Ukraine’s Chief Rabbi Greets Israeli Foreign Minister, Visits Babi Yar
This morning, the delegation of the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Eli Cohen arrived for a visit to Ukraine, while the Minister in Kyiv was greeted by Rabbi Moshe Azman – the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine. They visited Bukhara and Babi Yar • Full Story, Photos, Video
This morning, the delegation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Eli Cohen arrived for a visit to Ukraine, while the Minister in Kyiv was greeted by Rabbi Moshe Azman – the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine. The minister, who arrived in Kyiv Thursday morning to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba and President Volodymyr Zelensky, visited the homes of Jewish residents of Bucha.
Following the visit, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen arrived at the home of a Holocaust survivor in the battle zones who was helped by the Jewish community.
After that, Minister Cohen, accompanied by the Chief Rabbi, continued to the memorial site in Babi Yar, where during the official ceremony, Rabbi Azman delivered a message of unity and reconciliation to the people of Israel, for the Israeli media.
The minister then visited to Babi Yar, one of the most infamous sites of mass killings of Soviet Jews by Nazis. There, Cohen said a prayer together also joined by Kiev Chief Rabbi and Shliach Rabbi Yonathan Markovitch and members of the local Jewish community and laid a wreath at the memorial to the Holocaust victims.
Rabbi Markovitch recited the Rebbe’s Kapital Tehillim and thanked Minister Cohen on behalf of all Ukrainian Jews for the strengthening visit. “A tree is a living thing that develops and grows upwards, but its roots are planted deep in the ground. So are we. The Lubavitcher Rebbe taught us that we should always face the future, but always remember the past and learn from it. This place reminds us of the difficult past of the Jews in the Holocaust, but it also reminds us of everyone’s duty to ensure the continued existence of the Jewish people. From here we call on the whole world to unite and demand an end to the horrors of the war in Ukraine. We must not stand by,” said Rabbi Markovich.
Photos, video: Office of the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine
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