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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 13, 2022

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Screen capture from video allegedly showing the Yavoriv military range in Ukraine, near the border with Poland, that was hit in a Russian missile strike, March 13, 2022. (Twitter)

At least 35 killed in Russian strike on Ukraine military base near Polish border

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ukraine says 134 hurt in attack on International Peacekeeping and Security Centre in Yavoriv, a site regularly visited by US, NATO instructors; Kyiv preps for ‘relentless defense’

Yevhen Matveyev, mayor of the Ukrainian city of Dniprorudne, who was allegedly abducted by Russian forces on March 13, 2022. (Ukranian Foreign Ministry)

Ukraine says 2nd mayor abducted in Russian ‘terror’ tactics

Ukrainian soldiers cross an improvised path under a destroyed bridge in Irpin, one outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 12, 2022. (AP/Felipe Dana)

Ukraine says Russians shot fleeing civilians near Kyiv as attacks on cities continue

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to reporters in Kyiv, March 12, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office)

Says some 1,300 Ukrainian troops killed in fighting so far

Zelensky suggests Jerusalem host negotiations between Ukraine, Russia

At briefing to reporters, Ukrainian president says Israeli PM can play ‘an important role’ in efforts to end war

A composite photo shows Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Jerusalem, on Sunday, March 6, 2022; and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaking in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 12, 2022. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP; Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Bennett, Zelensky speak on phone after Ukraine leader proposes Jerusalem summit

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă in Bucharest, March 13, 2022 (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Lapid says ‘no justification’ for Russia invading Ukraine as he meets Romanian PM

Interview

I’m no Mossad spy, says Jewish journalist who interviewed Raisi, worked for Iran TV

Catherine Perez-Shakdam ignites a media firestorm in Iran after publishing a ToI blog post; she appeared in Iranian state media for years before reconnecting with her Jewish roots

Catherine Perez-Shakdam, a French woman of Jewish heritage, interviews future Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Mashad in May 2017 (Screenshot: Russia Today)

The flags of Ukraine and Russia that were projected onto the walls of Jerusalem's Old City for a short time, March 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Russia said to request military aid from China ahead of new round of negotiations

Red Cross warns residents of besieged city of Mariupol face ‘extreme or total shortages of basic necessities’; Kyiv confirms video-conference talks to be held with Moscow on Monday

1:29 am

Journalist slain in Ukraine was working on refugee documentary for Time
12:16 am

Chinese official says he has no knowledge of reported Russian aid request
11:52 pm

Death toll in Mariupol crosses 2,000 as humanitarian convoy forced to turn back

Israel’s neediest celebrate the 234th Purim of Colel Chabad

Since 1788, Colel Chabad has made sure no struggling family, lone survivor, or new immigrant is forgotten. Purim is the #1 day for donations. Send your gift to Israel’s most needy.

An explosion in an apartment building that came under fire from a Russian army tank in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Zelensky describes ‘fundamentally different approach’ from Moscow in talks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ukraine’s leader says Russians initially only ‘issued ultimatums’ but he has now seen ‘some positive shifts’ in their dialogue

Russia installs ‘new mayor’ in Ukrainian city after allegedly kidnapping predecessor

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ukraine says Russia plotting to create a pro-Moscow ‘people’s republic’ in Kherson

By AFP

Russia threatens to target Western arms shipments to Ukraine

A damaged building after an overnight attack in Erbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, March 13, 2022. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP)

IRGC claims Erbil missiles targeted ‘Zionist strategic center’ in warning to Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran’s Guard Corps says Iraq base used by Israel for ‘conspiracy and mischiefs’; attack comes less than week after alleged Israeli airstrike killed 2 IRGC officers in Syria

A picture taken on March 13, 2022, shows a view of the damaged studio at the Kurdistan 24 TV building, after an overnight attack in Erbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region (SAFIN HAMED / AFP)

Iran fires missiles at Erbil US consulate; Tehran: ‘Secret Israeli bases’ targeted

