The Agency for Israel will evacuate Jews from Donetsk, if this keeps up fighting
Israeli Agency " Sokhnut " took Six Jews - two couples with small children - from Ukrainian city of Donetsk, caught up in the fighting between militias and security forces, and prepares a larger scale evacuation of authorized local Jewish community in case of continuation of military actions, is informed in the report of the Agency.
by results of examination of the " Jewish Agency ", semi-public agencies supervising the repatriation of Jews and links with the Diaspora, in the Donetsk region there are about 30 thousand Jews, and among them eleven thousand - in the Donetsk, where the fighting has stopped working the local airport.
" Six immigrants - a couple from Donetsk with 2 young daughters and a couple from Mariupol - had to fly to Israel, but because of fighting and closing of the Donetsk airport, it was decided to evacuate their ground in Dnepropetrovsk. From this place transit through Kiev them flown in tel Aviv, " said reporters authorized Agency. In Israel both families arrived last night.
" Currently, the " Sokhnut " preparing for the export of other families from the area in the same way, when the fighting was over, and the airport does not start. Authorized " Jewish Agency " in close contact with the regional Jewish communities and is ready to offer professional support, if necessary ", - said in the message of the Agency, which Ukraine has about 90 employees.
according to the " Jewish Agency ", in the first four months of 2014 immigration to Israel from Ukraine has increased almost in 2, 5 times - 762 person against 315 for the same period in 2013. The head of the Agency Natan Sharansky, himself a native of Donetsk, said about the readiness of the " Jewish Agency " to " all eventualities "." in the current situation in the country, we have significantly expanded our activities, helping those who wish to immigrate to Israel, enabling young people through a variety of programs Agency to experience life in Israel, learn Hebrew, " said a former Soviet dissident and retired Israeli Minister.
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