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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 532

Sao Paulo

Aerial view of the wreckage of an airplane that crashed with 61 people on board in Vinhedo, Sao Paulo State, Brazil, on August 9, 2024. (Miguel Schincariol/AFP)
August 10, 2024, 1:52 pm
Commercial plane crash in Brazil kills all 61 people on board
Voepass airline flight to Sao Paulo crashes into city of Vinhedo; videos on local media show plane spinning, plummeting almost vertically, plume of smoke rising from crash site
By Carlos FABAL and Eugenia LOGIURATTO
Illustrative: Brazilian Federal Police agents stand at Federal Police headquarters minutes before the arrival of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro who will testify in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. (AP/Eraldo Peres)
November 8, 2023, 11:39 pm
Brazil nabs suspected Hezbollah operatives said planning attacks on Jewish targets
International counterterrorism operation conducted in partnership with Mossad and other Israeli and global security organizations
By Gabriel Toueg
FILE: A student reads on campus at the State University of Campinas, Brazil on September 1, 2014. (Ricardo Sdag, Wikimedia Commons)
April 5, 2023, 1:57 am
Protesters force cancelation of Brazil university event promoting Israeli academia
Amid demonstration by pro-Palestinian activists, security at State University of Campinas escort out representatives from four of Israel’s top institutions of higher learning
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: The exterior of the Hebraica Club in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (YouTube screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 8, 2023, 12:40 pm
14-year-old boy killed by falling goalpost at Sao Paulo Jewish center
Pole comes down as Alexandre Andrei Mirocznik is playing with friends; Hebraica Club president denies accident caused by maintenance problem
By Marcus M. Gilban
Rabbi Moshe Moskowitz lights the first Hanukkah candle in Kharkiv, Ukraine, December 18, 2022. (Vyacheslav Madiyevskyi / Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images via JTA)
December 22, 2022, 8:25 am
2 Lego menorahs, candle lighting under war: Hanukkah celebrated around the world
From Ukraine to Taiwan, from Sao Paulo to Denver, menorahs light up Jewish communities as they celebrate the Festival of Lights
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A Google building at the company's campus in Mountain View, California, on Sept. 24, 2019. (AP/Jeff Chiu)
March 17, 2022, 11:29 am
Jewish Google employee claims her anti-Israel activism got her job moved to Brazil
Ariel Koren says that after she lobbied against company’s contract with Project Nimbus cloud-based storage, her role was relocated from California headquarters to Sao Paulo
By Andrew Lapin
Nise Yamaguchi appearing on Brazilian TV, in a segment that aired on July 5, 2020. (screen capture: YouTube/TvBrasil)
July 16, 2020, 9:09 am
Brazilian doctor suspended after comparing pandemic fears to Holocaust
Nise Yamaguchi, a veteran at leading Jewish hospital in Sao Paulo, criticized by some for mentioning Nazi scare tactics while speaking out against panic surrounding coronavirus
By Marcus M. Gilban
Pastor Tupirani da Hora Lores preaches at his church in Rio de Janeiro, June 2020. (Courtesy of Sinagoga Sem Fronteiras via JTA)
June 19, 2020, 6:42 pm
Brazilian pastor prays for second Holocaust to ‘destroy the Jews like vermin’
In sermon at Rio de Janeiro church, Tupirani da Hora Lores is joined by congregants in calling on God to ‘massacre the Jews;’ Jewish groups file police complaint
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The Israeli initiative Koolulam practices with a Brazilian audience in Sao Paulo near the Estaiada Bridge, December 1, 2019. (Shahar Reznik/Koolulam via JTA)
December 3, 2019, 11:27 am
Thousands of Brazilians trill along with Israeli initiative Koolulam
Mass singing initiative reaches South America for the first time, after giving audiences ‘collective catharsis’ throughout Israel and in other countries
By Marcus M. Gilban
Reconstructed sheet music written on toilet paper and charcoal bags recovered from Nazi concentration camps during World War II. (Courtesy of Francesco Lotoro)
November 24, 2019, 6:19 pm
Brazilian concert features music written by prisoners at Nazi camps
Italian conductor Francesco Lotoro spent 30 years gathering and reconstructing works by musicians who used any means at hand, including ‘toilet paper,’ to write down compositions
By Marcus M. Gilban
The Solomon's Temple complex of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Sao Paulo, Brazil, seats 10,000. (Demétrio Koch/ Fotos Públicas via JTA)
August 7, 2019, 8:21 am
Brazilian church, built to look like Solomon’s Temple, to house Holocaust museum
Building is $300 million replica of ancient Jerusalem house of worship; church says project is in initial phase of consultation with Jewish community leaders
By Marcus M. Gilban
A 17th-century ritual bath found in Pelourinho, the historic center area of Salvador, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. (Screenshot from TV Bahia)
October 18, 2018, 1:57 am
Medieval mikveh may be earliest Jewish vestige in Brazil
17th century spiritual bath found in historic Salvador region
By Marcus M. Gilban
Yehoshua Elitzur who was convicted of killing Palestinian taxi driver Sael a-Shatiya in 2004, is seen at the Tel Aviv District Court after he was extradited from Brazil, January 18, 2018. (Flash90)
May 9, 2018, 2:22 pm
Israeli sentenced to 15 years for 2004 slaying of Palestinian taxi driver
Yehoshua Elitzur, who fled country after his conviction and was later extradited from Brazil, also to pay victim’s family NIS 200,000
By Michael Bachner
Marcio França, governor of Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, in 2016. (CC BY Humberto Pradera, Wikimedia Commons)
April 25, 2018, 7:41 pm
Brazilian governor apologizes for welcoming Hezbollah official
Marcio Franca says visiting Lebanese delegation was not vetted properly, and that he was not familiar with Sheikh Bilal Mohsen Wehbe
By JTA
A bird's-eye view of Sao Paulo, Brazil (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
April 8, 2018, 4:03 pm
Latin American airline to kick off direct flights to Israel
Latam plans to begin offering 11-hour Sao Paulo-Tel Aviv route in December; will receive large grants from Israel’s Tourism Ministry
By JTA
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