Avraham Wolf, the chief rabbi of Odessa, and Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzky, the chief rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk, joined mayors and billionaires on a list of the most influential people in two Ukrainian regions.
A Kiev weekly newspaper called Kommentarii, or Comments, named a total of 666 people on two lists — one each for the Odessa and Dnepropetrovsk regions. Wolf was No. 15 on the Odessa list, Kaminetzky No. 14 on the other.
Other Jews on the list included the mayor of Vinnitza, a wealthy philanthropist and a member of parliament. Jews comprise no more than one half of 1 percent of Ukraine’s population of 46.5 million. — jta