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Niko Vorobyov

Ukraine war: Israel treads careful line as public blames Russia

After the fall of communism, more than a million Jews from the former Soviet Union immigrated to Israel [File: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters]

Jerusalem – At a cafe in central Jerusalem, a middle-aged couple, Leonid from Belarus and Olga from Dagestan, discussed the war in Ukraine over coffee and bourekas.

“As Jews, we have often wondered about this: how it was possible that in Germany, a whole nation became zombified by propaganda,” said Leonid, an online entrepreneur, referring to Russia.

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