Ukrainian refugees

In this undated photo, Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata welcomes immigrants (Noga Malsa)

September 20, 2022, 3:22 pm

Three-quarters of this year’s 50,500 new immigrants linked to war in Ukraine

Nearly 40,000 Ukrainians, Russians, and Belarussians become citizens, driving 148% overall increase over same period in 2021; about 35,800 Ukrainian refugees from war also arrive

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata, center, in blue coat, welcomes new immigrants from Ukraine at Ben-Gurion airport in Israel, in undated photos distributed by the Immigration and Absorption Ministry on July 6, 2022. (Courtesy: Naga Malasa)

August 30, 2022, 8:55 pm

Ahead of school year, most new Ukrainian and Russian immigrant kids not enrolled

Of the 6,000 or so children who moved to Israel since the invasion of Ukraine, just 2,653 are registered to start classes on September 1, Education Ministry says

By Judah Ari Gross

Lisa and Stuart Kliman pose with Olena Mironyuk, right, and daughters Masha and Alina, in front of the Kliman home in Massachusetts. (Courtesy)

August 26, 2022, 10:35 am

US Jews pay homage to Holocaust survivor ancestors as they aid Ukrainian refugees

Jewish organizations and volunteers step up as a new influx of people fleeing the Russian invasion reach America, while the memory of a complex shared history still lingers

By Julie Masis

Israeli and Ukrainian refugees arriving from Ukraine on a rescue flight are welcomed at Ben Gurion international airport near Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

August 25, 2022, 8:21 am

Nearly half of Ukrainians who fled to Israel have left the country – report

Since the start of fighting six months ago 33,000 arrived, of whom 4,200 were entitled to become citizens; 14,000 have since departed for other countries

By TOI staff

Ukrainian refugees queue for food in the welcome area after their arrival at the main train station in Berlin, Germany, March 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

August 23, 2022, 3:27 pm

Germany counts almost 1 million Ukrainian refugees since Russian invasion

Interior minister says surge of migrants is ‘largest movement of refugees since World War II’ in Europe; 155,000 Ukrainian pupils enrolled in German schools

By AFP

Taisiia Mokrozub, a Ukrainian refugee from Zaporizhzhia, holds her son Hordii during an interview with The Associated Press in a flat in Pruszkow, Poland, August 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

August 22, 2022, 12:04 pm

‘Time stopped’: Ukrainians who fled invasion long for home as war nears 6-month mark

Many who left their homes after Russia invaded face sad realization they will not return soon, having initially believed the fighting would end quickly

By Vanessa Gera and Kirsten Grieshaber

Participants at 'Camp Hallelujah' on Israel's coast, August 12, 2022. (Courtesy/Camp Hallelujah)

August 20, 2022, 10:06 am

Ukraine refugees, Israel youth shaken by war find relief at ‘Hallelujah’ summer camp

On Israel’s coast, international gathering gives teenagers from abroad and Gaza border communities a sense of normalcy; ‘When you live with war all the time, you want peace’

By Jacob Rivkin

Liudmyla Matrenin and Lev visit the Mediterranean Sea on their first full day in Israel on March 25, 2022. (Courtesy/Liudmyla Matrenin)

August 19, 2022, 2:19 am

For Ukrainian refugees in Israel, Gaza operation rekindles still-smoldering trauma

Many fleeing the Russian invasion already have difficulty accessing child care and medicine while facing an uncertain future in the Jewish state. And then add falling rockets

By Melanie Lidman

Ukrainian Jewish refugees are seen in a newly opened kosher camp on the southern shore of Lake Balaton in Balatonoszod, Hungary, on July 29, 2022. (Peter Kohalmi / AFP)

August 18, 2022, 12:02 pm

Observant Ukrainian Jewish refugees find peace at Hungarian resort complex

A Chabad-affiliated camp on the shores of Lake Balaton hosts 700 religious Jews; hundreds of others are on a waiting list

By Peter Murphy

A woman takes out an aid package from an electric car owned by the Jewish Federations of Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 1, 2022. (Courtesy of the Jewish Federations of Ukraine/ via JTA)

August 13, 2022, 9:37 am

In Ukraine, Jewish charity buys 40 electric cars as fuel crisis hinders aid delivery

As costs of food, medicine and gasoline rise along with the number of recipients who require them, humanitarian groups maximize efficiency ahead of what they see as a long haul

By Cnaan Liphshiz

August 11, 2022, 12:00 am

Amid war, Israel sees threefold increase in immigration from Russia and Ukraine

12,175 immigrants arrived from Ukraine and 18,891 from Russia over five-month period

By TOI staff

Times of Israel diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman, on location in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in the wake of an attack by Russian artillery, on July 27, 2022. (Lazar Berman)

July 28, 2022, 2:00 pm

Daily Briefing July 28: Will Zionist Spirit spark joy? Plus, Kharkiv: Near the front

Political correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn on a new political party; military correspondent Emanuel Fabian on the IDF’s Hamas ‘big reveals’; Lazar Berman on refugees in Uman

By TOI staff

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt delivers a speech in Paris, France on Oct. 10, 2018. (Conference of European Rabbis via JTA)

July 17, 2022, 1:27 am

Ex-Moscow chief rabbi fears return of ‘Iron Curtain’ blocking Jewish emigrants

Pinchas Goldschmidt says Jewish Agency ‘not popular’ with Russian government, which wants Jewish community to remain due to its economic and academic contributions

By TOI staff and JTA

File: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a press conference in Kyiv, June 16, 2022. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP, File)

July 3, 2022, 6:06 pm

Ukraine’s Zelensky hails Israeli court for striking down refugee quota

Ukraine president says High Court ruling upholds ‘rule of law and respect for human rights’; Israel’s diaspora affairs minister: ‘Ruling embodies our moral duty as a Jewish nation’

By TOI staff

Ukrainians disembark from a special flight to Israel from Romania upon landing at Ben Gurion Airport, March 8, 2022 (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

July 3, 2022, 3:36 pm

High Court nixes Israel’s quota for entry of Ukrainian refugees

Judges rule that existing regulations allow visitors from Ukraine to stay for three months without a visa, reject state’s claim they will stay longer

By TOI staff