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What Matters Most On Monday, March 21, 2022

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivers a nightly video address, March 21, 2022. (Screenshot)

Zelensky changes tack after caustic speech, says ‘grateful’ for Bennett’s mediation

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Following Knesset address in which he admonished Israel for not aiding Kyiv or joining Western sanctions, Ukrainian president says Jerusalem is ‘the right place’ for peace talks

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaking at a conference organized by the Ynet news site in Jerusalem, March 21, 2022. (screenshot)

Bennett empathizes with Zelensky, rejects Holocaust parallel, says mediation ongoing

As Zelensky prods Israel for aid, ‘Glory to Ukraine’ rings out at Tel Aviv square

By Miriam Herschlag

Thousands in Habima Square attend a screening of the president’s speech, including refugees freshly arrived from the war zone

Ashton Kutcher, left, and Mila Kunis walk along the sideline before the NFL football game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Chicago Bears at Heinz Field on Sept. 22, 2013, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Don Wright)

Zelensky thanks Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis for raising tens of millions for Ukraine

Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka stands amid rubble of an airstrike on Pryazovskyi State Technical University in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 10, 2022. (Mstyslav Chernov/AP)

First personWitnessing Mariupol’s agony firsthand, and fleeing a Russian hit list

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV

A man reacts standing near his house ruined after Russian shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 21, 2022. At least eight people were killed in the attack. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

Live updates (closed)

After rejecting ultimatum, Zelensky insists ‘meeting’ with Putin needed to end war

US military aid package starting to make its way to Ukraine, but $800 million in promised arms yet to reach war zone; Officials say Moscow unable to control skies, advance troops

12:00 am

Biden singles out ally India over 'shaky' response to Russian invasion
10:38 pm

Zelensky insists 'meeting' with Putin needed to end war
9:44 pm

US military aid to Ukraine on its way, not there yet

Kosher in the Bahamas

Inspired by Israeli cooking techniques, Atlantis’ Kosher dining service offers contemporary fare with an array of classic and novel dishes. For events and group functions.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine, to Knesset lawmakers on March 20, 2022. (Screen capture: YouTube)

'You can't mediate between good and evil'

In scathing speech, Zelensky pleads with Israel to prevent Russia’s ‘final solution’

Addressing lawmakers via Zoom, Ukrainian leader says Israel ‘will have to live’ with its decisions to withhold military aid from Kyiv and sit out Western sanctions on Moscow

MKs watch Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky's address, March 20, 2022. (Knesset channel screenshot)

Israeli lawmakers tear into Zelensky for Holocaust comparisons in Knesset speech

Joint List party chairman MK Ayman Odeh attends an Internal Security Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on December 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab Israeli MKs skip Zelensky’s Knesset speech: ‘NATO imposed this war’

By Aaron Boxerman

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Yes, Zelensky misspoke, but that really doesn’t matter

What matters is how Israel handles the present moment – and whether its actions will stand the test of time

Under today’s refugee policies, no one is accountable – including Israel

With Israel increasingly tightening its immigration rules, reluctance to allow even a few non-Jewish Ukrainian refugees into the country comes as no surprise

Demonstrators gather at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on March 20, 2022, to watch a televised video address by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. (Jack Guez/ AFP)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Mar 21: Ninja mom helps out in Moldova; Zelensky’s ‘righteous’ speech

Sue Surkes reports on her whirlwind tour with aid groups on Ukraine border; Lazar Berman breaks down what military aid Israel can offer; Miriam Herschlag onsite in Habima Square

Ukrainian refugee children enjoy toys bought by Tami Jeffay and friends at the Kedem Jewish Community Center in Chisinau, Moldova, March 12, 2022. (courtesy)

Ninja mom jets solo to Moldova to help Ukrainian refugees

Marina Ovsyannikova, the editor at the state broadcaster Channel One who protested against Russian military action in Ukraine during the evening news broadcast at the station late Monday, speaks to the media as she leaves the Ostankinsky District Court in Moscow, March 15, 2022. (AFP)

Moscow journalist who protested war on live TV urges other Russians to speak up

By AFP

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine, to Knesset lawmakers on March 20, 2022. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Analysis

‘You can’t mediate between good and evil’: Zelensky tells Israel how he really feels

In a bitter, accusatory address to lawmakers, Ukraine’s president castigates Israel for failing to help his country fight off Russia, savages Bennett’s approach to halting the war

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine, to Knesset lawmakers on March 20, 2022. (Screen capture: YouTube)

SpeechFull text: Ukraine President Zelensky’s speech to Israeli lawmakers

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right) with Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked during a plenum session at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, February 28, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett tells ministers to stop using Shaked as a ‘punching bag’ on refugee issue

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)

US sees Putin moving away from bid to conquer Ukraine, toward holding its southeast

By ToI Staff and AFP

With his forces apparently failing in Kyiv, Russian leader focused on securing strategic territory, forcing concessions via sieges, according to reported assessment by US officials

Ukrainians escaping from the besieged city of Mariupol, along with other passengers from Zaporizhzhia, arrive at Lviv, western Ukraine, on March 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

‘No talk of surrender’: Ukraine rejects Russia’s ultimatum to give up Mariupol

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hundreds of refugees from Ukraine wait in line to apply for Polish ID numbers that will entitle them to work, free health care and education, as well as family bonuses, at a special application point at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, on March 19, 2022. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

UN: Nearly 3.5 million Ukrainians have fled country, as world watches in ‘disbelief’

