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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 17, 2022

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (on screen) gets a standing ovation by the members of the government and of parliament after he addressed via videolink the German lower house of parliament Bundestag, on March 17, 2022 in Berlin. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

Zelensky tells German MPs ‘never again’ Holocaust slogan is now meaningless

By ToI Staff and AFP

Ukrainian president addresses Bundestag via video, says Europe being destroyed, urges tearing down a new ‘wall’ that Russia is building between ‘freedom and bondage’

Ukrainian soldiers prepare to fire a salute during the funeral for their comrades, in Starychi, western Ukraine, March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Biden lashes ‘war criminal’ Putin as civilian carnage mounts in Ukraine

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a video conference, March 16, 2022, at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence, outside Moscow. (Russian Presidential Press Service via AP)

Putin likens Western sanctions to the Nazis’ ‘antisemitic pogroms’

By AFP

People clear debris outside a medical center damaged after parts of a Russian missile, shot down by Ukrainian air defense, landed on a nearby apartment block, according to authorities, in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Live updates (closed)

UN official calls to probe heavy civilian casualties in Russian attacks in Ukraine

Undersecretary-general says ‘indiscriminate’ shelling causing destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure; 1,900 confirmed civilian casualties since invasion began

10:34 pm

'Stop this war': Arnold Schwarzenegger makes appeal to Putin, Russian people
9:41 pm

UN official calls for probe of heavy civilian casualties, damage to Ukrainian infrastructure
9:38 pm

UN health chief says Ukraine in urgent need of medical supplies

Bennett is playing the ‘primary’ role in mediating Russia-Ukraine talks, report says

Financial Times says Israeli prime minister is the key international broker between Moscow and Kyiv, as the two sides inch toward a ceasefire deal

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 27, 2022. (Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Pool)

A plenum session in the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 5, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

With Zelensky to address Knesset, Russian envoy asks to brief MKs beforehand

A view of a bomb crater after Russian shelling in the central of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 16, 2022. (Pavel Dorogoy/AP)

As talk grows of potential Ukraine ceasefire, country’s neutrality said on table

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The bombed Mariupol theater in Ukraine on March 16, 2022. (Screen capture: @Mariupolnow)

Hundreds feared buried after Russia destroys Mariupol theater serving as shelter

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Authorities unable to confirm casualty count at building that served as largest refuge in besieged city, as area remains target of Russian shelling; Ukraine FM blasts ‘war crime’

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov arrive to the talks between delegations from Ukraine and Russia in Belarus' Brest region, on March 3, 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Maxim Guchek/Belta/AFP)

Ukraine’s defense minister urges EU to brand Putin a ‘war criminal’

By AFP

Screen capture from video showing people who were killed by Russian forces in the norther Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, on March 16, 2022. (Twitter)

10 people killed waiting in bread line in Ukraine; US embassy demands accountability

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jewish immigrants fleeing from war zones in Ukraine arrive at the Israeli immigration and absorption office at Ben Gurion Airport, March 15, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Over 5,000 immigrants have arrived in Israel from Eastern Europe since war’s start

President Herzog welcomes new immigrants staying at Jerusalem hotel, while dozens gather outside home of Interior Minister Shaked to protest refugee policy

Israeli and Ukrainian refugees arriving from Ukraine on a rescue flight are welcomed at Ben Gurion international airport near Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel to offer healthcare, temporary housing to Ukrainian refugees

By Judah Ari Gross

Jewish immigrants fleeing from war zones in Ukraine arrive at the Israeli immigration and absorption office at Ben Gurion Airport, March 15, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Photo essayMinisters, soldiers welcome Ukrainians at airport

Human Trafficking: Combatting a global phenomenon

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ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Mar. 17: For Purim, ToI kids ask hard questions about the Ukraine war

Times of Israel reporters’ children pick up the mic to ask diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman essential questions; plus, some optimistic news items

Op-ed

Being a good Jew is meant to be the same as being a good person

More than almost any other country, Israel should have swiftly recognized the moral obligation to open its doors to innocent Ukrainian civilians escaping Russia’s invasion

Immigrants fleeing from Ukraine wait at the Israeli immigration and absorption office at Ben Gurion Airport, on March 15, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

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

Some Ukrainian refugees refused entry to Israel due to translation error – report

Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, November 15, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister defends calling out ‘white hypocrisy’ of colleagues over refugee policy

Meylakh Sheykhet, lay leader of the Turei Zehav community, Lviv, Ukraine, March 16, 2022. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/The Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebookA Purim service, ahead of the curfew, in the midst of a war

