Zeev Bielski said he felt “deeply touched” by his first trip to South America as head of the Jewish Agency for Israel. At a Buenos Aires news conference Tuesday during a week-long trip to Chile, Uruguay and Argentina, Bielski said he also felt “deep sorrow” at the lack of progress in the government investigation into terrorist attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets in Argentina in the 1990s. Bielski pledged to strengthen links between South American Jews and Israel, particularly the Masah project, which sends young Jews to Israel for several months.
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