Transition plan: Israeli companies for the residents of Ukraine

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many of its inhabitants have been trying to escape from the battle zones.

Do Israeli companies help them?

Who preceded the eviction of its workers from the attacked country, who offered emotional support and who offered the immigrants "political asylum" in its luxury hotels?

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27/02/2022

Sunday, 27 February 2022, 16:58 Updated: Monday, 28 February 2022, 11:15

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Since the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine last Thursday, many Ukrainians have been trying to escape the fighting and flee the country.

We talked to Israeli companies that employ Ukrainian workers and heard from them how they try to stand by them in the difficult moments and help them get through the difficult period in peace.

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War in Europe: How Israeli companies help Ukrainians (Photo: AP)

"We offered employees a transit package, internal relocation"

The Israeli company Novida

, which has developed an innovative cloud-based insurance-tech platform, works with 7 employees in Ukraine, a development team of software engineers located in Odessa and Leviev.

: “The Ukrainian staff are an integral part of Novida.

They take an active part in the day-to-day work, an integral part of the company and in meetings and discussions.

Only last Thursday we were in a joint meeting with them, and today they are refugees.

"" Last month, when the fighting broke out, we offered them to come with their families here to Israel, in a comprehensive transit package, and were offered internal relocation options to western Ukraine.

"In order for them to receive assistance at all times from the Israeli consulate in Ukraine, we issued an official letter to each employee upon confirmation of his employment with the Israeli company."

"As of today, all seven of our workers have fled the battle zones and are currently in Poland or in the western border areas of the country. We are in continuous contact with them and will use all the tools at our disposal to ensure the safety and security of workers and families," Agababa concluded.

Roi Agabaaba CEO of Novida (Photo: David Grubb)

"We transferred salaries a week in advance so they could be financially organized"

The fintech company Stampli,

which has developed technology that enables internal and external organizational cooperation for the execution and closing of invoices and procurement processes, works with 12 software engineers in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.

: “We have been at the event for several weeks now.

"Even during the political tension, when the military option did not seem possible, we offered our workers an internal relocation plan within Ukraine for themselves and their families, in the west of the country on the border with Poland."

"All employees were offered to move to hotels away from the war zones or alternatively relocate outside the country. We are in continuous and daily contact with them, we gave everyone salaries a week in advance so they could get organized and take the salaries out of the bank, ready for any scenario. "From Israel to the ocean to visit them and we recruited a local HR woman to take care of every issue of employee welfare there, we did not imagine, like the whole world, that this is how things will turn out."

"We will continue to be in close contact with them, we have our hands on the pulse and we will act according to the events in order to ensure their safety and the peace of their families."

Edo Peleg (Photo: Stampley)

"We have launched a system of immediate and free care for Ukrainian children"

And there are also initiatives that are not related to employees, but are intended to help Ukrainians wherever they are:

, which provides a digital platform for the care and assistance of children with learning difficulties, emotional difficulties and special needs, and FEMI, for digital health services in Israel. (KAI), which uses artificial intelligence to provide emotional and emotional support to millions of users around the world, is mobilizing together for the children of Ukraine under attack.

The companies will provide children with support and emotional therapy remotely.

According to

: "Millions of children, adolescents and adults in Ukraine, including many refugees who managed to escape, are in critical condition and need immediate mental and emotional support. The infrastructure has collapsed, parents are unable to help their children and the specialists who are supposed to help are under attack themselves. "Our partnership and we realized that we could not stand aside and we operated a system that would provide an immediate and free therapeutic response to the children of Ukraine."

Shapira adds: "We have united together, three Israeli companies operating in the United States, Europe and around the world, because first of all we are Israelis.

As someone who ourselves are in the line of fire once every few years, we feel a moral obligation to help civilians who are at war and especially children who find themselves in an impossible situation and are left almost unanswered, exposed not only to physical injury but to acute mental damage.

We will do everything we can to reach every child who can use us, our technology and the good caregivers who have mobilized to give their time to help. "

Yair Shapira (Photo: Chen Tzarfati)

"We are mobilized out of a sense of mission to help children who are at the heart of the conflict"

Atel Molcho, CEO of Pemi, explained: "Pemi has hundreds of skilled and available professionals, including Russian-speaking psychologists and social workers, who are skilled in providing mental health counseling and identifying crisis situations," explains "Everyone has extensive experience helping children in crisis situations.

" Around the clock to help Israeli children in the situations of conflict that have taken place in Israel, and we are mobilized out of a sense of mission to also help children who are at the heart of the conflict in Ukraine.

These professionals combined with the technology will be able to provide remote medical care and psychological help from Israel. "

Immediate assistance to Ukrainian children at the heart of the conflict (Photo: AP, Andreea Alexandru)

"Full accompaniment in his adaptation to the new state"

GlobalDots

, which operates in the field of cloud and specializes in the integration of advanced cloud and Internet technologies and businesses, is assisting its development team located in Ukraine.

"Part of the GlobalDots team is in the heart of Ukraine, and we are very concerned about their situation," says

. "

In addition, these days we are assisting a developer who has decided to flee from Ukraine to Poland with advance payment of his salary to allow him immediate access to cash, and he as mentioned receives from us full support in his adaptation to the new country."

Yuval Rachlin (Photo: Liat Mendel)

"We invited them to Israel"

The Israeli company Glassbox

has decided to offer all its employees in Ukraine to leave the country for a neighboring country or for Israel, at the company's expense - flights, accommodation and more.

The company has 320 employees, employs 15 people in Ukraine as front-end developers and QA staff.

Just two months ago, employees of the company went on a week-long visit to Ukraine to meet them.

"We strongly recommended to them that we really want them to come to Israel, so that we can get to know the people we work with remotely better on a daily basis," says

.

"We did not limit it in time, they can come to Israel for a few weeks, we do not know how long it is going to last."

Yaron Guetta CTO at Glassbox (Photo: Private)

"The situation does not allow us to remain indifferent"

The Savoy and 14 BY boutique hotels offer free accommodation to Ukrainian Jews who fled the battles

in the shadow of the struggle in Eastern Europe and Russia's attempts to take over its neighbor.

The two hotels decided to show solidarity and grant three nights free of charge to Ukrainian passport holders, who fled the war and immigrated to Israel.

Starting on the fourth night, the hotels will allow immigrants from Ukraine a stay at a nominal price of NIS 200 per night.

"The difficult situation in Ukraine does not allow us to be indifferent, to look sideways at what is happening and to sit idly by.

"Unfortunately, as a country that has gone through many wars and military operations, we understand very well what is happening to the citizens of Ukraine, so we decided to open the gates of our hotel and help Jews who fled the battle zones and immigrated to Israel."

BY14 Hotel (Photo: PR)

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