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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 22, 2022

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US President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House about Russian military activity near Ukraine on February 22, 2022, in Washington, DC (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Biden announces sanctions in response to ‘beginning of Russian invasion of Ukraine’

US leader warns further measures are ready should Moscow go further in its actions against its neighbor: ‘Who in the Lord’s name does Putin think gives him the right?’

7:42 pm

Biden announces sanctions in response to 'beginning of Russian invasion of Ukraine'
7:22 pm

Army says 14-year-old Palestinian who hurled firebomb shot dead near Bethlehem
6:25 pm

Police gather at Amsterdam Apple Store as armed person said holding hostage inside

Pipes at the landfall facilities of the 'Nord Stream 2' gas pipeline are pictured in Lubmin, northern Germany, on February 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Germany halts gas pipeline project; EU says Russian troops already in Ukraine

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Scholz takes step to suspend Nord Stream 2 project with Russia; Duma legislates troop deployment; bloc policy head says Russia hasn’t fully invaded but soldiers are on Ukraine soil

Protesters hold placards demanding sanctions during a rally outside the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affair in Kyiv on February 21, 2022 (Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)

US, UK, EU set to impose sanctions after Putin orders troops into eastern Ukraine

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ukrainian border guards stand at a checkpoint from territory controlled by Russia-backed separatists to the territory controlled by Ukrainian forces in Novotroitske, eastern Ukraine, Feb. 21, 2022. (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)

ExplainerThe story behind Ukraine’s separatist regions and their support from Russia

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Minister Eli Avidar speaks during a press conference at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on February 22, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Says PM's 'hysterical' virus rules destroyed businesses

Avidar resigns as minister; says PM aping Netanyahu, won’t honor rotation with Lapid

Blow for gov’t as Yisrael Beytenu maverick returns to Knesset, where his vote may be vital on any bill; claims coalition focused on ‘selfies, TikTok’ as opposition works to oust it

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at a conference at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, on February 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Blue and White boycotts Knesset votes over legislative holdup, angering partners

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Feb. 22: Looking ahead to 2023’s budget; Mount of Olives park shelved

Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur discusses 2023 budget plans and US correspondent Jacob Magid looks at highlights of US Democrats’ visit and a church land brouhaha

Burial workers transport the body of a woman who died of COVID complications at the Nof Hagalil Cemetery, on January 28, 2021. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Israel’s COVID death toll crosses 10,000 as fifth wave wanes

More than 1,700 COVID fatalities recorded so far in 2022; over 75% of deaths overall were among those above age 70

Health Ministry Director-General Nachman Ash speaks during a meeting at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan on October 24, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Seriously ill cases drop, but top health official warns Omicron wave still not over

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks at a conference of the Israeli newspaper "Makor Rishon" at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, February 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman ‘at peace’ with not locking down in Omicron wave, despite rising death toll

By Tobias Siegal

Masresha Dessie

I am in the Promised Land, my other half is trapped in Ethiopia

I lack the means and power to fight an impersonal bureaucracy that denies the right of my wife and child to live in our homeland as Jews

Blue and White shut down the Knesset to defend our future

The coalition reneged on support for Benny Gantz’s visionary plan to mandate national service and compensate IDF fighters fairly. Press responded with disinformation.

US President Joe Biden (right) meets with then-prime minister Naftali Bennett in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 27, 2021. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

US rejects Bennett’s criticism of Iran nuke talks: ‘We cannot make the same mistake’

Amid signs that deal to restore 2015 pact could soon be reached, State Department touts diplomacy and coordination with regional allies as ‘the best way to achieve our goal’

Opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on February 14, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu warns US Congress members: No accord will stop Iran’s nuclear program

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett addresses a delegation of Republican lawmakers, led by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (center), in Jerusalem, on February 21, 2022. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Dozens of US lawmakers descend on Israel with AIPAC-affiliated trip

IDF veteran Itzik Saidyan, who set himself alight outside a Defense Ministry office on April 12, 2021. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

’Astonishing recovery’: 10 months after self-immolating, IDF vet is again walking