The Book of Esther is read, against the odds, in the ruins of oldest Lviv synagogue

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Retelling an ancient redemption while praying for its own, a tiny Ukrainian community gathers in a synagogue destroyed by the Nazis, under the shadow of Russia’s onslaught

Helen Gottstein

Esther, power and voice

We admire the megillah’s heroine for her strategy, her community organizing, her bravery, her success with the king… but we should learn from her failure

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Legitimizing a Jewish travesty: Why Megillat Esther is in the Bible

The sages had specific reasons for wanting the Purim story in the canon, not the least of which was its emphasis on Esther’s cunning in saving the Jews

Before age 60, 4th vaccine slightly cuts infection rates, moderately thwarts illness

By Nathan Jeffay

Peer-reviewed Israeli research likely to be widely noted worldwide as health authorities debate whether to administer 4th doses to the general population

A woman receives a fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Clalit Health Services in Mevaseret Zion, Jan. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

A technician collects a nasal swab sample for COVID-19 at the coronavirus lab, at the Ben Gurion International Airport on March 2, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

COVID transmission rate continues to rise as new cases tick slightly upward

People read from Megillat Esther (the Story of Esther) during the Jewish holiday of Purim, at the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv, on March 16, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel to keep indoor mask mandate as it warily watches COVID resurgence elsewhere

US said to mull nixing Trump’s listing of Iran Revolutionary Guards as terror group

Decision would be coupled with announcement that US reserves right to re-designate IRGC if it returns to nefarious activity in region; Israel said briefed on possibility

Illustrative: This photo taken on September 22, 2018, shows members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) marching during the annual military parade that marks the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran. (Stringer/AFP)

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (left) and Anoosheh Ashoori, who were freed from Iran, gesture after landing at RAF Brize Norton in Brize Norton, England, on March 17, 2022. (Leon Neal/Pool/AFP)

Two British-Iranians, held by Iran for years in prison, reunited with families in UK

By Charles ONIANS

In this photo released by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran on November 6, 2019, a forklift carries a cylinder containing uranium hexafluoride gas for the purpose of injecting the gas into centrifuges in Iran's Fordo nuclear facility. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iran defies Western powers with enriched uranium work it was warned not to do

By ToI Staff and AFP

Dead bodies are put into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022, as people cannot bury their loved ones because of the heavy shelling by Russian forces. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Inside Story

Mass graves, hunger, nowhere safe: Besieged Mariupol descends into despair and agony

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV, Evgeniy Maloletka and Lori Hinnant

Children are buried in trenches, residents scrounge for food and water and hospitals get bombed as Russian troops squeeze the life out of a Ukrainian city

Melitopol mayor released five days after his abduction by Russian troops

By AFP

Cheap, lethal Turkish drones surprisingly effective at bolstering Ukraine’s defenses

By Derek Gatopoulos and Suzan Fraser

Chaotic patchwork of volunteers embrace Ukrainian refugees at Medyka border crossing

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Vibrant scene and a variety of aid greets a kilometer-long line of uprooted Ukrainians crossing the border into Poland

UNHCR staff load a truck with supplies for Ukraine in an aid warehouse at Rzeszow airport, in Rzeszow, southeastern Poland, March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Aid agencies rush to get supplies for Ukraine as fighting rages on

By FLORENT BAJRAMI

Ukrainian refugees pick up donated food and hygiene and bayby care products at the Warsaw Centralna train station, in Poland, March 16, 2022. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

‘Heartbreaking crisis’: Over 100,000 Ukrainian refugees flee fighting in 24 hours

By Robin MILLARD

Rabbi Irina Gritsevskaya, in the unicorn wig, traveled to Chernivtski, Ukraine, with Rabbi Avi Novis-Deutsch Dean of the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary (right), March 16, 2022. (Facebook via JTA)

As millions flee Ukraine, some rabbis have headed there — to celebrate Purim

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Religious leaders, many from the Chabad movement, travel into war-torn country to mark holiday celebrating Jewish people’s survival

Police at the scene where Sanad Salaam al-Harbad was killed as police special forces came under fire in Rahat, southern Israel, March 15, 2022. (Flash90)

Autopsy finds Bedouin man killed by police was shot twice from behind — report

Initial results show Sanad Salaam al-Harbad suffered gunshot wounds to his back and buttocks, though cop who opened fire insists Rahat resident was shooting at security forces

