Russia moves to shut agency handling immigration to Israel amid Ukraine rift
Russia has threatened to shut down a major Jewish agency that promotes immigration to Israel amid tensions between the two nations over the invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has threatened to shut down a major Jewish agency that promotes immigration to Israel amid tensions between the two nations over the invasion of Ukraine.
The Justice Ministry seeks to liquidate the country’s branch of the Jewish Agency for Israel, according to a notice from Moscow’s Basmanny district court, where the case will be heard on July 28.
The court’s website does not say what laws the nonprofit agency had broken and Russia’s Justice Ministry, which filed for its dissolution on July 15, did not respond to NBC News' request for comment.
Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov, however, said that the dissolution of the agency was related to a breach of “compliance with Russian legislation,” although he refused to give further details at a news conference on Friday.
His comments came after acting Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said in a statement Thursday that a delegation with representatives from his office and several other ministries would travel to Russia for talks ahead of the hearing on the agency, which operates in coordination with his government.
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