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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 23, 2022

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The four victims of the terror attack in Beersheba on March 22, 2022: Laura Yitzhak, top left; Rabbi Moshe Kravitzky, top right; Doris Yahbas, bottom left; Menahem Yehezkel, bottom right. (Social media, courtesy)

Two mothers of 3, a Chabad rabbi, a brother of 4: The terror victims named

Doris Yahbas, 49, Laura Yitzhak, 43, and Menahem Yehezkel, 67, were stabbed to death; Moshe Kravitzky, 48, died when terrorist rammed his bicycle

A suspected assailant being shot in Beersheba on March 22, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

4 killed, 2 wounded in stabbing attack at Beersheba mall; terrorist shot dead

By Emanuel Fabian and Aaron Boxerman

Israeli police cordon off the scene of a terror attack outside a shopping center in the southern city of Beersheba on March 22, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Two first responders encounter family members among the dead in Beersheba attack

Mohammad Ghaleb Abu al-Qi’an. (Courtesy)

Terrorist was called a ‘ticking bomb’ in the past, was sentenced to 4 years

Mohammad Ghaleb Abu al-Qi’an, who killed 4 in Beersheba terror spree on Tuesday, was jailed over Islamic State ties after a judge said he expressed ‘sincere remorse’

Mohammad Ghaleb Abu al-Qi’an. (Courtesy)

Assailant in deadly Beersheba attack was terror convict who backed Islamic State

The Bedouin town of Hura in the Negev Desert, south of Beersheba, (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

Beersheba attacker’s clan decries his ‘terrorist act’; hometown vows introspection

By Aaron Boxerman

This picture taken on March 22, 2022 shows debris in the mental hospital hit by the Russian shelling in Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine. (BULENT KILIC / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

In English-language plea, Zelensky urges protests around the world against Russia

Biden arrives in Brussels for crunch meetings on Ukraine; US leader will seek to rally allies in further response to Moscow’s invasion; UK donating 6,000 more missiles to Kyiv

12:00 am

In English-language video, Zelensky urges global protests against Russia's war
11:22 pm

Britain giving Ukraine thousands more missiles
9:59 pm

Under sweeping sanctions, Iran hawks its weapons in Qatar

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Mar. 23: Deadly terror attack in Beersheba; rising COVID & depression

Carrie Keller-Lynn reports from the Israeli field hospital in Ukraine; Emanuel Fabian updates us on yesterday’s attack; Nathan Jeffay describes troubling mental health research

The scene of a car ramming and stabbing attack in Beersheba, March 22, 2022. (Flash90)

US condemns ‘abhorrent’ terror attack in Beersheba: ‘This has to stop’

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.

Israel’s field hospital in Ukraine welcomes first patients as air raid sirens wail

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Facility close to Ukraine’s Polish border is expected to focus on chronic and pediatric illnesses, although it is prepared for trauma

Ukrainian Viktoria Saidam (R), accompanied by her Palestinian husband Ibrahim Saidam, show their passports at their family home in the refugee camp of Bureij in the central Gaza Strip, March 22, 2022. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Ukrainian woman, Palestinian husband move to Gaza after fleeing Russian invasion

By Belal AL SABBAGH and Mai Yaghi

A worker paints over graffiti saying 'Yes to Peace!' on a wall of an apartment building in St. Petersburg, Russia, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

Amid sweeping crackdowns in Russia, signs of defiance to Ukraine war begin to emerge

By AP

‘Killed in a fire’: Zelensky gives new details about his family’s Holocaust history

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Ukrainian president tells CNN Nazis killed his great-grandparents by burning down their village; does not refer to them as Jewish, in line with Soviet narratives about the war

In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 21, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Jews pray in the basement of a synagogue in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 28, 2022. (Courtesy of Rabbi Jonathan Markovitch via JTA)

ExplainerPersecuted for centuries by numerous regimes, Kyiv’s Jews now face Putin’s forces

By Victoria Khiterer

Poland's President Andrzej Duda listens to Romania's President Klaus Iohannis during press statements at the Presidential Palace in Bucharest, Romania, March 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Polish president compares Russia’s attack on Ukraine to Nazi atrocities

By Vanessa Gera and SRDJAN NEDELJKOVIC

Displaced Ukrainians on a Poland-bound train bid farewell in Lviv, western Ukraine, March 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Ukraine accuses Russia of seizing aid workers from humanitarian convoy to Mariupol

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Mayor vows city will never forgive Russia as nearly 100,000 people remain besieged under inhuman conditions; estimates of civilian casualties vary between 3,000 and 20,000

The Russian national tricolor flag flutters on top of the building of the State Duma, the lower chamber of Russia's parliament, in central Moscow, in the evening of March 3, 2022. (AFP)

US to sanction hundreds of Russian parliamentarians — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ukrainian soldiers walk on the front line, near Kyiv, on March 20, 2022. (Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

Pentagon sees Ukrainian forces reversing momentum against invaders in some areas

Florence Berkowitz-Siegelberg

A tale of two Ukraines

Under the weight of my family’s suffering in in the ’40s, I’d forgotten the Ukrainians’ many kindnesses, but I remember them now, as I pray for their victory

