Tag: Brazil
Bolsonaro slated for historic Israel visit one week before elections
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will arrive in Israel on March 31 for a four-day visit, Israel Hayom has learned, just one week ahead of Israel’s general elections on April 9.
In closed talks with Bolsonaro during a historic...
Brazil’s president-elect blasts critics of Israel as Netanyahu visits country for first time
Ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit Friday to Brazil—the first by an Israeli sitting prime minister—president-elect Jair Bolsonaro blasted critics of his outreach to Israel, The Times of Israel reported on Thursday.
Addressing Netanyahu’s visit, Bolsonaro wrote on...
American pastors thank Brazil’s incoming president for supporting Israel
Jair Bolsonaro will be sworn in as Brazil’s 38th president on Jan. 1, likely marking the beginning of improved ties with the United States and Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of...
Brazil delivers on its promise to vote with Israel at UN
The symbolic victory against Hamas at the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday, in which 87 nations supported a draft resolution condemning Hamas, marked another milestone: Brazil took an unprecedented step by siding with Israel...
Besides Brazil, other nations plan embassy move to Jerusalem
Following Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s announcement in an interview with Israel Hayom that he plans to transfer the Brazilian Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a senior diplomatic official told Israel Hayom additional countries are expected...
Will Brazil’s president-elect deliver campaign promises on Israel?
Dubbed the “tropical Trump,” Jair Bolsonaro’s victory on Sunday appears to have imbued much of Brazil’s population with renewed hope for a better economy and less corruption. The win by the right-wing, anti-establishment figure may also...
President-elect of Brazil promises: Israel can count on our vote
Until a few weeks ago,, now the president-elect of Brazil, was a little-known legislator. No one thought he would go on to become the leader of the country. But on Wednesday, a week after...
President-elect of Brazil plans to close Palestinian embassy
In addition to moving his country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro plans to shut down the Palestinian embassy in Brasilia.
“Is Palestine a country? Palestine is not a country, so...
Right-wing, pro-Israel congressman wins presidential election in Brazil
Pro-Israel, right-wing Brazilian congressman Jair Bolsonaro will be his country’s next president, after winning the national election on Sunday.
With more than 92 percent of the votes counted, Bolsonaro came out with 55.6 percent, according...
Brazilian synagogue to be rededicated 100 years after it first opened
SAO PAULO, Brazil — The second-oldest congregation in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s most Jewish-populated city, will dedicate a new synagogue next year, a century after it was opened.
Knesset Israel was founded in Sao Paulo in...