Outrage as Russia bombs hospital * US: Putin may use chemical weapons * Knesset no to Zelensky * Op-ed: Bennett’s dangerous neutrality * Herzog: Erdogan wants dialogue

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Thursday, March 10, 2022 [Ukraine hospital attack said to kill 3, including a child; Russia: Military used it]( By [Agencies]( [17 injured in bombing of medical center in Mariupol according to city council; Kremlin says it’ll look into airstrike but Putin’s foreign minister insists site was used by fighters]( [‘Proof of genocide’: Zelensky rages at Russia for bombing Ukraine maternity hospital]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Russian strike devastates hospital in Mariupol; Zelensky: Kids buried under wreckage]( By [VADIM GHIRDA and YURAS KARMANAU]( [US warns Russia may use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine]( By [Zeke Miller]( [After Russian accuses US and Ukraine of developing unconventional weapons, with no evidence, White House says Moscow may be laying groundwork for its own use]( [Ukrainian FM vows ‘no surrender’ after ‘difficult’ 1st high-level talks with Russia]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Aiming to avoid picking sides, PA rebuffs US request to condemn Russian invasion]( By [Jacob Magid]( Live updates [LIVE: Russian FM scoffs at casualty reports from Ukraine: ‘Pathetic shrieks’]( By [TOI staff]( [Commenting on Wednesday’s strike on maternity hospital in Mariupol, Lavrov claims it was a base for far-right radical fighters]( [Herzog: Erdogan open to true dialogue, tie-building advancing ‘under no illusions’]( By [Tal Schneider]( [President hopes trip to Turkey laid groundwork for better ties between two countries; visits Neve Shalom Synagogue, scene of deadly 1986 terror attack, before returning to Israel]( [Hamas, Islamic Jihad condemn Turkey for hosting Herzog: ‘Abandonment of Palestine’]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [Hosting Herzog in landmark visit, Erdogan lauds ‘turning point’ in relations]( By [Tal Schneider, Agencies and TOI staff]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [Bennett’s attempts at neutrality on Russia-Ukraine spell trouble for Israel on Iran]( [The PM may have unique access to Putin but he has no unique leverage; he risks being seen as appeasing one regional bully precisely when Israel seeks world support against another]( [Blankets won’t save us from bombs: Ukraine’s Jewish ex-PM pleads for Israel’s help]( By [Gareth Browne]( [Senior Ukraine official: Bennett’s mediation is ‘good’ but Putin’s demands ‘absurd’]( By [TOI staff]( [Yad Vashem suspends ties with Russian-Israeli oligarch Roman Abramovich]( By [TOI staff]( [Weeks after eight-figure donation from billionaire, Israel’s Holocaust museum hits pause after UK freezes assets and places travel ban on Abramovich for his past ties to Putin]( [Russian-Israeli oligarch Roman Abramovich hit by fresh UK sanctions]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Senior US official in Israel: We won’t push Kyiv to accept Russian terms]( By [Carrie Keller-Lynn]( [Zelensky requests speech to Knesset, gets offered Zoom chat instead]( By [TOI staff]( [Ukrainian president sought to drum up support with Israeli lawmakers but was told they are going on recess, and the building is scheduled for renovations, reports say]( [Finance Ministry won’t pay for planned Israeli field hospital in Ukraine — report]( By [TOI staff]( [Ways to help the Jews of Ukraine]( By [JTA and TOI staff]( ToI podcast [TOI staff]( [Daily Briefing March 10: Turning tide in Turkey, shuttle diplomacy and PA on Ukraine]( [Political reporter Carrie Keller-Lynn discusses Israel’s mediation bid and Knesset news; US correspondent Jacob Magid reviews Palestinians on Russia, and USAID and Iron Dome funds]( [Herzog announces Turkish FM will visit Israel, catches Foreign Ministry off guard]( By [TOI staff]( [UN’s Syria investigators warn world must not allow Ukraine to go down same path]( By [Robin MILLARD]( [No way out for 130 Jewish families who want to leave Kherson]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Director of JDC’s Hesed in city captured by Russia says half of his social workers are no longer working amidst curfews and dwindling food]( [Devout Ukrainian Jews hunker down in Uman as they await ‘apocalypse’]( By [DAPHNE ROUSSEAU]( [At Moldova border, Jews from Odesa wonder when they’ll be able