Argentina's national soccer team will play against Israel in a pre-World Cup friendly international match on June 9, the Israel Football Association announced on Wednesday.
The venue for the match is still to be set, the IFA said in its statement.
Since Israel abandoned the aging National Stadium in Tel Aviv, major international games have been played either in Haifa or Jerusalem.
"Discussions will continue in the coming days to finalize the contractual details for signing," the statement said.
Twice the world champion (in 1978 and 1986), Argentina has drawn Group D for the coming World Cup in Russia. It will open by playing against Iceland in Moscow on June 16, followed by games against Croatia in Nizhny Novgorod on June 21 and against Nigeria in St. Petersburg on June 26.
Argentina has made four previous pre-World Cup stopovers in Israel starting in 1986, when it won 7-2 on its way to winning the trophy in Mexico. It also won on its next two visits to Israel, in 1990 (2-1) and 1994 (3-0), but then lost 2-1 in 1998.
