Eastern Europe
“It took U.S. experts too much time to realize that the Russian war against Ukraine is our war,” Ukraine-born historian Yohanan Petrovsky-Stern told JNS.
Ona Jablonskytė-Landsbergienė saved a 7-year-old Jewish girl during the Holocaust.
Many of the recruits are reportedly members of Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas’s ruling Fatah faction.
The Russian invasion put Diana Bukman back in touch with her ex-husband in Israel. It also sent her former colleague across the world to Richmond, Va.
On the ground, Internet access and cash are luxuries, and “life happens between sirens,” Inna Vdovichenko, JDC’s representative in Odessa, told JNS.
The group has already distributed more than $30 million and helped 5,000 Jews immigrate to Israel.
One synagogue banned discussions about the war on its WhatsApp group.
“Israel must side with Ukraine against the dangerous combination of Russia and Iran,” member of Knesset Yuli Edelstein said.
It was one of the largest rescue operations in history, said the Jewish Agency head.
More than 5,000 olim have made aliyah from Moldova since the start of the war.
Jerusalem’s top diplomat is on a solidarity visit to Kyiv ahead of the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion.
“I came to say that Israel stands by Ukraine and the Ukrainian people in its difficult hour,” said Eli Cohen.
