Israel can accept “thousands” of Ukrainian Jews looking to flee Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Israeli officials have said. “We are ready to accept thousands of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine,” Haaretz reported immigration minister Pnina Tamano-Shata as saying on Thursday, the day Russia began battering its western neighbour in air and ground offensives. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lior Haiat told Newsweek that “Israel was created to be the home of any Jew that wants to immigrate to Israel.” “We’ll be happy to receive any Jew that wants to immigrate from Ukraine to Israel,” Haiat said…