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Israelis in Ukraine

Jewish men seen outside the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, October 1, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 1, 2024, 5:40 pm
Trading one war for another, Israeli Jews stream to Ukraine’s Uman for Rosh Hashanah
Ignoring warnings from authorities about ongoing Russian invasion, over 14,000 pilgrims arrive for annual new year festival at grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: In addition to no heat and light in Chernivtsi, lack of electricity means lack of TV and radio use, along with spotty internet service. (Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images via JTA)
December 17, 2022, 4:41 pm
In Ukraine, Hanukkah candles are a lifeline in the midst of power outages
As Israeli emissaries of Conservative Judaism arrive with supplies in the western city of Chernivtsi, they find fellow Jews in the cold and dark hoping for a miracle to end the war
By Steve Lipman
Rabbi Shaul Horowitz, right, meets a Jewish refugee attending service at the synagogue of Vinnytsia, Ukraine in June 2022. (Courtesy of Shaul Horowitz/ via JTA)
July 24, 2022, 5:29 am
How Russia’s war is undoing 30 years of Jewish community building in Ukraine
While the post-Soviet era has seen a gradual reawakening of communal life for the tens of thousands of Ukrainian Jews, the once-bustling synagogues and centers are now eerily quiet
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Vladimir Kozlovsky displays his Israeli ID card in a video apparently taken after he was taken captive by pro-Russian forces in Luhansk after fighting for the Ukrainian army, June 30, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)
June 30, 2022, 8:59 pm
Israeli citizen fighting for Ukraine taken captive by pro-Russian forces in Luhansk
Foreign Ministry says it is aware of status of Vladimir Kozlovsky, seen in video filmed and distributed by separatists showing his Israeli ID card
By ToI Staff
Evacuees from Mariupol wait at the Zaporizhzhya State Circus for transportation to other locations in the city of Zaporizhzhia on March 16, 2022. (Emre CAYLAK / AFP)
March 22, 2022, 12:17 pm
‘They’re firing from air, sea’: Israeli describes fleeing besieged city of Mariupol
Romaz, now in Poland, intends to head to Israel; says Ukrainian forces have managed to keep the Russian military from taking over the port city
By ToI Staff and AP
Tatiana Kumok and her father Mikhail (Tatiana Kumok's Facebook page)
March 21, 2022, 4:57 pm
3 Israelis in Ukraine freed by Russians after arrest for ‘making noise’ about war
Kumok family was arrested by soldiers in Melitopol. They told Tatiana Kumok, ‘We came from Russia to free Ukrainians from the Nazis’; she told them to ‘Google what real Nazis are’
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
A Jewish man looks at the buildings near to the synagogue of Uman, central Ukraine, on March 9, 2022. (Daphne ROUSSEAU / AFP)
March 16, 2022, 7:44 am
Devout Jews in war-torn Ukraine stay to pray as they await the ‘apocalypse’
In Uman, burial site of revered Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, some 30 faithful attempt to keep to their routines, while gathering supplies and preparing for when the war reaches them
By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU
The Israeli passport of a girl who, along with her mother, were held at Ben Gurion Airport after fleeing Ukraine and told they could be sent back, March 10, 2022. (Channel 12 Screenshot)
March 10, 2022, 11:11 pm
Israeli girl and mom, fleeing Ukraine, held at airport, told they could be sent back
Father, an Israeli citizen, reportedly told to pay large security deposit, despite measure being halted; after TV report, Shaked orders pair be immediately let in, without payment
By ToI Staff
Israelis board a bus outside Israel’s honorary consulate in Lviv, to take them to the Polish border, on March 2, 2022. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
March 10, 2022, 7:03 pm
Foreign Ministry says nearly 11,000 Israelis fled Ukraine, some 1,500 remain
Officials believe most still remaining don’t want to leave or can’t due to current military conscription laws
By ToI Staff
A work by Ukrainian-born Israeli artist Zoya Cherkassky showing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and sold in 'WithDraw the War: Art Fundraiser for Ukraine,' March 2022 (Courtesy WithDraw the War: Art Fundraiser for Ukraine)
March 9, 2022, 6:32 pm
For some Israeli artists from Ukraine and Russia, creativity is sole solace from war
As Ukrainian and Russian Israelis organize art fundraiser to help refugees, they also contemplate life far from their now-beleaguered homelands
By Jessica Steinberg
The Gershman family at Iasi Airport in Romania, March 3, 2022 (Times of Israel)
March 4, 2022, 12:09 am
‘I just want my kid to be ok’: After days of travel, Ukraine refugees land in Israel
Families leave their homes in face of Russian invasion, crossing into Moldova and then Romania before traveling to Israel
By Naomi Lanzkron
Footage said to show the moment Roman Brodky was shot dead while trying to flee Ukraine, broadcast on March 2, 2022 (Kan/Screen grab)
March 2, 2022, 3:11 pm
Footage shows Israeli’s car coming under Ukrainian fire in deadly mistaken identity
Report says Roman Brodsky now believed to have been killed by Ukrainian civilian defense militia; ‘How can you shoot without checking? Animals!’ exclaims his partner
By ToI Staff
Ukrainians prepare to board a bus to Poland at Lviv bus main station, western Ukraine, March 1, 2022 (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
March 2, 2022, 1:24 pm
Foreign Ministry to bus Israelis fleeing Ukraine from Lviv to Polish border
Officials say transportation will leave western Ukrainian city on Wednesday afternoon; some 3,000 Israelis still in Ukraine, around half of whom don’t want to leave
By Judah Ari Gross
A group of Ukrainian people in Bali and supporters hold posters to protest against the invasion of Russia in front of the Ukraine consulate office in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia on March 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
March 1, 2022, 2:03 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 1: A liberal world order awakens; ToI on site at Ukraine border
Lazar Berman reports from Polish refugee center; Haviv Rettig Gur on Putin supporters and rise of a new West; and Sue Surkes brings personal stories of Ukrainian Jews under fire
By ToI Staff
Roman Brodsky, an Israeli-Ukrainian man killed in Ukraine, on February 28, 2022. (Courtesy)
February 28, 2022, 9:31 pm
Israeli man shot dead as convoy escaping Kyiv comes under mistaken Ukrainian fire
Parents of Roman Brodsky, 37, say their son was heading for Israel and was mistaken for Russian-supporting Chechen forces, blame Putin for his death
By Judah Ari Gross
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