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Knesset member Idit Silman meets with Terem Medical Clinic's CEO Natan Applebaum. Credit: Terem.

Ukrainian refugees to receive free medical services in Israel

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Israel’s Terem Medical Clinics will be providing free treatment to Ukrainian refugees who do not qualify to join a health fund. Earlier this week, Knesset member Idit Silman (Yamina), who chairs the Knesset’s Health Committee,...
Israel prepares a field hospital at Sheba Medical Center that will be transported to Ukraine on March 5, 2022. Credit: Sheba Medical Center.

Israeli field hospital for Ukrainian refugees to be named after Golda Meir

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Israel announced on Monday that it has officially approved a field hospital for refugees in Western Ukraine. According to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the humanitarian mission—dubbed “Kochav Meir” in Hebrew (“Shining Star”)—is named after the late Israeli...
A group of 27 New York-based undergraduate students is heading to Vienna for a week to support Ukrainian refugees with plans to provide educational activities for children, sort donations, deliver supplies and help coordinate housing, March 13, 2022. Credit: Courtesy.

Yeshiva University students head overseas to assist Ukrainian refugees

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With more than 1.5 million Ukrainians fleeing to neighboring countries amid Russia’s invasion in what U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi calls the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II, a humanitarian...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu in Bucharest, Romania, March 13, 2022. Photo: Shlomi Amsalem/GPO.

Lapid meets Romanian counterpart in Bucharest to discuss Ukraine crisis

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Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met in Bucharest on Sunday with his Romanian counterpart, Bogdan Aurescu, to discuss the Ukraine crisis and the refugee issue. Following his meeting with Aurescu, Lapid was scheduled to...
Israeli National Insurance Institute director general Meir Spiegler in Jerusalem, Dec. 26, 2021. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Meir Spiegler to head Israeli task force for Ukraine refugee integration

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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano Shata announced on Monday the appointment of Meir Spiegler to head the National Task Force on the absorption of refugees from Ukraine, Russia and...
Construction on the new border wall system project near Yuma, Ariz., June 3, 2020. Credit: Jerry Glaser, U.S. Government Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Why is HIAS seeking to make America’s border crisis even worse?

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Over the weekend, President Joe Biden finally conceded that what was happening at America’s southern border is a “crisis,” a word that his administration had consistently refused to use when referring to the situation...
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The forgotten refugees of the Middle East

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Nov. 30 is the day Israel designates for commemorating the 850,000 Jews who fled from Arab countries and Iran following World War II. This year, like every year, the governments now ruling those lands...
Photos by Donald H. Harrison

Bus Station Project helps immigrant travelers

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While the political situation for asylum seekers who come to the United States’ southern border seemingly changes day by day, Mimi Pollack, 65, and Paula Sassi, 71, are among the few constants. Twice a week...
The Fiedler family poses in front of their home on Tongshan Road. UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM, COURTESY OF ERIC GOLDSTAUB

The Hidden History of Shanghai’s Jewish Quarter

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It’s common knowledge that as Hitler’s bid to rid the world of Jews escalated, so did the world’s refusal to let them in. What’s not well known is that when those borders, ports, doors, windows,...

Immigration official clarifies Israel’s plan to manage ‘delicate’ migrant deportations

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Professor Shlomo Mor-Yosef, director general of the Population and Immigration Authority at Israel’s Interior Ministry, said Israel’s policy of deporting illegal migrants is “nothing new.” “Last year, we asked more than 5,000 Europeans to leave...