Ukraine Israel relations

Ukraine optimistic on Russia peace, but not at any price, Kyiv official Iryna Mudra tells 'Post'

Iryna Mudra to 'Post': Ukraine committed to diplomacy based on international law, not Russian demands • On Israel ties: 'We want Israeli businesses to become core architects of Ukraine's future'

Then-deputy justice minister of Ukraine Iryna Mudra talks to the media in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarters, February 4, 2025
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar met with Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Taras Kachka.

FM Sa'ar meets Ukrainian deputy PM, pushes for designation of Hamas, IRGC as terror orgs.

Oleksii Goncharenko with Amir Ohana in the Knesset on November 11, 2025

Bridging the Black Sea and the Middle East: Ukrainian MP urges stronger cooperation with Israel

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. September 19, 2023

Ukraine received Patriot missile defense systems from Israel, Zelensky confirms


‘A mixed blessing,’ say Jews five years after the revolution

Prime Minister Vlodymyr Groysman is Jewish, too, making Ukraine the only country in the world except Israel where both positions are occupied by Jews.

VLODYMYR ZELENSKY, the Jewish president-elect of Ukraine, meets with rabbis in Kiev

Despite new Jewish president, Ukranian Jewish community faces challenges

Not only is president-elect Volodymyr Zelensky Jewish, but the fact that he is Jewish barely received any coverage in the election at all.

Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy reacts following the announcement of the first exit poll in a presidential election at his campaign headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine April 21, 2019

Ukraine may adopt IHRA definition of antisemitism

The country is also applying for membership in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin at the Kyiv Jewish Forum.

Knesset Members vow Jewish continuity at conference in Ukraine

MKs meet with President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky and attend 'Kyiv Jewish Forum' hosted by the Jewish confederation of Ukraine.

Members of Knesset visit Ukraine, May 2019

Ukraine and Israel sign massive free trade agreement

Ukrainian President Poroshenko asks Israel for aid in freeing captured sailors from Russia.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met this evening, January 21 2019, with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem

Ukrainian president visits Rivlin, looks forward to enhanced relations

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said he was pleased to be "the guest of my friend, the President of Israel."

President Reuven Rivlin meets with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, January 2019.