Alexey Ostapenko is involved with efforts to ship aid to Ukraine and believes that the presence of the logo of Azov militias shows the attack was nationalistically motivated.
According to end-of-year figures released on Wednesday, the Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, aliyah or immigration to Israel hit a ten-year high in 2014, with the arrival of some 26,500 new immigrants.
Despite a rise of 7 % of the immigration to Israel from North America, aliyah from France to Israel this year will be more than double that from the United States, according to figures from the Jewish Agency for Israel in Jerusalem.