Overview
- Javier Milei, who departs Saturday for a four‑day trip, will join Israel’s 78th Independence Day events and pre‑record a torch‑lighting at Mount Herzl as the first foreign head of state to take part in that role.
- He is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog and to receive Israel’s Presidential Medal of Honor and an honorary doctorate from Bar‑Ilan University.
- In interviews with Israeli media this week, Milei said the decision to move Argentina’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is taken, though he set no date for the relocation.
- Casa Rosada officials warn the agenda may shift on short notice because of the unstable security environment, and they say a Buenos Aires–Tel Aviv El Al inaugural flight and other agreements could be announced.
- Before leaving, Milei met DAIA leader Mauro Berenstein in Buenos Aires and again labeled Iran an enemy of Argentina, a posture reflected in recent steps that included expelling Iran’s chargé d’affaires.