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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 16, 2022

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to the US Congress by video to plead for support as his country is besieged by Russian forces at the U.S. Capitol on March 16, 2022 in Washington, DC. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool)

Is it too much to ask, to create a no-fly zone, save people?

Zelensky invokes 9/11, Pearl Harbor in plea to US Congress for no-fly zone

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ukrainian president urges boosted air protection for defense against Russia: ‘We need you right now’; tells Biden, ‘Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace’

Ukrainian servicemen and volunteers carry a man injured during a shelling attack into hospital number 3 in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Shivering refugees brave minefields, Russian fire to escape ‘dire’ Mariupol

In this image released by Ukrainian Defense Ministry Press Service, Ukrainian soldiers use a launcher with US Javelin missiles during military exercises in Donetsk region, Ukraine, December 23, 2021. (Ukrainian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Javelin anti-tank missiles become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance

By Sylvie LANTEAUME

Reporter's notebook

Israel’s last three emissaries in Ukraine rush to grant immigration visas

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Two Nativ consuls and a Jewish Agency official are working around the clock in Lviv to help Jewish and qualified Ukrainians emigrate to Israel, before they leave on Thursday

Jewish Agency emissary Rafi Heltzer (grey sweatshirt, top right) handles calls in the doorway to the lobby Israel's honorary consulate in Lviv, Ukraine, March 15, 2022. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/The Times of Israel)

Refugees fleeing war in neighboring Ukraine queue at the Medyka border crossing, Poland, March 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

28 major US Jewish groups call on Biden to accept Ukraine refugees

Prime Minister Yair Lapid, left; and Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, right. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar; AP)

Lapid speaks to Ukrainian counterpart for first time since Russian invasion

US President Joe Biden talks with guests during an event celebrating the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 16, 2022. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Biden calls Putin a war criminal for first time as civilian deaths in Ukraine mount

Kremlin says accusation ‘unforgivable’; Bennett described as main international mediator involved in brokering Ukraine-Russia talks; Slovakia may send advanced air defense system

12:03 am

Ukraine's military says it hit Russians at Kherson airport
11:12 pm

Russians released Ukrainian mayor in exchange for 9 captured soldiers, report says
10:22 pm

Facebook says it took down deepfake video of Zelensky making a speech

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal meet with the premiers of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic in Kyiv, on March 15, 2022, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (Screen capture: Facebook)

European PMs meet Zelensky in Kyiv as Russia intensifies bombardment on capital

By Agencies and ToI Staff

‘It is here that freedom fights against the world of tyranny,’ Polish premier says in Kyiv; Russian forces said to take 400 hostages at Mariupol’s main hospital as 20,000 flee city

Firefighters extinguish flames outside an apartment house after a Russian rocket attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, Ukraine, March 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Pavel Dorogoy)

Russia says there’s ‘hope’ for a compromise as fighting intensifies in Kyiv suburbs

In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a meeting with Slovenia Prime Minister Janez Jansa, Czech Republic Prime Minister Petr Fiala, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski on behalf of the European Council, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, March 15, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Zelensky says Russian demands becoming ‘more realistic’ as fighting nears Kyiv

In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office and posted to Facebook on March 15, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Ukrainian MP says Zelensky will cite the Holocaust in Knesset speech

People’s Deputy Olga Vasilevskaya-Smaglyuk calls on Israelis to aid Ukraine further, saying ‘Jews remember what happened in the Holocaust and they need to help’

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a press conference ahead of the alliance's defense ministers' meeting, at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, on March 15, 2022. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP)

NATO says concerned Russia readying for chemical attack in Ukraine

By AFP

Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov gives a statement to the media at the Russian Consulate in Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)

Russian ambassador to Israel seeks ‘urgent’ Knesset meeting ahead of Zelensky speech

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Mar. 16: Special report from Lviv; ‘toxic’ oligarchs; polio in Israel

Carrie Keller-Lynn on the ground in Ukraine; Ricky Ben-David on what’s at stake with Israel’s oligarchs; Nathan Jeffay on a new coronavirus variant and cigarettes for kids on Purim

Firefighters extinguish an apartment house after a Russian rocket attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, Ukraine, March 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Pavel Dorogoy)

Hillel Jewish student from Kharkiv killed while ‘defending Ukraine’

By Tobias Siegal

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, March 10, 2022. (Photo by AFP)

Tens of thousands of Syrians enlisting to fight alongside Russia in Ukraine war

By Aya Iskandarani

'The war is too hard. From now on, I only want good'

