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Argentina's star Lionel Messi, left, in Atlanta on Jul. 7, 2026, and Spain's star Lamine Yamal in Inglewood on Jul. 2, 2026. Spain and Argentina will meet in the 2026 World Cup football tournament final match at the New York/New Jersey Stadium in East Rutherford on July 19, 2026. (Roberto Schmidt and Etienne Laurent / AFP via Getty Images)
July 19, 2026, 1:59 pm
Why Argentina and Spain’s World Cup final has become a proxy for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Online supporters have cast Sunday’s football match as a symbolic contest, reflecting the countries’ sharply different foreign policies and fueling antisemitic conspiracy theories.
By Juan Melamed and Joseph Strauss
The Max Nordau Library in La Plata, Argentina was hit with a Molotov cocktail on Thursday night, the library's board of directors reported. (Via Google Images)
May 5, 2026, 3:29 pm
Jewish library and Chabad near Buenos Aires attacked, Argentine Jewish advocates say
Jewish community representatives reported a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a local Jewish library Thursday in the Buenos Aires suburb of La Plata.
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Ahmad Vahidi, then deputy commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, arrives at the sixth anniversary of Qassem Soleimani's killing at Tehran's Musalla. Soleimani, the former commander of the Quds Force of the IRGC, was killed in 2020 in a U.S. missile strike in Iraq. (Sobhan Farajvan/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
March 6, 2026, 12:51 pm
Suspect in 1994 Buenos Aires Jewish center attack rises to lead Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
Argentina also issued a new arrest warrant for a different Iranian official this week.
By Juan Melamed
Argentinian President Javier Milei speaks at an event marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Holocaust museum in Buenos Aires, Jan. 26, 2024. (Juan Melamed)
September 30, 2025, 9:48 am
‘Today we burn Jews,’ Argentine students chant in viral video taken on graduation trip
President Javier Milei denounced the behavior of students who were traveling alongside students from a Jewish school.
By Juan Melamed
Argentina's Ambassador to Israel Axel Wahnish with the head of AMIA Mario Sogol at the Knesset on Monday. (Credit: Courtesy Argentinian Embassy in Tel Aviv, July 14, 2025)
July 14, 2025, 9:30 am
Silence is complicity on Iran, Argentina’s envoy says at AMIA bombing memorial
"This is not a local conflict — it's a global struggle between life and death, between light and darkness," said Ambassador Axel Wahnish.
By Etgar Lefkovits
Argentine President Javier Milei gives a speech during a ceremony honoring Malvinas Veterans Day on April 2, 2025 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Tomas Cuesta/Getty Images, via JNS)
May 27, 2025, 8:26 am
Argentina’s President Milei to receive $1m Genesis Prize in Israel
Organizers say Milei will donate the prize money to launch an initiative aimed at improving diplomatic relations between Israel and Latin American countries and fighting antisemitism in the region.
By JNS Staff
Argentinean President Javier Milei prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Feb. 6, 2024. (Courtesy Israel Foreign Ministry)
January 14, 2025, 2:38 pm
Javier Milei, Argentina’s pro-Israel president, is first non-Jew to win ‘Jewish Nobel’
Milei, the first head of state to get the Genesis Prize, is also famously drawn to Judaism and says he intends to convert once he leaves office.
By Philissa Cramer
Antisemitic graffiti was discovered on a monument in Buenos Aires on Oct. 9, 2024. (Federico Ballán/X)
October 10, 2024, 1:45 pm
‘Serve the nation, kill a Jew’ graffiti written on prominent Buenos Aires monument
The slogan has a long history on Argentina’s far right.
By Juan Melamed
Argentinean President Javier Milei prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Feb. 6, 2024. (Courtesy Israel Foreign Ministry)
February 8, 2024, 1:59 pm
Argentina will move its embassy to Jerusalem
Javier Milei made announcement during emotional visit
By Juan Melamed
Cirque Du Soleil "Corteo" (MajaPrgomet)
January 11, 2023, 8:01 pm
Cirque du Soleil staffer connects to Judaism around the world
“Every time I do something closer to Judaism, I feel closer to my family, even if I'm far away from them.”
By Adam Reinherz
A new Netflix series examines the mysterious death of Alberto Nisman, the special prosecutor who was investigating a bombing at a Jewish community center in Argentina. Netflix trailer screenshot
January 15, 2020, 8:05 pm
Series examines death of AMIA prosecutor
Netflix series looks at the death of Alberto Nisman
By Selah Maya Zighel
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