Guatemala

Grapevine, July 31, 2026: Common sense and compassion

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

MK Mansour Abbas speaks during a 40 signatures debate at the Knesset.
 A GROUP of Jewish schoolgirls finish their tour of the City of David National Park excavations.

Guatemala to recognize Jerusalem’s City of David as part of its national heritage

(L-R) Chairman of Selection Committee, The Genesis Prize Foundation, David Hatchwell, Argentinian President Javier Milei, and Josh Reinstein, President of the Israel Allies Foundation.

Lawmakers from 12 Latin American countries back Isaac Accords, Jerusalem embassy move

Paraguayan Ambassador Alejandro Rubin Cymerman (L) with President Isaac Herzog at his Jerusalem residence, 2024.

Grapevine: Paraguay’s ambassador brings longstanding pro-Israel ties to Jerusalem


Grapevine March 4, 2020: Diplomatic exodus

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

MARIO BUCARO

Starbucks coffee bean farms employing children 'as young as eight'

A human right's lawyer privy to the documentary footage proclaims that the evidence suggests both companies are in breach of international labor laws.

A Starbucks sign is show on one of the companies stores in Los Angeles, California, U.S. October 19,2018

New Guatemalan president to keep embassy in Jerusalem

Giammatei said he would designate Hezbollah a terrorist organization, recognizing that it is an Iranian proxy that seeks to destroy Israel

Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis and new Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammetei

Guatemala loves Israel – the inside story

A demonstrator holds a balloon with an image depicting Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales as a clown during a protest against Guatemala's his decision to not renew the mandate of the U.N.-backed anti-graft commission, the International Commission Against Impunity (CICIG), in Guatemala City, Guatema

Guatemala's Giammattei: Time to recognize Jewish people's right to Israel

The president-elect, in town on an official visit and in support of the Israel Allies Foundation annual event, visited with local leaders and planted a tree through KKL-JNF in the Hula Valley.

Alejandro Giammattei plants a tree with KKL-JNF world chairman Daniel Atar

Statistics show apathy in Israel towards people with disabilities

Although there has been a significant improvement in attitudes towards people with disabilities, the statistics presented by Oren Helman's Sikuy Shaveh (Equal Chance) were troubling.

Israeli citizens with disabilities renew their protest to receive improved benefits.

Pres.-elect to 'Post': Guatemala will designate Hezbollah a terror org.

Giammattei also said that he would reconsider his country's policy on Israeli settlements, potentially aligning it with the new US policy: settlements are not illegal.

Guatemala's president-elect, Alejandro Giammattei, speaks at an Israel Allies Foundation conference, December 9 2019

Guatemalan president to Israeli president: Your enemies are my enemies

Rivlin asked Giammattei whether he would also be meeting with the Palestinian leadership during his visit, and the reply was a definite "no."

President Reuven Rivlin with President-elect Alejandro Giammattei of Guatemala, December 8, 2019.

Meet the Ambassador: Guatemala's Mario Bucaro

Bucaro is his country’s 21st ambassador to Israel, but the first to serve in Jerusalem in the second millennium.

Mario Bucaro

A Guatemalan asylum seeker is sheltered in a Washington state synagogue

Beth Hatfiloh is the only synagogue in the United States known to be sheltering an undocumented immigrant, according to T’ruah, a liberal rabbinic human rights group.

A girl looks at the camera during an event marking the Jewish holiday of Purim at the Bialik Rogozin school, where children of migrant workers and refugees are educated alongside native Israelis, in Tel Aviv, Israel March 10, 2017.