In Catholic Argentina, Javier Milei embraces Judaism

Mr Milei, who calls himself an “anarcho-capitalist”, has not officially converted to Judaism, but says he goes to synagogue and studies the Torah. His embrace of Orthodox Judaism is unusual for a global leader, and even more so in Argentina, where until 1994 the constitution required a president to be Catholic. The country’s Jewish community, 171,000-strong, is South America’s biggest and the world’s fifth largest. But it forms a small minority of Argentina’s 46m people.