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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 3, 2022

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A building burns after shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Putin vows ‘uncompromising fight’ as 1st Ukrainian city falls, war enters 2nd week

Russia announces takeover of city of Kherson, population 280,000; heavy fighting on outskirts of strategic port city of Mariupol; Russia’s 40-mile -long convoy stalled outside Kyiv

An armed man stands by the remains of a Russian military vehicle in Bucha, close to the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, March 1, 2022. (Serhii Nuzhnenko/AP)

AnalysisUS experts: Invasion of Ukraine has been ‘a disaster’ for Russia so far

By Paul Handley

At the train station in the Hungarian town of Zahony, more than 200 Ukrainians with disabilities — residents of two care homes in Ukraine's capital of Kyiv — disembarked into the cold wind of the train platform after an arduous escape from the violence gripping Ukraine, March 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Balazs Kaufmann)

People with disabilities forced to flee care homes as assault on Kyiv intensifies

By Justin Spike

A still from a video showing a building on fire at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine on March 2, 2022. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Live updates (closed)

Fears of nuclear disaster as large Ukraine plant catches fire amid Russian shelling

Foreign minister says blast at largest plant in Europe would be 10 times worse than Chernobyl, amid reports that firefighters unable to reach blaze due to ongoing fighting

2:36 am

Zelensky accuses Russia of 'nuclear terror'
1:59 am

IAEA: Radiation levels normal
1:53 am

IAEA warns of severe danger if reactors hit; official says radiation levels normal

141-5 with 35 abstentions: The results of a UN vote to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, March 2, 2022 (Courtesy)

UN General Assembly, including Israel, votes overwhelmingly to condemn Russia

Firefighters walk among damages after the shelling by Russian forces of Constitution Square in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-biggest city, on March 2, 2022. (Sergey BOBOK / AFP)

ICC opens war crimes probe as Russia intensifies assault, appears to take major city

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov speaks at a press conference at the Russian Consulate in Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)

Russian envoy to Israel claims Putin not out to conquer Ukraine, rails at fake news

Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Moshe Azman is seen in a video statement, March 2, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Holding Torah scroll, Kyiv rabbi curses Russians standing by amid Ukraine invasion

By Judah Ari Gross

Contentious St. Petersburg-born Rabbi Azman accuses Russia of attacking indiscriminately, unlike Israel; another chief rabbi compares Putin to Hitler, calls to destroy tank convoy

Screen capture from video of a Russian soldier captured by Ukrainian forces. (YouTube)

Ukraine invites Russian mothers to collect their sons captured on the battlefield

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jews in Ukraine are caught in the war. They need your help!

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'Wars are easy to start and very difficult to finish'

Bennett calls on global powers to avert ‘total destruction’ in Ukraine

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

PM says world leaders have a ‘responsibility’ to bring Kyiv, Moscow to the negotiating table; Netanyahu calls for end to ‘bloodshed,’ proposes absorbing Ukrainian tech workers

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the Tel Aviv’s CyberTech conference, March 3, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leaves his Knesset office, February 21, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90

Bennett claims ‘the various actors’ want Israel as a neutral Russia-Ukraine broker

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky; Prime Minister Naftali Bennett; and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Composite/AP)

Bennett holds back-to-back calls with Ukraine’s Zelensky, Russia’s Putin

By Aaron Boxerman

Interview'Russia attacked Jewish-Ukrainian history'

Ukrainians are like David fighting ‘idiotic’ Russian Goliath, Lviv mayor tells ToI

By Lazar Berman

Andriy Sadovyi says his city is dealing well with an influx of refugees, having started preparing months ago, angrily denounces Russian strike that damaged Babyn Yar area

Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi in his office on March 2, 2022. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Destruction in Constitution Square in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-biggest city, after shelling by Russian forces, March 2, 2022. (Sergey BOBOK / AFP)

Hillel chapter in Kharkiv destroyed as city’s Jews scramble for safety

By Gabe Friedman

Jews pray in the basement of a synagogue in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 28, 2022. (Courtesy of Rabbi Jonathan Markovitch via JTA)

Ukrainian Jews seek refuge in synagogues as war worsens

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Reporter’s notebook

At Lviv university, defiant students weave their nation’s defense

Young Ukrainians at Polytechnic National University reflect the spirit of a proud people in crisis, volunteering to do what they can to protect their country from Russian invaders

Tanya, right, and a friend, both students at the Polytechnic National University weave camouflage nets to help with the war effort, Lviv, Ukraine, March 2, 2022. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