On Moldovan border, Christian groups help Ukrainians flee to Israel

Two evangelical organizations, Christians for Israel and Ezra International, are providing transportation and accommodation for refugees bound for the Jewish state

Yanna Chernega and Leonid, 4, at the reception center in Otaci, Moldova, run by Christians for Israel, March 15, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

US President Joe Biden speaks at the National League of Cities Congressional City Conference on March 14, 2022, in Washington. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

No Moscow for you: Russia imposes retaliatory sanctions on Biden, top US officials

By AFP

Pierre Zakrzewski, left, along with correspondent Steve Harrigan and senior field producers Yonat Frilling and Ibrahim Hazboun in Kyiv. (Courtesy of FOX News)

Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski killed in Ukraine, colleague hospitalized

By AFP

Israel's ambassador in Romania David Saranga (center) seen in the border town of Siret escorting sick Ukrainian children who will be airlifted to Israel to receive life-saving healthcare on March 8, 2022 (Courtesy)

Putting diplomacy aside, Israeli envoys helm humanitarian push on Ukraine’s borders

By Tal Schneider

With diplomats deployed from Poland to Moldova, distributing aid and helping refugees find shelter, the Foreign Ministry is handily taking on one of its largest challenges ever

Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko during an interview with Israel's Channel 13 news on Tuesday. (screenshot)

Despite Israeli ambiguity, ex-Ukraine PM thanks it for ‘formally declaring’ support

Reporter's notebookPassengers on El Al flight to Bucharest carry boxes of aid for influx of refugees

Esty Sompo jumps for joy after her former husband agreed to give her a ritual Jewish divorce on June 24, 2021. (Courtesy)

After 5 years as a ‘chained woman,’ Esty got her freedom this summer

By Judah Ari Gross

To mark Yom Ha’aguna, The Times of Israel spoke with a woman who was able to obtain a divorce from her abusive husband, and those working to help others do the same

With its dress-up, drinking, and dark story, Purim was never my holiday. Until now

An unlikely hero takes a brave stand against tyranny and suddenly the holiday’s themes and message of heroism come alive for me

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

The Ten Commandments of Get-Refusal

3 NGOs in 3 countries are standardizing communal practices around Jewish divorce to protect women and men from the halachic system’s failures

5 misconceptions about Jewish law’s chained women

To begin with, get-refusal is not just the fault of few bad men

Sharon Ann Musher

The first bat mitzvah: No thunder sounded. Or did it?

Consider the courage it took 100 years ago for Mordecai Kaplan’s daughter to leave the comfort of the women’s section and chant the Torah blessings

Demonstrators carry placards and flags during a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, outside the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv, March 5, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

'Everyone who has any hope of leaving Russia is trying to'

Their country suddenly a pariah, Jews look for ways to leave Russia

By Jonathan Shamir

Devastating sanctions coupled with a crackdown on freedom of speech are causing Russians to move, but the mass exodus worsens already lengthy waiting periods for would-be emigres

Russian who interrupted state TV broadcast with anti-war message released

By AFP

Russia seeks 13-year prison sentence for opposition leader Navalny

By AP

Immigrants fleeing Ukraine arrive at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 15, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Would-be immigrants from Ukraine brought in on tourist visas, denying them services

By Judah Ari Gross

Trying to solve the growing bottleneck of refugees stuck in Europe waiting to immigrate, Israel has created a new problem by placing them in limbo until they get citizenship

Illustrative: Ethiopian immigrants arrive in Israel, on March 11, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

High Court rejects petition, allowing thousands of Ethiopians to immigrate to Israel

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, right, arrives to attend a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, March 14, 2022. Ukraine's ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, right, gives a statement to the media in Tel Aviv, February 25, 2022. (JACK GUEZ / POOL / AFP); (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)

Best budsAmid refugee feud, Ukrainian ambassador gives Shaked flowers

Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata (front left) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz meet Jewish immigrants fleeing from war zones in Ukraine, at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 15, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israelis broadly back PM’s Ukraine policies, split on receiving non-Jewish refugees

In TV survey, 53% want to maintain Israel’s current stance on the war, while 25% want Israel to identify more with Ukraine, 6% less

Illustrative: Jewish prayer shawls are stored on a shelf at the entrance of the Jewish synagogue in Lisbon, May 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Abramovich row prompts Portugal to tighten rules for Jewish citizenship application

Portugal's Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva speaks during a media conference after a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Lisbon, May 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Portugal to enforce EU sanctions on Russian oligarchs even if they are citizens

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative image: A technician collects a nasal swab sample for COVID-19 at the coronavirus lab, at the Ben-Gurion International Airport on March 02, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Previously unknown COVID variant detected in Israel, Health Ministry says

