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Playing on his own Jewish heritage, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked Israel on Sunday March 20 to “make a choice” by concretely supporting Ukraine once morest Russia, during a videoconference speech before the deputies of the Israeli Parliament. In the speech, the Ukrainian president also called the Russian invasion of Ukraine a tragedy for “Jews and the whole world”, drawing parallels with the Holocaust, the Jewish genocide by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.