Latin America
Visa-free travel “will allow thousands of Israelis to return to Bolivia after many years,” the foreign minister said.
At the opening of Ecuador’s new Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said the South American country under President Daniel Noboa was “among Israel’s greatest friends in Latin America and the world.”
“While the vast majority of the free world decided to turn its back on the Jewish state, we extended a hand to it,” the Argentine president said.
The archives show that Buenos Aires knew by the mid- to late 1950s that the Nazi doctor known as the “Angel of Death” had fled to Argentina.
“There should be no safe zones for terror, whether in the Middle East or right here in the Western Hemisphere,” Daniel Mariaschin, of B’nai B’rith, told JNS.
Israel will open an Economic Attaché Office in Buenos Aires next year to deepen trade and boost Israeli investment in the Latin American ally, said Gideon Sa’ar.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry recommended that those visiting the country not consume alcohol, other than wine and beer.
“We want to deepen our cooperation in water technologies, advanced agriculture, cyber, renewable energy and more,” Israel’s foreign minister said.
A business delegation will join the mission to expand economic ties with the Latin American allies.
Plasan Sasa Ltd., whose facility is situated near the Lebanese border, fended off competition from the UAE, South Korea, Canada and an Israeli rival.
Protesters spray-painted the words “Jewish whore” on the gates of the presidential residence.
B’nai B’rith International said “the postponement raises serious concerns that the summit may not be held at all.”