This undated photo released by the Henderson Police Department shows suspect Nika Nikoubin, 21. (Henderson Police Department via AP)

Woman stabs her date in neck in revenge for US killing of Iranian general in 2020

By AP

A view from an airplane during landing in Moscow, Russia. April 2021. (Edgar Breshchanov via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli tech firms halt operations in Russia over Ukraine war as sanctions pick up

By Ricky Ben-David

Wix, Fiverr, Playtika, Tipalti among Israeli-founded companies that announced measures in recent days

A Russian Forpost drone. (Russian Defense Ministry)

Ukraine photos claim to show downed Russian drone with Israeli origin

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

Premier League bans Roman Abramovich from running Chelsea

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)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Mar. 13: Turkey to return Bible artifact; Iranian missiles over Erbil

Editor David Horovitz and diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman update us on the war in Ukraine and how Israel could – and should – step up; Siloam Inscription explained

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, on a two-day official visit to Greece, meets Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, at the time leader of the main opposition New Democracy party in Athens, December 7, 2017. (Kayhan Ozer/Pool via AP)

Greece, Turkey leaders to meet for talks focused on Ukraine coordination

By Helene Colliopoulou and Remi Banet

Refugees board a flight to Israel at Iasi Airport in Romania, on March 3, 2022. (The Times of Israel)

Ukrainian embassy backs High Court petition to block Israel’s refugee cap

Appeal argues current policy violates bilateral agreements and international treaties, and that Interior Minister Shaked made decisions without the proper authority

Ukrainians disembark from a special flight to Israel from Romania upon landing at Ben Gurion Airport, March 8, 2022 (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israel said to reach cap on non-Jewish Ukraine refugees, days after announcing limit

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Alona Chugai (left) and Lesia Orshoko (right) pose at Ben Gurion Airport with their Aunt Luba who was already in Israel. (Courtesy, via UK Jewish News)

From our partnerIsraeli helps rescue Ukrainian grandkids of woman who saved her family in Holocaust

New immigrants fleeing the war in Ukraine arrive at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on March 6, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hundreds of new immigrants from Ukraine arrive Sunday in largest one-day airlift

By Judah Ari Gross

More than 2,000 refugees eligible for citizenship have reached Israel so far, with thousands more expected to come soon, including group rescued from besieged Sumy

Russia's last-night show talk show host Ivan Urgant hosts American TV host Stephen Colbert in 2017. (Screen grab/YouTube)

After he criticized Ukraine war, speculation that Russian TV host fled to Israel

By Tobias Siegal

Police officers detain a woman during a protest against Russian military action in Ukraine, in Manezhnaya Square in central Moscow on March 13, 2022. (AFP)

More than 250 detained across Russia in protests against Ukraine invasion

Roman Slutin, founder of Zavod, stands in his studio, which nows serves a temporary home for Ukrainian refugees, March 8, 2022. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

'I haven't picked up an instrument since the war started'

Drained but defiant, Lviv’s creatives struggle to make art in war

By Lazar Berman

Musicians, photographers, and comedians at Lviv’s Zavod artists’ colony put down the tools of their trade and transform their studios into relief operations

‘Refugees welcome’: Hundreds protest in Tel Aviv in support of Ukrainians

Analysis

Ukraine’s sole woman rabbi escapes Odesa as key strategic city prepares for battle

A Russian-born Jew, Rabbi Julia Gris says she always felt welcome in Ukraine; not knowing if she’ll ever return home, she leads online services for her scattered congregation

Rabbi Julia Gris, who led a Progressive Jewish congregation in Odessa, Ukraine, visits a synagogue in Warsaw, Poland, March 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

A bus that was reportedly carrying Ukranian refugees lies on its side after overturning near Forli, Italy, March 13, 2022. (Vigili del Fuoco via AP)

One dead, several injured as bus of Ukrainian refugees overturns in Italy

By AP

A Ukrainian child sleeps in a Hungarian-language boarding school in Berehove, western Ukraine, March 7, 2022. (ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP)

Displaced Ukrainians welcomed in town near Hungary border despite ‘ethnic dispute’

