Foreign Ministry says no expectation of mass immigration of Ukraine Jews amid fears of Russian invasion

By Tal Schneider

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24 January 2022, 4:45 pm

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Tal Schneider is a Political Correspondent at The Times of Israel

Immigrants from Ukraine arriving in Israel on February 25, 2019. (Noam Moshkowitz/Inernational Fellowship of Christians and Jews)

The Foreign Ministry denies a report that it’s preparing for the possibility that thousands of Ukrainian Jews will seek to emigrate to Israel in the event of a Russian invasion of the country.

An official in the ministry tells The Times of Israel that a Sunday Haaretz report on the matter was false.

According to the official, Israel is now looking into how the possible invasion might impact the roughly 10,000 Israelis residing in Ukraine, though Jerusalem has not yet issued any travel warnings, even as the Biden administration is preparing to evacuate its diplomats.

Any matter of Jewish immigration from Ukraine will be handed by the Jewish Agency, the official says.