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BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — An Argentinean judge ordered the arrest of former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner for treason and covering up the alleged involvement of senior Iranian officials in the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center. Judge Claudio Bonadio ordered Kirchner’s arrest on Thursday and asked the Argentinean Senate to strip her of her…
(JTA) — Carlos Rosenkrantz, a Buenos Aires attorney and law professor, as well as a former presidential adviser, will be the first Jewish justice on the Supreme Court of Argentina. Rosenkrantz, 57, is expected to be sworn in to the nation’s highest court next month after being approved last week by two-thirds of the Senate….
Two years ago, Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman was set to testify before Congress that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner had been covering up Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. But before he could testify, Nisman was found dead in his bathroom with a gunshot to the head….
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — An ad campaign focused on peace created by the Israeli Embassy in Argentina about the 1992 bombing attack on the facility won two communications prizes. The “PeaceWithoutTerror” campaign won two Eikon Prizes for Excellence in Institutional Communications, one for Social Marketing and one for Institutional Advertising. The ad campaign, which received extensive media attention in…
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — A team of forensic analysts has reportedly determined that Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman was murdered and did not commit suicide. Alberto Nisman was an Argentine-Jewish prosecutor who was found dead from a gunshot wound in his apartment in January 2015, on the morning before he was supposed to present a report…
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday used the first Latin America visit by an Israeli PM to praise Argentine President Mauricio Macri’s effort to solve the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center that killed 85 people. Argentine courts have blamed the attack on Iran. But no one has…
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — A new set of DNA has been identified among the 85 victims of the AMIA Buenos Aires Jewish Center attack, strengthening the hypothesis that the 1994 attack was carried out by a suicide bomber. The discovery was announced on Monday by the AMIA Special Investigation Unit of the General Prosecution, two…
A Jewish community center in Buenos Aires was briefly evacuated after a false bomb threat on Thursday, Argentina’s Jewish community association AMIA said in a statement, a day after dozens of similar episodes were reported in the United States. The threat also came a day after the two-year anniversary of the mysterious death of prosecutor…
