For more than 20 years, Markowitz Sr. has been habad-Loubavitch’s emissary in Kiev, as well as the city’s leading rabbi, and is at the forefront of a gigantic social and educational activity, which only ascended after the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
“We published the [resource] [Jewish] network phone numbers and helped all the citizens who communicated, asking if they were Jewish,” Ariel Markowitz said.
Markowitz is now seeking to find a solution to the crisis caused by the ban on The Hasidic Jews who traveled to Ukraine to commemorate the wonderful parties at the burial site of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, to prevent the spread of COVID-19, a challenge that has become a point of inflammation in Israel and the Jewish world.
“My father helped release the hassidim held in Ukraine,” Ariel Markowitz said. “He contacted [Israeli] Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, and also spoke to everyone he needed to allow them entry. make smart anywhere you can.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs, Arsen Borysovych Avakov, announced Monday that his government would allow some 3,000 Hasidic Jews to perform Rosh Hashaná’s annual pilgrimage.
This article was first published in Israel Hayom.
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