On his last day in Israel before traveling to Rome and the Vatican, Javier Milei returned to the Western Wall, where he danced and was carried on a litter, while a group of rabbis sang a popular Israeli song around him.
The video was shared on social networks and the President is seen, with a kippah, accompanied by a religious and the Argentine ambassador Shimon Axel Wahnish - also a rabbi - appointed by Milei and who traveled with him in this delegation - first
jumping in the middle of the song
of "Am Israel Jai" (The Jewish People Lives) and then, when he was carried on a litter by one of the people accompanying him.
The scene occurred after the Head of State visited Kibbutz Nir Oz, located in the south of the country.
One of the villages most affected by the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7.
The scenario he encountered visibly affected the head of state: "It was like walking through the ashes of hell," he told
Clarín
, very moved, before getting into the car with which he left, under strict security measures.
It was on that return that the president passed through the Wailing Wall again, before settling in at the hotel, which developed that kind of celebration.
The AJN news agency described the moment as a
Jewish wedding-style celebration or a Bar Mitzva
.
News in development.
D.S.