Kharkov Rabbi Visits Recovering Mayor

Rabbi Moshe Moscowitz, chief rabbi and Chabad Shliach to Kharkov, Ukraine, visited Mayor Gennady Kernes at the Rambam hospital in Haifa, Israel, where he is being treated after he was shot in an attempted assassination amid Ukraine’s ongoing volatility.

Mayor Kernes was delighted to see Rabbi Moscowitz, with whom he shares a close friendship. During their encounter, the rabbi assisted him with putting on Tefilin and together they said a prayer.

Doctors at the hospital say Kernes, who six years ago underwent a Bris Milah and took the Hebrew name Moshe, is making a slow but steady recovery.