On video: the damage to the synagogue in Ukraine/PR
A missile launched over the weekend towards Kherson in southern Ukraine caused damage to the synagogue building in the city.
The chief rabbi of Harson and Chabad emissary, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Wolf said that many shrapnel hit the courtyard and the building of the synagogue and caused minor damage.
"The whole courtyard of the synagogue is filled with these shrapnel," said the rabbi. end.
After the missile exploded in the air, there are 8,000 such fragments scattered from the missile and the synagogue was hit by hundreds of them."
Kherson is one of the most bombed cities in Ukraine since the beginning of the war. It was even occupied during the first period of the war, but the Russians abandoned it a few months later and have not stopped shelling it ever since.
In the shadow of the attacks Last month, the Jewish community in Salvita in the west of the country also reported to the "Federation of Jewish Communities in Ukraine" that the local synagogue was hit by a large piece of shrapnel from a Russian rocket that destroyed the ceiling of the building. Dozens of Jews currently live in Salvita and it has a rich Jewish history and was home to, among other things, a printing house the famous one of the Shapira brothers.
As you may remember, during the war quite a few synagogues in Ukraine were damaged by Russian attacks, including the synagogue in Kharkov, the historic synagogue in Behemoth, and also the synagogue in Mariupol, which was completely destroyed. Jewish cemeteries and monuments, such as in Kiev and in the town of Holaviv near Sumy in the north of the country, were also damaged in the past Russian ingots and shells.
The "Federation of Jewish Communities in Ukraine" (FJCU), the umbrella organization uniting the approximately 180 communities in the country, said: "The vicious Russian attacks continue unabated and the world has almost forgotten the unimaginable reality we are facing.
The social workers and the psychological system are in contact with the heads of the communities in Ukraine to provide a maximum response to every request."
David Berger, in collaboration with Shuba Israel
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