Tag: Buenos Aires
Prosecutor: Terrorists behind Argentina’s AMIA bombing to be brought to justice
A prosecutor in Argentina told Israel Hayom he will not stop trying to apprehend those responsible for the 1994 deadly bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, following news that one of the alleged...
March 17, 1992: Attack on Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires
The attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires was a suicide bombing attack on the building of the Israeli embassy of Argentina, located in Buenos Aires, which was carried out on 17 March...
Justice is elusive six years after the murder of Alberto Nisman
This week marks six years since Argentine Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found lifeless in his apartment. He was found dead the day before he was to provide evidence to the Argentine Congress he...
Argentina adopts universal definition of anti-Semitism
Argentina adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, its foreign ministry announced on Sunday.
A resolution called on all government branches to use the definition “to contribute to the fight of the Argentine...
Quote by Abraham Joshua Heschel to be centerpiece of mural in Buenos Aires
A quote from the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel will be at the center of a mural set to be painted in a public square in Buenos Aires at the end of November.
The city...
Buenos Aires synagogue now being reclaimed after being overrun for decades by squatters
Its hallowed walls smeared with sordid anti-Semitic graffiti after being taken over by squatters for the past two decades, one of Buenos Aires’s oldest synagogues has been reclaimed through the efforts of a local Chabad-Lubavitch emissary,...
AMIA 25 years on: Insult, injury and Argentina’s upcoming election
In 2006, Argentine government lawyers led by the federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman formally named the eight leading Iranian officials who planned the bombing attack 12 years earlier, at 9:53 a.m. on July 18, 1994,...
US Senate resolution marks 25th anniversary of AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires
A resolution commemorating the 25th anniversary of AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires was introduced on Thursday in the U.S. Senate.
It was introduced by Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). Co-sponsors included Sens....
Argentina orders freezing of Hezbollah assets, effectively designating it a terror group
Argentina ordered the freezing of Hezbollah assets on Thursday, effectively designating it as a terrorist entity, being the first Latin America country to do so.
The move occurred on the 25th anniversary the bombing of...
House introduces bipartisan resolution to mark AMIA bombing, seek justice
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...