It’s late afternoon, and a group of young Israelis are doing what everybody else does in this Central American tourist town — shopping for bargains. But as they browse through the brightly colored tapestries, shoulder bags and scarves in the marketplace, or just walk the town’s cobblestone streets, they admit their minds sometimes wander to… More ▸
Guatemala is relocating its embassy to Jerusalem, Guatemalan President Ramiro de Leon Carpio has announced. Until 1980, the Guatemalan Embassy — along with 13 other embassies — was located in Jerusalem. But after the Knesset passed the Jerusalem Law, declaring Jerusalem to be Israel’s capital, Arab pressure led the embassies to relocate to the Tel… More ▸
Israel is supplying weapons and military aircraft to Guatemala on a business basis without the Israel government’s involvement, Haaretz reported Thursday. The newspaper quoted Guatemala’s Defense Minister, Gen. Hector Alejandro Gramajo Morales, as telling its correspondent at an interview in Guatemala City that his country has “broad military relations” with Israel conducted by private Israeli… More ▸
A prominent Jewish leader from Guatemala City said here today that turmoil in Central America caused by Soviet intervention was threatening the future of Jewish communities in the region. Speaking at a news conference at the American Jewish Committee’s 78th annual meeting, continuing through Sunday at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Moises Sabbaj, the vice-president of FEDECO,… More ▸
The appearance of two anti-Semitic articles in the Guatemalan press in the wake of the military coup led by Gen. Ephrain Rios Monti last March 23 has deeply disturbed Guatemala’s small Jewish community, according to reports by the American Jewish Committee’s office here for Mexico and Central America. One article, titled “The Greatest Coalition in… More ▸
There was no immediate confirmation here today of reports that unidentified attackers set off bombs at the Israeli, Argentine and Haitian embassies in Guatemala City last night. The State Department and the Israel Embassy told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that they had no information on the attacks. According to the reports from Guatemala City, guards… More ▸
Jerusalem is now entirely without foreign embassies following the announcement over the weekend that the last two remaining embassies in the city, those of Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, are to move to the Tel Aviv area. In all, following the Jerusalem law, 13 embassies have moved from the capital: 11 Latin Americans, Holland and… More ▸
The Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston has issued an appeal to greater Boston area residents to join the Jewish people of Guatemala in a project to rebuild the city of Sanarate which was devastated by earthquakes last February. Albert Schlossberg, Council president, who issued the appeal, said the 200 Jewish families of Sanarate have… More ▸
B’nai B’rith has “adopted” a small rural town in central Guatemala as a relief project for that earthquake-devastated country. Chinaluta, about 10miles from this capital city, was selected by Ricardo Holzer of Panama, chairman of the B’nai B’rith International Council, who presented a check for $1000 to relief officials last Thursday, initiating the B’nai B’rith… More ▸
Jack D.Weiler, chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, presented a check Tuesday for $10,000 in behalf of his agency for earthquake relief for the general population of Guatemala to Dariol Soto Montenegro, that country’s Consul General in this city. Weiler also volunteered the services of JDC relief workers to aid the earthquake victims…. More ▸
