The Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel on Tuesday blessed Argentinian President Javier Milei for his unflinching support for the Jewish state, amid burgeoning ties between the two nations.
“The entire Jewish nation prays for your success,” Rabbi David Yosef told Milei at the Argentinian president’s office during an official visit to Argentina. “Thank you for your steadfast support for the State of Israel and the Jewish people; you will be recorded in the chronicles of history as a president who stood on the right side of history.”
Milei has broken with decades of Argentine foreign policy by siding firmly with Israel since his election two years ago, propelling relations between the two nations to unprecedented heights.
During Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, he has emerged as one of Israel’s most vocal supporters around the globe, firmly aligning himself with Jerusalem and Washington.
Since taking office, Milei has listed Hamas as a terror group and called out Iran’s terrorism, vowing to try in absentia Iranian suspects in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires.
Earlier this year, Milei declared two days of national mourning for the Bibas children—Ariel, 4, and 9-month-old Kfir—who were murdered in captivity by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, along with their mother, 32-year-old Shiri Bibas.
The family, which held Israeli, Argentine and German citizenship, had become symbols of the plight of the 251 hostages abducted by Hamas when it infiltrated the border on Oct. 7 and slaughtered 1,200 men, women and children.
He has also pledged to move Argentina’s embassy to Jerusalem next year.
