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The Israeli prime minister “expressed his condolences for those killed and injured in the war, and called for reaching a diplomatic solution in order to end the fighting.”
“It’s a real war ... my message to people is not to come this year,” says Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman.
The new graduates hope to return to Uman and offer their acquired skills in the region in light of the country’s new reality.
Report: A U.S. administration source assessed that Moscow had purchased Iran’s Mohajer-6 and Shahed-series UAVs.
The development seems to be an attempt to strengthen Russia’s defenses in its war with Ukraine
Another 4,200 Ukrainians who fled the conflict have been granted Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return.
Funding has gone towards emergency operational costs, temporary housing and transportation, security, humanitarian support and trauma assistance; and in Israel, aliyah and absorption.
As the war in Ukraine continues to expand six months after it began, Israeli aid organizations ramp up operations to help deal with the unprecedented humanitarian disaster.
Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk also contacted Israeli companies, requesting that they stop doing business in Russia.
Central Bureau of Statistics data show that 18,891 Russians and 12,175 Ukrainians moved to the Jewish state between Feb. 24, when Moscow initiated the war, and July 31.
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt served as chief rabbi of Moscow for more than 30 years until the morning after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, when he woke up to a frightening reality that reminded him of the “dark days of the Iron Curtain.”
“The truth is Israel’s government doesn’t know what will happen,” says an Israeli government source In the runup to August 19 hearing on the shuttering of the Agency in Russia.