other’ 9/11? A novel weighs a quasi-fictional scenario
In ‘The Suicide Museum,’ Chilean-American writer Ariel Dorfman pens an alternate history with himself and his family, along with a driven Holocaust survivor, as protagonists
By Rich Tenorio
Players on the youth team of the Palestino soccer club attend a training session at the team's sports complex in Santiago, Chile, on April 20, 2023. (Martin Bernetti/AFP)
May 3, 2023, 5:29 pm
Soccer and politics mix at Chilean club that plays in Palestinian colors
Chilean ‘Palestino’ squad sports map of Palestine from before Israel’s founding; fan says songs include ‘Gaza resists/Palestine exists’
By Axl HERNANDEZ
Rabbi Moshe Moskowitz lights the first Hanukkah candle in Kharkiv, Ukraine, December 18, 2022. (Vyacheslav Madiyevskyi / Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images via JTA)
December 22, 2022, 8:25 am
2 Lego menorahs, candle lighting under war: Hanukkah celebrated around the world
From Ukraine to Taiwan, from Sao Paulo to Denver, menorahs light up Jewish communities as they celebrate the Festival of Lights
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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