By Nathan Jeffay

Tormented by PTSD and what he saw as state’s neglect, Itzik Saidyan set himself alight last year, burning 97% of his body; after 30+ surgeries, he’s on the way to recovery

A Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, January 20, 2021. (AP/John Raoux)

Can zero gravity help cure cancer? Israelis sent a drug to space to find out

By Nathan Jeffay

View of the Western Wall plaza and the Dome of the Rock in the background, in Jerusalem's Old City, December 23, 2021. (Lee Aloni/Flash90)

Orthodox Diaspora delegation to lobby Bennett against Western Wall compromise

Group including Agudath Israel of America leadership to present PM with 150,000 signatures opposing changes at holy site that are widely supported by Reform and Conservative Jews

A Ukrainian serviceman stands in a shelter on a position at the line of separation between Ukraine-held territory and rebel-held territory near Zolote, Ukraine, on February 19, 2022. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Lapid orders relocation of Ukraine embassy amid Russian invasion threat

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Israeli mission to move from Kyiv to Lviv, as Foreign Ministry officials prepare for possible land evacuation of the country’s 150,000-200,000 Jews

An F-35 fighter jet takes off during a surprise exercise, 'Galilee Rose,' in February 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel said worried US sanctions on Russia could affect Syria operations

Ukraine's Military Forces servicemen shop in the Donetsk region town of Avdiivka, on the eastern Ukraine front-line with Russia-backed separatists on February 21, 2022. (Aleksey Filippov / AFP)

US slaps sanctions on Ukraine breakaway regions recognized by Putin

By AFP

Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya speaks during an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on the Ukraine crisis, in New York, February 21, 2022.(Timothy A. Clary/AFP)

Russia assailed at UN Security Council for bringing world to brink of war

By AFP

US ambassador warns consequences of Putin’s action will be ‘dire’ as most countries defend Ukraine; Moscow envoy says Kremlin ‘won’t allow bloodbath in Donbass’

People wave Russian national flags to celebrate, in the center of Donetsk, the territory controlled by pro-Russian militants, eastern Ukraine, late Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. (AP/Alexei Alexandrov)

Defiant Putin orders Russian troops to eastern Ukraine as West vows response

A serviceman of the self-declared Luhansk republic poses for a photographer in a shelter on the territory controlled by pro-Russian militants at the frontline with Ukrainian government forces in Slavyanoserbsk, Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, on February 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov, File)

Putin recognizes Ukraine separatist territories as independent, defying West

By LORNE COOK, YURAS KARMANAU and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Far-right activist and Lehava member Or Liebler. (Screenshot/Twitter via Channel 13)

Far-right Jewish extremist discovers her biological parents are Muslim

By Tobias Siegal

Or Leibler, a member of a Jewish supremacist group who describes herself as a ‘proud Jew,’ forced to reevaluate beliefs after making unexpected discovery

Deputy AG’s probe finds ‘no indication’ police illegally hacked citizens’ phones

Justice Ministry says NSO cooperated with investigation into claims that its Pegasus spyware was used against dozens of civilians; police minister hails ‘resounding acquittal’

Gideon Sa'ar, head of the New Hope party, speaks at a conference in Jerusalem on March 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sa’ar: Report on illegal NSO spyware use was incorrect, no need for state inquiry

By ToI Staff and Amy Spiro

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (L) and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at the weekly government conference, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 13, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-AG Mandelblit says Netanyahu’s attacks didn’t affect charges or plea deal talks

People walk by a replica drone in a war museum operated by Hezbollah in Mlita Village, southern Lebanon, February 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Drone flew 30 km into Israel before IDF detected it, Hezbollah sources claim

By Emanuel Fabian

Terror group officials say Hassan craft evaded monitoring systems on border; Lebanese daily publishes ostensible map of UAV’s route

Ilustrative: A US Navy Martin UAV drone flies over the Gulf waters as the Royal Bahrain Naval Force (RBNF) Abdulrahman Al Fadhel takes part in a joint naval exercise between the US 5th Fleet Command and Bahraini forces, on October 26, 2021. (Mazen Mahdi/AFP)

