Ukraine Israel relations

Under Ukraine pressure, Israel blocks suspect Russian grain ship

"The Russian supplier of the cargo will have to find an alternative destination to unload it," read a statement issued by Israel’s Grain Importers Association.

View of the Haifa port in the Northern Israeli city of Haifa, November 17, 2024.
Then-deputy justice minister of Ukraine Iryna Mudra talks to the media in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarters, February 4, 2025

Ukraine optimistic on Russia peace, but not at any price, Kyiv official Iryna Mudra tells 'Post'

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar met with Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Taras Kachka.

FM Sa'ar meets Ukrainian deputy PM, pushes for designation of Hamas, IRGC as terror orgs.

Oleksii Goncharenko with Amir Ohana in the Knesset on November 11, 2025

Bridging the Black Sea and the Middle East: Ukrainian MP urges stronger cooperation with Israel


US seeks to weaken Russia's energy hold on Europe, Hochstein says

"Russia has one [economic] leverage: the energy sector. That is what it has been holding as a sword over the heads of several countries in Europe," said US special energy envoy Amos Hochstein.

 The logo of Gazprom company is seen on the facade of a business centre in Saint Petersburg, Russia March 31, 2022.

5,000th Ukrainian immigrant lands in Israel since Russia-Ukraine war began

As war wages on, more and more Ukrainian Jews are making Aliyah to Israel. Last night the number reached 5,000.

 Katya, 5,000th Oleh from Ukraine to israel with her son, Stas, and CEO of JAI, Hagoel

Israel's field hospital in Ukraine - in pictures

With war still raging in Ukraine, Israel's first field hospital in the country, from the Sheba Medical Center, is there to help. Check out photos from the ground.

field hospital Kokhav Yair tents in sunrise, in the town of Mostyska

Over 2,000 Ukrainian refugees brought to Israel by United Hatzalah

United Hatzalah's Operation Orange Wings has brought Ukrainian refugees on a series of specially chartered rescue flights from Romania, Moldova and Austria to Israel.

 Refugees and UH volunteers boarding a rescue flight from Chisinau to Tel Aviv

Bennett says ‘Israelis can be proud of Ukraine aid’ as Zelensky softens criticism

The prime minister pointed out that Israel sent planes full of aid and has opened its doors to Jewish immigrants and non-Jewish refugees.

 Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Israel should take in as many Ukrainian refugees as it can

Opinion: The Bible offers a useful paradigm for navigating this difficult dilemma.

 Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata is seen greeting Ukrainian refugees arriving in Israel through Operation Israeli Guarantee, on March 6, 2022.

Increasing the number of refugees allowed into Israel is the right thing - editorial

Israel is a country of immigrants – and of refugees. It should have been clear that gut-wrenching images of refugees pouring over Ukraine’s borders would touch the hearts of scores of Israelis.

 Israelis protest in support of Ukrainian refugees in Israel, March 12, 2022

War in Ukraine: The moral complexity in Jerusalem - opinion

Almost the entire Western world has expressed its moral outrage. All except one nation – the Jewish state. 

 THIS SITUATION is a microcosm of the moral obstacle course we call modern Israel.

Zelensky thanks Bennett for mediation efforts

Zelensky had asked Israel several times to serve as an intermediary in the year before Russia invaded Ukraine, but Putin rejected the offer each time.

 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky talks during an interview with Reuters in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 1, 2022.

How can Israelis help Ukrainians during the crisis?

SID Israel (Society for International Development) has partnered with other organizations to compile a list of organizations and make them more accessible to anyone who wants to donate.

The national flags of Israel and Ukraine