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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 1, 2022

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An armed man stands at a road block in downtown Kyiv on March 1, 2022. (Aris Messinis/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

US to close airspace to Russian flights, joining Europeans

President vows support for Kyiv, touts sanctions to cheering Congress at first State of the Union address; airborne forces said to attack second largest Ukrainian city

4:31 am

80,000 Ukrainians returning from abroad to fight, ministry says
1:55 am

Biden to focus on Ukraine as State of the Union kicks off
1:15 am

After criticism, Israel to co-sponsor UN resolution condemning Russia

Ukrainian servicemen and volunteers of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces stand behind a damaged car at a checkpoint in Brovary, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, March 1, 2022. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

Russia pummels Kharkiv as massive convoy nears capital Kyiv

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, second right, and Polish President Andrzej Duda address the media at Lask air base in Poland, March 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

NATO chief: Putin has ‘shattered peace’ in Europe with Ukraine invasion

Destroyed Russian infantry vehicles in Kharkiv, Ukraine, February 28, 2022. (Sergey Bobok/AFP)

Russian forces intensify attacks on Ukraine’s No. 2 city and close in on Kyiv

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Members of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces, volunteer military units of the Armed Forces, train close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

Russian soldier’s alleged text to his mother: ‘We’re targeting civilians’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ukraine’s ambassador to the UN reads out messages he says were found on phone of slain serviceman telling of his fears

A destroyed school near the center of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, on February 28, 2022. (Sergey Bobok/AFP)

Rights groups say Russian cluster bombs hit school, hospital in possible war crimes

By AFP

A destroyed school near the center of Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, February 28, 2022. (Sergey Bobok/AFP)

Russia likely committing war crimes in Ukraine, The Hague says, opening probe

Roman Brodsky, an Israeli-Ukrainian man killed in Ukraine, on February 28, 2022. (Courtesy)

Israeli man shot dead as convoy escaping Kyiv comes under mistaken Ukrainian fire

By Judah Ari Gross

Parents of Roman Brodsky, 37, say their son was heading for Israel and was mistaken for Russian-supporting Chechen forces, blame Putin for his death

The father of Roman Brodsky, an Israeli killed in Ukraine, at left, discusses his burial arrangements during a phone call with his son's partner in Ukraine. A Magen David Adom paramedic, right, helped facilitate the call. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Father and partner of Israeli killed in Ukraine dispute his burial place amid danger

Demonstrators carry placards and flags during a protest march against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, outside the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, on February 28, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israelis of Ukrainian origin sell belongings to raise cash for brethren under fire

Ignite Impact with American Friends of the Hebrew University

Expanding AFHU’s support for Hebrew University of Jerusalem programs that make a positive difference in Israel and around the world

'Ukrainians massively saved Jewish lives during Holocaust'

Ukraine envoy ‘disappointed’ by Israel detaining refuge-seekers, wants defensive aid

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Yevgen Korniychuk says tens of Ukrainians who came to stay with family and friends are being held at airport; minister pushes back against his criticism

Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk hosts a briefing at the Embassy's Cultural Center in Tel Aviv, on March 1, 2022. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/The Times of Israel)

Refugees fleeing conflict in Ukraine arrive at the Medyka border crossing in Poland, on Monday, February 28, 2022. The head of the United Nations refugee agency says more than half a million people had fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion on Thursday. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Israel tries to send 14 Ukrainians back to Europe, relents after pressure

From left, Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai, Knesset Member Gilad Kariv, Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata, and Immigration and Absorption Ministry Director-General Ronen Cohen speak at the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on February 28, 2022. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset)

Israel eases citizenship requirements for Ukrainians, but only for families of Jews

By Judah Ari Gross

Interview

Catastrophe in waiting: Israel’s Ukraine envoy sees humanitarian crisis at border

Ambassador Michael Brodsky says Poland-Ukraine crossing could get dangerous: No bathrooms, food, water; ‘people spend 24, 48 hours in their cars and buses, are angry, tired’

Israel's Ambassador to Ukraine, Michael Brodsky, at the Medyka crossing point, on February 27, 2022. (Twitter)

United Hatzalah medical personnel on the ground in Moldova, February 28, 2022. (Courtesy/United Hatzalah)

‘They lost everything’: Israeli medics treat Ukrainians amid chaos on Moldova border

Israeli passengers arriving from Ukraine via the border with Romania on an Israeli 'Israir' rescue flight are welcomed by their family upon arrival at Israel's Ben Gurion airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv, on March 1, 2022. (Jack Guez/AFP)

