The Eichmann Kidnapping: Its Effects on Argentine-Israeli Relations and the Local Jewish Community

The Centrality of Events, Religion, Spirituality, and Subjective Well-Being in Latin American Jewish Immigrants in Israel

“…Although ideological, political, and religious reasons for aliyah have featured emphatically in the academic literature ( Babis, 2016 ), Latin Americans’ motivations to migrate to Israel frequently include financial and political factors, and anti-Semitism ( Rein, 2010 , 2013 ; Siebzehner, 2010 , 2016 ; Klor, 2016 ). For example, the cyclical behavior of the Argentine economy and the 2-year anti-Semitic campaign that followed the kidnapping of Eichmann contributed to a surge in the number of Argentine immigrants to Israel in 1963 ( Rein, 2001 ) and, besides the impact of anti-Semitism on migrants’ decisions, most were seriously affected by the country’s economic fluctuations, recessions, and currency devaluations ( Krupnik, 2020 ). Political persecution during military regimes in some Latin American countries, like Argentina and Chile, has also been flagged as factors that influenced this immigration during the 1970s ( Babis, 2016 ).…”