Eastern Europe
President Alar Karis has called for an increase in NATO troop numbers in his country amid tensions with Russia.
“We know what it means to defend one’s own state and land with weapons in hand at the cost of our own lives,” said Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Both Ukrainians and Jews value freedom, and they work equally for the future of our states to become to our liking and not the future others want for us. Israel is often an example for Ukraine.”
President Vladimir Putin’s bluffing “is extremely dangerous,” warns Dima Course, a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Ariel University. “Every provocation from any side, every mistake on the ground, can provoke a major clash with unpredictable consequences.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has preconditions regarding security and defense cooperation to be worked out first.
“Jews and Ukrainians are united by more than a thousand-year history, and this history has a lot to teach us about the challenges we face today,” said president of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine Boris Lozhkin, specifically noting anti-Semitism and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The community’s Chief Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki said the incident was not typical in an area with a significant Jewish population.
Vertical Field’s indoor farm is a mobile unit that grows leafy greens such as lettuce, spinach and basil.
Private Martin Davidovich was killed in a training accident in 1948 during a parachuting course held by the Czech Brigade.
Over the years, a number of attempts were, in fact, made to commemorate the victims—most of whom were Jewish, though thousands of Roma, mental patients, POWs, Soviet prisoners and Ukrainian dissidents were killed there as well by the Nazis.
The inauguration of its national pavilion came a day after the signing of the largest agreement to date between the Israeli and Czech ministries.
“The majority of killers were German. We have a few names of Ukrainians, but they played secondary roles for the simple reason that the Germans wanted to steal the Jews’ belongings. A genocide is a killing, but it is also stealing,” said Father Patrick Desbois.
It’s part of an agreement for developing and bolstering Estonian coastal defense capabilities.
