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Russia says it thwarted ISIS attack on Moscow shul

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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday that it thwarted a planned ISIS terrorist attack on a synagogue in Moscow. The Islamic State cell, based in Kaluga, 93 miles southwest of the capital, planned to attack...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, Sept. 9, 2021. Source: Yair Lapid/Twitter.

Lapid in Moscow: Israel reserves right to act against Iran to prevent nukes

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Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said during a state visit to Moscow on Thursday that the Jewish state reserves the right to act to stop Iran’s nuclear program. After meeting with his counterpart, Russian Foreign...
Irina Shur. Credit: Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.

Holocaust survivor stabbed to death in Moscow apartment

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A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor was discovered stabbed to death last week in her apartment in Moscow. An unidentified 69-year-old woman was arrested in connection with the murder of Irina Shur, a former professor at the...
A young immigrant to Israel arrives from Moscow as coronavirus cases have increased in Russia and flattened in Israel, May 19, 2020. Photo by Svetlana Soroka.

Aliyah increases in midst of coronavirus pandemic

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The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem is currently supporting the Jewish Agency for Israel and Keren Hayesod with bringing an unexpected wave in aliyah amid the coronavirus  pandemic. It has already sponsored flights for 601 Jewish immigrants since...
Yaffa Issachar, mother of Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American woman jailed in Russia on marijuana charges, speaks to the media at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport on Jan. 19, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Mother of Israeli woman jailed in Russia hopes Putin will soon grant a pardon

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The mother of an Israeli-American woman currently serving a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence in Russia on drug charges expressed hope on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will grant her daughter a pardon. “I came because...
Naama Issachar, 26, was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in a Russian prison after 9.5 grams of cannabis were found in her luggage during a stopover in Moscow, Oct. 11, 2019. Source: Screenshot.

Russia: No deal for release of jailed Israeli-American woman being considered

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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeny Ivanov said on Tuesday that a prisoner-exchange deal for an Israeli-American woman being held in Russia on drug charges is not being considered. “As far as I know, an exchange...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Russian president Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 11, 2018. Photo by Kobi Gideon.

Moscow’s trouble with Israelis has a deeper meaning

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Israel has long had a complicated relationship with Russia. As an ally of some of the Jewish state’s fiercest enemies, such as Iran and Syria, Jerusalem interacts with Moscow carefully and purposefully, walking a...
Five glass flasks with candles are installed at the monument. Credit: Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center.

Memorial for concentration camp and ghetto resistance fighters unveiled in Moscow

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the unveiling ceremony for a new memorial dedicated to the heroes of the resistance movement in concentration camps and ghettos during World War II. The memorial is housed in...
A rabbi examines damage to the Torat Chaim yeshivah, the largest yeshivah in Moscow, following an arson attack just hours prior to the Passover holiday on April 19, 2019. Courtesy: Torah Chaim.

Jewish leaders condemn pre-Passover arson attack on Moscow’s largest yeshivah

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Following an arson and defacement attack on the biggest yeshivah in Moscow, Jewish organizations expressed their belief that Russian officials would succeed in bringing the perpetrators to justice and protecting the Jewish community. “Over the next two...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on July 11, 2018. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Netanyahu shortens Russia trip in advance of upcoming indictment announcement

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shortened his trip to Russia, where he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Iran’s activates in Syria, despite fraying relations between Jerusalem and Moscow. This...