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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 646

Russians in Israel

An illustrative photo of a hacking concept. (Sergey Shulgin on iStock via Getty Images)
December 20, 2024, 11:24 pm
US charges Israeli-Russian for involvement in notorious ransomware group
Rostislav Panev, 51, awaits extradition to US after August arrest in Israel; Lockbit collective he’s allegedly linked to is accused of extorting over $500 million in recent years
By Susan Heavey and AJ Vicens
Aleksandr 'Shura' Uman, left, and Egor Bortnik perform during the Bi-2 rock band concert in Moscow, Russia, December 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
February 1, 2024, 11:36 am
Dissident Russian rock band Bi-2 lands in Israel after deportation from Thailand
Bands members, four of whom are reportedly Israeli, arrested last week after concert in Phuket following suspected Kremlin pressure
By Melanie Lidman
An International Red Cross vehicle carrying Russian-Israeli hostage Roni Krivoi released by Hamas drives towards the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, ahead of a transfer to Israel on November 26, 2023. (Mohammed ABED / AFP)
November 29, 2023, 1:08 pm
Hamas to release two Russian hostages in act of ‘appreciation’ to Putin
Unclear whether the two also hold Israeli citizenship; Russian-Israeli citizen Roni Krivoi previously released following Kremlin intervention
By ToI Staff
Russian-Israeli Roni Krivoi is seen inside the International Red Cross vehicle at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt ahead of his transfer to Israel on November 26, 2023. (Screenshot)
November 27, 2023, 1:27 pm
Israeli-Russian released by Hamas had escaped for 4 days, was recaptured in Gaza
Elena Magid, Roni Krivoi’s aunt, says 25-year-old fled captors after building collapsed following IDF airstrikes but could not reach border
By ToI Staff
An undated photo of Elizabeth Tsurkov (from elizabeth-tsurkov.net)
July 5, 2023, 10:15 pm
Israeli researcher abducted in Iraq by radical Shiite militia
Elizabeth Tsurkov entered Iraq on her Russian passport in March, Prime Minister’s Office announces; says it holds Iraq ‘responsible for her fate and safety’
By Gianluca Pacchiani, Tal Schneider and Lazar Berman
A parking lot in central Jerusalem that will become a new Russian diplomatic complex. (Google Street View)
June 16, 2023, 4:54 pm
Russia to open embassy branch in Jerusalem as part of land deal with Israel
New complex will mostly provide consular services, in agreement that provides solution to longstanding dispute over plot
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Motl Gordon in Jerusalem. (Nathan Lazovnikov)
April 11, 2022, 4:00 am
Rabbi who fled Moscow: ‘Jewish life in Russia as I knew it was coming to an end’
When war in Ukraine broke out, Motl Gordon moved to Israel, where he’s working with Russian-speaking Jews ‘as they are’ to nurture a vision of an audaciously welcoming new diaspora
By David Stromberg
Demonstrators carry placards and flags during a protest outside the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv, Feb. 24, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 25, 2022, 9:40 pm
For some Russian-speaking Israelis, Putin is a hero; others would ‘kill the bastard’
‘I’d carve a Swastika into his forehead,’ one Ukrainian immigrant says of Russian leader, as expats display gamut of emotions on invasion
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A screenshot from Omer Adam's latest song, 'Kakdila,' which has been called racist by several prominent Israelis (Courtesy screenshot)
January 4, 2022, 11:56 am
Omer Adam’s new song ‘Kakdila’ called out for racist overtones
Released in time for Novy God, the Russian celebration of the New Year, song plays up stigmas about Russian Israeli women
By Jessica Steinberg
Shuba, or dressed herring, also known as 'herring under a fur coat.' (Rachel Ringler/ via JTA)
February 15, 2020, 12:50 pm
Russian comfort food is making a comeback in Israel
Though immigration from the former Soviet Union peaked in the 1990s, the cuisine is slowly — but surely — entering the Jewish state’s culinary mainstream
By Rachel Ringler
Illustrative: Jewish immigrants from Russia and Ukraine arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, January 30, 2018. (Photo: AP/Ariel Schalit)
September 22, 2019, 2:07 am
As Putin cracks down on democracy, Russian Jews increasingly moving to Israel
‘The Putin aliyah’? Immigration hits highs not seen since the early 2000s, as the Jewish state is seen as a haven from economic woes, crime, and rising illiberalism
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a conference of the Israeli Keren Hayesod foundation in Moscow on September 17, 2019. (Pavel Golovkin / POOL / AFP)
September 19, 2019, 10:40 pm
Putin says he considers Israel a Russian-speaking country
Israel is home to almost 2 million migrants from former Soviet states, Russian leader says, so countries share a ‘common family’
By JTA
Russian immigrants attend an event marking the 25th anniversary of the major wave of aliya from the former Soviet Union to Israel, at the Jerusalem Convention Center, on December 24, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 26, 2019, 7:05 am
Russians are coming… to the polls. Israeli politicians are finally waking up
Stats show that a strong but overlooked demographic is beginning to wield some clout at the ballot box, but if leaders want their vote, they’re going to have to give something back
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
Illustrative: The building of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in Jerusalem. (Flash90)
July 25, 2019, 1:19 pm
Israel’s rabbis making it harder for immigrants to prove Jewishness — advocate
Study by Itim and IDI shows number rejected by Chief Rabbinate on the rise, with DNA testing now being used on some, rather than halachic tradition of accepting people’s word
By Marcy Oster
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Yisrael Beytenu head, Avigdor Liberman, right. (Flash90)
July 11, 2019, 3:57 pm
In swipe at Liberman, PM says only he takes action to help Russian immigrants
Yisrael Beytenu head responds with derogatory quote about Netanyahu made by former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir in 2000
By ToI Staff
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