Peru

1,000 Israelis stranded in Peru with closure of border due to coronavirus

A special — and free — El Al flight will bring the travelers home.

By Marcy Oster March 18, 2020 11:20 am

Israel’s president asks Peru to free Israeli woman arrested for drug smuggling

Hodaya Monsongo, 24, has medical and mental health issues, including a diagnosis of limited cognitive ability, Reuven Rivlin said in his letter, sent days after Russian President Vladimir Putin pardoned Israeli backpacker Naama Issachar for drug offenses.

February 9, 2020 3:39 pm

Peru’s president, son of Jewish refugee who fled Nazis, resigns over vote-buying scandal

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski offered his resignation a day after the release of videos that showed key allies trying to buy the support of opposition lawmakers.

March 22, 2018 10:40 am