The idea sounds audacious even for Middle East diplomacy: A web of “Isaac accords” that would bind Israel to half a dozen Latin American democracies, mirroring – and, if Rabbi Shimon Axel Wahnish has his way, one-upping – the 2020 Abraham Accords in the Gulf .

Yet the soft-spoken rabbi who now serves as Buenos Aires’ envoy in Jerusalem insists the moment is ripe. If the Abraham Accords began in the desert, why shouldn’t the next chapter start in the Pampas?

We are seated in Rehavia in what was once an Ottoman-era manor and is now the official Argentine ambassador’s residence – a year-old move from Herzliya that quietly placed a diplomatic flag inside Israel’s capital even before President Javier Milei fulfills his headline promise to shift the embassy itself to Jerusalem.

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