The Israeli Cultural Center at the Embassy of the State of Israel in Russia has held a ceremony dedicated to the installation of a memorial plaque to the Hero of the Soviet Union Leonid Buber at the Giv'At Ha'Tashmoshet (Ammunition Hill) National Memorial.

The ceremony, organized by the youth Zionist movement Shahar, exalted the fact that this is the first honor of its kind given in Israel to a Russian-speaking warrior Jew.

EAJC Secretary General, Professor Michael Chlenov has noted the radical change in status of Soviet Jews as seen by the Israelis. “It used to be that the Soviet Jews were just the victims of the Holocaust. But my generation is the children of those warriors who made it to Berlin, “ Chlenov stressed. According to the Secretary General, the activity of Great Patriotic War veterans who came to Israel through the Great Aliyah in the 1990s has wrought a revolution in the public attitudes of Israel. “The decision to install a memorial sign at Ammunition Hill is just and more than deserved: there should be a memorial plaque in honor of a Heroic Jew, who fought for the very possibility of the creation of Israel,” the Secretary General concluded.