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What Matters Most On Friday, March 18, 2022

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This photo released by Donetsk Regional Civil-Military Administration Council on March 16, 2022 shows the Drama Theatre, damaged after shelling, in Mariupol, Ukraine. (Donetsk Regional Civil-Military Administration Council via AP)

130 rescued from Mariupol theater but 1,300 remain trapped, says Ukrainian official

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ukraine’s human rights commissioner says rescue work is ongoing after building destroyed in Russian airstrike; Moscow claims troops are fighting on streets in city center

Smoke rises after an explosion in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, on March 18, 2022 (Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP)

Russian missiles hit plane repair plant near Lviv airport; no casualties reported

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and Agencies

Evacuees from Mariupol at a shopping center on the outskirts of the city of Zaporizhzhia, which is now a registration centre for displaced people, on March 16, 2022. (Emre Caylak/AFP)

Smell of death, bodies in the streets: Fleeing Ukrainians recount ‘hell’ in Mariupol

Ukrainian policemen carry a body away from a five-storey residential building that partially collapsed after a shelling in Kyiv on March 18, 2022 (Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)

Liveblog (closed)

Russian forces dig in around Kyiv; in Mariupol, fighting reaches city center

Satellite imagery shows troops building berms around military equipment outside capital, after UK says Russia is resorting to a war of attrition and ‘reckless’ use of firepower

11:59 pm

US 'profoundly disappointed' with UAE hosting Syria's Assad
11:44 pm

Some Mariupol residents now fleeing on foot as evacuation efforts fail
11:06 pm

Morocco denies it used Pegasus spyware, demands Amnesty show proof of claims

Equipment for an Israeli field hospital set to be built in the western Ukrainian city of Mostyska is loaded onto a plane at Ben Gurion Airport, March 17, 2022. (Sivan Shahar/Anaba/GPO)

To avoid attack, Israel said to coordinate on its Ukraine field hospital with Russia

Jerusalem reportedly notifies Moscow of plans, giving exact coordinates in effort to ensure medical base is not hit; UN says Russia has carried out 43 attacks on hospitals

Equipment for an Israeli field hospital set to be built in the western Ukrainian city of Mostyska is loaded onto a plane at Ben Gurion Airport, March 17, 2022. (Sivan Shahar/Anaba/GPO)

17 tons of equipment for Israeli field hospital en route to Ukraine

Refugees are seen as they wait for further transportation at the raiway station in Przemysl, Poland, on March 17, 2022. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)

Israel Police sending delegation to Poland to assist refugees fleeing Ukraine

By Emanuel Fabian

Vika and Ksiusha Korotkova in Mariupol, Ukraine in September 2021, on the day Ksiusha left for Israel. (Courtesy: Alina Gryadchenko)

Dozens of Jewish families manage to flee besieged city of Mariupol

‘Mariupol looks like Chernobyl,’ says Vika Korotkova, who spent 2 weeks in shelters with husband, daughter; Viktoria Smyrnova makes contact after two weeks without internet

Laiza Vedeneva at the JDC court with her grandmother. (Marcel Gascón Barberá/ JTA)

‘Jewish soup’ is keeping soldiers and refugees warm at the Romanian-Ukrainian border

By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ

People who fled the war in Ukraine wait at the train station in Przemysl, southeastern Poland, Thursday, March 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Moscow accused of war crimes as its deliberate attacks on Ukraine’s civilians mount

By Danny Kemp and Dmytro Gorshkov

From the blogs

Iron Dome may not be Ukraine’s silver bullet, but Israel can still help Kyiv

While the US and parts of Europe have started providing lethal aid, Jerusalem is framing even the transfer of Israeli tech to Ukraine via a third party as too risky

Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces members train to use an NLAW anti-tank weapon in Kyiv outskirts, Ukraine, on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

US adds $800m in military aid to Ukraine, including drones, anti-tank weapons

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Batch includes 800 Stingers, 2,000 Javelin missiles, 100 tactical drones, 20 million rounds of small arms ammunition and 25,000 helmets

In this photo taken from video released by the Russian Presidential Press Service, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, on March 16, 2022. (Russian Presidential Press Service via AP, File)

AnalysisCalling opponents ‘gnats,’ Putin signals repression using Stalin show trial language

By AP

In this frame from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on February 19, 2022, a Russian marine runs during the Union Courage-2022 Russia-Belarus military drills at the Obuz-Lesnovsky training ground in Belarus. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

‘We didn’t see any Nazis’: Russian POWs speak on fighting a war they claim to oppose

Over 12,000 Ukrainians have fled to Israel, 8,000 of them ineligible for citizenship

According to Shaked, 3,650 are eligible to immigrate under Law of Return; 1,000 have left by choice or been refused entry since start of Russian invasion

Ukrainian Jews who fled war zones in Ukraine arrive on a rescue flight at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, on March 17, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz during a plenum session in the Knesset, on February 23, 2022; Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked holds a press conference at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 13, 2022.
(Yonatan Sindel; Roy Alima/Flash90)

Horowitz slams Shaked for refusing medical insurance for Ukraine refugees

People injured in Ukraine and Holocaust survivors are loaded onto a chartered jet to be brought to Israel for treatment on March 18 2022 (Screencapture/Channel 13)

13 Holocaust survivors, wounded Ukrainians rescued and airlifted to Israel

Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1980-1988 war with Iraq, in the capital Tehran, on September 22, 2018. (AFP/Stringer)

PM, Lapid urge US not to delist IRGC as terror group: ‘Don’t abandon closest allies’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Bennett, foreign minister say they ‘have a hard time believing’ the Biden administration will follow through with reported move amid nuclear deal, saying it’s ‘insult to victims’

Firemen and rescue workers walk through the debris after a terrorist attack on Israel's embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 17, 1992. (Don Rypka/AP)

Warning against Iran deal, Israel marks 30 years since attack on Argentina embassy

Illustrative: A prisoner being held in an Iranian prison. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

At least 280 people executed in Iran in 2021, including 3 children, UN expert says

By AFP

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

ToI investigates

Israel has opened its arms to Ukrainian immigrants. But will they have equal rights?

