In Israel, some 90 Ukrainian youngsters were dressing up for the blissful Jewish vacation of Purim. They got here on some of the first flights bringing refugees to the rustic previous this month.
The refugees all come from a youngsters’s house within the northern town of Zhytomyr. Some are orphans however maximum come from susceptible backgrounds and feature left kinfolk in Ukraine.
Ukraine has a big Jewish neighborhood. It’s been steered that greater than 200,000 Ukrainians who’re Jewish or have Jewish circle of relatives ties are eligible for citizenship in Israel. Purim is a vacation that celebrates historical get away from risk for Jews within the time of the Persian Empire.
