Join our Community

Support ToI and remove all ads

Learn more

English
Français
עברית

Get The Daily Edition
Account
Sign In
- Sign in
- Join our Community

Open Search form

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners

Input search

English
Français
עברית

Latest Articles
Latest Alerts
Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners
Community
- Join our community
- Sign in
- About The Times of Israel
- Advertise on The Times of Israel
- Contact us
- Download our App
  - For IOS users
  - For Android users
- Get the Daily Edition
- Follow us
- © 2026 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved
  
  Terms and conditions Privacy policy

Input search

The Daily Edition

What Matters Most On Friday, March 4, 2022

Facebook
Twitter

View previous edition

View next edition

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a press conference in Kyiv, on March 3, 2022. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

Baltic states will be next 'if Ukraine falls, God forbid'

Zelensky says he’s disappointed by Bennett: ‘I don’t feel he is wrapped in our flag’

Ukraine leader tells reporters relations with Israel’s PM are ‘really not too bad… But ties are tested at the hardest moments, like these, when help and support are needed’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky commemorates Holocaust victims at the at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv, Ukraine in April 2021. (Courtesy of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center via JTA)

Babyn Yar memorial wasn’t hit, but Zelensky finds tool to rally Jews worldwide

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar in the Jewish Museum in Moscow, on June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

‘Putin’s rabbi’ calls for end to war in Ukraine, offers to mediate

By Judah Ari Gross

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a flag-raising ceremony via video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, on March 4, 2022. (Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP)

Putin warns neighbors ‘not to escalate’ Ukraine crisis; NATO rules out no-fly zone

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Kremlin says ‘now is not the time’ for Russian leader to meet Zelensky; Ukrainian FM accuses Moscow’s forces of rape, urges West to ‘act now before it’s too late’

A boy fleeing the conflict in Ukraine walks past a crucifix with a suitcase after crossing the Moldova-Ukraine border checkpoint near the town of Palanca, on March 2, 2022, seven days after Russia's military invasion of Ukraine. (Nikolay Doychinov/AFP)

After Ukraine, Moldova fears being Putin’s next target

By Mihaela RODINA

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

AnalysisPutin’s Syria and Chechnya playbooks foretell a grim direction for Ukraine war

By Adam PLOWRIGHT and Cecile Feuillatre

Lviv Oblast governor Maksym Kozytskyy in his office in Lviv, March 3, 2022 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Interview'Time is crucial here'

We need air defenses from Israel, not goodwill statements, Lviv commander tells ToI

By Lazar Berman

Maksym Kozytskyy urges Israel to join others providing arms, telling The Times of Israel that Iron Dome systems would have let Ukraine ‘prevail in the air’

A Russian soldier points a gun from a Russian military truck as it drives through an undisclosed location in Ukraine, on March 3, 2022. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Ukraine, Russia agree on humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians

By AFP and ToI Staff

Lukoil's offices in Moscow, Russia. (AFP Photo/Nikolay Doychinov)

Russian energy giant Lukoil calls for immediate end of Ukraine war

By AFP

From the blogs

Today, Ukraine is Israel: We implore Jews across the world to come to our aid

President Zelensky’s chief of staff writes for The Times of Israel: Just as the Jews fell victim to Nazis, Ukrainians are falling victim to Russia’s efforts to commit acts of genocide

This image made from a video released by Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant shows a bright flaring object landing in the grounds of the nuclear plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine, on March 4, 2022. (Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant via AP)

'Nuclear safety at plant is now guaranteed'

Blaze out at Ukraine nuclear plant after Russian shelling sparks catastrophe fears

By Dmitry Zaks and Dmytro Gorshkov

Zelensky says Russia only country to ever attack a nuclear plant, warns Putin’s ‘reckless’ actions ‘could now directly threaten the safety of all of Europe’; calls for UN to meet

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi speaks at a press conference about the situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine in Vienna, Austria, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner)

No radiation leak at Ukraine nuclear plant after Russian attack starts fire, kills 3

By Jim Heintz, YURAS KARMANAU and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV

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)

Russian shelling sets Ukrainian nuclear plant ablaze, raising fears of disaster

By Jim Heintz, YURAS KARMANAU and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV

Kyiv's ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, Ukrainian citizens and supporters attend a special prayer session at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on March 2, 2022, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

Stuck in the middle with Ukraine: What the press is saying about Russia’s invasion

By Joshua Davidovich

Dispatching reporters to Europe (and squabbling with each other over it), Israel wrestles with the unfolding horror, Jerusalem’s non-stance, and the ghosts of WWII

The Gershman family at Iasi Airport in Romania, March 3, 2022 (Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'We have a great synagogue. I hope it’s still there'

‘I just want my kid to be ok’: After days of travel, Ukraine refugees land in Israel

By Naomi Lanzkron

Families leave their homes in face of Russian invasion, crossing into Moldova and then Romania before traveling to Israel

Medics perform CPR on a girl at the city hospital of Mariupol, who was injured during shelling in a residential area in eastern Ukraine, on February 27, 2022. The girl did not survive. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Israel expected to set up field hospital in Ukraine as part of aid efforts

Men walk past a residential building damaged in yesterday's shelling in the city of Chernihiv, on March 4, 2022. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

UN Security Council to meet Monday on humanitarian crisis in Ukraine

Member states will confer behind closed doors to discuss a possible draft resolution on the issue

2:37 am

North Korea fires ballistic missile ahead of South's election
1:59 am

BBC and CBC are latest media to halt operations in Russia
12:12 am

UN Security Council to meet Monday on humanitarian crisis in Ukraine

Explainer

How dangerous was Russia’s strike on Europe’s largest nuclear plant?

