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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 19, 2022

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Ukrainian soldiers search for bodies in the debris at the military school hit by Russian rockets the day before, in Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine, on March 19, 2022. (Bulent Kilic/AFP)

Dozens of Ukrainian troops killed in barracks bombed by Russia, witnesses say

By AFP

Soldier at military facility in Mykolaiv estimates that death toll from Russian bombing on Friday could be around 100, as rescue operation continues at destroyed site

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)

Russia shifting to ‘strategy of attrition’ in Ukraine as assault falters — UK intel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Britain's Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss delivers a speech during the 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, on March 1, 2022. (SALVATORE DI NOLFI /AFP)

UK warns Russia may be using talks with Ukraine as ‘smokescreen’

By AFP

In this photo made from the footage taken from Russian Defense Ministry official web site on Sunday, March 11, 2018, a Russia's Kinzhal hypersonic missile flies during a test in southern Russia (AP Photo/ Russian Defense Ministry Press Service)

Russia reports using advanced hypersonic missile in Ukraine for first time

By AFP and ToI Staff

Moscow says high-precision device struck a ‘warehouse containing missiles’ near the border with Romania; US has long been concerned about rivals’ development of hypersonic tech

In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine, early Saturday, March 18, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Zelensky tells Putin it’s time to meet, warns Russia needs generations to recover

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US President Joe Biden meets virtually with Chinese President Xi Jinping from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, on Nov. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

In call with Biden, Xi pans Ukraine ‘conflict,’ without assigning blame to Russia

By AAMER MADHANI

Rescuers carry a Ukrainian soldier saved after 30 hours from debris of the military school hit by Russian rockets, in Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine, on March 19, 2022. (BULENT KILIC / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Russian troops advance further into Mariupol after cutting city off from port

Local authorities in port city beg for help: ‘Children, elderly people are dying’; Ahead of address to Knesset, Zelensky tells Switzerland to freeze Russian oligarch bank accounts

11:11 pm

Russian cosmonauts deny yellow and blue flight suits were a Ukraine symbol
10:38 pm

Huthis attack Aramco facility in Saudi
9:40 pm

Thousands of Ukrainian refugees wait in line for hours for Polish ID cards

Reporter's notebook

Carrie Keller-Lynn

No more jokes about bombs by bicycle: As Lviv is targeted, its calm begins to fray

The western Ukrainian city has been sheltered from most of the fighting to date; now it increasingly feels the influence of war

A mourner at the funeral of Colonel Serheii Kohan, killed earlier in the week by a Russian air strike on Yavoriv military base, Lviv, Ukraine, March 18, 2022. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/The Times of Israel)

Trucks with UN humanitarian assistance are seen departing from Poland to Ukraine, March 10, 2022. (Wojtek Radwanski/European Union/AFP)

Aid agencies struggle to reach Ukrainian cities encircled by Russian forces

Ukrainian servicemen try to help people wounded, in the town of Irpin, Ukraine, March 6, 2022. (Andriy Dubchak/AP)

Ukrainian man found out via Twitter that his family, trying to flee, had been slain

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a concert marking the eighth anniversary of Russia's annexation of Crimea at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow on March 18, 2022. (Sergei GUNEYEV / POOL / AFP)

Putin appears at huge pro-war rally; some of 200,000 crowd said ordered to attend

By Agencies and ToI Staff

‘We have not had unity like this for a long time,’ Russian leader tells cheering crowd at Moscow event marking 8th anniversary of annexation of Crimea

Speaker of the US House Nancy Pelosi introduces Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by video at the Capitol in Washington, March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool)

Russia said to warn Israel not to be ‘unbalanced’ ahead of Zelensky Knesset speech

Analysis

Why Israel’s fear of Russia in Syria doesn’t have to drive its Ukraine policy

During the War of Attrition, Israeli pilots killed dozens of Soviets in Egypt in order to protect the country’s security interests; today, Jerusalem’s stance is far more timid

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses troops at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria, December 11, 2017. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Evgeny Pavlovskiy and his son, Mykhailo Pavlovskiy, reunited in Warsaw after he managed to leave Ukraine. (Courtesy/ via JTA)

'By the time he was ready to go, there was no one to help'

Holocaust survivor, 95, flees solo from his home near Babyn Yar, makes it to Poland

By Dinah Spritzer

With an exhausting journey that lasted 3 days rather than the 8 hours it would normally take, Evgeny Pavlovskiy became perhaps the oldest Ukrainian refugee to escape alone

David-Seth Kirshner

A letter to my children: Mission to Ukraine

When we hand out baby formula, diapers, hygiene products, socks, and chocolates to refugees, I hope the Ukrainian people know that they are not alone

The concert that changed Bedouin society

An event in the Rahat desert town sparked a near-boycott, clashes over separate seating and ire from feminists – but against all the odds, the show did go on

Ukraine: Russia is targeting Jewish sites; what else must happen for Israel to help?

