Newly elected President Javier Miler, the leader of Argentina, is said to be planning to convert to Judaism. He grew up in the Catholic tradition.
Argentina’s president-elect made his first post-election visit to the United States last week, meeting with U.S. officials and members of the International Monetary Fund in the country’s capital. However, Javier Milei stopped first in Brooklyn, New York, where the Orthodox Hasidic group Chabad Lubavitch is based. Milei prayed at the grave of the movement’s former spiritual leader.
On Tuesday, Bloomberg learned from a spokesperson for Javier Milea that the leader planned to convert to Judaism. The spokesperson therefore denied previous claims that the leader was already working on this. Milei was raised Catholic. During the election campaign he loudly criticized Argentina’s Pope Francis.
On the way to Israel
– Such an early departure to the US and a signal that he will go to Israel is a very clear symbol of the kind of foreign policy that Milei wants to pursue, Carlos Ruckauf, former Vice President of Argentina, who held this position in the late 1990s , Bloomberg told.
However, for some observers, the politician’s attitude towards the Middle East is not surprising. “His personal passion for this issue and his strong beliefs lead us to predict that Argentine support for Israel will increase,” the director of consultancy Cefeidas Group told Bloomberg. – We are talking about continuity rather than disruption – he added.
Javier Milei stands out among South American leaders for his support for Israel. The president-elect announced the move of the Argentine embassy to Jerusalem and a trip to Israel for an official visit in the near future. By comparison, Colombia’s political leaders have threatened to suspend bilateral ties with Israel after Chile and Bolivia previously cut ties with the country.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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