Ukraine's Azov Regiment visits Israel: 'Mariupol is our Masada'
Azov officer Ilya Samoilenko, one of the defenders of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, led the delegation to Israel.
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Azov officer Ilya Samoilenko, one of the defenders of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, led the delegation to Israel.
More Russian Jews have moved to Israel than Ukrainian because there is a 'feeling that the iron curtain is coming back' in Russia, said ex-Jewish Agency chief Natan Sharansky.
"If Israel does not give a clear political assessment of the Russian Federation, new phenomena such as the alliance between Russia and Iran will emerge."
“It’s a real war ... my message to people is not to come this year,” says Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman.
As part of its ‘de-Russification’ efforts, a Ukrainian body is calling for Kyiv streets to be renamed, including after nationalists who supported Nazi Germany. Israel's Yad Vashem has urged the country to avoid such a step