Uman
Deleted IDF video instructed haredi draft evaders how to avoid Ben-Gurion checks
It is unclear whether the IDF has a mechanism to prevent someone from reporting for the summons, avoiding a departure restriction, traveling to Uman, and then failing to complete enlistment.
In Uman, annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage is clouded by arrests of yeshiva students in Israel
Nearly 30 haredi draft dodgers detained at Ben-Gurion Airport on way to Uman
Israel, Ukraine team up to safeguard tens of thousands of worshippers in Uman
14% of Uman returnees positive for COVID
Approximately 25,000 Israelis traveled to Uman for Rosh Hashanah to celebrate the holiday at the graveside of the founder of the Breslov hassidic group.
Bennett: Severe measures against Uman travelers who faked COVID clearance
According to the government's new decree, any such person may face criminal charges of fraud, deception and intentional dissemination of a disease.
Israeli killed, 10 hassidim injured in car crash in Ukraine
A car crash on a road leading to an airport left one Israeli dead and 10 injured.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Uman struggle to get COVID-19 test results
Around 30,000 hassidim traveled to Uman this year to pray near the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in the annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage, some 10,000 of whom arrived early.
Israeli suffering severe COVID-19 symptoms to be evacuated from Uman
A man arrived in Uman last week and was COVID-19 symptom free, it is suspected he was infected in Ukraine, and he is now in serious condition. He will be brought to Israel on a rescue flight.
Israel's COVID czar to travel to Uman on Rosh Hashanah
Tens of thousands of hasidim travel to Uman in Ukraine each year to pray at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. Zarka will help ensure that the rules set by the two governments will be followed.
COVID cabinet approves Uman travel outline ahead of Rosh Hashanah
Thousands of hassidic and other Jews are set to travel to the city of Uman to visit the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.
COVID cabinet to review Uman travel outline on Sunday
The coronavirus cabinet will review an outline on Sunday that will allow hasidim to travel to Uman for Rosh Hashanah.
Team of ritual butchers fly to Ukraine to prepare Uman feast
A team of Jewish ritual butchers travelled to Uman this week in order to begin the kosher slaughter of 10,000 chickens for the Rosh Hashanah holiday feasts.
Ukraine to let Jewish pilgrims from Israel go to Uman on Rosh Hashanah
The decision to allow Jewish pilgrims to Uman comes amid fears of COVID-19 and as Israel tightens its own travel restrictions to combat the spread of the Delta variant.
