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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 649

Siberia

FILE -- Two Russian Su-30 fighter jets take off taking part in a training mission in Krasnodar Region, Russia, Jan. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Vitaliy Timkiv)
October 23, 2022, 4:08 pm
2 Russian pilots killed as warplane crashes into Siberia building during exercise
Su-30 fighter jet falls on two-story wooden building, sparking fire; no reports of casualties on the ground in 11th reported noncombat crash since start of Ukraine invasion
By AP
Ruslan Zinin, 25, who shot and killed a Russian military officer at an enlistment office in the Siberian city of Ust-Ilimsk amid Moscow's efforts to mobilize hundreds of thousands of men to wage war on Ukraine, September 26, 2022. (Twitter)
September 26, 2022, 7:14 pm
Gunman kills Russian military recruiter as opposition to Ukraine mobilization grows
Shooter, identified as 25-year-old local resident Ruslan Zinin, says ‘no one will go to fight’ before opening fire in the Siberian city of Ust-Ilimsk
By Adam Schreck and Jon Gambrell
Rabbi Levy Kaminetsky, bottom right, prepares to light a Hanukkah menorah made of ice outside his synagogue in Tomsk, Russia on Nov. 28, 2021. (Courtesy/Levy Kaminetsky via JTA)
December 1, 2021, 2:59 am
Hanukkah’s early start this year put a Siberian tradition on thin ice
Jews in city of Tomsk annually construct a giant ice menorah; this year, due to holiday’s date and climate change ‘it was really touch and go’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A Russian Emergency Ministry truck is parked at the Listvyazhnaya mine, right, near Belovo, in the Kemerovo region of southwestern Siberia, Russia, November 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Sergei Gavrilenko)
November 26, 2021, 1:10 pm
Survivor found in Siberia coal mine after accident, as dozens presumed dead
20 fatalities confirmed, with another 31 people still missing inside the Listvyazhnaya mine, officials say
By Dasha Litvinova
Rescuers conduct a search operation at the Listvyazhnaya coal mine in the Kemerovo region near the town of Belovo after an accident on November 25, 2021 (Alexander Patrin / AFP)
November 26, 2021, 5:31 am
Death toll in Siberia mining accident reported to reach 52
Authorities believe ‘no one is left alive in the mine’ that filled with smoke in the early hours of Thursday
By AFP
Rescuers prepare to work at a fire scene at a coal mine near the Siberian city of Kemerovo, about 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, November 25, 2021. (Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations photo via AP)
November 25, 2021, 12:51 pm
11 dead, dozens missing in Siberia coal mine accident
46 people remain inside the Listvyazhnaya mine, with ‘no communication,’ officials say
By AFP
Siberian Jews celebrate the opening of a new Jewish education center in Tomsk, Russia, Sept. 12, 2021. (Levy Kaminetzky via JTA)
September 17, 2021, 3:15 pm
Siberian Jews inaugurate a huge new Jewish education center in Tomsk
About 200 Jewish children are enrolled in the institution, which features a robotics lab, modern furnishings, pottery workshops and table tennis stations
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Volunteers douse a forest fire in the republic of Sakha also known as Yakutia, Russia Far East, July 17, 2021. (AP/Ivan Nikiforov)
July 21, 2021, 9:52 am
Wildfires spreading in Russia’s Siberia could endanger a power plant
Blaze that has already engulfed 102,000 acres is some 24 kilometers from hydroelectric facility; 216 fires still active in Sakha-Yakutia republic
By AP
Illustrative: Researchers with a baby woolly mammoth discovered frozen in clay and mud in Russia's Yamal Peninsula of Siberia and considered to be the most complete example of the species ever found, at the Natural History Museum in London, May 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
February 17, 2021, 7:31 pm
Million-year-old mammoth teeth yield world’s oldest DNA sequence
Analysis of genomes from extinct species reveals previously unrecognized genetic lineage and shines light on the Ice Age and the life of its giant mammals
By Kelly MacNamara
Alexei Navalny is surrounded by journalists inside the plane prior to his flight to Moscow in the Airport Berlin Brandenburg (BER) in Schoenefeld, near Berlin, Germany, January 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
January 17, 2021, 9:38 pm
Kremlin critic Navalny lands in Moscow, is immediately detained
Putin’s most prominent foe spent 5 months in Germany recovering from a nerve agent attack he blames on the Kremlin
By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and Jim Heintz
This photo taken on August 28, 2009, shows "Vissarion the Teacher," or "Jesus of Siberia," Russian ex-traffic cop Sergei Torop, with his followers in the remote village of Petropavlovka. (Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)
September 23, 2020, 1:01 pm
Russian special forces arrest Siberian ‘Jesus Reincarnate’ cult leader
Sergei Torop, founder of Church of the Last Testament, accused of organizing an illegal religious organization of thousands and causing ‘two or more people severe harm’
By AFP
A group of Jews from Irkutsk inside the synagogue. (Eli Itkin/ Dorit Wagner/The Jewish Community of Irkutsk)
November 17, 2018, 3:51 am
Jews of former Cossack fort Irkutsk mark 200 years of prosperity and persecution
Founded by a band of liberated Jewish Cantonist soldiers in 1818, this small Siberian community has donated to communal causes worldwide — and been threatened with expulsion
By Rossella Tercatin
Smoke rises above a multi-story shopping center in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, about 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) east of Moscow, Russia on March 25, 2018. (Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations photo via AP)
March 26, 2018, 5:29 pm
Russian shopping mall fire kills 64 including children
Investigators said emergency exits were blocked, security guard turned off PA system, fire alarms remained silent
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA
Russian chief rabbi Berel Lazar, right, with Baruch Ramatsky, holding the Torah scroll Ramatsky's family has kept hidden for the last 90 years, inside the synagogue of Tomsk, February 1, 2018. (Courtesy Chabad of Tomsk)
March 16, 2018, 2:00 pm
In frozen Siberia, a small Jewish community is unthawed
On the day an ancient synagogue is returned to the Jews of Tomsk by the Russian government, the caretaker’s grandson reveals the Torah scroll his family kept secret for 90 years
By Yaakov Schwartz
The Soldiers Synagogue in Tomsk Russia in January, 2018 (Cnaan Lipshiz/JTA)
February 1, 2018, 2:46 pm
Siberian synagogue built by former child soldiers returned to Jewish community
Chief rabbi of Russia to hold ceremony in Tomsk completing transfer of one of the only wooden synagogues worldwide
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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