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(JNS) Thousands of Israelis took to the streets on Saturday to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

(JNS) The Jewish Agency for Israel has opened six aliyah-processing stations at Ukrainian borders, the agency said on Saturday night.

(JTA)  Ukraine’s embassy in Israel tried to recruit Israelis to join the Ukrainian fight against Russia in a Facebook post Saturday.

(JTA)  Israel will back a United Nations resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, days after declining to support a similar one put forward for a vote in the Security Council by the United States and Western allies.

(JNS) A valuable Wassily Kandinsky painting sold to Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum during World War II was returned to the heirs of the Jewish owners.

(JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday pledged to send 100 tons of humanitarian equipment to Ukraine by March 1.

(Israel21c via JNS) The closing ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing on Sunday brought to an end another Winter Games without a medal for Israel.

(Israel Hayom via JNS) Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has ordered Israeli embassy staff in Kyiv to move to consular offices in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, as war looms between Russia and Ukraine.

(JNS) The Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) and the Israeli Defense Ministry will invest 200 million shekels ($62.2 million) for developing Israel’s first quantum computer, the organizations said on Feb. 15.

The “Lower Saxony Woman of the Year” award was presented to Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah Wolff, Chabad Emissary to Hanover, Germany, and Lower Saxony by the Rundblick Niedersachsen, a political journal of the federal state of Lower Saxony.