As Leopolitans sign up for gun licenses on March 2, 2022, Yuri, right, expresses disappointment in official Israeli positions. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebookAt a Ukraine gun license sign-up, disappointment with Israel surfaces

By Lazar Berman

A Ukranian-Israeli family, including teenagers Valerina and Vera, leave behind a war-torn Ukraine from Lviv on March 2, 2022 (Credit: Lazar Berman)

Israeli tourists, cousins of Jews board rescue bus from Lviv to Poland

By Lazar Berman

Op-ed

At Babyn Yar, history sounds the alarm

Biden says ‘freedom will always triumph over tyranny’ and Putin will ‘pay the price’ for his war on Ukraine. But freedom does not always triumph, and certainly not always in time

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a ceremony at the monument to Jewish victims of Nazi massacres, at Babyn Yar in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, September 29, 2021. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

A view of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv on March 2, 2022. (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

Holocaust survivors condemn Putin’s ‘denazification’ claim in Ukraine

By AFP and ToI Staff

Passengers rush to board a train leaving to Slovakia from the Lviv railway station, in Lviv, west Ukraine, March 2, 2022. (Felipe Dana/AP)

Conference of Presidents laments tragedy in Ukraine, avoids faulting Russia for it

$100 grand and a trip to Disneyland: Bribe Russian soldiers to defect

They need to know they have better options than following Putin’s orders and they’ll get protection and a new life if they opt out of the conflict with Ukraine

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Praying myself into action

l look at the sunlight outside. Can this be the same world that’s burning in Ukraine? The same world where children are hiding in basements?

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks at a conference of the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, February 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interior minister predicts tens of thousands of new immigrants from Ukraine, Russia

Ayelet Shaked orders 3-month suspension of need for a police background check on those fleeing the conflict, says wave of arrivals will be sent to boost Negev communities

Illustrative: Jewish Ukrainian refugees are sheltered and accommodated in a Chabad shelter run in Kishinev, Moldova, March 2, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hundreds of Jews fleeing Ukraine to arrive in Israel next week

By Judah Ari Gross

Israelis and their relatives wait for a 'rescue bus' that will ferry them from Lviv across Poland's border with Ukraine, leaving behind the war-stricken country, on March 2, 2022. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

Israel issues travel warning for southern Belarus amid Ukraine fighting

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A baby sits with his mother inside a train leaving the Lviv railway station, in Lviv, west Ukraine, March 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Mar. 3: Hacktivists declare cyberwar on Russia; ToI reports from Lviv

After a night of air raid sirens, diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman speaks from Ukraine; Tech Israel editor Ricky Ben-David explains economic sanctions and new cyber frontline

Pregnant patient and Ukrainian refugee Sarah Misk using Sheba Beyond’s telehealth technology in Moldova to talk to doctors in Israel, March 2, 2022. (Sheba Medical Center)

Doctors in Israel care for Ukrainians 2,000 km away, as tech shrinks world

By Nathan Jeffay

Using computerized systems built in Israel, physicians examine refugees on the Ukraine-Moldova border, check lungs, blood stats and even conduct prenatal ultrasounds

People walk outside the Alexander Nevsky Church in Jerusalem's Old City, on January 20, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Amid Ukraine invasion, Jerusalem court nixes transfer of Old City property to Russia

Judge rules only the government is able to decide on ownership of Alexander’s Courtyard, due to matter’s political and religious considerations

‘Our families were refugees, now innocents suffer again’

‘These people have lost everything’: Israeli medics, supplies head to Ukraine border

By Naomi Lanzkron

40-strong team, 15 tons of aid arrive in Romania on 1st leg of journey to Moldovan field hospitals for refugees fleeing Russian invasion; plane will return to Israel with refugees

People arrive on a train from Ukraine's border at Berlin's main train station on March 2, 2022. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

‘Welcome to Berlin’: Ukrainian refugees pour into Germany by the thousands

By Yannick Pasquet

A member of the territorial defense stands in the backyard of a house damaged by a Russian airstrike, according to locals, in Gorenka, outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, March 2, 2022. (Vadim Ghirda/AP)

Two Ukrainian soccer players, one of them Jewish, killed in fighting

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ukrainian athletes barely make it to Beijing Paralympics after ‘miracle’ escape

Dodging bombs and sleeping on floors, delegation arrives at Winter Paralympics in Beijing, eager to be ‘a symbol to show that Ukraine is alive’

