On February 3, Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, issued an unusual apology. Two weeks prior, Israel had hosted the Fifth World Holocaust Forum, a gathering of world leaders to remember the Holocaust and combat anti-Semitism. At the event, Yad Vashem had screened several videos that it said it now regretted showing. These videos contained “inaccuracies,” Yad Vashem said in a statement, and a “partial presentation of facts” that created an “unbalanced impression.”
A serious man: Zelensky bids to address Ukraine’s dark past, brighten its future
Source: Times of IsraelPosted On: January 20th, 2020
Posted In: Ukraine-Israel Relations Ahead of this week’s visit to Israel, comedian who became a corruption-battling president discusses everything from Babi Yar, the Holocaust and the Holodomor, to Putin… and Trump.
Netanyahu may reassess his role as a possible mediator between Russia and Ukraine
Posted On: August 1st, 2019
Posted In: Ukraine-Israel Relations Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Israel’s bloggers on the evening of 30 July 2019 in the informal setting of the Yudale Bar in Rishon Le-Zion. Only 8 of the 25 participants were able…
Israel-Ukraine: Intensifying partnership in higher education
Posted On: July 18th, 2019
Posted In: Ukraine-Israel Relations The Israeli-Ukrainian educational forum “EduMission-2019″ was an important event for the intensification of direct cooperation between the universities of the two countries. Representatives of eight Ukrainian universities met with their Israeli counterparts at the end…
New adviser to the Prime Minister of Israel is well acquainted with Ukrainian-Jewish themes
Posted On: June 21st, 2019
Posted In: Ukraine-Israel Relations This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed attorney Ariel Bulstein to be his special adviser on immigrants from the countries of the former USSR. This appointment took place for the first time after a…
Poroshenko in Israel: free trade, friendship, and memory
Posted On: January 28th, 2019
Posted In: Ukraine-Israel Relations Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko once again flew to Israel on 20-21 January 2019. This was his third visit to the Jewish state, three years and a month after his first visit in December 2015, and…
Israeli volunteers gave to widows and children of Ukrainian fallen fighters a crucial repose
Posted On: August 27th, 2018
Posted In: Ukraine-Israel Relations The Israeli Friends of Ukraine NGO, together with the Embassy of Ukraine to the State of Israel and UIA Airlines, conducted a rehabilitation and family camp for widows with children whose husbands died in the…
“Reforms are important for Ukraine, but they may not be the key to Trump”: Interview with the former Deputy Prime Minister of Israel
Posted On: August 15th, 2018
Posted In: Ukraine-Israel Relations The U.S. is providing military aid to Israel, but in contrast to NATO countries, they have never sent their troops to our country. In an interview published on the Segodnia website, Dan Meridor, the president…
UJE celebrates Israel’s 70th birthday
Posted On: May 28th, 2018
Posted In: Ukraine-Israel Relations The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter attended a lively event celebrating Israel’s 70th birthday on 25 April 2018. Over 400 guests attended the gathering, including Elaev Belotserkovsky, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Israel to Ukraine; Yuliya Goldenberg,…
New Israeli currency features notable Jewish figures from Ukraine
Posted On: December 4th, 2017
Posted In: Ukraine-Israel Relations The Government of Israel has issued new twenty- and fifty-shekel banknotes, having replaced two natives of Ukraine with two cultural figures also connected with Ukraine. The poet Rachel replaced Moshe Sharett (1894-1965), the first Foreign…