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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 592

Peru

Officers escort Iranian Majid Azizi at police headquarters in Lima, Peru, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Castillo)
March 9, 2024, 1:18 am
Peru arrests 2, including Quds Force operative, for alleged plot to attack Israeli
Peruvian chief of police says Iranian suspect was tasked with ‘forming a terrorist cell to wipe out an Israeli national’ during APEC forum
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Peruvian Police escorting Eddie Manuel Nunez Santos, 33, who made string of bomb threats to US institutions including synagogues, in Lima, Peru, September 26, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 28, 2023, 10:18 pm
Peruvian cops nab man suspected of making bomb threats to US synagogues
FBI says Eddie Manuel Nunez Santos embarked on bomb threat spree after asking teen girls to send explicit photos of themselves and being rejected in apparent bid to frame them
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Aminadav Shvat stands outside his restaurant in Pisac, next to an easel advertising some of the Israeli dishes he serves. (Jacob Kessler/ JTA)
June 15, 2023, 5:48 am
Israelis flock to this tiny town in Peru for vacation — and psychedelic spirituality
With Hebrew as common on the streets as the local language, Pisac is seeing an influx of sabras seeking a respite from the stresses of everyday life in Israel
By Jacob Kessler
In this photo provided by the Peruvian Anti-Drug Police, an officer shows blocks of cocaine marked with Nazi swastikas and stamped with the name "HITLER", at the port of Paita, Piura region, Peru, Thursday, May 25, 2023. (Peruvian Anti-Drug Police via AP)
May 26, 2023, 8:55 am
Peruvian police seize haul of Nazi-themed cocaine
The 58 1-kilogram packets had Nazi flags on one side and Hitler’s name on the other, and were found hidden in an asparagus shipment destined for Belgium
By AP
Eliane Karp, left, with her husband, former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, at a convention in Dublin, Ireland, October 16, 2014. (Clodagh Kilcoyne/Getty Images via JTA)
May 13, 2023, 12:53 am
Jewish former first lady of Peru flees to Israel after extradition request
Eliane Karp, spouse of ex-Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, catches flight from US to Tel Aviv to avoid money laundering case in Lima; countries have no extradition treaty
By Jacob Kessler
Peruvian journalist Gustavo Gorriti. (Screenshot/YouTube, Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 28, 2023, 3:55 am
Leading Peruvian-Jewish reporter hit with antisemitic protests after probing police
Demonstrators harass Gustavo Gorriti with racist chants and imagery after he investigates killings by law enforcement
By Jacob Kessler
Israelis evacuating on foot from Aguas Calientes, amid deadly protests in Peru, December 17, 2022. (Facebook video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 17, 2022, 5:08 pm
Travel firms begin evacuating Israelis stranded in Peru amid deadly unrest
Companies launch operation to escort dozens trapped near Machu Picchu to city of Cusco, as protesters demand release of ousted president
By Michael Horovitz and AFP
Morocco's Achraf Daria, with a Palestine flag, celebrates next to his teammate Sofiane Boufa after the World Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Morocco and Portugal, at Al Thumama Stadium in Doha, Qatar, December 10, 2022. Morocco won 1-0.(AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
December 11, 2022, 1:38 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 11: Why do Moroccan soccer fans wave the Palestinian flag?
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman on Iranian Jews and the new Peru government; Palestinian affairs correspondent Jack Mukand on PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s media blitz
By ToI Staff
File: Peruvian President Pedro Castillo wears the presidential sash as he exits Congress after his inauguration ceremony in Lima, July 28, 2021. (Photo by Janine Costa / AFP)
December 8, 2022, 11:20 am
Peru parliament ousts, replaces president who tried to lead ‘coup’ and impose curfew
Pedro Castillo is impeached and arrested after saying he would dissolve Congress and would rule by fiat; Dina Boluarte becomes country’s first female leader
By Carlos MANDUJANO and Luis Jaime CISNEROS
Inca Jew Iosef Sánchez and his family, Los Olivos, Lima, Peru, 2004 (Courtesy of Graciela Mochkofsky)
August 21, 2022, 6:51 am
How a Catholic-born Peruvian villager led hundreds to Jewish conversion – and Israel
In ‘The Prophet of the Andes,’ author Graciela Mochkofsky documents unlikely tale of Segundo Villanueva, whose revelations and efforts brought the ‘Inca Jews’ to the Promised Land
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Hodaya Monsonego, an Israeli woman who was jailed in Peru, is greeted by relatives upon her arrival at Ben Gurion Airport on September 24, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 24, 2021, 5:01 am
Disabled Israeli returns home after 2-year detention in Peru on drugs charge
Hodaya Monsonego, 24, had been held in South American country over allegations of cocaine smuggling; family says she was duped
By ToI Staff
Hodaya Monsonego, 24, who was later jailed in Lima, Peru, for her alleged involvement in a suspected drug smuggling operation. (Screenshot/Channel 12)
September 22, 2021, 4:00 am
Disabled Israeli said set to return home after 2-year detention in Peru
Hodaya Monsonego, 24, has been held in South American country over allegations of drug smuggling
By ToI Staff
Hodaya Monsonego, 24, who was later jailed in Lima, Peru, for her alleged involvement in a suspected drug smuggling operation. (Screenshot/Channel 12)
August 19, 2021, 12:59 am
Peru court frees disabled Israeli held for 2 years over suspected drug smuggling
Family of Hodaya Monsonego, 24, says she has an intellectual impairment, was exploited by a friend; she’ll be allowed to return to Israel in coming days
By ToI Staff
A policeman stops Celia Capira Mamani, while attempting to reach the car of Peru's President Martin Vizcarra to demand medical attention for her husband Adolfo Mamani Tacuri, infected with the novel coronavirus COVID-19, during the latter's visit to the Honorio Delgado Hospital in the southern Andean city of Arequipa on July 19, 2020 (Denis MAYHUA / AFP)
July 25, 2020, 7:54 am
Video of woman begging Peru president to save husband with COVID-19 goes viral
Celia Capira’s husband died days after she pleaded with President Martin Vizcarra to find a hospital bed in overwhelmed medical system
By AFP
Smoke rising from the Castro Castro prison during a riot in Lima, April 28, 2020 (STR / AFP)
June 16, 2020, 10:23 am
Israeli dies of COVID-19 in Peru prison where he was held for drug trafficking
Foreign Ministry says it’s assisting family of the deceased, named as Tzachi Moalem, who was serving a 20-year sentence
By ToI Staff and AFP
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