Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana told Gerardo Werthein that Javier Milei is the “most pro-Israeli president in the history” of the South American nation
(Feb. 4, 2025 / JNS) Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana met on Monday with Gerardo Werthein, the foreign minister of Argentina who is of Russian Jewish origin, and extended an invitation to his country’s president, Javier Milei, to formally address the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem.
Ohana praised Milei, calling him the “most pro-Israeli president in the history of Argentina.” He said delivering a speech at the Knesset’s plenum would be “appropriate for the great friend to Israel that he is.”
He also thanked Werthein on behalf of the Knesset for the South American nation’s “firm stand by Israel from the very beginning.”