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What Matters Most On Monday, March 14, 2022

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Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from a maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. She later died, and her baby was stillborn. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Pregnant woman injured in shelling of Ukrainian maternity ward dies, baby stillborn

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV

Medics in Russian-besieged city of Mariupol says mother cried out ‘kill me now’ as she realized she was losing her child, died shortly after

Ukrainian soldiers and firefighters search in a destroyed building after a bombing attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Talks resume as Russia pounds Kyiv suburbs; apartment building hit in airstrike

By Dmitry Zaks and Dave Clark

A group of people, who have fled Ukraine, stand in a line after arriving at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Sunday, March 13, 2022. (AP/Daniel Cole)

Zelensky warns NATO will be attacked next as Russian offensive aims westward

By Ionut Iordachescu and Dave Clark

People walk past a crater from the explosion in Mira Avenue (Avenue of Peace) in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 13, 2022. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Live updates (closed)

Ukraine says Russian forces unable to capture ‘center of hell’ Mariupol

Top UN humanitarian official describes key port city as the worst hit country-wide; Roman Abramovich plane flies to Moscow after leaving Turkey

1:14 am

Warlord says Chechens spearheading Mariupol incursion
12:25 am

Ukraine says Russia forced to back off bid to take Mariupol
11:22 pm

US thinks China likely willing to send Russia aid, but quietly -- report

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) and Slovakian Foreign Minister Ivan Korcok in Bratislava, March 14, 2022 (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Lapid vows Israel won’t be a ‘route to bypass’ sanctions on Russia

Visiting Slovakia, FM says government ministries, financial institutions and Bank of Israel coordinating on matter; condemns Russian invasion of Ukraine

Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich sits in his box on December 19, 2015, before the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Sunderland at Stamford Bridge stadium in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Plane belonging to oligarch Abramovich reportedly lands in Israel

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba listens to journalists during a news conference, in Antalya, Turkey, March 10, 2022. (AP Photo)

Ukrainian FM reportedly agrees to speak with Lapid after weeklong snub

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)

Double standard

J’lem takes down Old City projection of Ukraine, Russia flags after criticsm

Display calling for peace summit removed following criticism that it disregarded Russia’s initiating the conflict; city says it would be happy to host Moscow-Kyiv ceasefire talks

Ukraine's presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak speaks at a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 12, 2020. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Zelensky chief of staff lauds Israel’s ‘brave’ mediation efforts, new refugee rules

A giant screen shows Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaking through a video link to people taking part in a peace rally for Ukraine on March 12, 2022 in Florence (Carlo BRESSAN / AFP)

Ukraine said to ask Yad Vashem to host rally addressed by Zelensky

'Too little, too late,' says Diaspora affairs minister

Facing blistering criticism, Israel eases limit on entry of Ukrainian refugees

Interior Minister Shaked announces new policy exempting refugees with relatives in Israel from entry quota, but says ‘we cannot open our gates to everyone’

A Ukrainian woman waits with her baby at Iasi International Airport in Romania to board a flight to Israel, March 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv, March 1, 2022. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Bennett: Ukrainian refugees with relatives in Israel can stay until situation calms

Illustrative. Jewish Ukrainian refugees at an emergency shelter sponsored by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and Joint Distribution Committee in Chisinau, Moldova, on March 5, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel to significantly shorten entry process for would-be immigrants from Ukraine

By Judah Ari Gross

Przemysl's crowded train station, February 28, 2022 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

My journeys in and out of Ukraine, the angels who help, the uncertainty at the end

By Lazar Berman

ToI’s Lazar Berman describes his travels around the war zone, details the nightmare refugees are experiencing, and finds that even Israeli diplomacy only goes so far

A Ukrainian firefighter walks inside a large food products storage facility which was destroyed by an airstrike in the early morning hours on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

30 Russian cruise missiles hit Ukraine and NATO military hub

Russia claims to kill ‘180 foreign mercenaries’ in strike on western Ukraine

Training facility is westernmost target struck during 18-day invasion; airstrikes from Mariupol to Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Kyiv continue to terrorize fleeing civilians

