Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday, following a telephone conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, called on Israelis to avoid the pilgrim city of Uman in central Ukraine during the upcoming Jewish holidays, the prime minister's office said

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces have been using a synagogue in the Uman city to store weapons

A bus carrying Hasidic pilgrims has collided with another bus in the Kiev Region, leaving one Israeli national dead, the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Thursday

A group of 570 Hasidic pilgrims is leaving the Belarusian-Ukrainian border unable to travel to the Ukrainian city of Uman to celebrate the Jewish New Year, a spokesman for the Gomel Border Group told Sputnik on Friday

Israeli ambassador to Ukraine Joel Lion on Thursday urged Kiev to fight the anti-Semitism that exists in the country, especially in the city of Uman, in which the residents must be told that the Hasidic Jews are part of their city

Israel is urging the Hasidic Jews, who are waiting for the opportunity to enter Ukraine's Uman for pilgrimage, to return home, since it is unlikely that the coronavirus-related border closures will be lifted soon, Israeli Minister of Higher Education and Water Resources and the head of a ministerial group on the stranded nationals, Zeev Elkin, said on Thursday

Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, who is also the head of Sephardic Orthodox Shas Party, has asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to allow Hasidic Jews to enter Ukraine following reports that hundreds of them were struck on the Belrusian-Ukrainian border over the coronvairus-related restrictions

Two Israeli teenagers suspected of committing the murder of their 20-year-old compatriot in January were extradited from Russia to their homeland on Thursday, the Israeli police said