While Ukraine emergency teams put out blaze at Zaporizhzhia, experts warn attacks on reactor sites could release radioactive waste or damage cooling systems, triggering meltdown

A power-generating unit at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the city of Enerhodar, in southern Ukraine, on June 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Olexander Prokopenko, File)

In this handout photo released by the Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov listens to the UN special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen, right back to a camera, during their talks in Moscow, Russia, on February 23, 2022. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia’s Lavrov accuses West of fixating on ‘nuclear war,’ compares US to Hitler

Hani Kochav-Lev (center) and her husband Eliezer, with their new baby and nurse Renanit Berman at Shaare Zedek Medical Center (courtesy of Shaare Zedek Medical Center)

Tears of relief in Jerusalem, as Kyiv teacher who left just in time gives birth

By Nathan Jeffay

Hani Kochav-Lev glued to heartbreaking updates of students’ families throughout labor; overjoyed she managed to return to Israel and baby not born in ‘impossible circumstances’

New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov leads a protest against antisemitism in Brooklyn, New York, on January 2, 2022. (Luke Tress/The Times of Israel)

Ukraine-born Jewish NY councilwoman: Everyone should step up; supplies on the way

Brooklyn Republican Inna Vernikov says Putin is a ‘tyrant,’ community response has been overwhelming

A burning building is pictured after the shelling is said by Russian forces in Ukraine's second-biggest city of Kharkiv, on March 3, 2022. (Sergey Bobok/AFP)

7,000 Russian scientists ‘strongly protest’ Ukraine war in open letter to Putin

By AFP

Russia's President Vladimir Putin appears on a television screen at the stock market in Frankfurt, Germany, on February 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Leading US TV provider takes down Russian channels after demand from Holocaust group

Head of Yad Vashem Dani Dayan in his Jerusalem office, in front of a quote from murdered artist Gela Seksztajn. (Alex Kolomoisky/Yad Vashem)

Exclusive

Yad Vashem chief: Russia trivializing Holocaust with false ‘denazification’ claim

By Judah Ari Gross

Dani Dayan also criticizes Ukrainian envoy’s brazen claims Israel indebted to Kyiv for ‘righteous’ Ukrainians who saved Jews — but says their descendants should be given refuge

‘Do the world a great service’: US Sen. Graham urges Russians to assassinate Putin

By AFP

Kyiv’s most sacred shrines face risk of destruction as Russian offensive deepens

Long lines at IKEA stores in Russia before they close down

Russia becomes commercial pariah as growing number of leading world brands pull out

From Apple to Mercedes-Benz, BP and even Disney, Moscow finds itself a global outcast following its invasion of Ukraine — throwing its economy further into disarray

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with the head of Russia's Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, a big business lobby group, at the Kremlin in Moscow, on March 2, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP)

President Joe Biden speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Thursday, March 3, 2022, in Washington. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

US slaps sanctions on Russian oligarchs, bans US travel for families

By Sebastian Smith

A picture taken on March 3, 2022 in a shipyard of La Ciotat, near Marseille, southern France, shows a yacht, Amore Vero, owned by a company linked to Igor Sechin, chief executive of Russian energy giant Rosneft. (Photo by Nicolas Tucat / AFP)

France seizes Russian mogul’s superyacht as West targets Putin apparatchiks

By Adam PLOWRIGHT, Marie Heuclin and Nicolas Tucat

Ukraine’s Jewish history may be prologue, but it’s not destiny

While the virulent antisemitism in Ukraine’s past may be the source of Jewish collective trauma, today the country has reinvented itself

What does God want us to understand?

In building the Tabernacle, the Israelites rebuilt their trust in God, and God’s return of the pillars of cloud and fire reestablished His bond with them (Pekudei)

Dr. Tamar Elram, CEO of Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital (Michelle Kuperschmit)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: How women are still building – and leading – Hadassah Mt. Scopus Hospital

We’re marking International Women’s Day by talking about leadership, important developments in women’s health and how the #metoo movement has affected the field of gynecology

Join The Times of Israel Community!