‘Bombs everywhere’: Thousands of Israelis flee Ukraine amid deadly evacuation chaos

By AFP and ToI Staff

'This place is a sign of solidarity with Ukrainians'

In busy Krakow station, harried volunteers welcome Ukrainian refugees

By Lazar Berman

Poles mobilize to absorb hundreds of thousands fleeing the Russian invasion of their eastern neighbor

Ukrainian refugees wait at an absorption office at Krakow’s central train station. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

InterviewPoland’s chief rabbi leads effort to receive Ukrainian Jewish refugees

By Lazar Berman

The Krakow JCC’s collection room. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Learning on the fly, Krakow’s JCC turns into refugee support center

By Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv, March 1, 2022. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

PM: Israel helping in Russia-Ukraine crisis, while also safeguarding our interests

After he offered to mediate, Bennett notes: We’re ‘one of the few that can communicate directly with both parties, and assist where requested. And we do help, quietly’

An El Al plane is loaded up with humanitarian aid for Ukraine on March 1, 2022. (GPO screenshot)

100 tons of humanitarian aid en route from Israel to Ukraine

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Ukraine's ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, at a press conference in Tel Aviv, on February 25, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)

Zelensky pleased by Bennett’s mediation offer in call with Putin, says Ukraine envoy

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Mar. 1: A liberal world order awakens; ToI on site at Ukraine border

Lazar Berman reports from Polish refugee center; Haviv Rettig Gur on Putin supporters and rise of a new West; and Sue Surkes brings personal stories of Ukrainian Jews under fire

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on November 22, 2021; and British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, on October 3, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90; AP Photo/Jon Super)

Lapid, British counterpart discuss ‘global consequences’ of war in Ukraine

Photos on porcelain decorated with the images of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar Assad are displayed in a souvenir shop in Damascus, Syria, on April 18, 2016. Political observers say Russia’s brazen Syria intervention emboldened Putin, giving him a renewed Middle East foothold and helped pave the way for his current attack on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Inside StoryHow Russia’s intervention in Syria provided blueprint for Ukraine invasion

By Zeina Karam, AJ Naddaff and Bassam Mroue

From the Blogs

How Kseniia and Emre escaped from Ukraine

After navigating a reluctant bus driver, exploding bombs, a seizure, and a dead car battery, the couple came to the Krakow JCC to help those who had it worse

Refugees fleeing conflict in Ukraine arrive at the Medyka border crossing in Poland, on Monday, February 28, 2022. The head of the United Nations refugee agency says more than half a million people had fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion on Thursday. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Poland offers Ukrainian refugees warm soup and solidarity

By Maja Czarnecka

Moscow’s polished propaganda no match for Ukraine’s inspiring leader

Ukrainian MPs are sharing images of themselves armed with rifles they’ve never held before, ready for a war they didn’t choose. Zelensky’s courage is infectious

In a Polish church hall, UK Jewish students meet Ukraine’s newest refugees

The teens were quick to pitch in to help the Ukrainians, with all the moral clarity I’d hoped they’d absorb from studying the Righteous Among the Nations

Yaron Shalem, former vice president at the venture capital firm Singulariteam, and ex-CFO of Celsius Network (Linkedin)

ToI investigates

Simona Weinglass

Another 2 leading Israeli blockchain pioneers named as suspects in vast crypto scam

Yaron Shalem, ex-Singulariteam VP and former CFO of Celsius, and Saga founder Ido Sadeh Man among 10 suspects nabbed for aggravated fraud, money laundering, embezzlement

Palestinians and left-wing activists protest against the expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. April 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court says 4 Palestinian families can stay in Sheikh Jarrah homes, for now

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinian lawyer says decision ‘preserves presence of Palestinians in their homes’; justices say families can’t be evicted before government resolves their ownership claims

Palestinians Shadi Najm, 19, (left) and Abdullah al-Housri, 22, who were killed in a gun battle with Israeli troops near the West Bank city of Jenin. (social media)

2 Palestinians killed in overnight battle in northern West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Police fire sound grenades at Palestinians at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem Old City, on February 28, 2022. (Flash90)

Palestinian girl, 11, wounded as worshippers and police clash at Damascus Gate

By Aaron Boxerman

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is drawing admiration from Jews who see him as a heroic figure. (Anadolu Agency/Getty Images via JTA)

For many Jews, Volodymyr Zelensky is a ‘modern Maccabee’ as he fights Ukraine’s war

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Leading his country in battle against Russian invasion, Jewish president is being compared to storied heroes, while also seen as dispelling notions of Jews as unpatriotic

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (far left) performs a medley of songs, including 'Hava Nagila,' with a comedy troupe on stage in a performance from 2016. (Screenshot/YouTube)

A rousing performanceOld clip shows Zelensky going ‘balls out’ for ‘Hava Nagila’

By Ethan Freedman

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, on February 1, 2022. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool Photo via AP, File)

AnalysisReading Putin: Unbalanced or cagily preying on West’s fears?

