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.”
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
