As is often the case with a liberal administration in Argentina, the president’s spiritual – and individual – issue is closely linked to politics and ideology: for Milley, the agreement with the Netanyahu administration simultaneously has a religious meaning.
And no one represents this relationship like the current ambassador to Israel and the president’s former personal rabbi, Axel Wahnish. It was the religious man who made the president cry with emotion at one event in the Metropolitan Cathedral, and who opened his way to a certain part of the Jewish world.
In 2012, Wahnish assumed the position of Chief Rabbi of ACILBA, the official association of the Moroccan Jewish community in Argentina. It was in that place that he met the president, in Rabat, where the spiritual issue is also closely linked to the religious one.
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So much so that the president expressed more than once his desire to convert to Judaism.
As soon as he took office, Wahnish made a controversial statement, comparing his coach to Maradona and Messi: “20 years ago I signed in Israel: Argentina – Maradona; 10 years ago: Argentina – Messi; now: Argentina – Meli. It’s the Triple M.” In addition, Wahnish emphasized that Miley “is not only fighting to make Argentina grow and prosper again, but she is also a symbol of struggle, freedom and democracy.” Miley just said, “The president said, ‘While the vast majority have turned a deaf ear to the growth of anti-Semitism in their own lands, we condemn it more forcefully.'”