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the government via teleconference in Moscow, March 10, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

US officials fear frustrated Putin, angry at Ukraine war failures, ready to escalate

By NOMAAN MERCHANT

Ukrainian servicemen evacuate an elderly woman on a stretcher from the city of Irpin on March 13, 2022. (Aris Messinis / AFP)

US national security adviser says Putin is ‘lashing out,’ could use bioweapons

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man wrapped in Ukrainian and Israeli national flags prays at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem's Old City, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Mar. 14: Welcome to Israel, Ukrainian Jews. Now face the rabbinate

News editor Amy Spiro breaks down Ukrainian refugee caps and personal status conflicts; Palestinian affairs reporter Aaron Boxerman updates us on the controversial Citizenship Law

Rejecting state’s request, High Court to hear petition against Israeli refugee cap

Lapid: Israel has moral duty to let in more non-Jews; ‘unforgivable’ airport scenes

Population authority chief suggests initial cap on Ukraine refugees was a mistake

From the blogs

Ukraine crisis sharpens Israel’s existential need for conversion reform

The state’s survival depends on solidifying its Jewish majority, and only the Knesset, not the Chief Rabbinate, has the authority to set conversion policy

A man walks past a shelter covering the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, April 15, 2021. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

Power knocked out at Chernobyl nuclear disaster site hours after it was restored

Ukrainian officials say Russian forces damaged supply lines needed to prevent radiation leaks; state power company to attempt another repair

Customers stand in front of a US Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) fast food kiosk in Evroreisky (European) shopping mall in Moscow on March 7, 2022. (Photo by AFP)

Moscow threatens Western firms with arrests, seizures over sanctions — report

By AFP

People attend a pro-Ukraine protest rally in Berlin, Germany, March 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Large protests against Russian invasion of Ukraine in Berlin, other European cities

Steven Greenberg

Purim as a Jewish ’National Coming Out Day’

The Esther story celebrates the outing of nearly every one of its characters, assuring LGBTQ youth that the Jewish tradition recognizes their experience

In Moldova, helping refugees in crisis, I broke Shabbat for the very first time

To procure the thousands of healthy, hot meals that would feed the arriving Ukrainians, I found myself, a Haredi Jew, shopping and cooking on the Sabbath

Brent Renaud attends the 74th Annual Peabody Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on May 31, 2015, in New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Obituary

Brent Renaud, journalist killed in Ukraine, was an acclaimed filmmaker and producer

By PAMELA SAMPSON

Arkansas native was gathering material for report about refugees when he was gunned down by Russian soldiers near Kyiv

International Committee of the Red Cross Director-General Robert Mardini talks about the humanitarian situation in Ukraine during an interview with The Associated Press, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 14, 2022. (Kamran Jebreili/AP)

Red Cross chief: Ukraine war ‘nothing short of a nightmare,’ cannot continue

By Jon Gambrell

Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk to each other during their meeting in Beijing, China on February 4, 2022. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia asking China for military equipment, US says ahead of meeting

By AAMER MADHANI and Josh Boak

A child is given an oral vaccine for polio in Neve Yaakov, Jerusalem, on September 10 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Expert warns polio’s return could shatter Israel’s public health image, hurt tourism

By Nathan Jeffay

There’s still only one clinical case and two other positive tests, but Prof. Nadav Davidovitch says situation is serious as virus can dodge elimination by spreading at small scale

A Magen David Adom worker takes a COVID-19 test sample at a drive through complex in Jerusalem, on January 17, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

COVID reproduction number rising steadily in Israel in recent weeks

Staff from Zaka's Tel Aviv district in their tent in front of Lviv's train station, March 8, 2022 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebookTech CEO: 'I'll be here until the last Jew leaves Ukraine'

With Haredi volunteers, an Israeli entrepreneur, 28, rescues Jewish refugees in Lviv

