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Argentine President Javier Milei to Visit Israel With Aim of Strengthening Bilateral Ties
Argentine President Javier Milei visiting the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Queens, New York. Photo: Reuters/Brendan McDermid
Argentine President Javier Milei will visit Israel on March 23 for his second trip to the Jewish state, aiming to strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation.
The planned trip comes after Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana invited Milei last month to deliver a landmark address to Israel’s parliament. The Argentine president is also expected to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Israeli officials.
Since taking office over a year ago, Milei has been one of Israel’s most vocal supporters, strengthening bilateral relations to unprecedented levels and in the process breaking with decades of Argentine foreign policy tradition to firmly align with Jerusalem and Washington.
Milei, who won Argentina’s November 2023 presidential election, has been outspoken in his support for Israel and Judaism, both central to his campaign. His presidency has come amid an economic crisis, soaring inflation, and longstanding corruption scandals that have burdened the country.
In February 2024, on his first international trip as president, Milei visited Israel in a show of wartime solidarity and reiterated his pledge to move Argentina’s embassy to Jerusalem. During his visit, he also traveled to Kibbutz Nir Oz in the Negev, where Hamas-led terrorists kidnapped several Israelis from their home including the Bibas family on Oct. 7, 2023.
Nearly 25 percent of Nir Oz’s residents were murdered or kidnapped during Hamas’s invasion of and massacre across southern Israel.
At the time of his visit, Milei said that he was traveling to Israel to express his “support against the attacks by the terrorist group Hamas.”
Since taking office, Milei has designated Hamas as a terrorist organization and condemned Iran’s terrorism more broadly, vowing to prosecute in absentia Iranian suspects linked to the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.
Earlier this year, Argentina’s Public Prosecutor’s Office concluded that Alberto Nisman, the special prosecutor investigating the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in the country’s capital, was murdered in 2015. Marking the 10th anniversary of his death, prosecutors released the report as part of the ongoing and still unresolved trial, reaffirming that Nisman was killed.
“The federal prosecutor Natalio Alberto Nisman was the victim of a homicide,” and “his death was motivated by his work in the AMIA Special Investigation Unit and, specifically, by his actions related to the Memorandum of Understanding with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the 56-page report said.
Last month, Milei declared two days of national mourning for the Bibas children, Ariel, 4, and nine-month-old Kfir, who were murdered in captivity in Gaza along with their mother, Shiri. Their bodies were returned to Israel by Hamas a year and a half after they were kidnapped by the Palestinian terrorists.
The Bibas are Argentinian through their father, Yarden Bibas, who was also abducted during Hamas’s invasion of southern Israel on Oct. 7 and was freed last month as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal.
The Israeli-Argentine family became a symbol of the 251 hostages abducted by Hamas during the terrorist group’s massacre, with Kfir being the youngest hostage taken from Israel on Oct. 7 and the youngest to be killed.
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Israel Readies for a Nationwide Strike on Sunday
Demonstrators hold signs and pictures of hostages, as relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages kidnapped during the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas protest demanding the release of all hostages in Tel Aviv, Israel, Feb. 13, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Itai Ron
i24 News – The families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza are calling on for a general strike to be held on Sunday in an effort to compel the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a deal with Hamas for the release of their loved ones and a ceasefire. According to Israeli officials, 50 hostages now remain in Gaza, of whom 20 are believed to be alive.
The October 7 Council and other groups representing bereaved families of hostages and soldiers who fell since the start of the war declared they were “shutting down the country to save the soldiers and the hostages.”
While many businesses said they would join the strike, Israel’s largest labor federation, the Histadrut, has declined to participate.
Some of the country’s top educational institutions, including the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University, declared their support for the strike.
“We, the members of the university’s leadership, deans, and department heads, hereby announce that on Sunday, each and every one of us will participate in a personal strike as a profound expression of solidarity with the hostage families,” the Hebrew University’s deal wrote to students.
The day will begin at 6:29 AM, to commemorate the start of the October 7 attack, with the first installation at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square in Tel Aviv. Further demonstrations are planned at dozens of traffic intersections.
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Netanyahu ‘Has Become a Problem,’Says Danish PM as She Calls for Russia-Style Sanctions Against Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the press on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, July 8, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
i24 News – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has become a “problem,” his Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen said Saturday, adding she would try to put pressure on Israel over the Gaza war.
“Netanyahu is now a problem in himself,” Frederiksen told Danish media, adding that the Israeli government is going “too far” and lashing out at the “absolutely appalling and catastrophic” humanitarian situation in Gaza and announced new homes in the West Bank.
“We are one of the countries that wants to increase pressure on Israel, but we have not yet obtained the support of EU members,” she said, specifying she referred to “political pressure, sanctions, whether against settlers, ministers, or even Israel as a whole.”
“We are not ruling anything out in advance. Just as with Russia, we are designing the sanctions to target where we believe they will have the greatest effect.”
The devastating war in Gaza began almost two years ago, with an incursion into Israel of thousands of Palestinian armed jihadists, who perpetrated the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
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As Alaska Summit Ends With No Apparent Progress, Zelensky to Meet Trump on Monday
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks at the press conference after the opening session of Crimea Platform conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, 23 August 2023. The Crimea Platform – is an international consultation and coordination format initiated by Ukraine. OLEG PETRASYUK/Pool via REUTERS
i24 News – After US President Donald Trump hailed the “great progress” made during a meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky announced that he was set to meet Trump on Monday at the White House.
“There were many, many points that we agreed on, most of them, I would say, a couple of big ones that we haven’t quite gotten there, but we’ve made some headway,” Trump told reporters during a joint press conference after the meeting.
Many observers noted, however, that the subsequent press conference was a relatively muted affair compared to the pomp and circumstance of the red carpet welcome, and the summit produced no tangible progress.
Trump and Putin spoke briefly, with neither taking questions, and offered general statements about an “understanding” and “progress.”
Putin, who spoke first, agreed with Trump’s long-repeated assertion that Russia never would have invaded Ukraine in 2022 had Trump been president instead of Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump said “many points were agreed to” and that “just a very few” issues were left to resolve, offering no specifics and making no reference to the ceasefire he’s been seeking.