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Illustrative: Programming scripts on a computer monitor. (Motortion/iStock by Getty Images)

Russian invasion of Ukraine sees online forces mobilize as cyberattacks mount

By Ricky Ben-David

People enjoy a hot mineral water spring in Hamat Gader, northern Israel, on February 5, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Israel drops almost all COVID health rules as it exits Omicron wave

Only three restrictions remain: face masks in indoor public spaces, Green Pass to enter old age homes, and PCR tests upon arrival for Israelis returning from abroad

A woman takes a PCR coronavirus test at a private nursing home in Netanya. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel’s Omicron exit: COVID rules rolled back; expert sees ‘no cloud on horizon’

By Nathan Jeffay

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Russian oligarch Igor Sechin visit the Konevsky Monastery north of St. Petersburg, Russia, July 31, 2021. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

EU puts top Russian oligarchs on sanctions blacklist for ‘supporting Putin regime’

By AFP

Bloc targets Russian leader’s moneymen, and some of the country’s wealthiest people, in latest punishment over invasion of Ukraine

Newborn twin brothers sleep in a basement used as a bomb shelter at the Okhmadet children's hospital in central Kyiv, Ukraine, February 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Genesis Fund oligarchs pledge $10 million for Jews in Ukraine

Illustrative: Foreign Minister Yair Lapid at a situational assessment on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, on February 24, 2022. (Niv Musman/GPO)

Lapid reportedly warns ministers not to help sanctioned Jewish-Russian oligarchs

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Representatives of the Reform and Conservative movements of Judaism from North America and Israel stand outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem before a meeting on February 28, 2022. (Reform Movement in Israel)

PM meets Reform, Conservative leaders after 6-year hiatus under Netanyahu

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative image: A doctor evaluates results of magnetic resonance imaging of a brain. (iStock via Getty Images)

Israeli study: Stem cells may help multiple sclerosis brain ‘repair itself’

By Nathan Jeffay

A view of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on November 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel left out of Europe index by MSCI, dashing hopes for stock bonanza

By Ricky Ben-David and Shoshanna Solomon

Russian President Vladimir Putin touches the World Cup trophy as FIFA President Gianni Infantino stands beside him, at the end of the final match between France and Croatia at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, on July 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

Russia suspended from international soccer four years after hosting World Cup

By AFP

Priests pause on Palm Sunday on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, on Sunday, March 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Expansion of East Jerusalem national park onto church-owned lands back on docket

In this pool photo taken on Thursday, February 14, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a training session with the Russian national judo team at the Yug-Sport Training Center in Sochi, Russia. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

World Taekwondo revokes Putin’s honorary black belt over Ukraine

By AFP

Then US Representative Ted Deutch speaks during a drive-in rally for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden at Broward College, on Thursday, on October 29, 2020, in Coconut Creek, Florida. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Senior Democrat stepping away from Congress to become CEO of Jewish advocacy group

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

President Isaac Herzog (left) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right). (AP)

Israeli, Turkish think tanks to hold joint session in Tel Aviv ahead of Herzog trip

By Tal Schneider

President Isaac Herzog speaks during a ceremony announcing the winners of the Wolf Foundation award, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on February 8, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

President condemns UK Jewry’s leading group for lambasting visiting far-right MK

By Judah Ari Gross

'Tinder Swindler,' a true-crime documentary about Israeli con man Shimon Hayut, was released on Netflix, on February 2, 2022. (Courtesy: Netflix)

‘Tinder Swindler’ sued by Leviev family for appropriating their name

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks during a Knesset discussion on the military pension law, on February 28, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Easing coalition crisis, controversial IDF pensions law passes first Knesset vote

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

UTJ MK Yaakov Litzman speaks during a United Torah Judaism faction meeting, on December 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Haredi MK Yaakov Litzman says he will quit Knesset during Passover break

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

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