‘Nazi Russians’ are destroying ‘synagogues, Jewish culture centers,’ embassy says, castigating Jerusalem for refusing to provide military aid

Photos posted by the Ukrainian Embassy in Israel on Mach 18, 2022, of what it says are Jewish sites targeted by Russian bombings in Ukraine. (Ukraine Embassy in Israel/Facebook)

A view of the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

State tells court Ukrainians without lsraeli ‘affiliation’ can seek refuge in Europe

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, Israel, January 23, 2020.
(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ExplainerWhy Putin uses WWII, the Holocaust and Nazis to justify his war on Ukraine

By Tia Goldenberg

Police officers at the scene of a stabbing attack near Jerusalem's Old City, March 19, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli jogger lightly hurt in Jerusalem stabbing attack, assailant shot

By Emanuel Fabian

Footage shows 35-year-old man attacked, fighting off assailant, while crossing Hebron Road near First Station and Cinematheque; suspect, 28, from Abu Tor, in serious condition

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in the northern Israeli city of Safed, February 26, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

ObituaryMany hundreds of thousands expected at funeral

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, one of Israel’s leading religious authorities, dies at 94

Kanievsky was a hugely influential leader of the non-Hasidic Lithuanian Haredi community, with hundreds of thousands of followers; politicians laud ‘one of the generation’s greats’

SAJ's Hebrew school graduating class of 1945, with Judith Kaplan Eisenstein — the daughter of SAJ's founder, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, who also had the first bat mitzvah in the US — and her husband, Rabbi Ira Eistenstein. (Courtesy/ via JTA)

Women's History Month

100 years ago, the first bat mitzvah set into motion an ongoing Jewish revolution

By Lisa Fishbayn Joffe

March 18 marks the centennial anniversary of Judith Kaplan’s coming of age ceremony — a turning point not just in her life, but that of US Jewry as a whole

American synagogues mark the 100th anniversary of the first US bat mitzvah

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Missiles are fired in an Iranian military exercise by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, on July 28, 2020. (Sepahnews via AP)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard threatens to hit ‘Zionist bases’ in Iraq

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IRGC claims ‘natural right to destroy any base from which any attack’ was launched against the Islamic Republic, days after striking alleged Israeli site in Erbil

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

Hackers leak ‘new’ docs from Mossad chief after wife’s ‘old’ phone said hacked

By Emanuel Fabian

In this Oct. 11, 2010, file photo, Iranian nuclear medicine Kouhyar Gervand, drops technetium-99 into eyes of Zahra Kohanmanesh, for her eye scan, at the Shariati hospital, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran converts a sliver of enriched uranium into material used for cancer detection

By Jon Gambrell

In this photo released by Emirates News Agency, WAM, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE prime minister and ruler of Dubai, right, talks to Syrian President Bashar Assad during their meeting in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Friday, March 18, 2022. Assad travelled to the United Arab Emirates, marking his first visit to an Arab country since Syria's civil war erupted in 2011, his office said Friday. (Emirates News Agency via AP)

Syria’s Assad visits UAE in first trip to an Arab state since civil war

By Albert Aji and Zeina Karam

Visit is clearest sign yet that Arab world ready to reengage with Syrian dictator, who has been shunned since plunging his country into a brutal conflict

Dana Lipschitz paints a Ukrainian child’s face during Purim celebrations in Neptun, Romania, March 16, 2022. (Marcel Gascon Barbara/ JTA)

'It is still a mitzvah to be happy for Purim'

In a Romanian resort town, Jewish children from Odesa celebrate Purim as refugees

By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ

800 people who escaped Ukraine with the help of Tikvah, an organization that helps orphaned and disadvantaged youth, are taking their holiday spirit on the road

Left to right: German Khan (government.ru), Mikhail Fridman (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images via JTA), and Petr Aven (Alexander Aleshkin/Epsilon/Getty Images via JTA)

3 Russian Jewish oligarchs step down from board of Genesis Group due to sanctions

Jewish philanthropy that trio helped found announces their departure, lauds their record of backing Jewish causes; group has pledged $10 million for humanitarian relief in Ukraine

The owner of England's Chelsea Football Club, Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich, as he leaves court in London, October 4, 2011. (AP/File)

US says flights by Aeroflot, Roman Abramovich violated sanctions on Russia

By AFP and ToI Staff

Two Ukrainian-Jewish girls shown on a bus in Moldova arranged for their families by Christians for Israel, March 7, 2022. (Courtesy of Christians for Israel/ via JTA)

'It’s God’s work, not humanitarian work'

Christians help hundreds of Ukrainian Jews escape the war and immigrate to Israel

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Christians for Israel, which has helped thousands of Jews move from Ukraine to the Holy Land over the past 25 years, has been preparing for this moment since 2014

More Headlines

Eli Avidar speaks at a press conference at the Knesset, February 22, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Maverick Yisrael Beytenu MK plans to form new, center-right party

By Shalom Yerushalmi and ToI Staff

A drop of water falls off an iceberg melting in the Nuup Kangerlua Fjord near Nuuk in southwestern Greenland, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. Earth’s poles are undergoing simultaneous freakish extreme heat with parts of Antarctica more than 70 degrees (40 degrees Celsius) warmer than average and areas of the Arctic more than 50 degrees (30 degrees Celsius) warmer than average. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

‘Not a good sign’: Antarctica, Arctic simultaneously 70 and 50 degrees above normal

By Seth Borenstein

A construction site of new residential buildings in a new neighborhood in Beer Yaakov, March 26,2020. (Flash90)

As housing crisis intensifies, Liberman eyes new plan aimed at lowering prices

A view of Tufts University's Medford, Massachusetts campus. (Courtesy of Tufts University)

At Boston’s Tufts, campaign urges students not to join liberal pro-Israel groups

By Penny Schwartz

New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks during the New York State Democratic Convention in New York, February 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

NY governor picks up endorsements from 14 rabbis, Orthodox leaders in Queens

Then US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2020 policy conference in Washington, DC, March 2, 2020. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

AIPAC defends endorsement of Republicans who questioned 2020 election

By JTA and Jacob Magid

Illustrative. An elite Border Police unit takes part in an exercise in the IDF's counterterrorism training center outside of the central Israeli city of Modiin. (Israel Police)

ADL considered scrapping its US police training trips to Israel, decided not to

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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

Israel’s COVID numbers continue their rise amid fears of resurgent pandemic

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