Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Rabbi Joël Lion pleads with mayor of Poltava, Oleksandr Shamota, to preserve the site where Germans executed thousands of Jews and non-Jews in September 1941: ''You have the authority to choose between justice and injustice.''
A senior state historian of Ukraine said that protests by Poland and Israel about his country’s glorification of Nazi collaborationists was Russian propaganda.
The discussion about inter-ethnic dialogue developed around the Hebrew- and English-language translation of the collection of essays The Key in the Pocket, which features texts by the Ukrainian writers.
U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Elan Carr during his stay in Kyiv will address the Kyiv Jewish Forum and meet with representatives of the Ukrainian government and Jewish community.