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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 10, 2022

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A medical worker walks inside a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. A Russian attack severely damaged the hospital in the besieged port city, Ukrainian officials say. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine hospital attack said to kill 3, including a child; Russia: Military used it

17 injured in bombing of medical center in Mariupol according to city council; Kremlin says it’ll look into airstrike but Putin’s foreign minister insists site was used by fighters

An injured pregnant woman in a maternity hospital hit by Russian shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

‘Proof of genocide’: Zelensky rages at Russia for bombing Ukraine maternity hospital

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A man carries his child away from the Russian-bombarded maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russian strike devastates hospital in Mariupol; Zelensky: Kids buried under wreckage

By VADIM GHIRDA and YURAS KARMANAU

Smoke rises after shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

US warns Russia may use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine

After Russian accuses US and Ukraine of developing unconventional weapons, with no evidence, White House says Moscow may be laying groundwork for its own use

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, left, meets his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, right, ahead of their tripartite meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in Antalya, Turkey, March 10, 2022. (Fatih Aktas/Turkish Foreign Ministry via AP)

Ukrainian FM vows ‘no surrender’ after ‘difficult’ 1st high-level talks with Russia

By Agencies and ToI Staff

File - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a meeting in Bethlehem, January 23, 2020. (Alexander Nemenov, Pool via AP)

Aiming to avoid picking sides, PA rebuffs US request to condemn Russian invasion

Ukrainian soldiers on an armored personnel carrier pass by people carrying their belongings as they flee the conflict, in the Vyshgorod region close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 10, 2022. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

Live updates (closed)

Russian forces seen progressing toward Kyiv as ‘stuck’ convoy appears to disperse

President says 100,000 fled their homes in two days alone, but attempts to get aid to Mariupol blocked by tank attack on humanitarian corridor

12:30 am

Russian convoy outside Kyiv seen dispersing as US says offensive nearing capital
12:01 am

Zelensky says aid to Mariupol blocked by Russian attacks
11:07 pm

Nuclear facility in Kharkiv damaged by Russian shelling, Ukraine says

Herzog: Erdogan open to true dialogue, tie-building advancing ‘under no illusions’

By Tal Schneider

President hopes trip to Turkey laid groundwork for better ties between two countries; visits Neve Shalom Synagogue, scene of deadly 1986 terror attack, before returning to Israel

President Isaac Herzog talks during a ceremony at Neve Shalom synagogue, in Istanbul, Turkey, March 10, 2022. (Emrah Gurel/AP)

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Hamas terrorist movement chief Ismail Haniyeh, prior to their meeting in Istanbul, February 1, 2020. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool/ File)

Hamas, Islamic Jihad condemn Turkey for hosting Herzog: ‘Abandonment of Palestine’

By Aaron Boxerman

President Isaac Herzog meets Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the presidential complex in Ankara on March 9, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Hosting Herzog in landmark visit, Erdogan lauds ‘turning point’ in relations

By Tal Schneider, Agencies and ToI Staff

Op-ed

Bennett’s attempts at neutrality on Russia-Ukraine spell trouble for Israel on Iran

The PM may have unique access to Putin but he has no unique leverage; he risks being seen as appeasing one regional bully precisely when Israel seeks world support against another

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett shuttling between Russia and Germany on March 5, 2022 (PMO)

Then Ukrainian prime minister Volodymyr Groysman pictured in 2018 (Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)

Blankets won’t save us from bombs: Ukraine’s Jewish ex-PM pleads for Israel’s help

By Gareth Browne

Screen capture from video of Oleksandr Merezhko, Chair of the Ukrainian parliament's Committee on Foreign Policy and Interparliamentary Cooperation, during an interview with the Ynet website, March, 9, 2022. (Ynet)

Senior Ukraine official: Bennett’s mediation is ‘good’ but Putin’s demands ‘absurd’

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)

Yad Vashem suspends ties with Russian-Israeli oligarch Roman Abramovich

Weeks after eight-figure donation from billionaire, Israel’s Holocaust museum hits pause after UK freezes assets and places travel ban on Abramovich for his past ties to Putin

Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich attends the UEFA Women's Champions League final soccer match in Gothenburg, Sweden, on May 16, 2021. (AP Photo/ Martin Meissner, File)

Russian-Israeli oligarch Roman Abramovich hit by fresh UK sanctions

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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)

