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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 2, 2022

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in a video address posted to Facebook, March 2, 2022. (Screenshot)

Zelensky urges Jews to shout as Russia ‘erases’ Ukraine: ‘Nazism is born in silence’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In Hebrew post to his Facebook page, Ukrainian president says Russian strike that damaged Babyn Yar area underlines Moscow’s threat to Ukrainian identity

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's top adviser Vladislav Roitberg in an interview with Channel 12 news, on March 1, 2022. (Screenshot)

In Hebrew, Zelensky aide vows Ukraine won’t surrender to Putin’s ‘personal madness’

Illustrative: People look at the gutted remains of Russian military vehicles on a road in the town of Bucha, close to the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. (AP/Serhii Nuzhnenko)

Ukraine says it killed Chechen forces sent to assassinate Zelensky

Ukrainian firefighters work to put out a blaze in a building in the Jewish cemetery located in Kyiv's Babi Yar Holocaust memorial site, on March 1, 2022. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine)

Israeli, Jewish officials denounce Russian strike near Babyn Yar memorial complex

By Judah Ari Gross

Foreign minister vows to help repair damage to the site; Yad Vashem Holocaust museum lambastes ‘outrageous’ Russian attacks against civilians

Herzog: Russian strike near Babyn Yar memorial ‘epitomizes pain’ of those in the war

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Russia strikes Kyiv TV tower, killing 5 and damaging Babyn Yar Holocaust site

By Agencies and Judah Ari Gross

Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial council urges ICC to condemn Putin’s genocide claims

By AP

Members of the civil defense take positions as a vehicle approaches the checkpoint in Gorenka, outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)

Live updates (closed)

Key port city Kherson appears to fall to Russians, but fate unclear

Zelensky boasts of thwarting Russian sneak attack in middle of the night video; rabbi in Kherson says Russians controlling movement; ICC opens war crimes probe

2:13 am

Russians have taken Kherson, local official says
12:16 am

US official says Kherson 'very much contested'
12:01 am

Zelensky in new video: We thwarted sneaky Russian plans in a week

A Polish border guard assists refugees from Ukraine as they arrive to Poland at the Korczowa border crossing, Feb. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing March 2: A report from Ukraine border; Israel mulls refuge-seekers

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman checks in from the train to Lviv as US correspondent Jacob Magid and political reporter Carrie Keller-Lynn discuss the Knesset, UN and Iran

Ukrainians prepare to board a bus to Poland at Lviv bus main station, western Ukraine, March 1, 2022 (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Foreign Ministry to bus Israelis fleeing Ukraine from Lviv to Polish border

By Judah Ari Gross

Footage said to show the moment Roman Brodky was shot dead while trying to flee Ukraine, broadcast on March 2, 2022 (Kan/Screen grab)

Footage shows Israeli’s car coming under Ukrainian fire in deadly mistaken identity

Ely Karmon

Israel’s strategic importance in the new Cold War

With Russia isolated in the international arena and challenged in the Eastern Mediterranean, a militarily strong Israel is well-placed to back the Western alliance

US President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during a joint session of Congress in the US Capitol's House Chamber in Washington, DC., March 01, 2022. (POOL / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

'Our forces will not engage... in the conflict in Ukraine'

Biden vows to check ‘dictator’ Putin’s aggression, but won’t fight Russia in Ukraine

By Zeke Miller and Colleen Long

Congress gives rousing ovation in support of Ukraine as US president uses first State of the Union address to tout sanctions unity, lay out plans to deal with inflation, COVID-19

US Ambassador Tom Nides is interviewed by The Times of Israel at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, on January 7, 2022. (David Azagury/US Embassy)

US envoy to Israel calls Putin a ‘madman,’ tells Iran, China to note world response

By Tobias Siegal and ToI Staff

Illustrative photograph of drilling oil on land. (bashta, iStock at Getty Images)

Oil surges to $110, equities sink as investors fret over Russian invasion of Ukraine

By AFP

A view of the square outside the damaged local city hall of Kharkiv on March 1, 2022, destroyed as a result of Russian troop shelling. (Sergey BOBOK / AFP)

