Unknown assailants robbed $50,000 from haredi Orthodox Jews
in Uman, Ukrainian authorities said.
The Ukrainian newspaper Segodnia reported that the robbery
occurred on July 20 at the headquarters of a nonprofit group that works to
accommodate the tens of thousands of followers of the Breslaver rebbe who will
pour into Uman for the High Holidays in September.
The money was meant to create better infrastructure for the
pilgrims, according to the report.
Natalia Taran, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s spokeswoman
for the Cherkasy region in central Ukraine, was quoted as saying the assailants
physically attacked at least one worker of the group helping the pilgrims.
According to the report, the robbers took a safe containing
the money after beating a local security guard.
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