Senior US official in Israel: We won’t push Kyiv to accept Russian terms

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in a video address posted to Facebook, on March 4, 2022. (Screenshot)

Zelensky requests speech to Knesset, gets offered Zoom chat instead

Ukrainian president sought to drum up support with Israeli lawmakers but was told they are going on recess, and the building is scheduled for renovations

In this handout image from the Health Ministry published March 5, 2022, an example field hospital is seen. Israel is sending a delegation to Ukraine to set up a field hospital in the country. (Health Ministry)

Finance Ministry won’t pay for planned Israeli field hospital in Ukraine — report

A woman, traveling with others fleeing Ukraine, is wrapped up in a blanket at a border crossing in Palanca, Moldova, March 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Aurel Obreja)

Ways to help the Jews of Ukraine

By JTA and ToI Staff

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing March 10: Turning tide in Turkey, shuttle diplomacy and PA on Ukraine

Political reporter Carrie Keller-Lynn discusses Israel’s mediation bid and Knesset news; US correspondent Jacob Magid reviews Palestinians on Russia, and USAID and Iron Dome funds

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu speaks to The Associated Press, at the presidential palace, in Ankara, Turkey, November 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Herzog announces Turkish FM will visit Israel, catches Foreign Ministry off guard

Photos on porcelain decorated with the images of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar Assad are displayed in a souvenir shop in Damascus, Syria, on April 18, 2016. Political observers say Russia’s brazen Syria intervention emboldened Putin, giving him a renewed Middle East foothold and helped pave the way for his current attack on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

UN’s Syria investigators warn world must not allow Ukraine to go down same path

By Robin MILLARD

A demonstration against occupying Russian forces in Kherson, Ukraine, on March 9, 2022. (Screenshot)

No way out for 130 Jewish families who want to leave Kherson

Director of JDC’s Hesed in city captured by Russia says half of his social workers are no longer working amidst curfews and dwindling food

A Jewish man looks at the buildings near to the synagogue of Uman, central Ukraine, on March 9, 2022. (Daphne ROUSSEAU / AFP)

Devout Ukrainian Jews hunker down in Uman as they await ‘apocalypse’

By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU

Thousands of Ukrainians wait to enter the checkpoint at the Ukraine-Moldova border in Palanca, March 5, 2022. (Jacob Judah via JTA)

At Moldova border, Jews from Odesa wonder when they’ll be able to return home

Mendel and Rivka Borodkin with their now three-year-old daughter and one-year-old son, in Dnipro, September 2021 (Courtesy)

Chabad couple, with 11 in tow, races from Ukraine to Israel just in time for Sabbath

During a 3-day rush to Kfar Chabad, Mendel and Rivka Borodkin, who work at a girl’s seminary in Dnipro, had to steer a group through a series of bureaucratic and other hurdles

Ukrainian servicemen try to help people wounded, in the town of Irpin, Ukraine, March 6, 2022. (Andriy Dubchak/AP)

Man whose wife and 2 children were slain while fleeing Ukraine returns to bury them

By AP

Women walk in front of a McDonald's restaurant in central Moscow on March 9, 2022 (Photo by AFP)

While more companies join Russian boycott, some are hesitant to halt operations

By Tobias Siegal

McDonald’s and Starbucks branches remain open in Moscow despite announcements, video footage shows; tobacco giant BAT says it has a ‘duty of care’ to all its employees

People walk past a currency exchange office screen displaying the exchange rates of US dollar and euro to Russian rubles in Moscow's downtown, Russia, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

Interview‘Unprecedented’ scale of sanctions, boycott took Russia by surprise, experts say

By Ricky Ben-David

Gas prices are displayed at a gas station in Long Beach, California, March 9, 2022. (Ashley Landis/AP)

Risking higher gas prices, House overwhelmingly approves ban on Russian oil to US

By LISA MASCARO

I had a Holocaust-themed bat mitzvah. It might not have been a bad idea

The party favors with a barbed-wire motif were too much for me at the time, but with Holocaust revisionism on the rise, maybe I should have saved them

It takes a village… and a Knesset

What kind of compassionate, democratic Jewish state welcomes tens of thousands of Ukrainians under the Law of Return — and then denies their Jewishness?

