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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 9, 2022

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President Isaac Herzog speaks to reporters before departing for a visit to Turkey on March 9, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

'Relations between Israel, Turkey are important for region'

Herzog lands in Turkey to ‘restart relations’ as Jerusalem-Ankara ties warm

By Tal Schneider

President making first high-level state visit to country in over a decade, in major step toward taking ties out of deep freeze, but distrust remains after years of bad blood

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin (not seen) 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, File)

ExplainerAs ties come out deep freeze, the ups and downs of Israel-Turkey relations

By AFP and ToI Staff

Rabbi Mendy Chitrick stands third from right next to the Istanbul Airport's new kosher vending machine. (Rabbi Mendy Chitrik)

Istanbul Airport opens a kosher meal vending machine for Jewish travelers

By David I. Klein

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the nation in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 7, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Zelensky says Russian hospital bombing is ‘proof of genocide’ against Ukrainians

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Ukrainian president slams Western leaders for cowardice after Russia strikes maternity ward in bombardment of Mariupol, as civilian death toll in city passes 1,200

1:41 am

Sony suspends PlayStation operations in Russia
1:07 am

International Monetary Fund approves $1.4 billion in aid for Ukraine
12:42 am

Twitter launches service to bypass Russian censorship

InterviewHit to nuclear reactor core means a 2nd Chernobyl - or worse

Radiation expert: Ukraine war could pose greater nuclear threat than Chernobyl

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Radiation countermeasures expert Dr. Alla Shapiro, a Chernobyl first responder, says war conditions make it harder to save lives in event of attack on nuclear power plant

An operator's armchair covered with plastic sits in an empty control room of the 3rd reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on April 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Ukraine says power completely cut to Chernobyl; IAEA downplays safety concerns

By AFP and ToI Staff

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via teleconference call at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, on March 3, 2022. (Andrey Gorshkov/Sputnik/AFP)

Putin’s nuclear threats ‘extremely dangerous’ blackmail, watchdog says

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Mar. 9 – Minister Shai in Poland: ‘Israel must rescue more refugees’

Brief interview with Diaspora Minister Shai; senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur on race and responses to Ukraine; health reporter Nathan Jeffay with a blitz of new Israeli research

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center poses for a photo during his meeting with representatives of the flight crew of Russian airlines as he visits to Aeroflot Aviation School outside Moscow, Russia, Saturday, March 5, 2022. (Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

US intel chiefs warn ‘aggrieved’ Putin may redouble assault as invasion flounders

Zmiinyi Island, or Snake Island in the Black Sea, on August 26, 2014 (Courtesy/Wikimedia Commons/Мазурок И. Е.)

Ukrainians sink Russian warship that attacked Snake Island – report

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked holds a press conference at the Knesset, on March 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shaked also cancels NIS 10,000 deposit requirement

Israel will allow 25,000 non-Jewish Ukrainian refugees to stay in country

Quota of 5,000 added to some 20,000 already here before war; country expects tens of thousands more who are eligible to make aliyah to do so as a result of the conflict

This undated file photo shows a Qatari liquid natural gas (LNG) tanker ship being loaded up with LNG at Ras Laffan Sea Port, northern Qatar. (AP Photo)

Israel mulls European request for gas as Russia threatens to cut EU supplies

From the blogs

James G. Lindsay

I was wrong: Israel must stand firmly with Ukraine

Whatever favor Israel may think it will curry by staying neutral, a world dominated by Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi is not a safe world for democratic states

A man leaves an apartment building damaged after shelling the day before in Ukraine's second-biggest city of Kharkiv on March 8, 2022. (Sergey BOBOK / AFP)

Israel said to believe Ukraine now faces critical choice: Capitulation or calamity

Following Bennett’s talks with Putin and Zelensky, Israeli officials say Russia has softened demands, but will likely double down on destructive assault if no capitulation

This combination of file pictures created on March 6, 2022, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (L, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C) and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Various sources/AFP)

Jerusalem said to warn Kyiv it won’t tolerate continued criticism amid mediation bid

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the nation in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 7, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Zelensky says he spoke with Bennett, thanks him for mediation efforts with Russia

One people, dispersed around the globe

We are witnessing an emerging true sense of Jewish solidarity, as the Jewish state assists Ukrainian Jews, including those who won’t be taking refuge in Israel

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Putin’s invasion shakes the very framework of our world