Russia claims it captured Ukrainian city of Kherson; fighting in Kharkiv renews

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Airborne Russian forces land in Ukraine’s second-largest city, sparking fierce street battles; Kyiv says more than 350 civilians, including 14 children, killed since invasion began

Members of delegations from Ukraine and Russia, including Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky (second left), Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak (second right), Volodymyr Zelensky's 'Servant of the People' lawmaker Davyd Arakhamia (third right), hold talks in Belarus' Gomel region, on February 28, 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Sergei Kholodilin/Belta/AFP)

Russia, Ukraine say they’re ready to resume talks as Moscow presses invasion

By AP

Ukrainian emergency service personnel carry a body of a victim out of the damaged City Hall building following shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 1, 2022. (AP/Pavel Dorogoy)

Residential areas in Ukraine bombarded, but Russian advance on Kyiv appears to stall

By AP and ToI Staff

Rabbi Jonathan Markovitch and his wife, Inna, Chabad emissaries to Kyiv, Ukraine. (Courtesy)

After departing Ukraine, Kyiv rabbi says he’s working to help those left behind

By Judah Ari Gross

Rabbi Jonathan Markovich says some people unable to leave the beleaguered Ukrainian capital are still sheltering in synagogue, while others being brought food by volunteers

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (R) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pose for a picture as they meet at the Munich Security Conference on February 19, 2022 (Sven Hoppe / POOL / AFP)

Germany’s envoy in Israel to ToI: Putin’s Nazi accusations ‘abhorrent’

By Aaron Boxerman

Inside story

Sanctions highlight money flow from Russian Jewish billionaires to Jewish nonprofits

Targeted oligarchs include prominent Jewish philanthropists, whose giving is vital to the organizations they support but may get ensnared as West bids to isolate Putin over Ukraine

Left to right: Mikhail Fridman (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images via JTA), Boris Mints (Jason Kempin/Getty Images for World Chess Championship via JTA), Moshe Kantor (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images via JTA), Roman Abramovich (Ian Walton/Getty Images via JTA).

A man walks past the Moscow's stock market building in downtown Moscow on February 28, 2022. (Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP)

Kremlin says sanctions dealing ‘a serious blow’ to Russian economy

By AFP

Russian businessman, co-founder of Alfa-Group Mikhail Fridman attends a conference of the Israel Keren Hayesod foundation in Moscow, Russia, on September 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool)

Russian-Jewish billionaires vow to fight EU sanctions over Ukraine invasion

By AFP

Shani Bechhofer

On Ukraine, antisemitism, and choosing sides

There is no moral ambiguity in Russia’s unprovoked military aggression. It is evil, and Ukraine’s history of antisemitism is simply not the issue right now

The Palestinians are not the Ukrainians

In the case of Putin’s invasion, one nation has violated its neighbor’s sovereignty – comparisons to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict don’t hold up

Demonstrators carry placards and flags during a protest against the Russian invasion to the Ukraine, outside the city hall in Jerusalem, on February 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

European diplomat criticizes Israeli balancing act on Ukraine invasion

By Aaron Boxerman and Jacob Magid

Deputy Ambassador of Israel to the United Nations Noa Furman speaks during an emergency meeting of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, on March 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Condemning Russia on global stage, Israel at UN says Ukraine invasion must end

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the emergency session of the United Nations General Assembly, on February 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

UN to vote on resolution condemning Russian invasion of Ukraine; Israel to back it

By AFP and ToI Staff

A Hesed social worker hugs a client in Odesa on Monday, February 28, 2022. (JDC)

Risking life and limb, Hesed network continues caring for Ukraine’s neediest Jews

Staff of JDC group work on laptops from home to provide services, and some social workers move in with homebound Jews to ensure continued care, even as fighting rages around them

People walk along an empty road during curfew, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

‘Like a ghost town’: Kyiv resident on fear of an act as simple as walking the dog

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz give a joint press conference in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on March 2, 2022 (Government Press Office)

Scholz says Iran deal must be reached now; Bennett calls renewed pact ‘unacceptable’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and Aaron Boxerman

PM and visiting German chancellor discuss Ukraine as Israel maintains cautious approach to Russian invasion; at Yad Vashem, Scholz says Germany has responsibility to Jewish state

