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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

Israel-Mexico relations

Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum speaks after being named presidential candidate of the ruling Morena party for next year's presidential election in Mexico City on September 6, 2023. (Photo by CLAUDIO CRUZ / AFP)
May 31, 2024, 4:32 am
Quietly Jewish scientist poised to win Sunday’s Mexican presidential election
Claudia Sheinbaum, would-be successor of a left-wing populist incumbent, has focused on energy and crime despite detractors’ repeated efforts to discuss her faith – or lack of it
By Canaan Lidor
Mexico's ambassador to UNESCO, Andres Roemer (YouTube screenshot)
March 29, 2024, 9:31 am
Jerusalem court says Mexican ex-diplomat accused of rape can be extradited
Judge rules that former ambassador to UNESCO Andres Roemer, who was arrested in Israel last year, be placed under house arrest with an electronic ankle bracelet
By Reuters
Former Mexican ambassador to UNESCO Andres Roemer. (Screen capture: YouTube)
October 2, 2023, 3:45 pm
Israel arrests former Mexican diplomat ahead of extradition to face rape charges
Andres Roemer was hailed in Israel after his dismissal as Mexico’s UNESCO ambassador for refusing to vote in favor of a 2016 resolution against the Jewish state
By ToI Staff
The NSO Group logo is seen on a smartphone placed on a laptop keyboard. (Mundissima/Alamy)
April 18, 2023, 8:07 pm
Mexico continues to target activists with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware — NY Times
Citizen Lab watchdog group says country is most prolific user of tool; publishes new insights into NSO Group’s updated targeting of iPhones
By ToI Staff
The former director of the Criminal Investigation Agency, Tomas Zeron (L), arrives at the house at the end of the tunnel through which Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman could have escaped from the Altiplano prison, in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico, on July 12, 2015. (AFP/YURI CORTEZ)
February 22, 2023, 12:16 pm
Israel unlikely to heed Mexican request to extradite former official – report
Israeli officials quoted saying bid to repatriate Tomas Zeron, implicated in compromised investigation of 2014 disappearance of 43 students, ‘all but dead’
By Ash Obel
Then-director of the Criminal Investigation Agency of Mexico Tomas Zeron listens during a press conference at the Attorney General building in Mexico City, on October 27, 2014. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP)
October 27, 2022, 8:32 am
Mexican investigator met fugitive official in Israel over missing students – report
NYT says head of truth commission met with wanted former senior official to offer ‘president’s support’ in exchange for information on 2014 disappearance of 43 students
By ToI Staff
A motorcycle sits parked in front of Israel's embassy that was defaced by demonstrators demanding the extradition of the former director of Mexico’s Criminal Investigation Agency, Tomas Zeron, who is accused of torture, forced disappearances and judicial misconduct in the case of the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa, in Mexico City, Wednesday, September 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
September 22, 2022, 7:00 pm
‘Death to Israel’ daubed on Mexico City embassy during protest; Israel summons envoy
Demonstrators demand Israel extradite Tomas Zeron, wanted for role in disappearance of 43 students in 2014; Jerusalem calls on Mexico to ‘fulfill its international obligations’
By ToI Staff
Then-director of the Criminal Investigation Agency of Mexico Tomas Zeron listens during a press conference at the Attorney General building in Mexico City, on October 27, 2014. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP)
September 25, 2021, 5:43 pm
Mexico asks Bennett for Israel’s support on extraditing ex-investigator
Mexican president sends letter to PM requesting cooperation in case of former official Tomas Zeron, wanted in connection with disappearance of 43 students in 2014
By ToI Staff
Then-director of the Criminal Investigation Agency of Mexico Tomas Zeron listens during a press conference at the Attorney General building in Mexico City, on October 27, 2014. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP)
July 23, 2021, 1:36 am
Mexico urges Israel to cooperate in extraditing fugitive ex-investigator
Mexican president says he hopes Israel ‘acts with respect for human rights’ in case of former official Tomas Zeron, wanted in connection with disappearance of 43 students in 2014
By ToI Staff
Then-director of the Criminal Investigation Agency of Mexico Tomas Zeron listens during a press conference at the Attorney General building in Mexico City, on October 27, 2014. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP)
July 15, 2021, 9:08 pm
Israel said delaying extradition case of wanted Mexican over nation’s UN votes
Senior Israeli official says that slow-walking of request to hand over former official Tomas Zeron, wanted in connection with abduction, torture, is part of ‘tit-for-tat diplomacy’
By ToI Staff
Then-director of the Criminal Investigation Agency of Mexico Tomas Zeron listens during a press conference at the Attorney General building in Mexico City, on October 27, 2014. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP)
January 14, 2021, 10:12 pm
Mexico says fugitive ex-investigator seeking asylum in Israel
Former head of the country’s Criminal Investigation Agency Tomas Zeron is accused of using torture, enforced disappearance and embezzling $55 million of public funds
By AFP
Women holding pictures of their missing family members, who are among 43 missing students from a teachers college in the southern state of Guerrero, walk to the door of the National Palace where they will meet with Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico City, July 10, 2020 (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
September 15, 2020, 10:47 am
Mexico asks Israel to detain ex-investigator in probe into missing 43 students
Tomas Zeron, who was head of the Criminal Investigation Agency, is wanted over allegations of serious irregularities in investigation into 2014 human rights atrocity
By AFP
People hiding under tables during a shooting at a cafe in Mexico City, July 24, 2019. (screen capture: YouTube)
July 25, 2019, 5:38 pm
Israeli shot dead by female assassin in Mexico was prominent underworld figure
Police said to suspect killing wasn’t a crime of passion, as the shooter claims, but a hit commissioned by Israeli mob bosses
By ToI Staff
Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is seen in Tel Aviv on November 26, 2017. (Flash90)
June 17, 2018, 8:58 am
PM’s son instigated tweet that caused diplomatic spat with Mexico — report
Yair Netanyahu said to have pressured father to post message supporting Donald Trump’s planned anti-migrant wall, against counsel of his political advisers
By Sue Surkes
Peoplerush out into the streets during a powerful earthquake in Mexico City on February 16, 2018. Mexico's National Seismological Service put the magnitude of the quake at 7.0, and seismic monitor network Sky Alert said the quake was felt across the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Puebla. (AFP PHOTO / ALFREDO ESTRELLA)
February 17, 2018, 3:19 am
Powerful earthquake shakes Mexico City
No immediate reports of casualties in temblor that comes just months after quake that killed hundreds
By Agencies
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