Argentina

US and Israeli embassies hit with bomb threats in Buenos Aires

The US embassy said it is back to normal operations on Wednesday afternoon.

By JUAN MELAMED/JTA
18/10/2023

Argentina, Canada, other countries plan airlifts to help their citizens leave war-torn Israel

The Foreign Ministry opened a hotline for Argentinian citizens to request repatriation.

By JUAN MELAMED/JTA
11/10/2023
Thai labourers work on a cabbage field near Kibbutz Nahal Oz, just outside the northern Gaza Strip F

18 Thais, 7 Argentinians killed in Israel amid Hamas attacks

Thailand and Argentina are just two of the many countries whose nationals are missing in action in Israel, with many believed to either be held hostage of murdered by Hamas terrorists.

10/10/2023

Four Argentinian-Israelis dead, others missing from kibbutzes after Hamas attack

Argentina is home to an estimated 180,000 Jews, the sixth-largest Jewish population of any country in the world.

By JUAN MELAMED/JTA
09/10/2023
Mein Kampf sells in Poland

Police in Argentina raid and close Nazi publisher following investigation spurred by Jewish group

The Jewish group, DAIA, spurred the two-year investigation into Libreria Argentina after finding a book it published for sale online and denouncing it publicly in December 2021.

By JUAN MELAMED/JTA
15/09/2023

Argentina police shut down Nazi and antisemitic bookseller

After the war, many Nazi officials including death camp supervisor Adolf Eichmann also emigrated to Argentina to avoid trials for war crimes.

By REUTERS
13/09/2023

Buenos Aires to rename subway station after Jewish woman who famously stood up to sex traffickers

Born in what is now Ukraine in 1900 and raised in Poland, Liberman immigrated to Buenos Aires in 1922, joining a wave of Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe to South America.

By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA
09/09/2023
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