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Jewish News 24 · Sep 24, 2026

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Jonathan Karlinsky, an Israeli-Ukrainian hassid who was arrested while crossing the Ukraine-Romania border after Rosh Hashanah and drafted into the Ukrainian army, has been located at a detention facility near Odessa, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine (FJCU) announced on Thursday. Karlinsky is currently awaiting transfer to a military base near the city of Kharkiv, where he is expected to serve as an army medic, several dozen kilometers away from the front lines where combat is actively taking place between Ukrainian and Russian forces.

Jonathan Karlinsky, an Israeli-Ukrainian hassid who was arrested while crossing the Ukraine-Romania border after Rosh Hashanah and drafted into the Ukrainian army, has been located at a detention facility near Odessa, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine (FJCU) announced on Thursday. Karlinsky is currently awaiting transfer to a military base near the city of Kharkiv, where he is expected to serve as an army medic, several dozen kilometers away from the front lines where combat is actively taking place between Ukrainian and Russian forces.

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