"This place is the foundation of the entire world."
Paraguay became the sixth country to open an embassy in Israel's capital.
"With this transition in our friendship, there will be a beating heart, and I hope we can inspire other countries to do the same."
By Max Gelber
“As the Rebbe would often say, we wish you blessings and success," President Milei concluded, referring to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the late Lubavitcher Rebbe.
The legation will be the sixth in Israel's capital.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Latin American country is the largest supplier of the fossil fuel to the Jewish state.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"We are going to get rid of each and every one of these criminals who intend to sow fear in Argentines and they will pay," says Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich.
Argentine Senator pledges support for moving embassy to Jerusalem, echoing new President's commitment.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Earlier this month, the Court of Cassation in Buenos Aires issued a ruling blaming Tehran for the 1994 bombing.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The ruling enables victims’ families to file suit against the Islamic Republic.
By David Isaac
Former Israeli ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon is the leading proponent of enabling the voluntary emigration of Gazans to other countries.
Since the war, most foreign workers have returned to their home countries, while Palestinian Authority workers are not allowed to enter Israel for security reasons.
The new office will work to promote cooperation in the field of innovation, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
Paraguayan President Santiago Peña is to attend the official reopening ceremony in Jerusalem, scheduled to take place by the end of the year.
An official announcement is expected after the president-elect is sworn in next week.
“Their journalists are guided by the Ayatollahs,” said Colodro. “Their reporting is antisemitic, pro-BDS, and directly anti-Israel."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The IRIS Makran and IRIS Dena set anchor in Rio de Janeiro despite U.S. pressure.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Venezuela is developing Iranian Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) which can hit targets in the US, Defense Minister Benny Gantz warned, pointing to the spreading threat of Iran’s global terror network.
“Those who do not act now should not be surprised when an Iranian-made UAV crashes into their skyscrapers.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Duque is accompanied by six ministers, including the ministers of defense, trade, health, agriculture, environment, and transportation, and is slated to meet with President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, and will participate in a number of economic events with an emphasis on increasing bilateral ties.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
One of the alleged terrorists was named Iran’s new interior minister.
“Our results present a comprehensive picture of the impact of COVID-19.”
By Ariel Kahana
“Discrimination against some Jews harms all Jews worldwide,” says El Rosado Group CEO Johnny Czarninski.
By Israel Hayom
Several members of the country’s military have been arrested for smuggling uranium, says Venezuelan politician and would-be leader Juan Guaidó.
The project will begin with restaurants in the Brazilian cities of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Brasilia, and Manaus in the Amazon.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The administration hopes the seizures will deter shipping companies from dealing with Iran and Venezuela.
By Israel Hayom
This is the second time Luis Fux, 67, has made history in Brazil; in 2011, he became the first Jewish judge named to the bench of the Federal Supreme Court.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Ampoules of a fake Coronavirus vaccine labeled with a forged Migal Institute’s logo in Hebrew are illegally being manufactured and circulated in several South American countries.
She was released to house arrest and is being hosted by a Jewish family in Lima.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Tehran and Caracas have been working together in attempting to evade U.S. sanctions against both countries.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Orthodox Rabbi Kenneth Brander, the dean of the Israel’s Ohr Torah Stone network of institutions, said while cremation is normally considered a “desecration” in Judaism, if it helps save a life during this time it would be “a mitzvah that the deceased is doing posthumously.”
The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) has obtained and revealed a list of 12,000 Nazis who had been living in Argentina, many of whom held bank accounts with the predecessor of Credit Suisse.
The Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is one of Brazil’s most successful football clubs and is estimated to have over 30 million supporters.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The 11 firefighters who advised the Brazilian firefighting teams specialize in bush and forest fires.
Another four Israelis were severely injured in the accident, and 10 others sustained light injuries.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"We will renew ties, later we will announce the appointment of an ambassador to Israel, and we really hope an ambassador from Israel will come to us.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Jewish state was the only country to send a search-and-rescue team.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The new direct South American line will run once a day on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
If Bolsonaro goes through with the move, Brazil will become the third country to move its embassy to Jerusalem, following the United States and Guatemala.
By JNi.Media
"The Vice President strongly encouraged President Abdo Benitez to follow through with Paraguay’s previous commitment to move the embassy."
“My hospital is still the best in Venezuela, but I don’t know for how long, we don’t have medicines anymore, even antibiotics.”
By JNi.Media
The Torah scrolls had been moved to a university library near the museum before the fire.
The sailor was apparently on a round the world yachting trip.
The move contradicted the good relations between Israel and Colombia.