to return home]( By [Jacob Judah]( [Chabad couple, with 11 in tow, races from Ukraine to Israel just in time for Sabbath]( By [Sue Surkes]( [During a 3-day rush to Kfar Chabad, Mendel and Rivka Borodkin, who work at a girl’s seminary in Dnipro, had to steer a group through a series of bureaucratic and other hurdles]( [Man whose wife and 2 children were slain while fleeing Ukraine returns to bury them]( By [AP]( [While more companies join Russian boycott, some are hesitant to halt operations]( By [Tobias Siegal]( [McDonald’s and Starbucks branches remain open in Moscow despite announcements, video footage shows; tobacco giant BAT says it has a ‘duty of care’ to all its employees]( [Interview / ‘Unprecedented’ scale of sanctions, boycott took Russia by surprise, experts say]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [Risking higher gas prices, House overwhelmingly approves ban on Russian oil to US]( By [LISA MASCARO]( Top Ops [Gayle Meyers]( [I had a Holocaust-themed bat mitzvah. It might not have been a bad idea]( [The party favors with a barbed-wire motif were too much for me at the time, but with Holocaust revisionism on the rise, maybe I should have saved them]( [Seth Farber]( [It takes a village… and a Knesset]( [What kind of compassionate, democratic Jewish state welcomes tens of thousands of Ukrainians under the Law of Return — and then denies their Jewishness?]( [US accuses Russia of jeopardizing Iran talks as they enter final stage]( By [TOI staff]( [Moscow demanding guarantees Western sanctions won’t affect trade with Iran; US says it won’t play ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ with Moscow, as Iran accuses Washington of holding up talks]( [Babies in high air pollution areas 25% more likely to have low birth weight – study]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Peer-reviewed Israeli research based on 381,000 births; data is vital, says epidemiologist, since low birth weight points to increased risk of illness later in life]( [First patient to undergo pig heart transplant dies after two months]( By [AFP]( [US House approves $1 billion for Israel’s Iron Dome after months-long delay]( By [Jacob Magid, TOI staff and JTA]( [Bennett welcomes replenishment of ‘life-saving’ system; Defense Minister Gantz hails ‘critical security and missile defense’ for citizens]( [UJA New York to approve another $2 million in funding for Ukraine]( By [Jacob Henry]( [For some Israeli artists from Ukraine and Russia, creativity is sole solace from war]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [As Ukrainian and Russian Israelis organize art fundraiser to help refugees, they also contemplate life far from their now-beleaguered homelands]( [CRM]( [Israel’s former PM Golda Meir has become a symbol of hope for Ukrainians]( By [PHILISSA CRAMER]( [The Jewish state’s fourth premier, a native of Kyiv, is an icon among Ukrainian leaders eager to claim her as a native daughter]( [CRM]( [A tiny Iowa museum remembers farm girls’ pen pals Anne and Margot Frank]( By [Dave Schechter]( [Letters from Frank sisters are the cornerstone of Danville Station, a unique off-the-beaten-path museum in a town of 1,000 and no Jewish community]( More Headlines [A familiar ring / Oprah Winfrey network to air adaptation of Israel’s ‘Marry Me Now’]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Senior PA official meets with Lapid, says he raised need for ‘political horizon’]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [Beauty and the beast / Qatari pageant judges find no Botox in award-winning camel]( By [AFP]( [Pence tours Hebron, meets local Jewish settlers, runs into Ben Gvir and Marzel]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli army chief in Bahrain for first official visit]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Two years on, COVID pandemic ‘far from over,’ WHO warns]( By [Robin MILLARD]( [Knesset delays 2-month reduction in mandatory military service for men]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Undercover thrills / ‘Tehran’ to return for 2nd season with Oscar-winner Glenn Close]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [The daily edition]() [facebook]( [twitter]( [instagram]( [View in browser]( [Contact support](mailto:support@timesofisrael.com) [Advertise with us](mailto:advertise@timesofisrael.com) Were you forwarded this email? 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