Overview

• Yair Netanyahu wrote on X, in Spanish, that he recognizes the Islas Malvinas as part of Argentina, then followed minutes later with an image of the Argentine and Israeli flags and a heart.
• Argentine officials close to President Javier Milei, including religious affairs secretary Nahuel Sotelo and Buenos Aires legislator Agustín Romo, publicly applauded the messages.
• Israel’s embassy, citing the Rosh Hashana holiday, said it had no official information to share and noted the post did not come from an official account.
• Coverage underscores that Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister’s son, holds no government position despite his high-profile and often combative social-media presence.
• The statements came days after the United Kingdom moved to recognize Palestinian statehood, a step Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as an enormous prize for terrorism, and on the eve of a planned Milei–Netanyahu meeting reported by Clarín.