Help support our journalism and enjoy the site ADS FREE - for as little as $6 a month

JOIN US

A general view of Palais Coburg, the site of a meeting where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran took place in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. (AP/Lisa Leutner)

US says Iran nuke deal close, but ‘difficult’ hurdles remain

By AFP

State Department official reports ‘significant progress,’ but warns time running short to solve last issues, as other parties also confirm sides nearing agreement on reviving pact

The Bushehr nuclear power plant outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour, File)

UN atomic watchdog assesses Iran has doubled stockpile of 60% enriched uranium

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (C), IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi (R) and Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of US Central Command, pose for a photo on March 3, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Meeting senior US general, Bennett warns restoring Iran nuke deal a ‘real danger’

By Emanuel Fabian

US Senator Chris Murphy D-Conn. gives a briefing at the Ukrainian presidential office after their meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, Ukraine on Jan. 17, 2022. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

Interview'You can't wipe knowledge Iran gained with deal or strike'

Senate Democrat: Nuke deal less enticing than in 2015, but no agreement a ‘disaster’

As talks to revive Iran nuclear agreement in home stretch, Chris Murphy says US doesn’t have luxury of bringing back conditions under which accord was signed due to Trump pull-out

Illustrative image: a pregnant woman during the pandemic (iStock via Getty Images)

As false fears persist, new Israeli study finds COVID shots don’t harm IVF outcomes

By Nathan Jeffay

Rejecting ‘unfounded claims in popular media,’ peer-reviewed 428-woman research shows 25% of IVF transfers result in pregnancy, regardless of vaccination status, COVID infection

More Headlines

Pro-Israel demonstrators protest against Ben & Jerry's over its boycott of the West Bank, and against antisemitism, in Manhattan, New York City, on August 12, 2021. (Luke Tress/Flash90)

Ben & Jerry’s Israel distributor sues ice cream maker, parent company over boycott

Volunteers examine the site of explosion inside a Shiite mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Friday, March 4, 2022. A powerful bomb exploded inside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, killing more than 30 worshippers and wounding dozens more, many of them critically, police said. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Bomb attack at Shiite mosque in Pakistan kills at least 45

Illustrative: Protesters stage a die-in and have their shapes traced on the sidewalk outside the courthouse where the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy is taking place in White Plains, New York, August 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Sacklers to pay $6 billion, lose Purdue Pharma in deal to avoid opioid civil suits

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and John Seewer

Soldiers inspect an IDF Namer APC that flipped over during an exercise in southern Israel on March 3, 2022. (Courtesy)

Several troops injured when personnel carrier flips during drill

By Emanuel Fabian

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

Body of Israeli man killed in Ukraine returning to Israel for burial

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, speaks during the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on December 14, 2021. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP)

Saudi crown prince says Israel could be a ‘potential ally’

By AFP

Medics at the scene of a car crash at the Dead Sea, on November 25, 2021 (screen capture: Magen David Adom)

Two killed, two injured in southern Israel multi-vehicle crash

By Emanuel Fabian

People arrive at a train station as they try to leave Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. (AP/Emilio Morenatti)

Israeli tech firms run strategies, ground logistics to get Ukrainian teams to safety

By Ricky Ben-David

Illustrative: An Emirates jetliner comes in for landing at the Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on December 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Shin Bet says flights to Dubai to continue after security concerns with UAE resolved

By Emanuel Fabian

President of Ukraine's National Paralympic Committee Valerii Sushkevych speaks to the media at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, on Thursday, March 3, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

As war rages, Paralympics to open in Beijing without Russia

By AP

Leonard Cohen performs during the first day of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, California, April 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Hallelujah!Previously unpublished Leonard Cohen novel set for fall release

By Jessica Steinberg

Yoav Kutner (left) and Danny Robas at the February 25, 2022 event of Cultural Streams Festival in Jerusalem, continuing March 3-4 and March 10-11, 2022 (Courtesy Cultural Streams)

Musical weekendsJerusalem fills local stages with headlining artists for weekend fest

By Jessica Steinberg

View Edition by Date

February	March 2022					April
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

The Times of Israel

Daily Edition

Free to Your Inbox

The email is either missing or invalid.

By signing up, you agree to our terms You hereby accept The Times of Israel Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and you agree to receive the latest news & offers from The Times of Israel and its partners or ad sponsors.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
podcasts
video

terms and conditions
privacy policy
about us
advertise with us
Jobs at The Times of Israel
contact us

Community

Join our community
Sign in

Get the Daily Edition

Enter your email address

Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Whatsapp Follow us on X Follow us on Youtube Follow us on Telegram Follow us on Threads Follow us on Bluesky

© 2026 The Times of Israel, all rights reserved

Concept, design & development by

Developed by

Powered by

Never miss breaking news on Israel

Get notifications to stay updated

You're subscribed

Register for free
and continue reading

Registering allows you to manage your newsletters and alerts and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.

Email address

Please use the following structure: example@domain.com

Or Continue with

By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.

Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition

Register to continue

Email address

Or Continue with

Log in to continue

Email address

Something went wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes..

Sign in or Register

Email address * Password *

Incorrect password. Please try again or choose an option below.

I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link

Or Continue with

check your email

Check your email

We sent an email to you at .

It has a link that will sign you in.

Click the link in that email to complete your registration.