By Peter Murphy

'Dreamworld' cape designed for volunteers with 'Stewardesses of Peace' on the Poland-Ukraine border. Joint project of RISK Made in Warsaw and artist-activist Jana Szostak. (Courtesy of RISK Made in Warsaw)

'We were inspired by the lyrics of John Lennon's "Imagine"'

These heroes wear capes: Warsaw label decks out volunteers aiding Ukrainian refugees

By Renee Ghert-Zand

To make helpers easily identifiable on the border, RISK Made in Warsaw’s Antonina Samecka and Klara Kowtun team up with artist-activist to design meaningful uniforms

Jonathan Muskat

Is Putin like Haman or Achashverosh?

Until recently, most saw the Russian as a powerful leader with whom one could negotiate in goodwill. Now, however, he will not be appeased

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

We need a coalition of moral courage to oppose Iran’s fascism

The JCPOA is not enough to manage Tehran’s aggression – a Helsinki-style multi-lateral process is needed to stand against terror and for human rights

An ultra-Orthodox boy dressed up in costume smoking a cigarette on Purim of 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Cigarettes-for-kids Purim habit among Haredim must stop, pleads government campaign

By Nathan Jeffay

On holiday when norms turned on head, there’s a phenomenon of Haredi kids smoking, despite dismay of some rabbis; Health Ministry says those children risk getting hooked for life

An honor guard member is covered by the flag of Saudi Arabia, in Washington, on March 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Saudis execute 81 for terror-related crimes, in largest mass execution on record

Riydah says convicts, all put to death in one day, committed ‘multiple heinous crimes’; says some were linked to Islamic State, al-Qaeda, Yemen’s Houthi rebels

More Headlines

Russian Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mikhail Ulyanov speaks to journalists prior to the start of the quaterly Board of Governors meeting at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, on March 7, 2022. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

West warns Russia’s fresh demands could lead to collapse of Iran talks

By AFP

Staff members work at a bakery which is unsubsidised by the Tunisian state, in the capital Tunis, on March 11, 2022. - (Anis MILI / AFP)

As Ramadan approaches, Ukraine war shakes North Africa with rising food prices

By Francoise Kadri

A turtle hatchling moves toward the sea from a nest protected within the Palmachim National Park on August 1, 2021. (Yaniv Cohen, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Sea turtle nest tallies surging along Israel’s beaches, report finds

Portrait of Eliezer Goldberg, former Israeli Supreme Court judge and former State Comptroller of Israel, on October 11, 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Eliezer Goldberg, head of top vetting panel and ex-Supreme Court judge, dies at 90

Yeshiva University's Ryan Turell (11) dribbles the ball down court while being defended by Johns Hopkins University's Carson James (21) and Lincoln Yeutter (25) in the first round of the NCAA's Division III basketball tournament, in Galloway Township, New Jersey, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

‘It’s about Jewish pride’: Yeshiva University basketball team ends unforgettable era

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and JESSIE WARDARSKI

A tourist poses for a picture while floating in the Dead Sea, on June 17, 2018. (Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/Getty Images via JTA)

Sierra Club nixes Israel trips amid pressure by progressives, anti-Zionists

By Gabe Stutman

Israeli Druze singer Mike Sharif is pictured during an interview with AFP in the northern Israeli village of Daliyat al-Karmel, on January 10, 2022. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Can music bridge Palestinian-Israeli divide? A Druze pop star believes so

By Delphine Matthieussent

Actor Jussie Smollett is led out of the courtroom after being sentenced at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on March 10, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois (Brian Cassella-Pool/Getty Images/AFP)

US actor Jussie Smollett sentenced to 5 months in jail for staged attack

By AFP

Reuven Magen. (Courtesy)

IDF veteran injured in 2014 Gaza war dies by suicide at 27

By Tobias Siegal

An apartment fire in Yarka in which an elderly couple died, March 13, 2022 (Israel Fire and Rescue Services)

Octogenarian couple dies in apartment fire in Yarka

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