An Israeli soldier stands guard during a ceremony opening the newly completed underground barrier along the Israel-Gaza border, on December 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israeli troops nab 3 Gaza infiltrators armed with knives, flammable liquid

By Emanuel Fabian

A Magen unit police officer inspects weapons seized by Israeli security forces during a gun-smuggling attempt along the border with Jordan on March 11, 2022. (Israel Police)

IDF, police seize dozens of guns from drug smugglers near Dead Sea

By Emanuel Fabian

The Thinkers Distillery still and visitors center in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. (Courtesy: Thinkers)

In Jerusalem’s shuk, a brainiac distillery rethinks spirit-making

By Jessica Steinberg

Thinkers Distillery in the Mahane Yehuda market plans to make everything from vodka and gin to rum, bourbon and tequila — just better

Joint Purim and St. Patrick’s Day gives Irish Jews more reasons to raise a glass

By Cnaan Liphshiz

When ‘Saturday Night Live’ celebrated Purim and St. Patrick’s Day

N-Drip's drip irrgation system in the US. (Martin Hobelman/N-Drip)

PepsiCo taps Israeli startup N-Drip for drip irrigation tech

By Ricky Ben-David

Farmers who grow crops for the US beverage and snack giant’s range of brands to adopt tech for better yield, water conservation

Israeli startup Plantish makes 3D-printed, whole-cut, plant-based salmon fillets. (Afik Gabay)

Israeli food tech startup pulls in over $12m for 3D-printed plant-based fish

By Ricky Ben-David

A cultivated beef burger made by Israeli company Future Meat, served with fries and a beer. (Future Meat)

Israel’s alternative protein market up 450% in 2021, says report

By Ricky Ben-David

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Illustrative: Evening falls over the illegal West Bank outpost of Havat Gilad, on August 26, 2009. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Settlement security officers announce strike after arrest of colleague

By Emanuel Fabian

Photos of Mossad chief David Barnea are seen in a video published on an anonymous Telegram channel, on March 16, 2022. (Screenshot)

Telegram channel leaks Mossad chief’s personal photos, documents

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: An Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboat moves in the Persian Gulf while an oil tanker is seen in background, July 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

UAE-flagged cargo ship reportedly capsizes off Iranian coast

By Isabel Debre

Sandy Koufax, pitcher of Los Angeles Dodgers on March 18, 1964 at spring training. (AP Photo)

Life’s a pitch!Sandy Koufax statue to be unveiled at Dodger Stadium this summer

By jacob gurvis

A boy stands with a group of people fleeing Ukraine as they stand in a line after arriving at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, on Monday, March 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

UN rushing to prevent human traffickers from capitalizing on Ukraine refugee exodus

This file photo taken on March 25, 2012, in Toulouse, southwestern France, shows France's Jewish scout placing flowers under a banner paying tribute to the victims of jihadist Mohammed Merah who killed three children and a teacher at the 'Ozar Hatorah' Jewish school. (AFP/Eric Cabanis)

Herzog to join Macron in marking decade since Toulouse Jewish school attack

For first time in 5 years, IDF doesn’t close off West Bank for Purim

By Emanuel Fabian

A view shows a destroyed Russian army multiple rocket launcher on the outskirts of Kharkiv on March 16, 2022, amid the ongoing Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (Sergey BOBOK / AFP)

Human Rights Watch urges Ukraine to stop parading around Russian prisoners

By AFP

Mayor Sam Massell, center, and his daughter Melanie, seated, welcome members of the Jackson Five to the mayor’s office in Atlanta, April 7, 1971. (Afro American News via Getty Images via JTA)

ObituaryJewish Atlanta mayor who shepherded in era of Black-led politics dies at 94

Israeli Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology Orit Farkash Hacohen (left) meets with visiting Canadian Minister of International Trade Mary Ng, March 15, 2022. (Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology)

Canadian trade minister lauds ‘productive’ Israel trip, touts science, tech collab

By Ricky Ben-David

A Google building at the company's campus in Mountain View, California, on Sept. 24, 2019. (AP/Jeff Chiu)

Jewish Google employee claims her anti-Israel activism got her job moved to Brazil

By Andrew Lapin

Palestinians and left-wing activists demonstrate in advance of an Israeli High Court hearing on whether to evict over 1,000 Palestinians living in a firing zone in the South Hebron Hills on March 15, 2022 (Credit: Yahel Gazit)

High Court to rule on expelling over 1,000 Palestinians from West Bank firing zone

By Aaron Boxerman

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