If I believe might does not make right, I must, with every fiber of my being, help Ukraine and its people uphold the values I believe must prevail

Israel’s entrepreneur-in-chief looking for big Ukraine ‘exit’

Naftali Bennett is a product of Israel’s vaunted startup nation, where high-risk and high-reward ventures are encouraged – and only the most daring score big

Who Zelensky wants the Jewish people (and all of us) to be

3 pesky thoughts that get in our way of doing the right thing, and 4 ’right things’ to do to ensure we act well when we have our chance

Two Russia experts fear Putin played Bennett by inviting him to Moscow

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Analysts say Russian leader may have used Israeli PM to buy time for regrouping, and to win legitimacy from world leaders

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at a conference held by the Israeli Television News Company in Jerusalem, March 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A Russian armored personnel carrier burns amid damaged and abandoned light utility vehicles after fighting in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Feb. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Marienko Andrew, File)

Two weeks in, Russian invasion of Ukraine slowed but not stopped

By Lolita C. Baldor and Robert Burns

Amid effort to rescue civilians, Zelensky urges end to ‘ping-pong’ over Polish jets

Ceasefire agreed on to allow escape from Mariupol, Sumy, Enerhodar, Volnovakha, Izyum and several towns around Kyiv; Ukraine president demands West make decision over warplanes

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the British parliament, March 8, 2022 (screenshot)

‘We’ll fight in forests, fields, streets’: Zelensky channels Churchill in UK speech

By Jitendra Joshi

Two Polish Air Force Russian made Mig-29's fly above and below two Polish Air Force US made F-16's fighter jets during the Air Show in Radom, Poland, August 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

US blocks Polish attempt to send fighter jets to Ukraine

By Vanessa Gera, Lolita C. Baldor and Ellen Knickmeyer

People walk past a McDonald's outlet in downtown Moscow on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

McDonald’s joins other major firms pulling out of Russia as blowback grows

By Juliette MICHEL

Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Pepsi and Yum! also suspend some operations as boycott pressure grows; Yale team says 290 large companies have withdrawn, but 30 remain

A worker pumps gas at a Lukoil station in Newark, New Jersey, on March 2, 2022. (AP/Ted Shaffrey)

World heading to Yom Kippur War-level oil shock, French minister says

By AFP

Illustrative: Gas prices are shown on March 7, 2022, in Tumwater, Washington, as the cost of gasoline hit the highest price that American motorists have faced since July 2008. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

In latest steps against Russia, US and Europe target oil and gas imports

Vika and Ksiusha Korotkova in Mariupol, Ukraine in September 2021, on the day Ksiusha left for Israel. (Courtesy: Alina Gryadchenko)

Mariupol family risks all just to tell teen daughter in Israel: ‘We are alive’

Vika Korotkova drives out to location with phone reception, reports that city subjected to heavy Russian bombardment and without heat, food, water, or communications, ‘is dead’

Ukrainian violinist Illia Bondarenko, playing in a basement shelter in Kyiv. (#ViolinistsSupportUkraine)

Musical plea for peace

94 violinists from 25 countries form chorus in support of Ukraine

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Young Kyiv-based violinists, filming themselves between shelling and explosions, are joined by fiddlers from around the world in a moving rendition of a Ukrainian folk song

Children, followed by a woman, run as they arrive at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, after fleeing Ukraine, March 9, 2022 (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

1 million children leave behind lives, friends as they flee Ukraine war

By Justin Spike

Jamie Wei sells hamantaschen with the colors of the Ukrainian flag. (chopsticksmeetfork/Instagram via JTA)

Make food, not warJewish bakers support Ukraine through their love of hamantaschen

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani is seen leaving the Coburg Palais, venue of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) meeting aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal, in Vienna, on December 3, 2021. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

Top Iran nuclear negotiator returns to Vienna as talks come to a head

Ali Bagheri Kani arrives in Austrian capital following sudden trip back to Tehran, with EU envoy indicating new agreement awaiting Islamic Republic’s okay

Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran, on September 22, 2018. (Stringer/AFP)

Iran vows revenge for 2 IRGC operatives killed in Syria strike attributed to Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

Former US vice president Mike Pence gives an interview to the Israel Hayom newspaper. (Ami Shooman/Israel Hayom)

In Israel, Mike Pence says future GOP administration will rip up any new Iran deal

