Argentina’s Milei to arrive in Israel on Sunday, his third trip in last three years |
BUENOS AIRES — President Javier Milei will visit Israel on Sunday for talks with his close ally, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Argentina’s presidency said, as a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect.
This will be the third visit to Israel as leader by the libertarian Milei, an ardent defender of the policies of both Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump.
Milei, who was raised in a Catholic family but studied Jewish scripture, has cheered the US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
Last month, he called Israel a “strategic ally” of Argentina with “shared values.”
He will meet Netanyahu at the Western Wall holy site in Jerusalem, which he also visited in February 2024 and June 2025, his office said.
Milei’s government recently expelled Tehran’s diplomatic envoy after Iran objected to Argentina calling the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization.
Iran’s foreign ministry accused Argentina of being “partners in crimes committed and on the wrong side of history.”
Argentina, for its part, has lambasted Iran’s “persistent refusal” to cooperate with the probe into a 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and injured more than 300 at a Jewish community center.
Two years earlier, an explosion at the Israeli embassy killed 29 and wounded 200.
Argentine courts have blamed both attacks on Iran, which has always denied involvement and refused to hand over suspects.
Argentina is home to the largest Jewish community in Latin America, composed of nearly 300,000 people living mostly in Buenos Aires.
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