Russia's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mikhail Ulyanov, is pictured at the Coburg Palais, venue of talks aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal, in Vienna on December 27, 2021. (Alex Halada/AFP)

US accuses Russia of jeopardizing Iran talks as they enter final stage

Moscow demanding guarantees Western sanctions won’t affect trade with Iran; US says it won’t play ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ with Moscow, as Iran accuses Washington of holding up talks

Illustrative image: a baby in a polluted city (iStock via Getty Images)

Babies in high air pollution areas 25% more likely to have low birth weight – study

By Nathan Jeffay

Peer-reviewed Israeli research based on 381,000 births; data is vital, says epidemiologist, since low birth weight points to increased risk of illness later in life

Dr. Bartley Griffith takes a selfie photo with patient David Bennett in Baltimore in January 2022. (Dr. Bartley Griffith/University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP)

First patient to undergo pig heart transplant dies after two months

By AFP

Iron Dome in action, on May 13, 2021. (Avichai Socher/IDF)

US House approves $1 billion for Israel’s Iron Dome after months-long delay

By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and JTA

Bennett welcomes replenishment of ‘life-saving’ system; Defense Minister Gantz hails ‘critical security and missile defense’ for citizens

UJA-Federation CEO Eric Goldstein, second from right, meets with staff from Hillel Ukraine in Warsaw, Poland. Goldstein was in Poland earlier this month meeting with agencies coordinating relief for Ukrainian Jewish refugees. (Courtesy UJA-Federation/ via JTA)

UJA New York to approve another $2 million in funding for Ukraine

A work by Ukrainian-born Israeli artist Zoya Cherkassky showing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and sold in 'WithDraw the War: Art Fundraiser for Ukraine,' March 2022 (Courtesy WithDraw the War: Art Fundraiser for Ukraine)

For some Israeli artists from Ukraine and Russia, creativity is sole solace from war

By Jessica Steinberg

As Ukrainian and Russian Israelis organize art fundraiser to help refugees, they also contemplate life far from their now-beleaguered homelands

A Ukrainian officer shows off a biography of Golda Meir that he carries into battle with him. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Kyiv-born Golda Meir becomes a symbol of hope for Ukrainians

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Israel’s fourth premier is an icon among Ukrainian leaders eager to claim her as a native daughter

A tiny Iowa museum remembers farm girls’ pen pals Anne and Margot Frank

By Dave Schechter

Letters from Frank sisters are the cornerstone of Danville Station, a unique off-the-beaten-path museum in a town of 1,000 and no Jewish community

More Headlines

Reality show 'Marry Me Now' from the Oprah Winfrey OWN TV network will air the show adapted from an Israeli format on March 19, 2022 (Courtesy OWN screen shot)

A familiar ringOprah Winfrey network to air adaptation of Israel’s ‘Marry Me Now’

By Jessica Steinberg

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, left, and Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Commissioner Hussein al-Sheikh. (Flash90; Wafa)

Senior PA official meets with Lapid, says he raised need for ‘political horizon’

By Aaron Boxerman

Camels are gathered to take part in a contest during the first Qatar Camel Festival, at Lebsayyer area of al-Shahaniyyah, around 25 Km northwest of the Qatari capital, on March 8, 2022. (KARIM JAAFAR / AFP)

Beauty and the beastQatari pageant judges find no Botox in award-winning camel

By AFP

Former US vice president Mike Pence outside Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs on March 9, 2022. MK Itamar Ben-Gvir is at far right. (Mike Pence/Twitter)

Pence tours Hebron, meets local Jewish settlers, runs into Ben Gvir and Marzel

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi (L) meets with chief of the Bahraini Defense Force, Theyab bin Saqr al-Nuaimi (R) in Bahrain, March 9, 2022. (Bahrain News Agency)

Israeli army chief in Bahrain for first official visit

By Emanuel Fabian

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks at the WHO headquarters, in Geneva, Switzerland, May 24, 2021. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)

Two years on, COVID pandemic ‘far from over,’ WHO warns

By Robin MILLARD

Nahal Brigade troops are seen during an exercise, November 2, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Knesset delays 2-month reduction in mandatory military service for men

By Emanuel Fabian

Glenn Close (left) and Nir Sultan in the second season of Kan 11 thriller series 'Tehran,' which will reach screens in the US and Israel on May 5, 2022. (Courtesy: Kan 11)

Undercover thrills‘Tehran’ to return for 2nd season with Oscar-winner Glenn Close

By Jessica Steinberg

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