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On March 17, the public relations professional Tanya Weintraub published a routine status on her Facebook page. Tanya, who immigrated to Israel from Moldova, has been closely following the events in the Crimean Peninsula, like many other immigrants from the former USSR to Israel. The status she chose to publish was actually a quote from Lev Solodkin, the son of late Knesset member Marina Solodkin, supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin for his invasion of Ukraine.
“Thank you Putin,” Weintraub quoted Solodkin, “I don’t see any problem with Putin’s actions … From the standpoint of the treatment of Jews, the Ukrainians are the worst of all … I hope that this country will never know peace and prosperity.”
