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Every year, as Jews celebrate the New Year, tens of thousands of Khazis arrive in the city of Uman in central Ukraine to visit the grave of the legendary Cadic Nachman Braclavieti, the pioneer of the Braclavian leadership of Hasidism.
This year, the Jewish New Year is celebrated from September 18 to 20.
The pilgrims did not give up their trip, although last month the governments of Ukraine and Israel urged the Khazis not to go to 80,000 this year. population in Uman, fearing an outbreak of coronavirus infection.
Kiev has banned the end of September. Foreigners enter the country.
On Tuesday, the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, discussed the situation at the border with the head of the state border guard service, Serhiy Deinek, the presidency reported. Ukraine is in full control of the situation, according to the report.
At the time, the administration of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said it had ordered officials to provide aid to the faithful, accusing Ukraine of “closing its borders” and leaving hundreds of people on neutral territory.
The Belarusian Red Cross Society has stated that the faithful “do not have enough supplies to meet their basic needs” and are therefore receiving assistance, especially for parents with children, the elderly and the disabled.
Do not give up
There were 690 worshipers on the Ukraine-Belarus border on Tuesday morning, hundreds of whom have not yet arrived later, Kiev said.
“We expect three charter planes to arrive in Minsk, about 600 foreigners,” Deineka said of the Belarusian capital.
According to him, in total, almost 1,000 people should arrive at the northern border of Ukraine in the Chernihiv region, another 700 should arrive in Zhytomyr and up to 1,500 from the Volyn region.
About 700 meters from the border crossing in Chernihiv, officials erected a barrier on the road and sent a plane and drones to monitor the wall, the Ukrainian presidency said in a statement.
Ukrainian officials contacted the Israeli embassy in Kiev and local Jewish organizations provided kosher food and water to the faithful.
At the time, the Border Guard Service reported that people waiting at the border were still trying to enter Ukraine, “although they had received explanations and were aware of restrictions on foreigners entering the country.”
Nachman Braclavietis is the creator of the Braclavian leadership of Hasidism. This branch of Judaism originated in the 18th century and was particularly established in Poland and Ukraine.
Ukraine reported the registration of more than 159 thousand. Coronavirus cases, of which more than 3,200 were fatal.
Israel is introducing a three-week quarantine starting Friday to prevent the virus from spreading in the country.
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