Many new immigrants expected to join the ranks of those with ‘no religion,’ leaving them unable to be married in Israel; rabbinate suspicion of Jewish status will only grow sharper

Israelis enjoy the Independence Day flyover at Jerusalem's Sacher Park on April 15, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel jumps to 9th in World Happiness index, its highest-ever ranking

By AFP and ToI Staff

Finland again tops the UN-sponsored list, with the US in 16th, Britain 17th, France 20th; research was completed before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Preparations underway for Zelensky Knesset speech, amid fears of low MK turnout

Tech personnel are working to ensure a secure connection and allow lawmakers to connect remotely; speech will also be broadcast live in central Tel Aviv square

Members of the German government, among them Chancellor Olaf Scholz (bottom center), applaud as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appears on a screen to address via videolink the German lower house of parliament, at the Bundestag in Berlin, March 17, 2022. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)

Ukrainian immigrants to Israel who fled fighting in Ukraine arrive on a rescue flight at Ben Gurion Airport, on March 17, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Ukraine embassy: While Russia commits genocide, Israel nitpicking over each refugee

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at a conference of the Israeli Television News Company in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: Bennett’s political partners warned him Ukraine mediation could backfire

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Grandma’s gefilte fish — or chraime — comes to forefront at Foodish

A chat with Merav Oren, CEO at the culinary arm of Anu — Museum of the Jewish People, which aims to map the food of the Jewish people

Foodish CEO Merav Oren, left, with food writer Joan Nathan, during a March 2022 visit of Nathan to Israel, hosted by Foodish, the culinary arm of Anu - Museum of the Jewish People. (Courtesy: Merav Oren)

Barbara Maier Gustern died after being pushed to the ground by an unknown assailant. (Facebook/ via JTA)

Obituary'Everyone loved her. She was just a model for how to live'

Slain Broadway vocal coach and ‘honorary Jew’ is mourned by the cantors she nurtured

Barbara Maier Gustern, 87, died March 16 after an unprovoked attack. Her students recall her knowledge of Jewish music, which she picked up working for years in a synagogue

Joanne Greenaway

What we miss when we ignore the music

Parshat Tzav is at risk of seeming humdrum, given its list of sacrifices, but the cantillation reveals one of the most dramatic moments in Moses’ leadership

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

On Purim, we reach the sea

We met near the shuk and we took a walk, drunk, stumbling over our own four feet, and she kissed me and no one noticed, because everyone was dancing and everyone was drunk

Illustrative: Palestinians hold Hamas flags and banners, and Palestinian flags, near the Al Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 20, 2021. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

4 East Jerusalem residents charged with Hamas ties, planning attacks during Ramadan

By Emanuel Fabian

Prosecutors accuse Sur Baher man of contact with terror group officials, conducting weapons training in Turkey; orphan charity allegedly funneled money for terror purposes

FILE: Protesters chant slogans as they wave Hamas, Turkish and Palestinian flags outside the residence of the Israeli ambassador in Ankara, on May 14, 2018, during a demonstration against the opening of the new US embassy in Jerusalem. (AFP Photo/Adem Altan)

AnalysisCan Hamas use Turkey’s rapprochement with Israel to its advantage?

Illustrative: IDF soldiers operating in the West Bank Palestinian town of Silat al-Harithiya, on December 20, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Two Palestinians arrested for shooting at IDF troops in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Then-US vice president Mike Pence speaks at the 2018 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference at Washington Convention Center, on March 5, 2018, in Washington, DC (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Inside Story

AIPAC hates the Iran deal, but it’s backing 27 Dems who supported the 2015 accord

Endorsements raise eyebrows among Jewish Republicans, but sources say pro-Israel lobby wishes to maintain a bipartisan reputation by not alienating the Democratic party

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was freed from Iran, looks on after landing at RAF Brize Norton, on March 17, 2022, in Brize Norton, England. (Leon Neal/Pool/AFP)

Nuclear talks, Ukraine war helped secure release of British-Iranians — analysts

By Charles ONIANS

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (second from left) is shown a new laser-based air-defense system at a Rafael weapons manufacturer complex in Israel, March 17, 2022. (Defense Ministry)

Israel moves forward on laser-based rocket defense, will begin initial procurement

By Emanuel Fabian

While PM Bennett previously said system would be deployed in trial on Gaza border within the year, officials say such a step is at least a few years off

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A member of the restoration team removes a stone from the floor of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and rose from the dead, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Thursday, March 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Amid centuries of squabbles, Christians unify to restore holiest Jerusalem church

By Areej Hazboun and Joseph Krauss

Ties improve among the Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic churches as they take on large-scale project at the Holy Sepulchre

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A view of houses in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Sawaneen in Israel's southern Negev Desert, on June 8, 2021. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

12-year-old Bedouin boy seriously hurt after grenade explodes in backyard

In this photo taken on October 27, 2017, a car of Russian state-owned television station RT passes by the company's office in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, file)

British regulator revokes UK license of Russian state-funded broadcaster RT

By AP

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

Four more Saudi Arabia executions brings total to 100 since start of year

By AFP

A 1:3 scale model of the landing unit Schiaparelli of the European-Russian ExoMars 2016 mission is seen at the ESA space operation center (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, on October 19, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS KIENZLE)

Failure to launch: Russian-European Mars mission suspended over Ukraine invasion

By AFP

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