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What Matters Most On Friday, March 11, 2022

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Elderly residents hide in a basement for shelter with no electricity, water or food in the center of the town of Irpin, some 25 km (16 miles) northwest of Kyiv, March 11, 2022 (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Russian forces bombard new cities, tighten siege of Mariupol

Russian convoy appears to be encircling Kyiv as onslaught widens to western Ukraine

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Russian strike hits care home for people with disabilities near Kharkiv; Zelensky says EU ‘must do more for us’ as swathes of the country lose power, heat, and food

A man walks with a bicycle in a street damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, March 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia expands strikes, hitting western Ukraine airports far from main offensive

By Evgeniy Maloletka

Firefighters help a woman to evacuate from a damaged by shelling apartment building in Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, March 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

World condemns Russian hospital strike as troops advance on Kyiv, choke off Mariupol

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ukraine's ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, gives a statement to the media on the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, in Tel Aviv, on March 11, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)

Zelensky can't fathom Israel's refusal to give defensive aid

Ukraine envoy: Israel is scared of Russia, isn’t sole mediator, shouldn’t be neutral

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Ambassador Korniychuk slams Israeli leaders over lack of aid and support for Ukraine, urges Israel to take in more refugees, says Zelensky ‘doesn’t understand’ Jerusalem’s stance

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine, February 24, 2022. (Niv Musman/GPO)

Lapid to travel to Romania, Slovakia for Ukraine talks, visit border rescue efforts

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Syrian students wave the Syrian, Russian and Palestinian flags under a billboard bearing the portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin during a demonstration in support of Russia, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, at the Aleppo University campus in the Syrian city, on March 10, 2022. (AFP)

Zelensky slams Russia for deploying Syria mercenaries to Ukraine: ‘Murderers’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Op-ed

If PM can’t say it, we Israelis must: Zelensky, we’re with you; Putin, stop the war

Damagingly and ultimately untenably for Israel, Bennett believes he dare not alienate Russia by publicly condemning it. Even so, there’s more he should be doing now to help Ukraine

Times of Israel's editor David Horovitz interviews Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky at his presidential office in Kyiv, January 18, 2020 (Press service of the Office of the President of Ukraine)

Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett seen with Jewish immigrants fleeing the war in Ukraine, onm a rescue flight sponosred by the IFCJ, at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, on March 6, 2022. (Hadas Parush/Pool)

Bennett says Israel ‘must open doors and hearts’ to Jewish Ukrainian refugees

In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office and posted on Facebook, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

After rebuff, Zelensky to address Knesset members in coming days, says speaker

Screenshot from Israeli Channel 12 footage, broadcast on March 10, 2022, of refugees from war in Ukraine waiting for hours in crowded conditions at Ben Gurion Airport. (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Refugees fleeing war in Ukraine kept waiting for hours at Israel’s airport

Interior Minister Shaked orders all waiting refugees be moved to hotel, after footage shows people massed in a closed terminal for lengthy periods without basic provisions

The Israeli passport of a girl who, along with her mother, were held at Ben Gurion Airport after fleeing Ukraine and told they could be sent back, March 10, 2022. (Channel 12 Screenshot)

Israeli girl and mom, fleeing Ukraine, held at airport, told they could be sent back

Israelis board a bus outside Israel’s honorary consulate in Lviv, to take them to the Polish border, on March 2, 2022. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

Foreign Ministry says nearly 11,000 Israelis fled Ukraine, some 1,500 remain

Join The Times of Israel Community to hear about the Crisis in Ukraine from Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)

ToI Community

Ukraine crisis: Join an exclusive briefing with Lazar Berman

Just back from two weeks on the ground in Ukraine, ToI’s diplomatic correspondent is ready to take your questions in this special, ToI Community-only event

Russian President Vladimir Putin sits in a Russian-made T-90AM tank as he visits the Russian Armament Exhibition in Nizhniy Tagil, Sept. 9, 2011. (File: AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, pool)

Interview

What does Putin think he’s doing? An expert’s primer on why he invaded, what’s next

By David Horovitz

Moscow-born Ksenia Svetlova traces Putin’s rise, degeneration, war plans and failures, explains why he’s not (yet) using even more force, and posits a possible end to this tragedy

Stalled Russian convoy appears to move into forests, towns as Kyiv girds for fight

By Evgeniy Maloletka

Russia sanctions extend further into banking, hotel fields as US warns more coming