By Tobias Siegal

Variant, which combines Omicron’s dominant subvariant BA.1 with newer BA.2, diagnosed at Ben Gurion Airport in 2 returning passengers, but is believed to have originated in Israel

Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks at Union Station in Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, Pool)

Doug Emhoff, husband of US VP Harris, tests positive for COVID-19

Illustrative: Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, right, and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz hold a press conference at the HaKirya military base in Tel Aviv, November 26, 2021. (Moti Milrod)

PM to meet with health officials as COVID spreads ‘in several places’ across globe

By ToI Staff and AFP

Site seeing

A guided tour of ‘Mrs. Maisel’ locations celebrates 1950s NYC

By Jackie Hajdenberg

As the show wraps up its fourth season, those craving more can see a bit of real-life New York history while riding in the back of a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air

Settlements in East Jerusalem and West Bank 'infuriate me'

US envoy looks to bolster West Bank economy with 4G service, tech offerings

Ambassador Tom Nides says he will ‘pound tables’ with Israeli minister to get ball rolling on extending 4G service to all Palestinians, wants PA to have role at Allenby crossing

US Ambassador Tom Nides is interviewed by The Times of Israel at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, on January 7, 2022. (David Azagury/US Embassy)

Illustrative: Israeli troops carry out searches in the central West Bank village of Deir Nidham, on January 3, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli forces come under fire during overnight raid near Jenin, police say

By Emanuel Fabian

The West Bank village of Battir, one of the last farming villages to use irrigation systems from Roman times (photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Settlers put up illegal outpost in UNESCO heritage area in West Bank — report

People dressed up during the Jewish holiday of Purim, at the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv, on March 9, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

'It’s so embedded in our tradition that people should drink'

Jews with alcohol use disorder strive for sobriety during Purim bacchanalia

By Rachel Román

The Talmud seems to encourage inebriation amid the revelry, which falls this year on Wednesday eve-Thursday, but drinkers and teetotalers alike struggle with alcohol’s central role

How skits and satire brought merriment to Purim in America

More Headlines

The center of the Bedouin city of Rahat in southern Israel, February 16, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Justice Ministry to investigate killing of Bedouin man by undercover cops in Rahat

By Aaron Boxerman and Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: An Israeli police officer stands guard as a religious Jew in army uniform visits the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 3, 2021. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)

Minister’s bid to limit MKs visiting Temple Mount shot down by attorney general

Newly elected mayor of Surfside, Shlomo Danzinger. (LinkedIn)

In first election since condo collapse, Surfside elects an Orthodox mayor

In this photo released by Saudi Press Agency, Saudi King Faisal walks with a cane as he leaves King Faisal Specialist Hospital with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, and entourage, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March, 16, 2022. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman undergoes medical tests, has pacemaker battery changed

By AP

Batsheva dancers in 'Purple Fugue,' choreographed by Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, being performed March 18-23, 2022 (Courtesy Ascaf)

HomecomingTwo dancers return to Batsheva as (temporary) choreographers

By Jessica Steinberg

Yeshiva guard Ryan Turell (11) shoots over Worcester Polytechnic Institute forward Jake Wisniewski (4) during the second half of an NCAA DIII college basketball game that allowed no spectators on March 6, 2020, in Baltimore, Maryland. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)

Entering draft, Yeshiva U basketballer looks to become first Orthodox Jew in NBA

By jacob gurvis

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi meet, on September 13, 2021, in Sharm el-Sheikh. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Israel, Egypt expand direct flights with new Tel Aviv-Sharm el-Sheikh route

By Tal Schneider and ToI Staff

Activists call for the opening of a committee of inquiry in the so-called submarine affair, outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Hearings in submarine affair probe to be open to public, despite state’s request

A door handle in the shape of pi is seen at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York, December 17, 2012. The museum is aimed at kids aged 8 to 13, and curators have given the place a playground feel. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Life of PiNY exhibit of geometric drawings by Jewish inventor adds it all up

Tomer Weingarten, CEO and co-founder of cybersecurity firm SentinelOne, at the New York Stock Exchange, June 30, 2021 (Courtesy)

Israeli cybersecurity firm SentinelOne to buy US company for over $600m

By Ricky Ben-David

Illustrative: Hikers in northern Israel, February 22, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Sierra Club reinstates Israel trips after outcry over decision to nix visits

The gray sweater pays tribute to the Upper West Side food emporium and retails for $495. (Coach)

Fit for a bagel kingFor $500, this Zabar’s sweater can be yours

By julia GERGELY

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