Israeli field hospital for Ukrainian refugees to be named after Golda Meir

Israel announced on Monday that it has officially approved a field hospital for refugees in Western Ukraine. Read more

Operation Returning Home

Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has the start of  Operation ‘Returning Home’ to bring the Jews of Ukraine, who are in danger, and Jews from the surrounding area. Read more

‘Israel is your home,’ Israeli premier tells Ukrainian Masa participants

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with participants in the Masa Israel Journey program from Ukraine at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. Read more

Israeli team rescues 100 Jewish orphans from Ukraine

More than 100 Jewish orphans from Ukraine crossed the border at the Siret crossing into Romania on Tuesday night, the end of an operation to save them from the war in the country. Read more

Ukrainian refugees to arrive in Israel on Sunday

Over 300 Jewish olim (immigrants) fleeing Ukraine will arrive in Israel on Sunday in a joint operation led by the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, The Jewish Agency for Israel and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ). Read more

Israeli lawmaker to Ukraine Jews: ‘our home is your home’

Ukrainian Jews “should consider [Israel] a national home, mainly in times of crisis,” and of Israel “should be prepared to absorb them in the best possible manner,” Member of Knesset Alex Kushnir stated during Monday’s meeting of the Finance Committee on immigration to Israel from Ukraine. Read more

UN should use Israel-bashing model to oust Russia from Ukraine

The United Nations (UN) General Assembly needs to stop its pious bleating and move to immediately set up a network of Ukrainian-dedicated agencies to try and force Russia to end its invasion and occupation of Ukraine – adopting the same model it has established in trying to force Israel’s withdrawal from Judea and Samaria (West Bank) over the last 50 years. Read more

Death

Last week’s article about Organ Donation got me thinking about death and to what extent it matters and to whom. And the invasion of Ukraine made me wonder what is worth dying for. Read more

Ukraine’s Jewish community on edge as Russia invades country

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recognition on Feb. 21 of two “breakaway” states in eastern Ukraine and his subsequent dispatch of “peacekeepers” there—considered by Western nations to be an official invasion of the country—has left its citizens and particularly the Jewish communities on edge. Throughout Ukraine, Jewish leaders are watching closely, and many have made contingency plans in the event the situation worsens. Read more

Rabbi in Ukraine assists Jewish residents who want to leave for Israel

“After a tense Shabbat, tonight was relatively quiet, and I hope this is a sign of things to come, despite the fact that gunfire has already resumed,” said Aryeh Schwartz, a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi in Donetsk, Ukraine. Read more

After relocating envoy to Lviv, Israel calls on its citizens to leave Ukraine immediately

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid spoke on Tuesday with Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodsky and embassy staff who recently arrived at the city of Lviv, after leaving Kyiv overnight. Read more

Why we should care about the fate of Ukraine

It’s difficult to know where exactly the crisis over a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine will end. Read more

Israel calls on its citizens to leave Ukraine immediately, prepares for emergency evacuations

The Israeli Foreign Ministry has elevated its travel warning to Ukraine and has called on Israeli citizens to leave the country immediately, following a situational assessment that took place Saturday and as the US warned Russia will invade the country in the coming days. Read more

Ukraine’s Jewish community in danger as Russian troops, supplies mass at border

A possibly imminent invasion by Russian troops into Ukrainian territory has the world on edge as leaders and experts try to guess Russian President Vladimir Putin’s next steps and prevent what could become the largest military action in Europe since World War II. Read more

How the West’s appeasement mentality brings not peace, but war

As the Ukraine crisis continues, one question, in particular, poses itself: How can it be that having defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War, the West is now unable to get the better of the leader of the bankrupt kleptocracy that replaced communism in Russia? Read more

Israelis in Kyiv asked to contact Foreign Ministry amid Ukraine-Russia tensions

Israel’s Foreign Ministry and the Israeli Embassy in Kyiv have asked Israelis in the country to provide them with contact information, apparently in preparation for a possible military confrontation between Russia and Ukraine. Some 3,000 people have answered the call thus far. Read more

Israeli ministries meet to plan possible airlift of Ukrainian Jews if Russia attacks

Top Israeli government officials and leaders of Jewish organisations held a meeting on Sunday to discuss the possibility of evacuating Jews from Ukraine if Russia invades. Read more

Give them a medal

Medals are usually awarded to individuals or groups for outstanding achievements and for making a positive impact on society in general. Read more

Herzog meets the Ukrainian community

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has met members of the Ukrainian Jewish communities. Read more

Isaac Herzog to travel to Ukraine for first state visit as Israel’s president

Israeli President Isaac Herzog will head to Ukraine next week for the first state visit of his presidency, according to an official statement. Read more

Despite travel bans, nine Jewish immigrants from Ukraine arrive in Israel

Skies have shut down around the world and global travel bans were imposed by governments due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, but Aliyah to Israel is continuing as another nine Jewish Olim (immigrants) from Ukraine arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport early on Monday morning on a flight arranged by the Jewish Agency for Israel and sponsored by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ). Read more

Ukrainian parliament marks Holocaust Remembrance Day for first time in history

For the first time in its history, the Ukrainian parliament referred to locally as “Verkhovna Rada,” marked both International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Read more

Putin, Ukraine and the Jews…writes Isi Leibler

The international crisis created by Putin’s military incursion into Crimea has also served to highlight again Russia’s relationship to the Jews. Read more

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