The faster MIG-21 was flown to Israel by an Iraqi pilot paid to defect by Israeli intelligence. Israeli pilots study and fly all four planes to learn their characteristics. The Soviet squadron inc ...
Baratz also hailed the unprecedented support for Israel of Diaspora Jews who ... member Avigdor Liberman (a native of the former Soviet republic of Moldova); Major General Eliezer Shkedi, former ...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi is under fire for calling immigrants from the former Soviet Union “Communist, religion-hating” gentiles. At a rabbinical conference in ...
Israel’s minister of Diaspora Affairs, told JTA. During its first year, Limmud Labs has given out dozens of grants of $8,000-$14,000 to Jewish applicants from the former Soviet Union with ...
The background to the attempted hijacking was Moscow’s breaking-off of diplomatic relations with Israel following the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. A large number of Soviet Jews applied for exit visas ...