Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine complained when a local police force demanded the names, addresses and mobile phone numbers of all Jews in the municipality.
The Jewish people’s response is demonstrated by ‘standing here today, wearing a pin with a blue, not a yellow, Star of David and representing the State of Israel,’ said Israel’s ambassador.
The dedication of a Torah scroll at the restored Choral synagogue in Ukraine, where late PM Menachem Begin married his beloved Aliza, took place last week.
Organized by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, the flight took off soon after the death of the organization’s founder and driving force.
Two men and two women from the Carpathian Mountains region were detained earlier this week in connection with the attack on Rabbi Mendel Deitsch, which took place in Zhitomir, Ukraine.
You can’t say history doesn’t have a sense of humor – while most Jews are fleeing Ukraine because of war and rabid anti-Semitism, the country has appointed a Jew to head it.
A Member of Knesset visited Russian-annexed Crimea without permission from Kiev, angering Ukrainian officials. Israel’s foreign ministry says it was done without their prior knowledge.
The government of Ukraine has warned Israeli citizens that visit Russian occupied Crimea and companies that work on the peninsula without permission from the Ukrainian government that it may impose sanctions on them