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Remains of the AMIA Jewish center after the 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Credit: La Nación via Wikimedia Commons.

House introduces bipartisan resolution to mark AMIA bombing, seek justice

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A bipartisan resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives was introduced Thursday to condemn the 1994 attackon the Mutual Israelite Association of Argentina, or AMIA, community center in Buenos Aires 25 years ago, in addition to calling...
Remains of the AMIA Jewish center after the 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Credit: La Nación via Wikimedia Commons.

Crimes go unpunished in Argentina

For more than a decade, Alberto Nisman had been investigating the worst terrorist attack ever committed on Argentine soil: the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85...
Unveiling a monument honoring former Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman are (from right) former KKL Argentina president Ulises Taitelbaum and his wife, Maria; Miguel Tohimaer; KKL Argentina president Hernáan Hilu; KKL-JNF vice chairman Hernán Felman; Nisman’s mother, Sara Garfunkel; Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein; AMIA president Agustin Igdal; DAIA president Jorge Knoblovits; and Argentinian Ambassador to Israel H.E. Mariano Caucino. Credit: KKL-JNF.

Israel unveils memorial to Argentine prosecutor killed seeking justice for bombing

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Jewish and Israeli leaders on Friday marked the fourth anniversary of Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s murder by unveiling a monument in his memory at the Ben Shemen forest in central Israel. The monument in...
A protest in Buenos Aires marked the one-year anniversary of the death of Alberto Nisman, the Argentinian federal prosecutor who was investigating the AMIA Jewish center bombing, January 2016. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

KKL-JNF to inaugurate monument in memory of Alberto Nisman, Special Prosecutor murdered while investigating...

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On the third anniversary of his tragic death, Keren Kayemet L’Israel-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) will unveil the monument built in Alberto Nisman’s honor in a formal ceremony with officials from both Israel and Argentina....
The flag of Hezbollah. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Argentine authorities nab terror cell funneling ‎money to Hezbollah

Argentina’s Federal Police confirmed recently that ‎they have apprehended a fundraising network enlisted ‎by Hezbollah that operated in the tri-border area of ‎Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. ‎ The raid, carried out by the Financial Information...
Jorge Zak, vice president of Taglit in South America, addresses the young audience at a memorial for the 85 people killed at the AMIA (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) building in Buenos Aires, July 18, 2018. Credit: Taglit-Birthright Israel.

Remembering the Buenos Aires AMIA bombing, 24 years later

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In an event organized by Taglit, better known in the United States as Birthright Israel, 80 young Argentinians gathered on the rooftop of the Hotel Rut Daniel in Tel Aviv on July 18 for...

Former Argentinian leader denies covering up Iranian involvement in bombing

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Former Argentinian president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has denied in court that she covered up for Iranians accused of involvement in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in which...

New DNA from Argentina Jewish center bombing points to suicide attack

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A new set of DNA has been identified among the 85 victims of the AMIA Buenos Aires Jewish Center attack, strengthening the hypothesis that the 1994 attack was carried out by a suicide bomber. The discovery was...