On anniversary of Babyn Yar, 100 Ukrainian immigrants arrive in Israel on Jewish Agency flight

• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Published date: 06 October 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Notably, the Aliyah flight took place during the same week as leaders from Israel and around the world attended the Ukrainian government's official international event marking the 80th anniversary of the Babyn Yar massacre, the mass shootings in which more than 33,000 Jews from Kiev were murdered by the Nazis.

"Eighty years since the terrible massacre in Babyn Yar, you dear immigrants are the voice of those who were cruelly destroyed just because they were Jews," said Yaakov Hagoel, Chairman of the World Zionist Organization and Acting Chairman of the Executive of The Jewish Agency, who attended the memorial event in Ukraine. "You are the symbol of the victory of good over evil, justice over hatred. In your journey to our homeland, you represent the ultimate victory."

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The immigrants will be integrated into a variety of Jewish Agency absorption and education programs throughout Israel, from Karmiel in the north to Nitzana in the south. On board the flight were participants of different Jewish Agency initiatives in the former Soviet Union, including the Sela program for ages 17-18 that is jointly with the Israeli Ministry of Education, along with other teens joining the Naale...