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Israel’s US ambassador: Bennett no longer leading Ukraine-Russia mediation

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Domestic critics of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said he has lost focus on internal political considerations while taking on more international concerns, such as trying to intervene diplomatically in Russia’s nearly seven-week war...
More than 100 children who were evacuated to Israel and are currently living in the village of Nes Harim outside of Jerusalem celebrated their bar mitzvah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on April 11, 2022. Photo by Mendy Kurant.

Refugee orphan boys from Zhytomyr celebrate bar mitzvah at Western Wall

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Just weeks after being forced to flee their homes in the town of Zhytomyr, Ukraine, a group of 13-year-old boys participated in a bar mitzvah celebration at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Monday. The...
Przemyśl, Poland. Credit: Ferdziu via Wikimedia Commons.

Ukraine war refugees and aid workers to celebrate Passover seder in Poland

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Dozens of refugees from the Ukraine war, along with aid workers, have been invited to attend a multifaith Passover seder dinner for some 200 people on April 12 in Przemyśl, in southeastern Poland, to...
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan hosted a mock Passover seder at the United Nations on April 6, 2022. Photo by Shahar Azran.

Erdan leads mock Passover seder for UN ambassadors, invokes Ukrainian freedom

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Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan hosted an early Passover seder on Wednesday at the United Nations. About 50 ambassadors from countries all around the world, including the United States, Ukraine, Japan, Mexico,...
Israeli Aliyah and Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata (third from left) visits the Israeli civilian field hospital in Mostyska, western Ukraine, on April 7, 2022. Source: Twitter.

Israeli immigration minister visits Ukraine to boost ‘aliyah’

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Israeli Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata visited the Israeli field hospital in Mostyska on Thursday, together with a delegation of Jewish Agency and Keren Hayesod leaders. Tamano-Shata and the delegation landed in Poland on Wednesday, where...
Russian forces bombed a children's hospital and maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 9, 2022. Credit: armyinform.com.ua via Wikimedia Commons.

Lapid: Russian forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine

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Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said on Tuesday that Russian forces committed war crimes “against a defenseless civilian population.” He added to that by saying, “I strongly condemn these war crimes.” Speaking during a trilateral meeting in...
Harvesters work in the wheat field in Ukraine. Credit: zmeypetrov/Shutterstock.

War in Ukraine sparks food-security fears, experts say Israel needs national strategy

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The problem of national food security, which formerly preoccupied specialists, began to penetrate the world’s consciousness with COVID-19 supply disruptions, but it’s Russia’s war with Ukraine that has given governments a jolt. Ukraine, together...

Fleeing war, young Jewish Ukrainians and Russians find a new homeland

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At 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 26, as the first round of shelling began on her hometown of Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Valeriya Guseva received a flurry of text messages from her family and friends. “They all...
Damage after the explosion in Beirut in August 2020. Credit: Mahdi Shojaeian via Wikimedia Commons.

Food supplies in Arab world strained due to Ukraine war

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent food and energy prices soaring across the Middle East, as the two countries account for a third of global wheat and barley exports. “Even bread is not something we...
Doctors at the Israeli field hospital in Ukraine evaluating MRI images, March 2022. Photo by Naama Frank Azriel.

Healing strangers in the middle of a war zone

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For a moment, Yoel Har-Even was distracted. He was speaking via Zoom from Israel’s “Shining Star” field hospital in western Ukraine, and a siren had begun to wail outside. “Usually when we hear a siren,...