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July 28, 2022

Russia Is Retaliating against Israeli Airstrikes in Syria by Punishing the Jewish Agency

It may also be sending a message to Prime Minister Yair Lapid.

Today, a Russian court will hold a hearing regarding the government’s plans to shut down the national branch of the Jewish Agency, which assists Jews in moving to Israel. While the Agency has been under investigation by the Kremlin for three years, the move to shutter it has little to do with its supposed breaches of data-collection laws, and everything to do with geopolitics. Ron Ben-Yishai points first to the numerous airstrikes the IDF has conducted against Moscow’s Iranian allies in Syria:

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