Guatemala

Lawmakers from 12 Latin American countries back Isaac Accords, Jerusalem embassy move

According to organizers, participating countries included Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Honduras, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, and Panama.

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(L-R) Chairman of Selection Committee, The Genesis Prize Foundation, David Hatchwell, Argentinian President Javier Milei, and Josh Reinstein, President of the Israel Allies Foundation.
Paraguayan Ambassador Alejandro Rubin Cymerman (L) with President Isaac Herzog at his Jerusalem residence, 2024.

Grapevine: Paraguay’s ambassador brings longstanding pro-Israel ties to Jerusalem

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

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An inmate looks out from a security tower at the Renovacion 1 prison, as inmates at three Guatemalan prisons rioted on Saturday and took mostly prison guards hostage, authorities said, in Escuintla, Guatemala, January 17, 2026.

Guatemalan inmates riot at three prisons, taking 46 people hostage

Inmates, some wearing jumpsuits but most in tank tops and shorts, their faces covered by masks improvised with pieces of clothing, watched from above, perched in the prison's patrol towers.

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Elazar Rumpler, a senior leader within haredi cult Lev Tahor, appearing in the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing in 2020; illustrative.

Jerusalem court sends senior Lev Tahor cult leader Elazar Rumpler to prison in child abuse case

Elazar Rumpler, a Lev Tahor haredi cult leader, was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay a total of NIS 22,000 in fines and compensation for assaulting a 10-year-old child.

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New Guatemalan president to keep embassy in Jerusalem

Giammatei said he would designate Hezbollah a terrorist organization, recognizing that it is an Iranian proxy that seeks to destroy Israel

JANUARY 15, 2020ByLAHAV HARKOV
Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis and new Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammetei

Guatemala loves Israel – the inside story

JANUARY 4, 2020ByBOB DIENER
A demonstrator holds a balloon with an image depicting Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales as a clown during a protest against Guatemala's his decision to not renew the mandate of the U.N.-backed anti-graft commission, the International Commission Against Impunity (CICIG), in Guatemala City, Guatema

Guatemala's Giammattei: Time to recognize Jewish people's right to Israel

The president-elect, in town on an official visit and in support of the Israel Allies Foundation annual event, visited with local leaders and planted a tree through KKL-JNF in the Hula Valley.

DECEMBER 11, 2019ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Alejandro Giammattei plants a tree with KKL-JNF world chairman Daniel Atar

Statistics show apathy in Israel towards people with disabilities

Although there has been a significant improvement in attitudes towards people with disabilities, the statistics presented by Oren Helman's Sikuy Shaveh (Equal Chance) were troubling.

DECEMBER 10, 2019ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Israeli citizens with disabilities renew their protest to receive improved benefits.

Pres.-elect to 'Post': Guatemala will designate Hezbollah a terror org.

Giammattei also said that he would reconsider his country's policy on Israeli settlements, potentially aligning it with the new US policy: settlements are not illegal.

DECEMBER 9, 2019ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Guatemala's president-elect, Alejandro Giammattei, speaks at an Israel Allies Foundation conference, December 9 2019

Guatemalan president to Israeli president: Your enemies are my enemies

Rivlin asked Giammattei whether he would also be meeting with the Palestinian leadership during his visit, and the reply was a definite "no."

DECEMBER 8, 2019ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
President Reuven Rivlin with President-elect Alejandro Giammattei of Guatemala, December 8, 2019.

Meet the Ambassador: Guatemala's Mario Bucaro

Bucaro is his country’s 21st ambassador to Israel, but the first to serve in Jerusalem in the second millennium.

OCTOBER 19, 2019ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Mario Bucaro

A Guatemalan asylum seeker is sheltered in a Washington state synagogue

Beth Hatfiloh is the only synagogue in the United States known to be sheltering an undocumented immigrant, according to T’ruah, a liberal rabbinic human rights group.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019ByBEN SALES/JTA
A girl looks at the camera during an event marking the Jewish holiday of Purim at the Bialik Rogozin school, where children of migrant workers and refugees are educated alongside native Israelis, in Tel Aviv, Israel March 10, 2017.

PM praises Guatemalan president-elect as ‘friend of Israel’

"He is a friend of Israel and I am convinced that together we will strengthen the excellent cooperation between the countries,” Netanyahu said in a statement.

AUGUST 14, 2019ByHERB KEINON
Presidential candidate Alejandro Giammattei of "VAMOS" political party talks to the media following the first round of presidential election, as he walks towards the official voting result center in Guatemala City, Guatemala June 17, 2019.

Guatemalan presidential hopeful: Israel’s enemy is Guatemala’s enemy

Israeli first-responder awarded Guatemala’s “Ambassador of Peace” reward.

AUGUST 1, 2019ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Presidential candidate Alejandro Giammattei of "VAMOS" political party talks to the media following the first round of presidential election, as he walks towards the official voting result center in Guatemala City, Guatemala June 17, 2019.