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Diaspora minister: ‘Emergency immigration’ must be offered to Ukrainian Jews if Russia attacks

Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai attends the Jewish People's Lobby, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on November 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai says Israel must begin readying plans for the “emergency immigration” of Jews from Ukraine in case of a Russian invasion.
“Israel is the national home of the Jewish people. If the Jewish community in Ukraine encounters hardship as a result of a conflict between Russia and Ukraine, we must offer them an immediate solution of emergency immigration to Israel, now,” Shai writes on Twitter.
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