Jews in ecuador

Israel praises Ecuador's 'moral leadership' in withdrawing from UN committee on Palestinian rights

Ecuador's Permanent Rep. to the UN, Andrés Montalvo Sosa, formally informed the UN of his country's withdrawal on 2 February.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
Israel and Ecuador flags. Ilustration.
Demonstrators participate in a pro-Palestinian protest, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Quito, Ecuador June 8, 2024.

Pro-Palestinian group protests outside Ecuador’s Israeli embassy on Holocaust Remembrance Day

The protests targeted the embassy as the institute had the Israeli flag at half-mast in memory of the six million Jews murdered by Nazis.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
GABRIEL GUALÁN MALDONADO (left), president of Ecuador’s Sephardi History Cultural Center, seen here with his family, spoke to the ‘Post’ about the lives of Ecuador’s Bnei Anusim and their rediscovery of their Jewish faith.

The Crypto-Jews of Ecuador: Exploring Loja’s Jewish past and future

Diaspora Affairs | While their ancestors may have been forced to hide or abandon their Judaism following the Alhambra Decree of 1492, these Bnei Anusim are returning to their Jewish roots

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Educator announces opening of official innovation office in Jerusalem, May 12, 2022. L to R: Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso and Israel's Science and Technology Minister Orit Farkash-Hacohen, May 12, 2022.

Ecuador to move toward Israel at UN, opens Jerusalem innovation office

Jerusalem and Quito have had formal diplomatic ties since 1949, but Lasso's arrival here on Monday marks the first time that the country's president has visited Israel. 

|ByTOVAH LAZAROFF

Holocaust survivor shares her experience

Irene Butter, a Holocaust survivor who now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, recently shared her story with about 600 people.

OCTOBER 19, 2019ByROSALIE CURRIER/STURGIS JOURNAL/TNS
A MEMORIAL at the Bergen- Belsen death camp. The book follows a survivor’s quest for revenge.

Jewish melodies in Ecuador

A small but historic Jewish community straddling the equator in Latin America hopes for continuity.

NOVEMBER 24, 2016ByLAUREN KRAMER
Hacienda Zuleta, in the Ecuadorian highlands

Strong Ecuador earthquake kills 77, causes 'considerable damage'

The country's Geophysics Institute in a bulletin described "considerable damage" in the area of the epicenter and in Guayaquil, without providing further details.

APRIL 17, 2016ByREUTERS
Astronaut Photo of Quito, Ecuador taken from the International Space Station (ISS) during Expedition 28 on September 5, 2011.