By Robin MILLARD

Illustrative: Israeli doctors from LeMa'anam - For Their Sake: Physicians for Holocaust Survivors - give medical assistance to a Jewish Ukrainian who fled a war zone in Ukraine, at an emergency shelter in Chisinau, Moldova, March 13, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/ Flash90)

Israeli doctors and medical organizations rally to help Ukrainian refugees

Ukrainian-born Israeli doctor’s attempt to get food and medicine to grandfather trapped in Kharkiv morphs into project to supply medical equipment to hospitals

Soldiers from the Home Front Command record the passport details of Ukrainian newcomers at Terminal 1, Ben Gurion Airport, on March 18, 2022. (Sue Surkes/ Times of Israel)

At Ben Gurion Airport, Israeli soldiers process incoming Ukrainian refugees

Analysis

Shoshanna Solomon

Israel hasn’t joined anti-Russia sanctions, but its firms need to tread carefully

There are many pitfalls facing Israeli entities, and they’d do well to seek help in not falling afoul of myriad new measures imposed by the West over Ukraine invasion, experts say

People hold placards as they take part in a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, outside government office in Tel Aviv, March 12, 2022. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on March 20, 2022. (Maya Alleruzzo/Pool/AFP)

Bennett says US determined to sign nuclear deal at ‘any cost’

PM voices Israeli ire at ‘outrageous’ potential decision by Washington to delist IRGC as terror group under revived accord, says price will be ‘too high’

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks in a video statement addressed to Iranians for Nowruz, March 20, 2022. (Screen capture: YouTube)

In message to Iranians, Bennett says Israel hopes they get rid of ‘cruel regime’

An Iranian Shahed-136 drone is launched during a military exercise in Iran, December 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Iranian UAVs downed over Iraq in February were heading for Israel, officials say

By Emanuel Fabian

An Iranian market area filmed by a dissident in Tehran for Israel's Channel 12. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

In first, undercover cameraman documents life in Tehran for Israeli television

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses the nation in a televised speech marking the Iranian New Year, in Tehran, Iran, March 21, 2021. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Marking Persian New Year, Iran’s supreme leader hopes for economic improvement

By AFP

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

For part of the country, the loss of a mythic leader; for the rest, a traffic jam

Disconnect in Israeli society on display as hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox attend Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky’s funeral, and mainstream coverage focuses on the crowd size

Ultra-Orthodox Jews attend the funeral ceremony of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky on the road leading to the city of Bnei Brak's cemetery on March 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In this March 17, 1992, file photo, firemen and rescue workers walk through the debris of Israel's Embassy after a terrorist in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/DonRypka-File )

5 reflections from Buenos Aires, three decades after the Israeli embassy bombing

By Juan Melamed

Demonstrators gather to commemorate the 29 murdered in the bombing; Israeli Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar rails against renewed efforts toward an Iran nuclear deal

People get tested for COVID-19 at a testing center at Habima square in Tel Aviv on January 4, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Daily COVID cases rise to over 12,000 for first time in nearly a month

Transmission rate climbs to 1.23 but serious cases still steady, amid fears of resurgent pandemic

More Headlines

Blue and White MK Alon Tal. (Elad Malka)

Antisemites overrun MK’s town hall aimed at mending Israel’s ties with Jews abroad

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli officials demolish a stracture at the illegal West Bank outpost of Maoz Esther, March 21. 2022. (screenshot)

Security forces raze buildings at two illegal West Bank outposts

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

The scene of a suspected murder in Jerusalem, March 21, 2022. (Israel Police)

Moldovan foreign worker stabbed to death in Jerusalem; 4 suspects arrested

Police and firefighters are seen at the scene of a suspected stabbing attack in East Jerusalem's Ras al-Amud, March 20, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Police officer moderately hurt in East Jerusalem stabbing; assailant arrested

By Emanuel Fabian

President Isaac Herzog and French President Emmanuel Macron stand for a minute’s silence at a ceremony marking the 10-year anniversary of a shooting attack that left three soldiers and four Jewish civilians dead at the Ohr Torah Jewish school in Toulouse, France, March 20, 2022. (Screengrab/ Omer Meron/ GPO)

In Toulouse, Herzog and Macron mark decade since terror attack on Jewish school

By Tal Schneider and ToI Staff

A construction site in the central Israeli city of Be'er Ya'akov where new housing is being built, February 22, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90

As prices soar, Israel offers 10,000 discounted housing units in new lottery program

By Danielle Nagler

An Israeli F-16 military jet taxis on the airstrip of the military airport of Andravida in southern Greece, as part of the Hellenic Air Force's 'INIOCHOS 2021' multinational aviation exercise on April 18, 2021. (ARIS MESSINIS / AFP)

Israeli jets to join large international drill in Greece; Saudi, Kuwait to observe

By Emanuel Fabian

Morad Tahbaz. (Screengrab/ Facebook)

British-US-Iranian citizen held in Tehran is ‘on hunger strike,’ sister says

By AFP

Poster for the new HBO show 'We Own This City.' (courtesy)

All in the game‘The Wire’ team returns to Baltimore for new corrupt-cop miniseries

By Céline LE PRIOUX

Illustrative: Residents watch as a China Eastern passenger jet prepares to take off on a test flight from the new Beijing Daxing International Airport on May 13, 2019. (Ng Han Guan/AP)

China Eastern plane crashes with 132 aboard

By AP and ToI Staff

German Economy and Climate Minister and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, left, shakes hands with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, in Doha, Qatar, March 20, 2022. (Amiri Diwan via AP)

Pivoting from dependence on Russian gas, Germany seals deal with Qatar

By AFP

Illustrative: Israel Police investigate the scene of a crime on June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

Police rescue two naked, feces-covered children in suspected case of neglect

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