AMIA bombing

AMIA bombing victims remembered as Argentina marks 32 years without justice

The attack killed 85 people and wounded over 300 when a vehicle packed with explosives was detonated outside the Jewish community center.

|ByGADI ZAIG
The AMIA building, the Argentinian and Israeli flags woven with names of all the victims of the 1994 bombing.
The 32nd anniversary gathering to memorialize the AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, July 17, 2026.

Argentinian Jews turn a World Cup chant into a call for justice 32 years after the AMIA bombing

Argentina’s Jewish community marked 32 years since the deadly AMIA bombing with a World Cup-inspired campaign, as leaders pressed for faster trials of Iranian and Hezbollah suspects.

|ByJUAN MELAMED/JTA
People hold images of the victims of the 1994 bombing attack on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) community centre, marking the 31st anniversary of the attack, in Buenos Aires, Argentina July 18, 2025

32 years later, Iran must still be held to account for AMIA bombing

"As we commemorate the anniversary of this evil visited upon innocents, we resolve to keep fighting for the justice that is rightfully theirs."

|BySHAY SALAMON, COMBAT ANTISEMITISM MOVEMENT
Argentine President Javier Milley and Yair Horn on July 17.

Argentinian President Milei meets former hostage Iair Horn at memorial cermeony for AMIA attack

The brief interaction preceded a ceremony marking 32 years since the suicide bombing attack on AMIA, a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, as Milei holds steady on condemning the IRGC.

|ByRUBY SADIKMAN, ELI LEON

Argentina identifies Hezbollah terrorist who bombed Israeli embassy, Jewish center in Buenos Aires

This comes six months after Argentinian courts confirmed that Iran and Hezbollah were both behind the 1992 and the 1994 bombings.

OCTOBER 26, 2024ByYUVAL BARNEA
Hussein Ahmad Karaki, head of Hezbollah operations in Latin America, responsible for the 1992 and 1994 Buenos Aires bombings, as seen on a Venezuelan ID card from 2004.

WZO chairman asks Argentina to further investigate 1994 AMIA terror attack against Jewish community

"There is a connection between the terrible attack on the Jewish community building in Argentina and what Israel went through on October 7," Yaakov Hagoel said. "They were caused by the same hatred."

JULY 24, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
WZO chairman Yaakov Hagoel meets with President of Argentina Javier Milei. (Illustrative)

A Two-Fold Struggle In The Shadow Of Memory

As the 30th anniversary of the horrific AMIA bombing in Argentina approaches, this year's remembrance carries even greater weight.

JULY 14, 2024ByHADASSA GETSZTAIN
The ongoing war in Gaza and the resurgence of anti-Semitism cast a long shadow, reminding us that the Jewish people continue to face a dual struggle

Iran must be brought to justice for the AMIA bombing - opinion

While Israel is actively engaged in holding the October 7 perpetrators accountable, Argentina’s Jewish community and all of society are waiting for answers.

JUNE 10, 2024ByDINA SIEGEL VANN
ARGENTINA’S PRESIDENT Javier Milei welcomed the Supreme Court of Justice ruling that Iran masterminded the 1994 AMIA bombing, and asserted that the court was delivering ‘the justice that both victims and their families have awaited for decades.’

Grapevine June 9, 2024: Courting disaster?

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JUNE 9, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
B’nai B’rith Executive member Ilan Shchori, B’nai B’rith World Center Jerusalem director Alan Schneider, honoree Prof. Maoz Azariahu, and BBI President Emanuel ‘Mano’ Cohen.

Thirty years after deadly bombing, Buenos Aires’ AMIA Jewish center unveils colorful redesign

The AMIA Jewish community center in this city has unveiled a colorful new facade, three decades after a deadly bombing turned it into a symbol of destruction.

JUNE 1, 2024ByJUAN MELAMED/JTA
The colorful new facade of Buenos Aires' AMIA Jewish center abuts a mural painted to memorialize the 1994 bombing that killed 85 people there.

Iran’s president in Sri Lanka, as Argentina seeks arrest of Iran’s interior minister

The AMIA suicide bombing occurred on 18 July 1994 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and targeted the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish Community Center.

APRIL 24, 2024BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi speaks during a press conference after the parliamentary elections in Tehran, Iran, March 4, 2024.

Argentinian President Javier Milei due to meet Herzog in Israel

Argentina’s recently elected president, Javier Milei has been very vocal in his condemnation of Hamas and his support for Israel in the current war.

FEBRUARY 4, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Argentine president-elect Javier Milei addresses supporters after winning Argentina's runoff presidential election, in Buenos Aires, Argentina November 19, 2023

US charges alleged Hezbollah member over deadly 1994 AMIA bombing

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Samuel Salman El Reda, 58, had coordinated Hezbollah's activities in South America, Asia, and Lebanon since 1993.

DECEMBER 20, 2023ByREUTERS
Rescue workers search for survivors and victims in the rubble left after a powerful car bomb destroyed the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA), in this July 18, 1994 file photo

Urgently reopen the Buenos Aires AMIA bombing investigation - opinion

We must not forget the tragedy that struck Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, when a suicide bomber targeted the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA), claiming 85 innocent lives.

DECEMBER 19, 2023ByERFAN FARD
ARGENTINA’S PRESIDENT Javier Milei takes part in a Hanukkah celebration in Buenos Aires, last week.