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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 3, 2022

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Bodies lie on a street in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, as Ukraine says Russian forces are making a 'rapid retreat' from northern areas around Kyiv and the city of Chernihiv, on April 2, 2022. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)

Retaking Kyiv suburb, Ukraine troops find 280 in mass grave, 20 left dead on street

Russian soldiers flee Bucha without hiding civilians they killed, including one with his hands tied behind his back, three tangled up in bicycles after taking their final ride

A dead body lies on a street in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, on April 2, 2022 (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)

Israel envoy to Ukraine says killing of civilians in Bucha unjustifiable ‘war crime’

By ToI Staff and AFP

A Ukrainian soldier patrols in an armored vehicle on a street in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, on April 2, 2022. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)

Ukraine says ‘whole Kyiv region’ recaptured as Russian forces retreat

By AFP

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (C) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar (R) are seen during a visit to the security service's regional command in the northern West Bank and the security barrier, on April 3, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Shin Bet chief says agency operating in Gaza as well

Visiting West Bank, Bennett says Israel on lookout for any ‘hint’ of attack

By Emanuel Fabian

‘Terrorists have all kinds of ideas, so we’re on high alert,’ PM says after series of deadly attacks and shootouts between troops and Palestinian assailants

IDF soldiers are seen operating in the West Bank, in an image published by the military on April 2, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Member of Islamic Jihad cell boasted he planned ‘something very big in Israel’ — TV

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in a meeting with Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar (R), his military secretary Avi Gil and other security officials, on April 2, 2022. (Shin Bet)

Bennett says troops foiled ‘ticking time bomb’ in raid on Islamic Jihad cell

By Emanuel Fabian

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Apr 3: Rocky 1st day of Ramadan in Jerusalem; unity at hero’s funeral

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman on lessons learned 20 years post-Operation Defensive Shield, and Arab affairs correspondent Aaron Boxerman shares his favorite holiday sweets

4500 Ukrainian refugees are joining our Seder. Make it your Seder too.

Because we need all the help we can get. It’s not just for matzah, wine and food. It’s for new clothing for penniless refugees who arrive in Israel dressed for a Ukrainian winter.

Illustrative: A March of the Living delegation at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland on May 5, 2016. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

'From now on, we will preserve their memory ourselves'

March of the Living resumes, but it may be the last year Holocaust survivors attend

By Yaakov Schwartz

The annual event that sees thousands march from Auschwitz to Birkenau is back after a 2-year hiatus due to COVID, and it’s potentially the end of an era

Esther Horgen, 52, was found dead in the northern West Bank in a terror attack on December 20, 2020. (Courtesy)

‘A case that shocks the soul’: Esther Horgen’s murderer sentenced to life in prison

Muhammad Mruh Kabha killed the mother of six in a gruesome terror attack in December 2020, reportedly as vengeance for the death of a security prisoner

Prime Minister Viktor Orban greets his supporters prior to delivering a speech during the final electoral rally of his Fidesz party ahead of Sunday's election, in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, Friday, April 1, 2022 (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Inside story'For the first time, I’m left without a choice'

Vote for Orban or party with neo-Nazi record? Hungary’s Jews torn on Sunday election

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Right-wing populist government is in tight race for power with alliance of opposition parties whose largest contingent comes from far-right Jobbik party

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban reacts on stage during the closing campaign session of the FIDESZ party, in Szekesfehervar, Hungary on April 1, 2022.(Attila KISBENEDEK/AFP)

Orban has edge going into Hungary election, but faces united opposition for 1st time

By Peter Murphy and Géza Molnar

Marton Gulyas, manager of online tv channel 'Partizan' poses for a photo at their studio in Budapest on March 30, 2022. (ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP)

Hungary’s top YouTube political channel a go-to for Orban critics ahead of election

By Peter Murphy

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, right, listen to businessman Viktor Vekselberg speak at a ceremony outside the Jewish Museum of Moscow, Russia, on June 4, 2019. (Courtesy of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center of Moscow/via JTA)

'What should they do? Walk away from their communities?'

Ukraine invasion puts Chabad of Russia ‘between a rock and a hard place’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The group is simultaneously dealing with strict government laws on speech, a Russian support base crippled by sanctions, and potential Western donors who want stronger condemnation

Ukraine accuses Russia of firing on protesters in occupied city

By AFP

Ukraine sees military openings as Russia fixed on besieged Mariupol

By Nebi Qena and YURAS KARMANAU

Neighbours gather next to a mass grave in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Live updates (closed)

Ukraine says 410 civilian bodies found near Kyiv in recent days

Orban claims victory in Hungary vote; IDF readying for month or more of heightened alert; second night of clashes at Jerusalem’s Damascus gate

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10:21 pm

Police chief: Multiple gunmen in Sacramento shooting that killed 6, wounded 12
10:09 pm

Serbia President Vucic declares election victory

Shawn Zelig Aster

Why does a 3,300 year-old piece of rock from Mount Ebal matter?