US Navy to establish Mideast drone task force with regional allies

By Isabel Debre and Jon Gambrell

View of the Ofer military court near the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 17, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Terror funding charge dropped in plea deal with Palestinian aid worker

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Khitam Sa’afin convicted of membership in PFLP but not of funneling money to the terror group, and of leading Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees before it was outlawed

Ammunition, military equipment stolen from an army base, February 22, 2022 (Israel Police)

4 Palestinians arrested for breaking into IDF base in south

By Emanuel Fabian

Archaeology

Beach-combing police find 1,500-year-old marble pillar near Ashdod

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Believed to once have been part of a Byzantine era church, massive artifact likely exposed during recent winter storms

Four lead ingots dated to the 13th–early 12th century BCE that were found as part of a shipwreck cargo in the southern anchorage of Caesarea in Israel. (Ehud Galili/University of Haifa’s Institute for Maritime Studies)

ArchaeologyNew analysis of 3,200-year-old lead ingots sinks theories about Bronze Age trade

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

File: A member of the Jewish Lev Tahor cult in Bosnia and Herzegovina in television footage broadcast by the N1 BiH news outlet on January 28, 2022. (Screenshot/ YouTube)

'They don't interact with the locals'

Bouncing around the Balkans, Lev Tahor cultists struggle to evade attention

By David I. Klein

Dozens of members of the extremist Jewish sect are sequestered in a North Macedonian hotel after locals threatened them; they reportedly arrived via Romania, Bosnia and Montenegro

After Europe expansion, Israeli shared mobility firm hits Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

By Ricky Ben-David

GoTo Global sets sights on solving congestion in city centers with micro-mobility solutions such as e-scooters, bikes, and shared cars

GoTo vehicles in Israel. (Shay Yechezkel)

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron speaks during a press conference at the Bank of Israel in Jerusalem, on January 7, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Bank of Israel signals upcoming interest rate hike, citing strong economy

By Ricky Ben-David

More Headlines

Sheikh Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, a Bahraini undersecretary for the ministry of foreign affairs, speaks at the Munich Security Conference, on February 20. 2022. (Screenshot)

Senior Bahraini diplomat says Mossad active in his country, boosting security

Israeli Economy and Industry Minister Orna Barbivai with Moroccan Trade Minister Ryad Mezzour in Rabat, Morocco, on February 21, 2022. (Ministry of Economy and Industry)

Israel hopes to increase trade with Morocco to $500m, says economy minister in Rabat

By ToI Staff and AFP

Tanks move during the Union Courage-2022 Russia-Belarus military drills at the Obuz-Lesnovsky training ground in Belarus, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. Russia has deployed troops to its ally Belarus for sweeping joint military drills that run through Sunday, fueling Western concerns that Moscow could use the exercise to attack Ukraine from the north. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr)

Iran blames West for Ukraine crisis, urges Moscow and Kyiv to show restraint

By AFP

Two Jewish men read prayers in a synagogue in Donetsk, Ukraine, April 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

From the webUkraine’s Jewish community faces threat of war, still scarred by past violence

A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccine clinic bus at the Grand Bazaar of Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran spurns over 800,000 donated COVID shots because they are made in US

By AP

Illustrative: Newborn babies at the English Mission Hospital, in Nazareth, October 31, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel’s birthrate trended downward in 2020, statistics bureau says

Illustrative: Bedouin boys ride on a donkey near Mitzpe Ramon in southern Israel, August 2009. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Child’s death caused by runaway car, not donkey, say police

Illustrative: Israel Police investigate the scene of a crime on June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

Woman arrested on suspicion of killing her infant children over 25 years ago

Broken glass after a drone interception at King Abdullah Airport in the Saudi city of Jizan, February 21, 2022 (Screen grab/Saudi Gazette)

16 hurt as drone targets Saudi airport; Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis blamed

By AP

This illustration photo shows a person checking the app store on a smartphone for "Truth Social", with a photo of former US president Donald Trump on a computer screen in the background, in Los Angeles, October 20, 2021. (Chris Delmas/AFP)

An inconvenient truthTrump rolls out social media app, but few able to get on

By AP

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