“We discussed the president’s upcoming visit to open Argentina’s embassy in Jerusalem, our eternal capital,” Sa’ar said after the meeting.
Argentina’s President Javier Milei plans to move his country’s embassy to Jerusalem during 2026, he said during a Tuesday meeting with Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar at the Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires.
“We discussed the President’s upcoming visit to open Argentina’s embassy in Jerusalem, our eternal capital,” Sa’ar added, following the meeting. The embassy will be inaugurated by the spring of 2026, according to the Sa’ar’s office.
Sa’ar also congratulated Milei on his victory in both the 2023 Argentinian presidential election and the recent midterm elections, held in October 2025, and offered a sheheheyanu blessing.
“The economic delegation accompanying me today is an expression of our belief in the President’s bold economic reforms and Argentina’s economy under his leadership,” Sa’ar, whose father was born in Argentina and emigrated to Israel in the 1960s, added.
Finally, Sa’ar also discussed both issues regarding Hezbollah and Iran with Milei, raising the need for Argentina to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.
He also held a briefing about the recent assassination of Hezbollah’s chief of staff, Haytham Ali Tabatabai, and Hezbollah’s attempts to rehabilitate and rearm its forces in Lebanon.
The meeting between Argentinian President Javier Milei, FM Gideon Sa’ar, and officials from both Argentina and Israel. (credit: SCREENSHOT/X)
Milei’s support for Israel, a good sign for Argentinian Jews
The Jewish community acclaimed Milei’s steadfast support for Israel in a time when most governments seemed to be focused on antagonizing the Jewish state.
“Argentina has positioned itself in the world with two main strategic allies: The United States and Israel. The three share a defense of democracy, freedom, and the Western way of life, as well as economic, military, and technological exchange agreements,” Sabrina Ajmechet, recently elected deputy for Buenos Aires City from the PRO-LLA alliance, told The Jerusalem Post after the last elections.
Argentina’s relationship with Israel today is a political decision by President Milei to stand on the side of the world’s democracies, understanding that the fight Israel has been waging since October 7 against the Hamas terrorist organization is a fight for a way of life it wants to take away from us,” she assured.
She also committed to antisemitism in the country, assuring that even if it exists and must be fought, “Argentina is one of the best countries for Jews to live in, because we have a government that supports us, cares for us, and ensures that cases like these have no place in our society.”
Former national deputy and current Public Affairs Minister of Buenos Aires City, Waldo Wolff, concurred with Ajmenchet’s opinion. “This is not an antisemitic country. There are antisemites and, after October 7, many of them have come out, but they remain a minority,” he said to the Post.