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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 5, 2022

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US President Joe Biden speaks about Ukraine in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Feb. 18, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Live updates (closed)

In phone call, Ukraine’s Zelensky asks Biden for more support

‘The agenda included the issues of security, financial support for Ukraine and the continuation of sanctions against Russia,’ leader tweets

2:07 am

Ukraine's Zelensky asks Biden for more support
12:20 am

Bennett heads back to Israel after meetings with Putin, Scholz
11:48 pm

Visa, Mastercard suspend operations in Russia

Demonstrators watch an address of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the big screen during a rally in support of Ukraine in Tbilisi, on March 4, 2022. (Vano Shlamov/AFP)

Ukraine’s Zelensky in plea to Europe: ‘If we fall, you will fall’

The war-torn nation’s leader also rails at NATO for ruling out a no-fly zone over his country: ‘All the people who die starting today will also die because of you’

People cross a destroyed bridge as they evacuate the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, during heavy shelling and bombing on March 5, 2022, 10 days after Russia launched a military invasion on Ukraine. (Aris Messinis/AFP)

No-fly zone would be world catastrophe, warns Putin, after NATO spurns Zelensky plea

By AFP

Serhii, father of teenager Iliya, cries on his son's lifeless body lying on a stretcher at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 2, 2022. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Father mourns 16-year-old son killed in shelling while playing soccer in Mariupol

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV

Illustrative: A private jet lands at Biggin Hill Airport, London. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

US-sanctioned Russian oligarchs reportedly barred from hiding private jets in Israel

Gov’t yet to decide whether to join sanctions on ultra-wealthy businessmen tied to Kremlin; official: ‘We mustn’t be seen as a country through which sanctions can be circumvented’

Ukraine's ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, Ukrainian citizens and supporters attend a special prayer for the Ukrainian people organized by Businessman Arie Schwartz, at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City on March 2, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel said likely to shift to more pro-Ukraine stance as Russian invasion escalates

Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai attends the Jewish People's Lobby, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on November 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Diaspora minister urges end of ‘inhuman’ NIS 10,000 deposits for Ukraine refugees

US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield addresses the UN Security Council, on March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

‘World narrowly averted nuclear catastrophe,’ US envoy tells UN Security Council

Linda Thomas-Greenfield slams ‘reckless’ Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant; Moscow’s envoy: ‘Simply untrue’

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)

International fury over Russian attack on Ukraine nuclear plant

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A woman reacts as she stands in front of a house burning after being shelled in the city of Irpin, outside Kyiv, on March 4, 2022. (Aris Messinis/AFP)

UN rights council approves probe into Russian invasion of Ukraine

People crowd as they try to get on a train to Lviv at the Kyiv station, Ukraine, March 4. 2022 (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Strategic Ukrainian port Mariupol ‘blockaded’ by Russian forces; thousands flee Kyiv

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Capture of coastal city would be blow to Ukraine maritime access, connect Russian troops coming from Crimea, Donbas; Zelensky to make appeal to US Senate; media exodus from Russia

Russia blocks Facebook and Twitter, okays jail time for ‘fake news’ about military

Refugees from Ukraine are seen as they arrive at the railway station in Przemysl, eastern Poland, on March 4, 2022. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP)

UN: Over 1.2 million have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded

By AFP

An antisemitic meme espousing conspiracy theories that was posted in a far-right Telegram chat on March 4, 2022. (Screenshot)

White supremacists condemn Ukraine conflict as a ‘brother war’; some blame Jews

Far-right extremists decry killing of white people in war, don’t pick a side overall; but the theme of supposed Jewish puppet masters is a recurring one

Senator Lindsey Graham waits to speak to reporters at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 10, 2022. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

White House disavows Senator Graham’s call for Putin assassination

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on November 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Pence appears to hit back at Trump: No room in GOP for ‘apologists for Putin’

World War III might be worth having

Remember the Holocaust? Now 44 million seem marked for destruction, and the powerful people in the world who could actually do something are sitting and watching

Abraham H. Foxman

Fake history about Anne Frank becomes fake news

’60 Minutes’ and HarperCollins have irresponsibly added to recent buzz about now-debunked claims about the Franks’ betrayal. They should take corrective measures

Historian Yuval Noah Harari speaks to Channel 12, on March 4, 2022. (Video screenshot)

Yuval Noah Harari: No matter what he does, Putin has already lost this war

‘It’s a war by one man, with astounding power and several screws loose,’ says historian, but he cannot conquer Ukrainians’ spirit, and his assault will further unite them

Jewish soldiers Asher, left, and David Cherkaskyi pray in their Dnipro, Ukraine, synagogue in 2022. (Courtesy David Cherkaskyi via JTA)

Orthodox father and son pick up arms, ready to defend their Ukraine hometown

By Dinah Spritzer

In this file photo taken on September 18, 2020, Russian conductor Valery Gergiev performs on stage with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra during the Summer Night Concert at Schoenbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria, on September 18, 2020. The Munich Philharmonic on March 1, 2022, said it was parting ways with star Russian conductor Valery Gergiev 'with immediate effect' after he failed to respond to a request to denounce Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. (Georg Hochmuth/Pool/AFP)

