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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 641

Javier Milei

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
Argentina's President Javier Milei waves as he arrives for his speech at the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2025. (AP Photo/ Markus Schreiber)
May 20, 2025, 9:36 am
Argentine President Milei to visit Israel in June, with focus on ties and hostages
Philosemitic leader will sign memorandum of understanding between Jerusalem and Buenos Aires affirming freedom, democracy and fight against antisemitism, says embassy source
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
People line up to pay their respects to Pope Francis lying in state, inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican,April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
April 25, 2025, 10:20 pm
Foreign dignitaries converge on Rome for funeral of Pope Francis
Vatican says 164 delegations are confirmed, including 54 heads of state and 12 reigning sovereigns; Israel only sending ambassador amid rift in ties over Gaza war
By Agencies
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
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
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
The IDF holds a ceremony in the Gaza Strip honoring the four slain Israeli hostages whose bodies are apparently in coffins returned by Hamas, February 20, 2025. The coffins are seen draped in Israeli flags as they are carried by officers of the Nahal Brigade. (IDF)
February 20, 2025, 3:12 pm
Herzog asks forgiveness, coalition MKs invoke Amalek as slain hostages handed over
Condolences come from diplomats after Hamas hands over caskets said to be holding bodies of 4 captives; minister: ‘Society that cultivates a culture of murder has no right to exist”
By Sam Sokol, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
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
Illustrative: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (third right) lights 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
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