RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — An international against-the-clock blood donation call boosted by social media aims at saving the life of an Israeli tourist hospitalized in Peru after contracting a serious blood-related illness. The family of 21-year-old Zohar Katz, from Kibbutz Yotvata in southern Israel, is reaching out to Israelis traveling in the area and…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Israel says Peru’s fugitive former president, Alejandro Toledo, who is wanted on corruption charges, would not be allowed to enter the country. Toledo’s arrest was requested in Peru last week over allegations he took $20 million in bribes. He was said to have chosen to flee to the Jewish state because his wife,…
(JTA) — Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a Peruvian banker and former prime minister whose father was Jewish, was elected as Peru’s president. Kuczynski won a bare majority of votes — 50.12 percent — over Keiko Fujimori, Peru’s national election office announced on its official Twitter page Thursday evening. Kuczynski, 77, was born in Lima to a…
— The son of a Polish-Jewish immigrant from Germany has a slight lead in Peru’s presidential elections. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a former prime minister of Peru and economist for the World Bank known as PPK, as of Monday morning held a 1 percent lead in the voting over Keiko Fujimori, daughter of the jailed former…
An Israeli backpacker has died in an extreme adventure accident in the Peruvian city of Cusco. Orel Guetta, 24, of Kfar Saba, fell to his death after a cable malfunctioned on the Tarzan pendulum attraction, which swings riders along a canyon from a harness more than 300 feet in the air. His body was taken…
New Yorker Lori Berenson, who was convicted of aiding leftist rebels in Peru 20 years ago, returned to her hometown on Thursday. Berenson, 46, emerged from a terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport and said she was glad to be home after finishing a 20-year sentence for supporting the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, or…
An Israeli hiker was killed when a zip-line platform collapsed in Peru. Max Sela, 24, of Shoham in central Israel, died at the scene of the accident at the Cola de Mono zip-lining site in the Machu Picchu region. The zip-line is a major tourist attraction. Sela was climbing the ramp to the platform, which…
Yad Vashem recognized its first Righteous Among the Nations from Peru. Israel’s national Holocaust memorial on Thursday posthumously honored Jose Maria Barreto, a diplomat in Switzerland who used his position to attempt to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. A ceremony for Barreto will be held at a future date, Yad Vashem said in a statement….
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