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Gil Artzyeli had already been removed from office by the Chilean government over the death of a Palestinian teenager.
Chilean President Gabriel Boric on Saturday obtained credentials from the South American country’s Israeli envoy, Gil Artzyeli, two weeks after turning down the ambassador following the death of a Palestinian in the West Bank.
Artzyeli was originally scheduled to attend the rite at Santiago’s presidential palace on Sept. 15 for formality, but Chilean officials rejected it in a move Israel’s Foreign Ministry condemned as “unprecedented. “
Chile’s resolution was in reaction to the death of a Palestinian teenager in an Israeli army operation in the West Bank, the Chilean government said, adding that the rite was postponed until Sept. 30.
Jerusalem said the postponement “seriously broke relations” and after the incident generated controversy in Chile, Artzyeli summoned the Chilean Foreign Ministry where he apologized.
Gabriel Boric’s leftist won a landslide victory for Chile’s presidency last year, baffling the country’s Jewish community.
The Chilean president has strained relations with the country’s 18,000 Jews and encouraged them to push for Israeli territorial concessions. As a lawmaker, he supported a bill proposing to boycott Israeli products from the Golan Heights in northern Israel, West Bank settlements and Jerusalem spaces that arrived here under Israel in 1967.
During his presidential campaign, many members of the network expressed fears about the boycott as demands condemning Israeli policies.
“We are, of course, in a position to settle for moderate grievances about Israel, but what we hear from Boric is that Israel is a ‘genocidal’ and ‘murderous’ state,” said Gabriel Zaliasnik, a member of Chile’s Jewish community. Haaretz.
“To make matters worse, he blames our Jews for Israel’s actions. “
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