CryptoPolyTech.com
Crypto, Politics, Tech, Gaming & World News.

Javier Milei, Argentina's pro-Israel president, is first non-Jew to win 'Jewish Nobel' – Jewish Telegraphic Agency | CPT PPP Coverage

 | cutline • press clip • news of the day |

Cryptopolytech (CPT) Public Press Pass (PPP)
News of the Day COVERAGE

200000048 – World Newser
•| #World |•| #Online |•| #Media |•| #Outlet |

View more Headlines & Breaking News here, as covered by cryptopolytech.com


Javier Milei, Argentina's pro-Israel president, is first non-Jew to win 'Jewish Nobel' – Jewish Telegraphic Agency appeared on www.jta.org by Philissa Cramer.

For the first time since its inauguration more than a decade ago, the prize dubbed the “Jewish Nobel” is going to a non-Jew: Javier Milei, the president of Argentina.

Milei’s selection marks another first for the Genesis Prize Foundation: the first prize given to a head of state, a departure for an award that has historically sought to sidestep politics.

Milei, a self-described “anarcho-capitalist” elected to lead Argentina in December 2023, has transformed Argentina from a critic of Israel to one of its staunchest supporters. He plans to move the embassy to Jerusalem and recently replaced his foreign minister after his first pick voted against Israel and the United States at the United Nations. Under his leadership, Argentina has declared Hamas a terrorist organization and ratcheted up efforts to prosecute those responsible for two deadly bombings against Jewish institutions in the 1990s.

Milei was raised Catholic but has also famously been drawn to Judaism and said he intends to convert once he leaves office. (He says it would be impossible to serve as president and observe Shabbat fully, a commitment that requires abstaining from work.) He studies regularly with a rabbi, Axel Wahnish, whom he appointed as his ambassador to Israel, and has cited Jewish stories and texts at multiple official events, including during his inauguration.

Milei joins a list of 12 Jewish to have won the $1 million prize, which recipients traditionally donate to charity in a bid to fuel Jewish philanthrophy. Past winners include Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand and Natan Sharansky. Sharansky, who was imprisoned as a refusenik in the Soviet Union, is also a former Israeli politician, and the inaugural prize went to Mike Bloomberg months after he finished a 12-year tenure as New York City’s mayor. Six years after winning the prize, he unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic presidential nomination.

In recent years, the prize has also departed from its norm of honoring an individual by recognizing Jewish and Israeli nonprofits tackling crises and war in Ukraine and Israel.

Milei said in a statement released by the Genesis Prize Foundation that he would be donating his winnings to efforts to fight antisemitism.

“I am deeply honored to receive the Genesis Prize,” he said. “Of course, I will not keep the monetary prize; I will donate it to causes that support freedom and the fight against antisemitism, both in Argentina and around the world.”

The prize foundation’s president, Steven Rakitt, said the prize remains nonpolitical and that the foundation had chosen, at “one of the most difficult and increasingly isolated times in Israel’s history,” to lean into its mission of supporting Israel by rewarding an ally.

“It is important that non-Jewish who are outspoken in their support for Jewish and Israel be recognized,” he said by email. “We do not exclude honoring other prominent non-Jewish who stand up for Israel or help combat antisemitism in the future.”

Rakitt said the foundation was considering holding its prize ceremony in Buenos Aires. Before last year, when Streisand was honored in Los Angeles, the ceremony has always taken place in Jerusalem.

FEATURED ‘News of the Day’, as reported by public domain newswires.

Find more, like the above, right here on Cryptopolytech.com by following our extensive quiclick links appearing on images or [NEWSer CHEWSer].
View ALL Headlines & Breaking News here.

Source Information (if available)

This article originally appeared on www.jta.org by Philissa Cramer – sharing via newswires in the public domain, repeatedly. News articles have become eerily similar to manufacturer descriptions.

We will happily entertain any content removal requests, simply reach out to us. In the interim, please perform due diligence and place any content you deem “privileged” behind a subscription and/or paywall.

CPT (CryptoPolyTech) PPP (Public Press Pass) Coverage features stories and headlines you may not otherwise see due to the manipulation of mass media.

We compile ‘news of the day’ content in an unbiased manner and contextually classify it to promote the growth of knowledge by sharing it just like Javier Milei, Argentina's pro-Israel president, is first non-Jew to win 'Jewish Nobel' – Jewish Telegraphic Agency

First to share? If share image does not populate, please close the share box & re-open or reload page to load the image, Thanks!

You might also like
Leave a comment