Suspect arrested in stabbing of Ukrainian Jewish leader

Police in western Ukraine on Friday arrested a man suspected of stabbing the leader of a local Jewish community a day earlier, JTA reported.

The assailant stabbed Igor Perelman, the director of the Jewish community of the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, where many refugees have fled to escape Russian attacks in the eastern part of the country, the report said citing the Ukrainian Jewish News site.

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