Argentina's President Javier Milei to receive $1M Genesis Prize in Israel

Argentina's President Javier Milei is headed to Israel. Milei was awarded the $1 cardinal Genesis Prize successful January successful designation of his enactment of Israel. After helium postponed a planned sojourn successful March, helium is present acceptable to person the prize successful a ceremonial astatine Israel's Knesset connected June 11 and present a code to the Israeli parliament. Organizers accidental Milei volition donate the prize wealth to motorboat an inaugural aimed astatine improving diplomatic relations betwixt Israel and Latin American countries and warring antisemitism successful the region. Prize organizers accidental they recognized Milei for reversing Argentina's agelong past of anti-Israel votes astatine the United Nations, designating the Hamas and Hezbollah militant groups arsenic violent organizations and reopening investigations into the bombings of Jewish and Israeli targets successful Argentina successful the 1990s. Milei besides has pledged to determination Argentina's embassy to Jerusalem - joining a fistful of countries, including the US, to admit the contested metropolis arsenic Israel's capital. The determination is not expected to instrumentality spot during his visit. Previous winners person included concern proprietor and erstwhile New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, actors Michael Douglas and Barbra Streisand, violinist Itzhak Perlman, sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor, filmmaker Steven Spielberg; New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft and erstwhile Soviet governmental captive Natan Sharansky.