Light enters through the damaged roof of an old cinema and restaurant after a Russian bombing in Baryshivka, east of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Live updates (closed)

Ukraine’s Zelensky appeals to moms of Russian troops: Don’t let your kids go to war

Biden warns of ‘severe’ consequences if Russia uses chemical weapons in Ukraine as it did in Syria; 40-mile long Russian convoy said to split up as it approaches Kyiv

1:26 am

More US troops deploy to support NATO allies amid Russian invasion of Ukraine
12:43 am

Ukraine's Zelensky appeals to moms of Russian troops: Don't let your kids go to war
12:13 am

UK intel: Russia primarily using 'dumb' bombs to support ground offensive

Frida Simon at home in 2022. (Courtesy)

Survivor who married her pre-war flame 50 years after Auschwitz turns 100 in NY

Frida Simon faced down Mengele and lived through the camps, while her boyfriend went on the lam; they reunited in Brooklyn a half-century later

A replica of the Siloam Inscription at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The original is in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum. (יעל י CC BY-SA Wikimedia Commons)

ExclusiveIsrael likely to give important Ottoman artifact in return

Israeli official: Turkey agrees to return ancient Hebrew inscription to Jerusalem

By Shalom Yerushalmi and ToI Staff

The 2,700-year-old Siloam inscription, taken by the Ottomans and still held in Istanbul, marks direct evidence of Bible’s account of King Hezekiah’s tunnel-building in Jerusalem

Inside story

Behind Israel’s rekindled flame with Turkey, a rabbi with a penchant for matchmaking

Marc Schneier, an influential and controversial rabbi to American celebrities and Gulf sheikhs alike, describes his role in bringing Herzog and Erdogan together

From left, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Israeli president Isaac Herzog and Rabbi Marc Schneier, at a reception in Ankara, Turkey, on March 9, 2022. (Courtesy: Marc Schneier)

US President Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of the opening session of the G20 summit at the La Nuvola conference center, in Rome, on October 30, 2021. (Erin Schaff/Pool Photo via AP)

In phone call with Biden, Erdogan stresses importance of Ukraine war mediation

By AFP and ToI Staff

Rachel Galloway

Knowing the difference between Minsk, Pinsk and Chelm: Ukraine is personal

The UK joined a strong majority of UN countries to condemn Putin’s invasion, and we must continue together in support of the Ukrainians and the values we share

Why bother with the story of Amalek’s evil every year?

We cannot pretend that the epic battles of good versus evil are things of the past, or we won’t succeed in fighting evil when it’s in our midst (Parshat Zachor)

Responding to Amb. Shoval: Judge us based on who we are, not who we were

I invite you to come see The Jewish Agency for yourself. You’ll surely like our upgrades of the past 4 years – and of course our assistance to Ukrainian Jews

The Jewish Agency has a vital mission – but first, it needs a shake-up

For years it’s been a haven for local party hacks. Now, precisely at this tense time of rising antisemitism, the Agency has important roles to play

Anna and Ludmila in Kyiv, March 2022. (Courtesy, Joint Distribution Committee)

‘I can stay alive, brighter days will come,’ says Holocaust survivor stuck in Kyiv

With around half of capital’s residents said to have fled, housebound Ludmila, 85, lauds continuing devotion of carer Anna, who says; ‘We hug when we’re very scared’

A woman walks outside a maternity hospital that was shelled by Russia in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

71 children killed, 100 injured since start of Russia invasion, says Ukrainian MP

By AFP

Rockets from Gaza, on right, are seen in the night sky fired towards Israel from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 14, 2021, while Iron Dome interceptor missiles, on left, rise to meet them. (Anas Baba/AFP)

Senate passes $1.5 trillion spending bill including Iron Dome aid, Ukraine help

By Jacob Magid and AP

Upper house approves $1 billion in extra funding for missile system 5 months after GOP senator held it up; $13.5 billion for Ukraine, aid for Palestinians also approved

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks during a press statement at EU headquarters in Brussels, February 27, 2022. (Stephanie Lecocq,Pool Photo via AP)

EU says ‘pause’ in Iran nuclear talks needed due to ‘external factors’

By Jon Gambrell

Josep Borrell says he will continue to be in touch with all parties ‘to overcome the current situation,’ as Russia’s Ukraine invasion complicates final stages of diplomacy

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a televised video conference with an audience in the city of Tabriz commemorating the 1979 Islamic Revolution, in Tehran, Iran, on February 17, 2022. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei: Iran won’t give up ‘defensive power, regional presence, nuclear progress’

