An Israeli yeshiva graduate who was helping to lead Passover seders was attacked in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk. Haim Gorbov was attacked last Friday not far from the city’s main shul, the Golden Rose Synagogue. Several young men, who witnesses said looked like skinheads, allegedly hit Gorbov on his head with a bottle and stabbed him with a knife.
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