For Russia’s dancers, opera singers, conductors, a cultural iron curtain slams down

By Rana Moussaoui

From a humble Polish hotel, Israel’s unique situation room works to extract citizens

By Lazar Berman

Foreign Ministry staff from Ukraine, Poland and beyond bring blankets, documents, and guidance to those stuck at the border, trying to flee Ukraine

Irit Yakhnes, head of public diplomacy at the Israeli embassy in Poland, speaks on the phone in the Foreign Ministry situation room in Przemysl, Poland. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

Israel ice hockey captain Eliezer Sherbatov. (via Facebook)

Israeli ice hockey star playing in Ukrainian city of Mariupol flees war

By jacob gurvis

This 2022 aerial image provided by Ukrainian security forces, taken by a drone and shown on a screen, shows a blown-up building near the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. The exact date and time of the image are unknown. (Ukrainian Security Forces via AP)

Ukrainian drone enthusiasts sign up to use hobby UAVs against Russian forces

By Matt O'Brien

A Jewish man puts on tefillin, prayer phylacteries, before praying in a bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, during the first week of Russia's war on Ukraine. (via JTA)

'There is nowhere to run away, we are surrounded'

Jews who stayed behind in Ukraine face tough conditions as Russia invasion grinds on

Community in Kharkiv uses crowdsourcing to find transport as people try to move west; others say they don’t plan to leave, calling Putin’s Ukraine antisemitism claim ‘pure fantasy’

Told they’re taking ‘a winter trip,’ Jewish Ukrainian kids reach safety in Germany

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Reporter's Notebook

Ukraine’s leading art museum transforms into busy volunteer hub

Operating 24 hours a day, Lviv National Art Gallery sends out food, medicine, toys and other supplies to troops and Ukrainians in cities under Russian bombardment

Lviv National Art Gallery director Yuri Viznyak in the museum, on March 4, 2022 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

Internet activist Avi Shiffmann creating his new website UkraineTakeShelter.com aimed at helping Ukrainian refugees find hosts in other countries. (Courtesy)

Harvard internet whiz, 19, creates website connecting Ukrainian refugees with hosts

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Founder of heavily used COVID tracking site, student Avi Schiffmann enables those fleeing the war to locate appropriate nearby sanctuary by clicking a link on a smartphone

Ultra-Orthodox Jews scuffle with police as they protest members of the Women of the Wall movement bringing in Torah scrolls to their hold Rosh Hodesh service at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on March 4, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Thousands of Haredim try to stop egalitarian prayer at Western Wall, clash with cops

Officers prevent Reform, Conservative leaders from entering worship area with Torah scrolls, as thousands of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators converge on holy site to disrupt them

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a meeting with his Kyrgyz counterpart in Moscow. on March 5, 2022. (Sergei Ilnitesky/Pool/AFP)

Russia says won’t back Iran nuke deal without US guarantees over Ukraine sanctions

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Lavrov says ‘avalanche of aggressive sanctions’ mustn’t impact Moscow’s rights under agreement, shortly after Tehran, IAEA announce ‘pragmatic approach’ to resolve remaining issues

Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Mohammad Eslami, right, and International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Mariano Grossi shake hands at the start of their meeting in Tehran on March 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

UN nuclear watchdog head meets with Iranian officials in Tehran as talks near end

By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell

Joan Nathan, chef and author of 'King Solomon's Table.' (Michelle Tomasi/Penguin Random House)

Jewish food doyenne Joan Nathan heads to Israel for kitchen time with fan Guy Pines

By Jessica Steinberg

After earlier plans were stymied by the pandemic, the Anu museum has finally cooked up a way to bring Nathan together with the celebrity news anchor and foodie

Kentucky State Rep. Danny Bentley, left, hears testimony at a state House of Representatives committee meeting in Frankfort, on January 25, 2022. (Kentucky General Assembly/LRC Public Information)

Kentucky Republican’s anti-abortion speech links Jewish scientists to Nazi genocide

Jewish groups protest Danny Bentley’s ‘bizarre antisemitic rant that included outlandish claims about the sex lives of Jewish women,’ offer antisemitism training; he apologizes

A view of a relief in Hebrew at the Prophet Nahum synagogue (dating in its present form to the year 1796), in Iraq's northern town of al-Qosh, some 50 kilometres north of Mosul, February 3, 2022. (Ismael ADNAN / AFP)

'Our heritage is in a pitiful condition'

Ancient heritage of Iraq’s last few Jews at risk as synagogues fall into ruin

Rare international efforts to save remnants are not enough to preserve what is left of a once-thriving Jewish community

The Instagram account @judithkaplan1922 aims to commemorate the 100th anniversary Judith Kaplan's bat mitzvah, the first for an American girl. (Ironbound Films, Inc./via JTA)

Instagram account tells the story of Judith Kaplan, America’s first-ever bat mitzvah

By julia GERGELY

Series of movies and posts are part of 100-year anniversary of NY Reconstructionist congregation; aim is to expose middle schoolers to history in a format that they can relate to

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