Argentina‘s President Javier Milei is headed to Israel. Mr. Milei was awarded the $1 million Genesis Prize in January in recognition of his help of Israel. After he postponed a deliberate go to in March, he’s now set to receive the prize in a ceremony at Israel’s Knesset on June 11 and ship a speech to the Israeli parliament.
Organizers say Mr. Milei will donate the prize cash to launch an initiative geared toward enhancing diplomatic relations between Israel and Latin American nations and preventing antisemitism in the area. Prize organizers say they acknowledged Mr. Milei for reversing Argentina’s lengthy historical past of anti-Israel votes on the United Nations, designating the Hamas and Hezbollah militant teams as terrorist organisations and reopening investigations into the bombings of Jewish and Israeli targets in Argentina in the Nineteen Nineties.
Mr. Milei additionally has pledged to transfer Argentina’s embassy to Jerusalem — becoming a member of a handful of nations, together with the U.S., to recognise the contested metropolis as Israel’s capital. The transfer will not be anticipated to happen throughout his go to.
Previous winners have included enterprise proprietor and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, actors Michael Douglas and Barbra Streisand, violinist Itzhak Perlman, sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor, filmmaker Steven Spielberg; New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft and former Soviet political prisoner Natan Sharansky.
Published – May 27, 2025 01:03 pm IST
