Overview
- Meeting Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, Javier Milei announced the first direct Buenos Aires–Tel Aviv flight to start in November on Israel’s El Al airline.
- Officials detailed new cooperation that includes a memorandum on counterterrorism, a joint plan on artificial intelligence projects and training, and a $150 million Israeli credit line to back Israeli firms operating in Argentina.
- On Monday, Milei received an honorary doctorate from Bar-Ilan University and is scheduled to be awarded Israel’s Presidential Medal of Honor by President Isaac Herzog.
- Milei will become the first non-Israeli chosen to light one of twelve Independence Day torches, a role traditionally reserved for citizens, drawing criticism in Israeli media over this year’s honorees and the ceremony’s politicization.
- Milei reaffirmed his goal to move Argentina’s embassy to Jerusalem when legal and political conditions allow, a pledge set against Argentina’s economic strain, falling revenues and internal disputes that shape how his foreign outreach is viewed at home.