For starters, it may help connect several other texts used to reconstruct history, though archaeology largely reflects messy events, and not neat narratives

Are Haredi Israelis destroying the workplace for their secular colleagues?

Integrating the ultra-Orthodox into the workforce is essential for the well-being of Israeli society, the labor market, and the ultra-Orthodox community itself

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)

Interview

Diaspora minister: Ukraine war is showing Israelis that ties with Jews abroad matter

By Judah Ari Gross

As ‘Diaspora Week’ kicks off, Nachman Shai says he’s fighting to keep rightward-moving Israeli Jews connected to leftward-moving American ones

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz leads a Meretz faction meeting at the Knesset on February 28, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health Minister Horowitz heads to Ukraine to visit Israeli field hospital

Second wave of medical workers sets out to relieve staff of Kochav Meir facility in Mostyska, near Lviv, which has treated more than 1,500 patients so far

Four Palestinians arrested in Damascus Gate clashes on tense first night of Ramadan

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Rioting far less widespread than last year, as holy month kicks off against backdrop of terror wave

Defense Minister Benny Gantz wishes Palestinians a Ramadan Kareem in a video statement, on April 2, 2022. (Screenshot/Facebook)

Gantz warns Palestinians that Ramadan gestures ‘threatened by terrorism’

By Emanuel Fabian

Chief Superintendent S., a senior commander in the Yamam counter-terrorism unit, speaks to the Kan public broadcaster, September 19, 2021. (Screenshot: Kan public broadcaster)

Elite officer seriously hurt in West Bank raid led team that nabbed Gilboa fugitives

By Emanuel Fabian

Chief Superintendent S. and his unit killed 3 Islamic Jihad members allegedly headed to commit attack in Israel; he is said to have played key role in other major ops over 20 years

UNHCR passes series of anti-Israel resolutions; US opposes

Israel blasts ‘unfit’ lawyer tapped to head UN probe into treatment of Palestinians

Last year Francesca Albanese said she hesitated to take on a project about Palestinian refugees as her ‘deeply held personal views could compromise [her] objectivity’

Francesca Albanese. (Screen capture/ YouTube)

A child is inoculated with the oral polio vaccine at a children's health clinic in Jerusalem in 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem polio cases put Israel back on WHO ‘outbreak countries’ list

With six confirmed and two suspected cases, health officials are ramping up a vaccination push amid fears of a wider outbreak

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to the US Congress by video to plead for support as his country is besieged by Russian forces at the US Capitol, on March 16, 2022, in Washington, DC. (J. Scott Applewhite-Pool/Getty Images/AFP)

Ukraine has upper hand in information war, but Russia eyes a long game

By Ricky Ben-David and Ethan Freedman

Kyiv’s messaging and communications resonate in the West, experts say, while Russia focuses inward and on India, China, Africa

Spies come in from the cold as intelligence goes unexpectedly public in Ukraine war

By Jill Lawless and AAMER MADHANI

Pentagon to give ‘kamikaze drones,’ rockets and other security aid to Ukraine

By AFP

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Construction work in the Israeli settlement of Givat Zeev, near the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the West Bank, on October 28, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Sa’ar vows government won’t freeze settlement building

Public Security Minister Omer Barlev at the funeral of Border Police officer Yezen Falah, who was killed in the terror attack in Hadera, at the cemetery in the village of Kisra-Sumei, on March 28, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Barlev again under fire for tweet on ‘fallen’ troops in raid where none were killed

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian speaks during a joint press conference with his Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bouhabib in Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday, March 24, 2022. Iran is ready to reach a strong and lasting agreement over its nuclear program with world powers, the country's foreign minister said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Iran says parties ‘close’ to agreement in Vienna nuclear talks

By AFP

A patient who received reconstructive surgery of the ear at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. (Courtesy)

Hear, hearDoctors in Israel reconstruct severed ear in unique surgery

By Ethan Freedman

A woman holds her crying child at the cancer ward of the Children's Hospital in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, March 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

In war-torn Syria, a charity offers hope to kids with cancer

By OMAR SANADIKI

Actress Taraneh Alidoosti during a photo call for the film "Forushande" (The Salesman) at the 69th Cannes Film Festival, May 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

Iranian women in film slam ‘systemic’ sexual violence in industry

By AFP

Illustrative: A wooden boat with 28 refugees from Africa and Magreb is rescued by Open Arms NGO, some 45 nautical miles away from the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea, March 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Andoni Lubaki)

More than 90 Libyan migrants drown in Mediterranean, says aid group

Estelle Harris, right, and Don Rickles arrive at the world premiere of 'Toy Story 3,' Sunday, June 13, 2010, at The El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles. Harris, who hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza’s short-fused mother on TV’s 'Seinfeld' and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the 'Toy Story' franchise, has died. She was 93. Harris’ agent Michael Eisenstadt confirmed the actor’s death in Palm Desert, CA, late Saturday, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Katy Winn, File)

ObituaryEstelle Harris, ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Toy Story’ actor, dies at 93

By Jennifer Peltz

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