About 360,000 Jews are estimated to live in Ukraine, most of them in Odessa and other major cities, and Jewish groups have used their robust welfare systems not only to help those in need, but also to overcome the indifference and aversion to Judaism that was instilled here during the communist era.
Ukraine will open an innovation office in Jerusalem, which, together with the Embassy in Tel Aviv, will help new industries in the two countries find partners.
President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine emphasized that up to 300,000 people, most of whom were Jews, had been executed in the Pisky area between 1941 and 1943