When more than a hundred Jewish orphans and others fled war-torn Ukraine six months ago, they found a short-term home in Israel. The group is moving forward with their lives here for now, given the uncertainty back home.
When more than a hundred Jewish orphans and others fled war-torn Ukraine six months ago, they found a short-term home in Israel. The group is moving forward with their lives here for now, given the uncertainty back home.
They fled a war zone with little more than the clothes on their backs. Less than two weeks later, they were greeted on the tarmac by the prime minister of Israel. The two events bookended an escape that took a group of 100 Jewish children from the Ukrainian city of Zhitomir across the Carpathian Mountains…
“It was a difficult trip because it took many hours,” said 11-year-old Ilana Moskvitch, who arrived with her parents and two younger brothers. Still, she insisted, “I wasn’t scared.”
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