(JTA) — Following an Israeli minister’s meeting with the governor of an area which Russia annexed from Ukraine, Kiev threatened to tighten visa requirements for tourists from the Jewish state.
Ukraine made this threat in a letter sent this week by its ambassador to Tel Aviv to Israel’s foreign ministry, the Segodnya Daily reported Thursday, following the Feb. 10 visit by Minister of Religious Services Ya’akov Margi to Crimea, and his meeting there with Governor Sergei Aksenov.
“Ukraine may take measures for the introduction of various forms of visas for religious pilgrims flying from Israel to Uman,” Ambassador Gennady Nadolenko is quoted …read more
Source: JTA
