Latin America
Ali Hage Zaki Jalil, of Lebanese descent, had been living on Venezuela’s Margarita Island, where he was seized by authorities last month.
The Israeli foreign minister will also sign an agreement with his Bolivian counterpart to renew diplomatic relations between the two countries.
The two countries are expected to sign an agreement in Washington, as new center-right President Rodrigo Paz adopts a friendlier stance toward Jerusalem.
Israel is expected to sign a free-trade agreement with the Central American nation this week.
Authorities said the group included 17 children and nine adults, who were detained during a Nov. 22 raid.
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.
