Tag: Ukraine
Netanyahu, Zelensky sign bilateral cooperation deal boosting Israel-Ukrainian ties
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed bilateral agreements on Monday, a day after the Israeli leader landed in Kiev for an official visit.
In a statement following the signing at...
Israel welcomes 121 new immigrants from Ukraine
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed 121 new immigrants (olim) from Ukraine on Monday morning at a reception held at the foot of their plane.
The olim, who arrived on a special flight organized by the...
Ukraine synagogue where Begin married gets first Torah scroll since World War II
The dedication of a Torah scroll at the restored Choral Synagogue took place on Wednesday in the Ukrainian town of Drohobych.
Yaakov Dov Bleich, the chief rabbi of Ukraine, dedicated a new Torah scroll together...
Ukrainian city plans to build residences atop mass Jewish grave
A mass grave of Jews murdered in the Holocaust has been sold by a Ukrainian city to a residential building developer who is planning to establish real estate projects on the site.
Some 5,000 Jews...
Conference in Kiev for JDC volunteers focuses on Jewish responsibility and identity
More than 250 Jewish volunteers and professionals from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s regional volunteer center network joined together in Kiev, Ukraine, for expert presentations, educational sessions and team-building exercises aimed at strengthening...
First Jewish president of Ukraine holds ‘historic’ meeting with community-based rabbis
Ukraine’s president-elect Volodymyr Zelensky held what was called a “historic” meeting on May 6 in Kiev with the six leading representatives of the country’s Jewish community.
The meeting with the chief rabbis of Ukraine’s six...
Carr ‘stunned’ by absence of anti-Semitism in Ukrainian presidential elections
U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Elan Carr said earlier this week that it was “stunning and unprecedented” that the Jewish identity of Ukraine’s newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, played no role...
In a landslide vote, Ukraine elects first Jewish president
In a landslide vote on Sunday, Ukraine elected its first Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky, making the country the first outside of Israel that will have both a Jewish president and prime minister.
Zelensky, 41, a...
No joke: Jewish comedian wins first round in Ukrainian presidential election
Despite a lack of political experience and policy specifics, Jewish comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy won the first round of voting in Ukraine’s presidential election on Sunday, leading against incumbent President Petro Poroshenko, though he fell...
Israel and Ukraine sign bilateral free-trade agreement
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Jerusalem on Monday, as Economy and Industry Minister Eli Cohen and Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Minister Stepan Kubiv signed a bilateral...