By Lazar Berman

With rabbis and diplomats gone, ZAKA medics and tech businessman Guy Amar feed, shelter and transport hundreds of fleeing Ukrainians every day

Ethiopian Christian pilgrims attend a Good Friday procession in Jerusalem, Friday, April 14, 2017. (Dan Balilty/AP)

Israel said barring Ethiopian Christian pilgrims from country, for fear they’ll stay

In letter cited by Israeli TV, immigration authorities tell tourism agencies not to let groups because of concerns they won’t return home due to ongoing civil war

Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi, the IDF's new deputy chief of staff, speaks during a handover ceremony at military headquarters in Tel Aviv on July 11, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel’s deputy army chief, other top commanders arrive in US for security talks

By Emanuel Fabian

Herzi Halevi and senior IDF commanders to hold meetings at Pentagon; trip comes after Iran launched missiles on what it claimed was an Israeli ‘strategic center’ in Iraqi Kurdistan

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) meets with UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in the latter's Abu Dhabi palace on December 13, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Israel, UAE said pressing US for security guarantees from Iran

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian speaks during a press conference in Moscow, Russia, on August 3, 2012. (AP/Misha Japaridze)

Iranian FM to visit Moscow for nuclear talks amid Russian sanctions demands

By AFP

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu at a Likud party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu says it’s ‘absurd’ Iran nuclear talks ongoing after Erbil attack

In English and Hebrew video messages, former PM claims world powers are close to signing ‘a nuclear agreement that will give the ayatollahs a nuclear arsenal’

A damaged mansion is shown following an overnight Iranian missile attack in Erbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, on March 13, 2022. (Safin Hamed/AFP)

US State Department denounces ‘outrageous’ Iranian missile attack on Iraq’s Erbil

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A house damaged by an Iranian ballistic missile attack is seen in Erbil, Iraq, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/ Ahmed Mzoori, Metrography)

Iraqi PM, Kurdish officials inspect Erbil site hit by Iranian missiles

Mel Brooks drinking coffee photographed by Carl Reiner circa 1950-1954 in The Automat while the two were writers for 'Your Show of Shows'. (A Slice of Pie Productions)

Interview'It was part of the Americanization process'

A taste of bygone Americana, ‘The Automat’ dishes out nostalgia with a cherry on top

By Cathryn J. Prince

Director Lisa Hurwitz’s documentary about a once-beloved restaurant chain is the comfort foodie film we’re craving

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Illustrative. An Israeli woman uses her phone in front of a building in Herzliya that housed the NSO Group intelligence firm, on August 28, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)

Newspaper in NSO storm: Deputy AG who probed claims of police spying failed at task

Screen capture from video of ousted Sudanese ambassador to the United States, Noureddine Sati, during an interview with the Kan public broadcaster, March 13, 2022. (Twitter)

Ousted Sudanese envoy to US warns Israel against backing coup in his country

Children dressed in costumes pose for a picture in the northern city of Safed, ahead of the the Jewish holiday of Purim, March 13, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Children’s Purim parties brought forward by a day as snowy weather forecast

By Stuart Winer

Actor Moshe Ivgy seen after his release from Hermon Prison in northern Israel, March 14, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Actor Moshe Ivgy released early after 5 months behind bars

Israeli startup UVeye develops automated inspection systems for vehicles. (Daniel Byrne)

Volvo taps Israeli tech startup for automated inspection systems in US

By Ricky Ben-David

Head of the Shin Bet security service Ronen Bar leaves his home in Rishpon, central Israel, October 11, 2021. (Flash90)

Visiting Washington, Shin Bet head warns of Ramadan flare-up with Palestinians

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A Royal Air Maroc airliner (CC BY-SA Styyx/Wikimedia Commons)

Moroccan national carrier launches direct Israeli flights, following pandemic delay

By AFP

Illustrative: Israel Police investigate the scene of a crime on June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

Man suspected of trying to kill wife with jumper cable

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