Eastern Europe
After 14 years of responding to global catastrophes, Yotam Polizer says that the Ukraine situation is the worst he’s ever seen.
“There is no country that can open its gates to anyone who wants without any restrictions,” says Ayelet Shaked.
“This is the least we can do to help the Ukrainian people in the face of a brutal Russian invasion,” says Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz.
Most of the refugees at the Dacia Marin recreation center plan to immigrate to Israel in the coming weeks.
“This is a challenge for the State of Israel, but it is a challenge we have met in the past, time and again,” said Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
Protesters hold a moment of silence for Ukrainian civilians and soldiers who have died in the fighting and denigrate Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hebrew, Ukrainian, Russian, and English.
“It is our moral duty to increase humanitarian aid and extend assistance to the people of Ukraine,” says Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz.
The prime minister visited the chancellor following a three-hour talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s visit was coordinated with the United States, Germany and France, his office said.
“I don’t believe what I’m seeing,” says Benny Hadad, director of Aliyah and absorption for the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. “I was in this place a month ago on a routine visit from Odessa to Chisinau. Everything was pastoral and quiet, and suddenly it looks like a world war.”
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, who spoke to reporters at a press conference from a secret location in Kyiv on Thursday, said that he had hoped the Israeli government would be more supportive.
The U.N. General Assembly resolution saw a region with divergent interests take a unified, though often pressurized, stance on the conflict.