It is unclear what new security situation has developed that is preventing the prime minister's trip.
Since cancelling the game with Israel the Argentinian team has met with a series of unfortunate incidents.
By JNi.Media
Argentina, which plays in Group D, will be playing against Croatia and Nigeria next.
Netanyahu plans on conducting a regional summit in Guatemala in November, to which all Latin American leaders would be invited.
This is the third foreign embassy to open in Jerusalem in a week.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Jews know what’s going on. We’ve heard the story too many times over the centuries; this is anti-Semitism.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
When Channel 1’s Cathy Bekerman was told by her newscast director to cross herself on air, “I did not do it, and he asked me to resign at that moment, to which I did not agree,” Bekerman told Colombian media.
By JNi.Media
With the purchase, the lands will become part of a local nature preserve that is being managed by the local communities.
By JNi.Media
The interconnected mission training center provides realistic training for fighter pilots, squadrons and ground crews.
By JNi.Media
The team noted several findings that had gone missing from the first report, such as the fact that Nisman's nose was broken, he suffered blows to his body, and a strong anesthetic was discovered in his system.
"This visit will ... will serve as an additional prop to support Israel‘s standing on the international stage."
By JNi.Media
The contract calls for the supply of cutting-edge technologies and operational capabilities.
By JNi.Media
'The fraternal and institutional dialogue between Jews and Christians is now well-established and effective, made so by encounters that are ongoing and collaborative.'
By JNi.Media
'Within less than a year, we’ve managed to show that it’s possible to save species and protect the earth through crowdsourcing, thanks to lots of caring people.'
By JNi.Media
Last year the WZO established 140 new Hebrew language centers, most of them in France, Argentina, and the UK.
Israeli American baseball fans are paying attention to the action in Brooklyn: next month Israel competes against 3 countries in NYC.
By JNi.Media
Judoka Sagi Muki lost to Georgia’s Lasha Shavdatuashvili in the bronze medal match.
President Reuven Rivlin and his counterpart from Uruguay enjoyed a cordial conversation in Jerusalem, agreeing on numerous points.
By Shalom Bear
Rafael Ramirez asked if "Israel wants a final solution to the Palestinians?"
By JNi.Media
Back in January, Dayan tweeted bitterly, “14 MKs labored indefatigably against my appointment in Brazil: 13 Joint Arab List members and one Tzipi Livni.”
By JNi.Media
Burle Marx’s art inhabits a rare space between the rational and the lyrical. Nature’s variability was for him a liberating force.
By JNi.Media
Nisman was the chief investigator of the 1994 car bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 85.
The money will also go towards encouraging aliyah, provide preparatory aliyah seminars, and finding full-time employment for new immigrants prior to their move to Israel.
By JNi.Media
Closing missions in South America costs the Israel more money than keeping them active would have done.
“Throughout the history of Brazilian diplomacy ... this is the first ... rejection of an ambassador from a democratically elected government."
Israel’s embassies in each country are contributing supplies worth $10,000 to help hundreds of displaced citizens.
By JNi.Media
Israel is also planning to close its embassy in Minsk, to be followed by the closing down of the Belarus mission to Tel Aviv.
By JNi.Media
President Rousseff has not outright rejected the Dayan appointment, hoping that Israel would quietly withdraw it.
By JNi.Media
Dayan is a personal appointment of the prime minister, and snubbing him is like snubbing Bibi.
By JNi.Media
In the last 15 years more than half of the country’s Jews have left Venezuela, with the local community’s numbers dropping from about 25,000 Jews in 2000 to only 7,000 today.
If Brazil does not accept Dani Dayan as an ambassador, it could set a precedent that would block "settlers" from the post elsewhere in the world.
The new contract between Israel and Argentina is good news for the Lahav plant of the Israeli aircraft industry.
The suspicious object, the third this year at the embassy, was placed on the same day of a BDS rally.
By JNi.Media
“Grandpa,” she argued, “wasn’t a bad person, he obeyed orders and did not personally kill anyone.”
Argentinean Jewish community has rejected a government plan to work with Iran to investigate the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) that killed 85 people. Last Friday was the 21st anniversary of the attack, which has Iran's and Hezbollah's fingerprints but which never has been officially solved. Jewish leader, Ariel Cohen, urged the […]
By JNi.Media
The 'Shylock' is Jewish Billionaire Paul Singer, whom Kirchner has actually accused of behaving like a vulture — for insisting Argentina pay him back the $1.5 billion they owe him.
Iran has deep financial ties with Venezuela and other South American countries.