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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 589

Israel-Belarus relations

Then-Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata, center, in blue coat, welcomes new immigrants from Ukraine at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, in an undated photo distributed by the Immigration and Absorption Ministry on July 6, 2022. (Courtesy: Naga Malasa)
April 21, 2023, 11:00 pm
Israel ends expedited immigration track for Russians and Belarusians fleeing war
Immigration Ministry will maintain fast-tracked program for Ukrainians and special cases, but says it wants to focus on absorbing the massive wave of people who arrived last year
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Maya Reiten speaks to Channel 12 news in an interview aired on January 8, 2021. (Screen capture: Channel 12)
January 9, 2022, 2:30 am
‘So degrading’: Israeli woman recalls detention in Belarus for cannabis possession
Maya Reiten, who was jailed over medical marijuana in her bag, says she lost track of time until she saw Hanukkah festivities on TV: ‘Each day I drew the candle… and blessed it’
By ToI Staff
Israeli Maya Reiten and her brother after her release from prison in Belarus, December 30, 2021 (courtesy)
December 30, 2021, 10:15 pm
Israeli freed by Belarus after over a month in prison for medical cannabis in bag
Maya Reiten was held over 2.5 grams of medical marijuana; president, foreign and finance ministers personally appealed for her release
By ToI Staff
Israeli lawyer Maya Reiten. (Facebook)
December 8, 2021, 12:28 am
‘I won’t last much longer’: Lawyer begs for gov’t help after 1 month in Belarus jail
Maya Rayten-Stol, who was caught with 2.5 grams of medical marijuana at Minsk airport, says she’s in excruciating pain and facing tough conditions at Pishchalauski Castle prison
By ToI Staff
Israeli lawyer Maya Reiten. (Facebook)
November 28, 2021, 10:45 am
Israeli held in Belarus on suspicion of smuggling in 2.5 grams of medical marijuana
Lawyer Maya Rayten-Stol was arrested in Minsk airport 3 weeks ago; Foreign Ministry says Israeli ambassador visited her in jail
By ToI Staff
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks with people after the wreath laying ceremony at Mound of Glory war memorial marking Independence Day, on the outskirts of the capital Minsk, Belarus, July 3, 2021. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)
July 7, 2021, 1:37 am
Israel slams ‘unacceptable’ remarks by Belarus leader that world bows to Jews
Foreign Ministry says it has summoned Belarusian chargé d’affaires to express anger over comments by Lukashenko at WWII memorial; embassy claims comments ‘distorted’ by media
By ToI Staff and JTA
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during an award ceremony in Minsk, Belarus, on July 2, 2021. (Vladimir Martsul/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)
July 4, 2021, 3:37 pm
Rivlin congratulates authoritarian leader of Belarus on its independence day
Israeli president apparently one of few Western leaders to send letter to Lukashenko, who ordered major crackdown after election seen as rigged, arrested dissident journalist
By ToI Staff and AP
Shmuel Yefimovich Plavnik, better known by his pen name Zmitrok Byaduli. (Wikemedia commons)
November 6, 2020, 12:34 pm
Long-dead Jewish poet given Christian reburial in Belarus
Shmuel Yefimovich Plavnik, better known by his pen name Zmitrok Byaduli, died in Khazakstan in 1941; his remains were repatriated to Belarus 79 years later
By JTA and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A policeman talks to travelers in the departure area at Frankfurt airport, central Germany (Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa via AP)
August 16, 2018, 9:05 pm
Israeli arrested in Germany over 1993 Belarus murder
Frankfurt airport officers detain Alan Levitt, on vacation with his son, after Interpol issues warrant over decades-old incident; lawyer says he could face execution if extradited
By Michael Bachner
Illustrative photo of a prostitute in Tel Aviv (Flash90)
July 22, 2018, 4:10 pm
Police nab 7 in undercover sting of prostitution-trafficking network
Working jointly with Interpol and Belarussian authorities, officials break up suspected ring that brought young women to Israel to work in the sex trade
By ToI Staff
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, right, and his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad are seen during a meeting in Minsk, Belarus, Monday, July 26, 2010. (AP/Nikolai Petrov, BelTA)
September 15, 2017, 9:47 am
Under the radar, Belarus seen quietly helping Assad boost missile program
Analyst Ronen Solomon links Minsk to Syrian military facility allegedly bombed by Israel this month
By Judah Ari Gross
Russian-Ukrainian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin, seen in a September 2014 video. (Screen capture: YouTube)
February 8, 2017, 2:37 am
Belarus extradites Israeli blogger to Azerbaijan
Alexander Lapshin was turned over to Baku after Supreme Court rejected his appeal
By ToI Staff
Russian-Ukrainian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin, seen in a September 2014 video. (Screen capture: YouTube)
February 7, 2017, 4:31 pm
Belarus upholds extradition of Israeli blogger to Azerbaijan
Alexander Lapshin could be turned over to Baku authorities as early as Tuesday after second appeal rejected by court
By Tamar Pileggi
Mateh Yehuda Regional Council head Moshe Dadon (screen capture: YouTube)
December 21, 2016, 9:03 pm
Police seek rape charges for local council leader
Complex case also involves Israeli building contractor appointed honorary consul to Israel by Belarus last month
By Sue Surkes
Residents of Vishnyeva gather outside Shimon Peres’s childhood home to pay their respects on the day of his death, September 28, 2016. (Courtesy of Limmud FSU)
September 28, 2016, 11:06 pm
In Belarus, locals pay respects at Peres’s childhood home
Nobel laureate and ex-president, who lost family members when Nazis reached Vishnyeva, ‘brought pride to our village through his life and accomplishments’
By JTA
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