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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

Hugo Chávez

Chesa Boudin, candidate for San Francisco district attorney, during an interview in October 2019. (Screenshot: YouTube)
November 10, 2019, 3:40 pm
Jewish son of jailed far-left radicals elected San Francisco district attorney
Chesa Boudin, a public defender and former translator for Venezuela strongman Chavez, wins tight race after promising series of progressive reforms
By ToI Staff
File: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on election day in Venezuela, on May 20, 2018. (AFP Photo/Juan Barreto)
December 4, 2018, 10:34 pm
Venezuela welcomes former Israeli chief rabbi in ‘peace diplomacy’ bid
Troubled South American nation downgraded diplomatic relations with Israel following wars with Hezbollah and Hamas
By Marcus M. Gilban
US President Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with Colombian President Iván Duque at the United Nations in New York September 25, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm)
September 26, 2018, 5:35 am
Laughter at Trump joins a long line of jaw-dropping UN moments
From Khrushchev’s shoe-banging, to Arafat’s olive branch and gun, to Ahmadinejad’s 9/11 conspiracy theories, General Assembly has seen leaders pull more than a few shocking stunts
By AP
Hans Wolfermann, Bunny, and Anne in 2015 at the bar mitzvah of a great-grandson. (Steve North)
August 19, 2017, 11:46 am
The improbable journey of German-Venezuelan-American wandering Jews
Hans Wolfermann is remembered for his tenacity in the face of dictatorial regimes from Nazi Europe to South America
By Steve North
Illustrative: In this March 17, 2017 photo, Jewish converts Sahir Quitero, center, her husband Franklin Perez, son Ezra, left, and daughter Hannah, walk to departures lounge of the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, on their way to Israel. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
July 30, 2017, 4:46 pm
26 Venezuelan Jews flee chaos, immigrate to Israel
Basic goods and services are being disrupted by economic malfunction in country amid daily battles between police and youth
By JTA
In this Tuesday, May 17, 2016 file photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro reads a newspaper during a news conference at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas (AP/Ariana Cubillos)
March 23, 2017, 9:25 pm
Venezuela expresses ‘desire’ to reestablish relations with Israel
8 years after Caracas expelled Israeli envoy, chief rabbi says he pitched a ‘period of courtship,’ consular relations before full ties
By JTA
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro greets ambassadors during a ceremony in honor of late Cuban leader Fidel Castro a day after Castro's death, in Caracas, on November 26, 2016. (Juan Barreto/AFP)
February 24, 2017, 12:22 pm
Venezuelan president meets Jewish leaders in bid to build cooperation
Nicolas Maduro calls for ‘co-existence and the dialogue of civilizations, of religions to consolidate our nation’
By JTA
Then-Interior and Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami talking to the press in Caracas on November 10, 2011. (AFP Photo/Leo Ramirez)
January 10, 2017, 7:46 am
New Venezuelan veep accused of anti-Semitism, Hezbollah ties
Tareck El Aissami said to have mediated between Iran and Argentina in plan to camouflage Tehran’s complicity in 1994 Jewish Center bombing
By JTA
Yelena Schmuleson, Ronald Peet and Liba Vaynberg in 'The Golem of Havana' by Michel Hausmann. (Jenny Abreu)
February 10, 2016, 9:57 pm
The golem rises again, this time in Spanish with a Yiddish lilt
Having fled Caracas after tear-gas bomb attack, Michel Hausmann launches new venture in Miami with play inspired by his Holocaust survivor grandmother
By Renee Ghert-Zand
(From L to R) MUD representative Miguel Pizarro, the wife of jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, Lilian Tintori, Freddy Guevara, of the Voluntad Popular party and Jesus Torrealba, head of the Democratic Unity Movement (MUD) party celebrate after knowing the first results of the legislative election, at the MUD headquarters in Caracas, on the early morning December 7, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/JUAN BARRETO)
December 7, 2015, 8:37 am
Venezuelan opposition wins legislative voting in landslide
In a major setback to the long-ruling socialist party, opposition lawmakers now hold 99 out of the 167-seat legislature
By Hannah Dreier and Joshua Goodman
In this Nov. 6, 2014 file photo, Palestinian students attend a welcome ceremony at the Simon Bolivar airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela. The Palestinian students were greeted like celebrities upon arrival in Caracas. President Nicolas Maduro played up their symbolic importance during an address broadcast across the country. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
July 16, 2015, 11:05 pm
Palestinians quit medical study in Venezuela
Yasser Arafat Scholarship Program flops as one-third drop-out in eight months; school officials say students are homesick
By Hannah Dreier
March 15, 2015, 4:30 pm
Iran reportedly paid Argentina to get off hook on AMIA bombing
Venezuela said to have brokered deal in which Tehran received nuclear know-how in exchange for Kirchner’s election funds
By JTA
A man shoots a slingshot at national guard troops following one of the largest anti-government demonstrations yet on March 2, 2014 in Caracas, Venezuela. (John Moore/Getty Images/JTA)
March 6, 2014, 9:10 am
With Venezuela in a tailspin, many Jews opt for ‘Plan B’
Venezuelan Jews who stuck it out under Chavez have yet another reason to leave their country: growing despair
By Uriel Heilman
Illustrative photo of an Air France plane (photo credit: CC BY-Andres Rueda/Flickr)
December 16, 2013, 10:01 am
Venezuela finds no explosives on Air France flight
More than 60 experts comb plane after French intelligence warned terrorists might try to blow it up
By JORGE RUEDA
Venezuela's newly elected President Nicolas Maduro celebrates his victory at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, April 14, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Ramon Espinosa)
October 26, 2013, 12:29 pm
Venezuela creates happiness ministry
Fruit vendor Victor Rey tells AP he’s now waiting for President Maduro to create a vice-ministry of beer
By JORGE RUEDA
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