Democratic Representative Elaine Luria speaks to participants in a USO Pathfinder program in Virginia Beach, Virginia, October 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Democrat dozen threaten to torpedo Iran deal if it comes to Congress

Times Will Tell

Podcast: ‘Fauda’ creators talk about fourth season, as art imitates reality

Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff discuss their new storyline and the challenges of writing drama, with commentary from docu filmmaker Oren Rosenfeld, maker of ‘The Real Fauda’

'Fauda' co-creators Lior Raz (left) and Avi Issacharoff at a March 6, 2022 press conference about the upcoming fourth season of 'Fauda' (Courtesy Rafi Daluya)

Actor Henry Winkler spoke at Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel of Television and Film while in Israel in March 2022 to film his role as the father in HOT comedy series 'Chanshi,' created by Sam Spiegel graduates. (Courtesy: Sam Spiegel)

Ayyy! The Fonz arrives in Israel, playing role of Jewish dad in HOT comedy ‘Chanshi’

By Jessica Steinberg

Actor Henry Winkler speaks to students at Jerusalem’s Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, practices his ‘het’, shares memories and motivation

Illustrative. An child receives an oral polio vaccine, August 18, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Doctors warn of polio ‘outbreak’ threat as 2 new preliminary positive cases found

By Nathan Jeffay

‘The tip of the iceberg’; Traces of disease also found in Jerusalem sewage, prompting fears that polio could be spreading in the city, particularly in ultra-Orthodox community

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews celebrate Purim in Jerusalem, February 28, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US Jewish groups warn Purim partiers against blackface costumes

Six organizations in New York and New Jersey tell community members to stop dressing up as racial stereotypes, halt the traditional ‘hanging of Haman’ during holiday next week

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, September 14, 2021. (Luke Tress/Flash90)

New York proposes new rules for secular education in yeshivas, other private schools

More Headlines

People hold a protest against the 'Citizenship Law' outside the Knesset, on June 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After coalition battle, Knesset reauthorizes ban on Palestinian family unification

By Aaron Boxerman

Cars are stopped at a roadblock set by civil defensemen at a road leading to central Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. (AP/Emilio Morenatti)

AnalysisApocalypse now? To some evangelicals, Ukraine invasion spells the end of days

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with Jordan's King Abdullah in Amman, on March 10, 2022. (Courtesy)

Lapid meets King Abdullah, bids to lower tensions with Palestinians as holidays near

Ammar Muhammad Hujayrat (Courtesy)

Suspect charged in fatal playground shooting of 4-year-old Arab boy

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine, February 24, 2022. (Niv Musman/GPO)

Following scathing report, Lapid urges sale of Israel’s ‘Air Force One’

French far right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour cheers the crowd during his first rally, in Villepinte, north of Paris, France, December 5, 2021. (Rafael Yaghobzadeh/AP)

8 accuse Jewish far-right French presidential candidate Zemmour of sexual abuse

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Israel's Sheina Vaspi competes in the women's giant slalom standing alpine skiing event at the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Center in Yanqing during the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games on March 11, 2022. (WANG Zhao / AFP)

Israel’s first-ever Winter Paralympian hits the slopes at Beijing Games

In this image from video, US Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-NC, speaks as the House debates the objection to confirm the Electoral College vote from Pennsylvania, at the US Capitol early Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. (House Television via AP)

Controversial US Congressman calls Zelensky a ‘woke’ ‘thug’

Salah Hamouri, a French-Palestinian lawyer, embraces his father Hassan at their home in the village of Dahyat al-Barid near Jerusalem in the West Bank, after being released from an Israeli prison, on September 30, 2018. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

French-Palestinian lawyer jailed again by Israel over alleged terror links

By AFP and ToI Staff

State attorneys carry boxes of files into a hearing in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial at Jerusalem District Court on April 5, 2021. (POOL / AFP)

Court denies Netanyahu lawyers’ request to hand over evidence from witness’s phone

Commuters wear face masks and social distance while riding an M Train, on March 9, 2021, in New York's subway system. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

US to ease mask mandate on mass transit as pandemic ebbs

In this undated file photo, militants of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave its flags on their vehicles in a convoy to Iraq, in Raqqa, Syria. (Militant website via AP, File)

Islamic State terror group names new leader, confirms death of predecessor

By Hashem Osseiran

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