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Grapevine, June 24, 2026: Reliving the nightmare - opinion

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Israeli President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal Herzog meet with residents of the northern moshav of Netu’a, northern Israel, June 10, 2026.
Argentina's president, Javier Milei, greets attendees at a major Chabad event in Buenos Aires, June 8, 2026.

Milei praises ‘Judeo-Christian values’ at Chabad event as Argentina courts European Jews

Milei has long studied Judaism and has said he wants to convert after leaving office but sees Jewish practice, including the observance of Shabbat, as incompatible with the presidency.

|ByJUAN MELAMED/JTA
Argentine prosecutor Viviana Fein arrives at the apartment where prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead, in Buenos Aires, Jan 19, 2015.

Argentine official who investigated death of AMIA prosecutor charged with covering up evidence

The death of Alberto Nisman, who was investigating the 1994 bombing on a Buenos Aires Jewish center, has roiled Argentine politics for a decade.

|ByJUAN MELAMED/JTA
Openly discussing his personal affinity for Judaism, Argentina’s President Javier Milei says that he intends to convert to Judaism after leaving office.PremiumPremium

Israel’s biggest diplomatic win since the Abraham Accords came from Milei’s Argentina

Israel and Argentina launch the Isaac Accords, aiming to reshape alliances and expand normalization into Latin America

|ByNEVILLE TELLER

PM to board first El Al flight to Argentina since Eichmann's 1960 kidnapping

National carrier will touch down in Buenos Aires for first time since the Holocaust mastermind was smuggled out of the country to be tried in Israel.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017ByHERB KEINON
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flies plane over West Bank

57 years after Eichmann's famous flight, El Al will fly again to Argentina

“We celebrate the historic event, which means that more Argentineans can travel to visit Israel and also we are happy to see the Argentinean flag in the Israeli sky soon.”

AUGUST 21, 2017ByJTA
An El Al Boeing 777 aircraft at Ben-Gurion International Airport

Argentinians in Israel call for justice for 1994 Buenos Aires bombing

Birthright holds ceremony in Tel Aviv to mark 23 years since deadly attack on Jewish center.

JULY 18, 2017ByTAMARA ZIEVE
AMIA remembrance ceremony, July 2017

Justice delayed

Twenty-three years after the AMIA attack, it is not too late to bring Iran to justice.

JULY 8, 2017ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Rescue workers search for survivors and victims in the rubble left after a powerful car bomb destroyed the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA), in this July 18, 1994 file photo

New DNA from Argentina Jewish center bombing points to suicide attack

The discovery was announced two weeks before the 23rd anniversary of the AMIA bombing that also injured hundreds.

JULY 5, 2017ByJTA
Rescue workers search for survivors and victims in the rubble left after a powerful car bomb destroyed the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA), in this July 18, 1994 file photo

A dream come true

For its 10th anniversary, Israeli quartet Pitango performs the tango opera Maria de Buenos Aires.

MAY 2, 2013ByBARRY DAVIS
Pitango 370