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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 15, 2022

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) meets with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Riga, Latvia, on March 7, 2022. (Olivier Douliery/Pool/AFP)

UK hails news 'Israel will support sanctions against Russia'

Israel focusing on closing loopholes, not imposing Russia sanctions, officials say

By Lazar Berman

Lapid, ministries working to ensure country not used to bypass West; Jerusalem says it has no legal ability to declare sanctions — which it doesn’t want to do now in any case

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and attendees applaud after Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed them by video link during a meeting of the leaders of the the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), a coalition of 10 states focused on security in northern Europe, at Lancaster House, in London on March 15, 2022. (JUSTIN TALLIS / POOL / AFP)

Ukraine’s Zelensky to address Israeli lawmakers via Zoom on Sunday

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (L), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C), and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Combo photo: AFP)

Bennett holds back-to-back phone calls with Putin, Zelensky on ceasefire efforts

By Tal Schneider

Firefighters climb a ladder while working to extinguish a blaze in a destroyed apartment building after a bombing in a residential area in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, March 15, 2022. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)

Live updates (closed)

Hundreds at Mariupol hospital held hostage by Russian forces — local official

Some 20,000 manage to flee city via humanitarian corridors, but hundreds of thousands remain; Zelensky speaks to Canadian parliament, hosts EU leaders

11:55 pm

Russian attempt to push into Kharkiv rebuffed -- local official
11:24 pm

Second gentleman Emhoff tests positive for COVID -- White House
11:13 pm

Poland calls for armed NATO 'peace mission' to aid Ukraine

A resident sits outside a destroyed building after it was hit by artillery shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Ukrainian officials tell Hebrew media Putin’s war is like the Holocaust

Lawmaker Olga Vasylevska-Smaglyuk claims children kidnapped to camp ‘like Auschwitz’ in Belarus; mayor of Mykolaiv says war is between Russian Nazism and Western civilization

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

AnalysisHitler, WWII loom large in Germany’s approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

By Deborah Cole

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. (Courtesy/Sheba Medical Center, Health Ministry)

Plan to establish field hospital in western Ukraine approved by Israeli cabinet

“We are going to be much more precise. We are going to provide treatment that has much fewer side effects,” says Prof. Aaron Ciechanover (OncoHost)

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Marina Ovsyannikova, a Russian state TV employee, interrupts the evening news broadcast, holding a sign condemning President Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine on March 14, 2022. (Screen capture/Twitter)

‘They’re lying to you’: Staffer interrupts Russian TV to denounce Ukraine invasion

By AP

Marina Ovsyannikova arrested after displaying poster reading ‘No War,’ urging Russians not to believe propaganda; in video, she says: ‘Russia is an aggressor; Putin is responsible’

People stand by TV screens broadcasting the news of Russian troops that have launched their attack on Ukraine, in Hong Kong Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. (AP/Vincent Yu)

US warns China on aligning with Russia, says Beijing willing to bolster Putin

By AAMER MADHANI, Josh Boak and Matthew Lee

A picture shows the New Safe Confinement (NSC) new metal dome designed and built by French consortium Novarka encasing the destroyed reactor at Chernobyl plant on July 10, 2019, in Chernobyl. - Ukraine and its European partners on July 10 formally inaugurated a new metal dome encasing the destroyed reactor at the infamous Chernobyl plant, wrapping up a two-decade effort. Branded as the world's largest moveable metal structure, the so-called New Safe Confinement seals the remains of the fourth reactor at the nuclear plant that was the site of the massive Chernobyl disaster in 1986. (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP)

Power restored to Chernobyl after fresh outage — nuclear watchdog

By AFP

An aerial view of Ukrainian refugees waiting for transport at the border crossing at Medyka, Poland, March 13, 2022. (AP Photo)

UN: Number of refugees from Ukraine tops 3 million, nearly half of them children

Refugee agency says 1.7 million have entered Poland; Red Cross warns millions facing food and medicine shortage and danger from shelling, airstrikes

Polish, Czech, Slovenian PMs to visit Kyiv Tuesday in show of ‘unequivocal support’

Ukraine’s Zelensky to address Congress as White House urged to get tougher on Russia

By Frankie TAGGART

Ukrainian cities buffeted by Russian strikes as ceasefire talks make little headway

By Dmitry Zaks and Dave Clark

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

Ministers defend hardline refugee policy at meeting marred by offensive jokes

Liberman makes crack about Ukrainian women; Tamano-Shata calls out ‘hypocrisy’ of white colleagues who don’t support Ethiopian immigration

Jewish immigrants fleeing the war in Ukraine arrive at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv on March 9, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Israel rolls out plan to help incoming waves of new immigrants

By Judah Ari Gross

A group of 27 undergraduate students from Yeshiva University departed to Vienna on March 13 as part of a humanitarian relief mission to provide support for Ukrainian refugees. (Courtesy via JTA)

Yeshiva University students land in Vienna on mission to help Ukrainian refugees

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There is a distinct sentiment across Asia, Africa and the Arab world that Europe is throwing itself into a disaster and that the international order itself is crumbling

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Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Syria and elsewhere: Our insistence on memory — and the belief that it will change things — never quite works

Haftam Yizhak-Heathwood

My heart breaks for Ukraine — and for Ethiopian Jews unable to get to Israel

White refugees are being welcomed in Israel while Black refugees are kept out. There’s a racial imbalance in our response – even in my response – to tragedies