This flamboyant NY Jew changed Black legal history

Accused of rape by white women, nearly all 9 Black ’Scottsboro Boys’ were sentenced to death – until Samuel Leibowitz provided new evidence-based representation

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)

Analysis

It’s about sending a message: Implications of US delisting Iran Revolutionary Guard

Move being mooted by US could set a worrying precedent, though some are convinced it’s necessary in order to secure a deal to curb Iran’s nuke program

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

US lawmakers call on Blinken not to remove IRGC from terror list

A suspected assailant being shot in Beersheba on March 22, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Guns to be returned to citizens who shot at Beersheba terrorist

The scene of a deadly terror attack outside the BIG shopping center in Beersheba, southern Israel, on March 22, 2022. (Flash90)

PM vows strong response to terror after Beersheba attack; forces on ‘maximum alert’

A massive blimp containing an advanced radar system to detect incoming missiles and drones, as seen at a ceremony in northern Israel, March 22, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Giant missile-detecting balloon begins operational use over northern Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense Ministry hands Sky Dew system over to air force after years of testing; sensors onboard aerostat are meant to identify incoming long-range munitions, drones

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Hossein Salami addresses the crowd During a rally in front of the former US Embassy commemorating the anniversary of its 1979 seizure in Tehran, Iran, November 4, 2021. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran general warns Israel of immediate revenge for any soldiers killed

An Easy Aerial Drone being flown in New York. (Facebook)

Can drones make NYC safer? Israeli company, Brooklyn partner pitch idea to mayor

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett photographed in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt March 22, 2022. UAE Ministry of Presidential Affairs/AFP

Bennett’s Egypt summit touched on Assad’s UAE visit, air defense, bilateral trade

By Lazar Berman

Abu Dhabi’s crown prince updated Israeli and Egyptian leaders on Friday’s meeting with Syrian dictator; PM presented vision of regional air defense network

This file photo taken on October 23, 2020 shows a view of the Abdelmoumen dam, some 60 kilometres from Morocco's coastal city of Agadir. (FADEL SENNA / AFP)

Morocco fears severe water shortages amid worst drought in 40 years

By Ismail Bellaouali

Shlomo Filber at a court hearing in the trial against former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the District Court in Jerusalem on March 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tells court the case has 'ruined six years of my life'

Former aide testifies Netanyahu told him to give preferential treatment to Elovitch

With former PM in attendance, ex-Communications Ministry chief Shlomo Filber, key state witness in Case 4000, insists he never lied to police investigators, calls them Rottweilers

Illustrative image: Fatigue, brain fog, and depression are among the symptoms of long COVID. (Ridofranz vis iStock by Getty Images)

Big data shows mental health issues spiked during pandemic among teen girls

By Nathan Jeffay

Huge Israeli study reveals markedly higher rates of depression, stress, anxiety, eating disorders, and associated medication among girls, though experts say boys impacted as well

A Magen David worker takes a COVID-19 takes swab samples from Israelis in a complex in Tel Aviv, March 23, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

COVID reproduction rate continues to rise, fueling fear of renewed outbreak

View of the Israeli Employment Service offices in Jerusalem on December 30, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s unemployment rate inching down to near pre-COVID levels

By Stuart Winer

Optical elements required to create laser pulses that can control trapped ions. (Freddy Pizanti)

A huge leap: Israeli researchers build country’s first quantum computer

By Ricky Ben-David

Team at Weizmann Institute unveils five-qubit machine, one of about 30 such devices in the world

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, September 9, 2021. (Shamil Zhumatov/Pool Photo via AP)

Kremlin: Russia will only use nukes if facing ‘existential threat’

By AFP

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Cubs owners, bidding for Chelsea FC, disown Islamophobic comments after backlash

'The Betrayal of Anne Frank' (courtesy)

Dutch publisher pulls Anne Frank betrayal book from stores after derisive criticism

A construction site showing a newly renovated section of an apartment building, under the TAMA 38 plan, in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Bialik, October 24, 2018. (Meir Vaaknin/Flash90)

Upcoming changes to urban renewal plan have developers racing to finish building

By Danielle Nagler

Palestinians check the damages after Israeli forces demolished a house in the village of Al-Walaja near Jerusalem in the West Bank, on February 11, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/ Flash90

50 US lawmakers call for Israel to end planned demolitions in East Jerusalem village

A man waves the Ukrainian and Polish flag during a demonstration in front of a building housing Russian diplomats in Warsaw, Poland, March 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Amid Ukraine war, Poland expels 45 Russian diplomats suspected of spying

By AFP

An Israeli filmmaker named Y (Avshalom Pollak) makes a series of radical decisions in the movie 'Ahed's Knee,' written and directed by Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid. (Kino Lorber/ via JTA)

Film reviewAn Israeli director battles the country’s culture ministry in a provocative new film

By Andrew Lapin

Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy at the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset speaker expresses regret after Facebook account makes post against Haredim

US Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, on March 22, 2022. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Black-Jewish civil rights alliance brought up in Supreme Court confirmation hearing

Looted antiquities worth $5-million, seized from billionaire hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt, are displayed in the offices of the Manhattan District Attorney, in New York, March 22, 2022. (Richard Drew/AP)

Looted artifacts seized from billionaire Steinhardt to return to Israel

By Karen Matthews and Ilan Ben Zion

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