Benjamin Netanyahu, who was in Argentina on Tuesday as the first sitting Israeli prime minister to visit Latin America, praised President Mauricio Macri’s effort to resolve the bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires in 1994 that killed 85 people. The bombing, which has yet to be solved, has been blamed by the Argentine…
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — An Argentinean-born and trained Israeli doctor was honored at the Buenos Aires city parliament as an “outstanding personality in the human rights field” for assisting victims of the Syrian civil war who come to Israel for treatment. Dr. Alejandro Roisentul, who has lived in Israel for the last 28 years, received…
“Israel doesn’t speak in the name of the Jewish people and doesn’t represent it.” Such was the refrain of Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timmerman as he lashed out at Israeli Ambassador Dorit Shavit a few years ago. They were discussing the 1994 Hezbollah attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina in my native Buenos Aires…
Jewish AND Latina? When I was in junior high school in Newton, Massachusetts, a middle class suburb of Boston with a large Jewish population, my friends could not believe that I, a blonde blue-eyed Jewish girl, had a brother named Fernando. “Is he adopted? “ they would ask. This was the 80’s, and Jewish kids…
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — The Argentine Foreign Ministry delivered to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington a series of documents about World War II, some of them related to Nazi war criminals. The digital copies of the documents delivered are mainly letters, telegrams, newspaper articles, notes and reports, totaling almost 40,000 documents. An…
The death of Alberto Nisman, the special prosecutor in the AMIA Jewish center bombing in Buenos Aires, will forever be linked to the attack, the center’s president told thousands at a gathering marking the bombing’s 23rd anniversary. “We know the truth about the AMIA massacre due to the investigation by a prosecutor who honored his…
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…
(JTA) — Sixty-five percent of Latin American Jewish leaders fear that their community could suffer a terrorist attack, a new survey found. That figure climbs to 90 percent of Argentinean Jewish leaders, whose community already has suffered two terrorist attacks: in 1992 on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, which killed 29 and injured 242;…
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