BUENOS AIRES (VINnews)  Argentine President Javier Milei met with former Israeli hostage Iair Horn on Friday during a ceremony marking the 32nd anniversary of the deadly 1994 AMIA Jewish community center bombing in Buenos Aires.

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Israeli Ambassador to Argentina Eyal Sela informed Milei of Horn’s presence shortly after the president arrived at the event and facilitated a brief exchange between them before the ceremony began, according to reports from Maariv and the Argentine Jewish news outlet AJN.

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Horn, an Israeli-Argentine dual citizen, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his younger brother Eitan during the Hamas terror attack on Oct. 7, 2023. He was held in Gaza for 498 days before his release, while his brother remained in captivity for 737 days.

The meeting carried particular resonance at the memorial for the July 18, 1994, suicide bombing that destroyed the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) building, killing 85 people and injuring more than 300. The attack remains one of the deadliest assaults on a Jewish target in the Western Hemisphere.