Russian President Vladimir Putin talks via videoconference with members of the Russian Paralympic Committee team ahead of the XIII Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing, in Moscow, Russia, Feb. 21, 2022. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russian and Belarusian athletes banned from Winter Paralympic Games

Flag bearers walk into the stadium for the closing ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 20, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

China denies it demanded Russia wait to invade until after Winter Olympics

By AFP

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi during the COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, November 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

IAEA chief heads to Iran as regime seeks to scrap probe of its undeclared nuke sites

By AFP

Grossi vows UN watchdog will ‘never abandon’ effort to clarify the presence of nuclear material at several undeclared sites — an Iranian condition for reviving the 2015 deal

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks during a graduation ceremony for Israeli Navy officers at the Haifa naval base, March 2, 2022. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gantz says Iran nuclear deal could be signed within days

By Emanuel Fabian

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi speaks at a press conference after the IAEA Board of Governors meeting on the Situation in Ukraine at the Agency's headquarters in the Vienna International Centre in Vienna, Austria, on March 2, 2022. (Lisa Leutner/AP)

IAEA urges Russia to ‘cease actions’ at forcibly seized Ukraine nuclear sites

By AFP

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Rapper, writer and dream interpreter Shaanan Streett (Courtesy Ohad Romano)

Hadag Nahash frontman seeks new challenges, but no neckties

By Jessica Steinberg

Speaking with ToI, Israeli hiphop artist Shaanan Streett discusses his latest projects and the importance of being comfortable in one’s own skin

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Israeli kids plant trees for the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat, in Haifa, on February 9, 2017, in a KKL-JNF forest. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Ministry: KKL-JNF gave millions to political orgs, promoted staff based on politics

By Tobias Siegal

Cargo ship Oakland crosses the Bosphorus strait towards the Marmara sea after departing from Russia's Novorossiysk port, in Istanbul, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Turkey, which is trying to balance its support for Ukraine with its fragile economic ties to Russia, said Monday it is implementing an international convention that allows the country to shut down the straits at the entrance of the Black Sea to warships, to avoid an escalation of the conflict. (AP/Francisco Seco)

InterviewRussia’s war on Ukraine triggers ‘earthquake’ in global shipping, trade industry

By Ricky Ben-David

Public Security Minister Omer Barlev, US Department of Homeland Security Under Secretary for Policy Robert Silvers and interior Minister Ayelet Shaked sign an information-sharing agreement in Jerusalem on March 2, 2022. (Courtesy)

US, Israel sign info-sharing deal, clearing hurdle on path to visa waiver agreement

Customers walk at an Apple Premium reseller inside the Moscow GUM State Department store in Moscow, Russia, Nov. 28, 2014. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

ExxonMobil, Apple, Boeing cut ties with Moscow over Ukraine invasion

By AFP

Illustrative: Palestinian entrepreneurs work at a digital tech startup in Ramallah in the West Bank on Oct. 10, 2021. (Ahed Izhiman)

Bennett urges ‘smooth’ integration of Palestinian tech workers at Israeli companies

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during their meeting in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Sept. 29, 2021. (Vladimir Smirnov/Sputnik, Kremlin/Pool Photo via AP)

Turkey walks a diplomatic tightrope between warring allies Russia and Ukraine

By Fulya Ozerkan

Filmmaker Gal Uchovsky at the Knesset, on June 4, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90/ File)

Prosecutors drop sexual assault charges against leading LGBT activist Gal Uchovsky

Israeli troops are seen in the Palestinian town of Hizme, northeast of Jerusalem, March 3, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF launches manhunt after second reported Hizme stabbing in 24 hours

By Emanuel Fabian

Joe Biden points to one of the Masdar City employees as Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber UAE minister of state and the chairman of Masdar City, third left, looks on during his first day tour in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, March 7, 2016. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)

US-UAE ties challenged by war in Ukraine, Emirati official says

By AFP

US President Donald Trump speaks before boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

House panel says Trump engaged in a ‘criminal conspiracy’ to overturn vote

By Farnoush Amiri, Eric Tucker and MARY CLARE JALONICK

Chelsea's Russian owner Roman Abramovich applauds his players after they defeated Arsenal 6-0, in an English Premier League soccer match at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, on March 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Roman Abramovich confirms he will sell top UK soccer team Chelsea

By AP and ToI Staff

Firefighters work to contain a fire at the Economy Department building of Karazin Kharkiv National University, allegedly hit during recent shelling by Russia, on March 2, 2022. (Sergey BOBOK / AFP)

Tel Aviv University offers full scholarships to Ukrainian students, academics

By Tobias Siegal

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