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Source: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/new-ukrainian-aliyah
The New Ukrainian Aliyah
(Tablet) Matti Friedman - The war in Ukraine is going to manifest itself in Israel in a new wave of aliyah, "ascent," the word we like to use for immigration. Israel will tell newcomers they're not homeless but home and that they're not refugees but olim, "those who ascend." There are 10 Jewish Agency emissaries at the different border crossings from Ukraine into Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova. The agency has rented 2,100 hotel rooms to put people up as they transit to the airport. At the beginning of the war, the agency opened an emergency hotline. More than 6,000 people called the hotline from Ukraine in the first 72 hours. The same hotline has fielded several thousand immigration inquiries from people in Russia proper and in Belarus.