A sign for a campaign against antisemitism, New York City, August 12, 2021. (Luke Tress/Flash90)

New York City says antisemitic crime jumped 400% in February

NYPD records 56 incidents in month, up from 11 in January; Brooklyn City Council member promises action to crack down

Robert Regan, the Republican nominee for the state House seat in Michigan's 74th district. (Screenshot from YouTube/JTA)

Michigan GOP candidate says ‘not antisemitic,’ won’t apologize for Facebook posts

By Andrew Lapin

Anne Frank (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Stolen Anne Frank statue recovered in Buenos Aires, will get rededication ceremony

By Juan Melamed

View of oil refineries in Haifa, May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

IDF unprepared for attacks on hazmat facilities in wartime, comptroller warns

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli veterans and disabled former soldiers attend a protest for better financial and medical aid and support, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Most IDF vets dismayed by Defense Ministry rehab center, comptroller finds

By Emanuel Fabian

Israel Aerospace Industries workers union chair Yair Katz unveils Wing of Zion on December 8, 2021. (Israel Aerospace Industries workers union)

State comptroller releases scathing report on Israel’s ‘Air Force One’

USAID deputy administrator Isobel Coleman speaks to reporters at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, on March 8, 2022. (Tal Schneider/The Times of Israel)

US earmarks $5.5 million for Israeli, Palestinian businesses, female entrepreneurs

By Tal Schneider

Citing skittishness by participants, USAID program administrator declines to name trade associations contracted to distribute grant money from Partnership for Peace Fund

An illustrative view of the lobby of a building in the Bnei Brak Business Center, on October 23, 2017. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

International Women's DayWomen underrepresented in Israeli tech ecosystem, annual study confirms

By Ricky Ben-David

A woman puts her head in her hands as she sits on a cot in a shelter, set up for displaced persons fleeing Ukraine, inside a school gymnasium in Przemysl, Poland, March 8, 2022 (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Photo essayInternational Women’s Day brings little joy for Ukrainian refugees

By AP

More Headlines

Razan Abbas (Courtesy)

Teen girl killed by stray gunfire in northern village while in her bedroom

Opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on February 14, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu tests positive for COVID

Jordan's Prince Hamzah Bin Al-Hussein, in 2015. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)

Jordan’s court says former crown prince apologizes for 2021 attempted coup

By AFP

A bus in the town of Jaljulia that was daubed with hate crime graffiti on March 8, 2022. (Ali Arar)

Dozens of vehicles vandalized in suspected hate crime in Jaljulia

Luba Kazakevich at the Tel Aviv District Court, March 9, 2022 (Screen grab/Kan)

Daycare manager jailed for 3.5 years for abuse, assault of young kids under her care

Illustrative: Birthright Israel participants visiting Yad Vashem, summer 2012 (JTA/Taglit-Birthright Israel participants taken with permission inside Yad Vashem)

Birthright Israel to lower its age limit back to 26

By Andrew Lapin

A view of Earth from the ISS. (Elen11 via iStock by Getty Images)

Israel’s first ‘space medicine’ university course gets underway in Jerusalem

By Ricky Ben-David

Yaakov Zada Daniel (far left), Idan Amedi, Lucy Ayoub, Lior Raz, Doron Ben-David and Rona-Lee Shim'on (far right) at a March 6, 2022 press conference about the upcoming fourth season of 'Fauda.' (Courtesy Rafi Daluya)

Stranger than frictionAs ‘Fauda’ readies fourth season, real-life conflicts hit close to home

By Jessica Steinberg

An autonomous taxi powered by Mobileye driving tech with Moovit's ride-hailing app on the streets of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, September 2021. (Mobileye/Intel)

New legislation paves path for trial of driverless autonomous taxis in Israel

By Ricky Ben-David

The ancient clay jug discovered by Robbie and his friend in cave 53 in the Qumran region, February 2022. (Amir Ganor/Israel Antiquities Authority)

American tourist stumbles upon intact Early Bronze Age pottery jug in Judean Desert

Author David Grossman speaks at the Meretz party's central committee meeting in Tel Aviv, on July 28, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Author David Grossman wins Erasmus Prize from the Netherlands

By Jessica Steinberg

The stern of the Endurance (Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic)

Shipwreck of Shackleton’s Endurance, lost in 1915, discovered off Antarctica coast

By Griffin SHEA

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