In this satellite photo from Maxar Technologies, trucks and other equipment surround a scorched launch pad at Iran's Imam Khomeini Spaceport in rural Semnan province on Feb. 27, 2022. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies via AP)

New failed Iranian space launch seen in satellite images

By Jon Gambrell

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks on March 1, 2022, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Breaking silence, Schumer backs Iran talks, but notes old deal’s ‘problems’

Illustrative: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky takes a selfie at the first congress of his party called Servant of the People in the city Botanical Garden, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Zoya Shu)

18 things to know about Jewish defender of Ukrainian democracy Volodymyr Zelensky

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Illustrative: People walk past a Brighton Beach pharmacy that caters to the Russian community in Brooklyn on December 16, 2016. (AP /Mark Lennihan)

In Brooklyn’s ‘Little Odesa,’ Jews from Ukraine and Russia find war ‘terrifying’

By julia GERGELY

NY’s Brighton Beach seaside neighborhood is a thriving enclave of Jews who moved to the United States in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s as refugees from the former Soviet Union

US DHS Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy and Plans Robert Silvers (right) signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Paul Landes, Head of the Defense Ministry's National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing in Tel Aviv, on March 1, 2022. (David Azagury/US Embassy Jerusalem)

Exclusive

US and Israel to announce new cybersecurity collaboration framework Wednesday

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

US Homeland Security official in Israel to sign agreements to combat terrorist financing and on cybersecurity collaboration; will also advance visa waiver discussions

A computer code is seen on displays in the office of Global Cyber Security Company Group-IB in Moscow, Russia, Oct. 25, 2017. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

Ukraine crisis unleashes cyber free-for-all, but no crippling Russian attacks yet

By Alan Suderman and Frank Bajakk

More Headlines

A scuffle between lawmakers in the Knesset plenum's back hallway, March 2, 2022. (screenshot)

MKs scuffle after settlers arrested for assaulting IDF troops, Palestinians

IDF soldiers operating in the West Bank Palestinian town of Silat al-Harithiya, December 20, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian shot dead by Israeli soldiers in West Bank under unclear circumstances

By Aaron Boxerman and Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers wearing face masks are seen at the entrance of Jish, in Northern Israel, July 27, 2020. (Flash90)

IDF ombudswoman finds rise in troops’ complaints, officers inventing own COVID rules

By Emanuel Fabian

Gideon Sa'ar speaks in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lacking a majority, coalition delays final vote to limit PM terms to 8 years

A man checks his smartphone while waiting to board a subway in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 23, 2019 (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Ukraine requests Russia be kicked off internet; Apple halts sales to Russian market

Defense Minister Benny Gantz tours the Erez Crossing on the border with the Gaza Strip, on March 1, 2022. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Israel to boost number of Palestinian workers from Gaza, Gantz says

By Emanuel Fabian

FILE: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gestures during a hearing on his charges for defamation in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, February 16, 2021. (Babuskinsky District Court Press Service via AP)

Navalny urges Russians to protest Ukraine invasion, ‘insane little tsar’ Putin

By AFP

Manwar Burqan, 11, recovers at Hadassah Hospital after being struck by a police sound grenade, alongside her father (far left) and left-wing Meretz MK Mossi Raz (center) on March 1, 2021 (Credit: Noa Pinto)

Father of Palestinian girl hit by sound grenade: ‘Didn’t cops see there were kids?’

By Aaron Boxerman

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., answers questions during a panel discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, February 26, 2022. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Republicans tested by congresswoman’s speech to Putin-cheering white supremacists

By LISA MASCARO

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 16, 2022 (Oliver Fitoussi/Flash90)

Report: Officer on Pelosi security detail arrested for alleged drunk fight in Israel

Natalia Berezhnaya, left, is seen in Odesa, Ukraine, in this undated photo with her home care worker. (Alexander Vdovichenko/The Jewish Joint Distribution Committee via AP)

Germany gives $720 million in aid to Holocaust survivors

By Kirsten Grieshaber

U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin speaks to delegates and assembled party officials at the 2022 NYGOP Convention, March 1, 2022, in Garden City, NY. (John Minchillo/AP)

Jewish Republican Lee Zeldin endorsed by GOP leaders in NY governor’s race

By MARINA VILLENEUVE

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