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Abt was raised in an intermarried family in Montevideo and it was his non-Jewish mother who encouraged him to embrace his Judaism.

"When you see 20 legislators from 7 Latin American countries meeting together, and talking about the future of Israel and Latin America relations, it speaks to the power of faith-based diplomacy."

Daniel Dolinsky, rabbi of Nueva Congregación Israelita de Montevideo or NCI, will be the director of the new institution in Montevideo, Uruguay’s capital and largest city.

"I have read the proposals of South American countries that have their own list and the arguments looked very solid to me," Uruguayan President Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou said.

While on-the-field efforts were truly something to remember, the off-the-field organizational work to make this event possible, is another story to tell.

There is no such thing as a single antisemitic event. They are all part of the same atmosphere, create and follow the same trends and produce the same agitation.

The two South American rivals brought their culture and vigor to the Israeli pitch, in one of the largest soccer matches to ever grace the state.

Despite the rather sobering numbers, Israel did register some successes in its strive to produce green energy.

Electrical supply company Edesur tweeted that a massive failure happened in the electrical interconnection system.

The government of Uruguay slammed Israel’s ambassador for using social media to criticize a statement by the country’s chancellor that called Tel Aviv the capital of the Jewish state.