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Tal Schneider on a long-awaited Israeli field hospital and a rabbi who brought Herzog and Erdogan together; Judah Ari Gross on how Israel is paving the way for Ukrainian aliya

A woman waves a Ukrainian national flag during a protest against Russia's military invasion of Ukraine, in Israel's Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv, March 12, 2022. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Ukrainian woman to stay in Israel, judge rules, citing ‘human compassion’

By Tobias Siegal

Hundreds of Muscovites line up outside the first McDonald's restaurant in the Soviet Union on its opening day, in Moscow, January 31, 1990. (AP Photo, File)

Once a powerful symbol of optimism, McDonald’s departure sends Russia into isolation

By DEE-ANN DURBIN

In this satellite image taken February 18, 2022, damage is seen to a site belonging to the IRGC in the Iranian province of Kermanshah. (Planet Labs PBC via Aurora Intel)

Israel decimated Iranian drone fleet in February airstrike inside Iran – report

Attack said to destroy hundreds of drones near Kermanshah, prompting this week’s revenge missile fire at Iraq site alleged to have launched UAV-destroying mission

A satellite image from September 15, 2017, of the Fordo nuclear facility in Iran. (Google Earth)

Iran claims to thwart Israeli sabotage plot at nuclear facility, arrests ‘network’

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian shake hands after a joint news conference following their talks in Moscow, Russia, March 15, 2022. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia says it received US guarantees on Iran nuclear deal

By AFP and ToI Staff

Screenshot of Israeli government website cyber.gov.il unavailable during an apparent cyberattack on March 14, 2022, overlaid with an illustrative image of computer code. (Screenshot; solarseven; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli government websites crash after ‘massive’ cyberattack, officials say

By Emanuel Fabian

Users unable to reach sites with gov.il extension for an hour, as National Cyber Directorate reportedly declares state of emergency over incident

Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of detained charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, holds her photo outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in London, on Nov. 9, 2021. (Frank Augstein/AP)

Iran returns passport of detained UK charity worker held for five years

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Russian businessman Roman Abramovich looks on, as he follows Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's press conference after Russia was announced being the host for the 2018 soccer World Cup in Zurich, Switzerland, December 2, 2010. (AP/Anja Niedringhaus)

Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) hold a minute of silence for victims of the war in Ukraine, March 14, 2022, in Strasbourg, eastern France. (Jean-Francois Badias/AP)

EU imposes 4th set of sanctions against Russia, also targeting Abramovich

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UK mulls using seized oligarchs’ homes for refugees fleeing war in Ukraine

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Abramovich arrives in Moscow, flying in from Israel via Turkey

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Roman Abramovich seen at Israel’s airport, just before his plane leaves for Turkey

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Russian authorities accused Abramovich of ‘organized criminal group’ fraud – report

Simona Halperin, acting Israeli ambassador to Ukraine, at the embassy's mission in Przemyśl, Poland, March 14, 2022. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)

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By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Diplomats at the embassy’s HQ, now based in Poland near the border, describe the slowing stream of exiting Israelis and the growing demand for any other help they can provide

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Palestinians mourn near the body of Ammar Shafiq Abu Afifa, who was killed by Israeli security forces near the town of Beit Fajar, during his funeral in the Al-Aroub refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Hebron, March 2, 2022. (Wisam Hashlamoun/ Flash90)

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By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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(FILES) This file photo taken on February 28, 2022 shows the stand of Russian antivirus software development company Kaspersky on the opening day of the MWC (Mobile World Congress) in Barcelona, Spain. - German cyber security agency BSI on March 15, 2022 urged consumers not to use anti-virus software made by Russia's Kaspersky, warning the firm could be implicated in hacking assaults amid Russia's war in Ukraine. (Photo by Pau BARRENA / AFP)

Germany warns against use of anti-virus software made by Russia’s Kaspersky

By AFP

Farmers harvest with their combines in a wheat field near the village Tbilisskaya, Russia, July 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Vitaly Timkiv, File)

UN chief warns war in Ukraine hurts poorer nations reliant on wheat

By Edith M. Lederer

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) attend a Knesset plenum session on January 31, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bennett, Lapid looking to Northern Ireland conflict for lessons on gluing coalition

Holocaust survivor Leon Schwarzbaum, at his home in Berlin on December 4, 2019. (Odd Andersen/AFP)

Holocaust survivor Leon Schwarzbaum, key witness in trials of Nazis, dies at 101

By AFP

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi attends a conference at Reichman University in Herzliya, on February 13, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Court rules Military Police officer wrongly ousted, rejecting IDF chief’s appeal

By Emanuel Fabian

Medics at the scene of a bus crash in Tel Aviv, March 13, 2022. (Magen David Adom)

Bus crashes into Tel Aviv store, 4 lightly hurt

A campaign photo of David Reilly, who ran for a school board in western Idaho last year. (YouTube via JTA)

Idaho GOP official tried to install an antisemite in Democratic leadership

Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk (left) speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, Monday, March 9, 2020. Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) chairs a meeting with members of the government via teleconference in Moscow, Thursday, March 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File; (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Keyboard warriorElon Musk challenges Putin to ‘single combat’ over Ukraine

By AFP

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, attends a meeting of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 17, 2020. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

UN human rights chief condemns Saudi Arabia’s mass execution of 81 on a single day

By AFP

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