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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 473

Javier Milei

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
A handout photo shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (third right) lighting Hanukkah candles with rabbis in Kyiv on December 25, 2024. (UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE)
December 26, 2024, 10:45 pm
Zelensky lights candles with rabbis to mark third wartime Hanukkah
Jewish president tells visiting Chabad dignitaries that menorah used in office ceremony was given to him by Argentine leader Milei, promises light will overcome darkness amid war
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Yamandu Orsi, the presidential candidate of left-wing coalition Broad Front, delivers a speech after winning the presidential election in Montevideo, Uruguay, Nov. 24, 2024. (Nicolas Celaya/JTA via Xinhua via Getty Images)
November 27, 2024, 10:12 pm
Uruguay’s new president-elect is left wing, yet not anti-Israel
Unlike his South American counterparts who have been vehemently critical of the Jewish state, Yamandu Orsi says he could consider himself a Zionist
By Juan Melamed
Argentinian President Javier Milei (L) and his new Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein stand during the latter's swearing-in ceremony at Casa Rosada Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires on November 4, 2024. (Argentinian Presidency / AFP)
November 5, 2024, 11:20 pm
At swearing-in ceremony, Argentina’s president compares Jewish FM to biblical Abraham
Inaugurating Gerardo Werthein, Javier Milei likens him to patriach who had a ‘responsibility to bring messages of Torah, life and freedom to the world’
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Argentina's ambassador to the US, Gerardo Werthein, vapes during a Hanukkah event in Buenos Aires on December 12, 2023. (Juan Mabromata/AFP)
November 2, 2024, 6:37 am
Argentina’s Javier Milei selects Jewish envoy to US as replacement for FM he fired
Argentina president taps Gerardo Werthein to serve as his top diplomat, after axing Diana Mondino for not joining US and Israel in opposing UN condemnation of US embargo on Cuba
By Juan Melamed
People hold photos of bombing victims as sirens blare during a ceremony marking 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)
July 19, 2024, 9:55 am
30 years after AMIA bombing, Argentina’s Jews balance pain with hope for justice
After court ruled Iran and Hezbollah were behind 1994 community center bombing, Milei vows to reopen investigations into attack after decades of stonewalling and inaction
By Juan Melamed
Argentine President Javier Milei addresses the World Jewish Congress prior to the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center that killed 85 people in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
July 18, 2024, 2:42 pm
Argentina’s Milei vows to pursue long-neglected justice for 1994 AMIA center bombing
On 30th anniversary of attack, blamed on Iran and Hezbollah, that killed 85 at Jewish center in Buenos Aires, president commits to boosting intel system so it can never recur
By Reuters and ToI Staff
President Isaac Herzog and Argentinian President Javier Milei tour Kibbutz Nir Oz on February 8, 2024. (Maayan Toaf / GPO)
July 13, 2024, 6:39 am
Argentina brands Hamas a terror group, citing October 7 and its close ties to Iran
Milei vows ‘unwavering commitment to recognizing terrorists for what they are’; move comes days before 30th anniversary of AMIA bombing, which Buenos Aires has blamed on Tehran
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Then-presidential hopeful Javier Milei holds an Israeli flag during his campaign rally in Lomas de Zamora, Argentina, October 16, 2023. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)
June 3, 2024, 10:59 am
Argentinian president’s surprising devotion to Judaism and Israel provokes tension
Javier Milei has made an emotional visit to the Western Wall and supported the Israeli campaign against Hamas, but some fret that his pro-Jewish posturing could stir trouble
By AP and ToI Staff
Argentine President Javier Milei, right, hugs Argentine Sephardic Orthodox rabbi Shimon Axel Wahnish at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, Tuesday, February 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
April 15, 2024, 3:03 am
Meet Argentina’s Axel Wahnish, first-ever rabbi to be appointed ambassador to Israel
The spiritual leader reportedly had a deeply moving personal audience with then-rising star Javier Milei, whose election as president could now put him in the diplomatic corps
By Juan Melamed
Argentinian President Javier Milei at the Shul of Bal Harbor in Surfside, Florida, on April 10, 2024, (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 12, 2024, 12:45 am
Argentina’s Javier Milei tells Miami shul he has Jewish heritage
Pro-Israel politician reveals his grandfather learned shortly before dying that his mother was a Jew, in latest Jewish-related development for the philosemitic Argentine president
By Juan Melamed
Argentina's new president Javier Milei waves as he arrives accompanied by vice president Victoria Villarruel (C-L) and members of his cabinet to attend an interfaith ceremony at the Metropolitan Cathedral, in Buenos Aires, on December 10, 2023. (Juan Mabromata / AFP)
February 23, 2024, 10:26 am
Argentina Jewish umbrella group denounces decision to shut anti-discrimination office
President Javier Milei says INADI being closed as part of nationwide austerity measures, though he has also accused office of engaging in ‘ideological persecution’
By Juan Melamed
President Isaac Herzog and Argentinian President Javier Milei tour Kibbutz Nir Oz on February 8, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)
February 8, 2024, 8:06 pm
Argentina’s Milei sees echoes of Holocaust on visit to shattered kibbutz
Accompanied by Herzog, president visits Nir Oz, which dozens of Argentinean immigrants called home prior to October 7, when a quarter of residents were killed or kidnapped by Hamas
By ToI Staff
Argentinian President Javier Milei visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on February 6, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 6, 2024, 6:16 pm
In first bilateral visit, Argentina’s Milei says he will move embassy to Jerusalem
Accompanied by his rabbi, pro-Israel leader tells President Herzog that his country is working to declare Hamas a terror organization
By Lazar Berman
Illustrative image of police standing outside the airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
January 3, 2024, 12:31 pm
3 Lebanese, Syrian nationals arrested in Buenos Aires airport over alleged terror plot
Suspects linked to suspicious package from Yemen, as security forces said to be on high alert due to Maccabi games in Argentine capital
By ToI Staff
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