In a landslide vote, Ukraine elects its first Jewish president. Volodymyr Zelensky, 41, a professional comedian with no political experience defeated incumbent Petro Poroshenko, 53, with 73 percent of the vote in the runoff election. Ukraine is now the first country outside of Israel to have both a Jewish president and a Jewish prime minister. Zelensky will be sworn in for a five-year term.

Zelenski will lead a country that, despite being the most friendly Eastern European country towards Jews, has been haunted by anti-Semitism with a number of Ukrainian Jews moving to Israel.