Israeli Foreign Policy
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.
The move has stunned many inside and outside the IDF, both due to the unilateral nature of the decision and due to the choice of alternative destination.
“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.
The prime minister visited the chancellor following a three-hour talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
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 new immigrants are coming on three separate flights from Warsaw, Moldova and Romania, and will include 100 orphans from Lasi.
The NATAN mission is delivering food, hygiene products, medical and other relief supplies to some of the estimated 500,000 Ukrainian refugees fleeing the violence.
The Israeli leader said that the German chancellor’s visit, which comes amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as Germany and other world powers are engaged in talks with Iran over its nuclear program, comes at a “very fateful and sensitive time.”
Herzog was awarded Cyprus’s highest honor, the Grand Collar of the Order of Makarios III, as an expression of the strong friendship between the two countries.
