Israel won’t impose sanctions * Ukrainian officials to Israelis: It’s like the Holocaust * Ministers defend refugee cap, crack jokes * ToI investigates: ’Toxic’ oligarchs

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Tuesday, March 15, 2022 Presented by [OurCrowd]( [Israel not about to impose sanctions on Russia or its oligarchs, officials say]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Lapid and other governmental bodies working to close loopholes, but Jerusalem says it has no legal ability to declare sanctions — which it currently doesn’t want to do in any case]( [Ukraine’s Zelensky to address Israeli lawmakers via Zoom next week]( By [TOI staff]( [Bennett holds back-to-back phone calls with Putin, Zelensky on ceasefire efforts]( By [Tal Schneider]( Live updates [LIVE: Officials: More than 2,100 killed in Mariupol, first evacuation convoys leave city]( By [TOI staff]( [Zelensky pleads with European leaders for more weapons; Lapid speaks to Ukrainian FM, Zelensky to address Knesset next week; EU leaders head to Kyiv in show of solidarity]( [Ukrainian officials tell Hebrew media Putin’s war is like the Holocaust]( By [TOI staff]( [Lawmaker Olga Vasylevska-Smaglyuk claims children kidnapped to camp ‘like Auschwitz’ in Belarus; mayor of Mykolaiv says war is between Russian Nazism and Western civilization]( [Analysis / Hitler, WWII loom large in Germany’s approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine]( By [Deborah Cole]( [Plan to establish field hospital in western Ukraine approved by Israeli cabinet]( By [TOI staff]( Promoted Content [Lifting the veil of uncertainty around cancer treatments]( [Noa Shapira]( [Israeli startup OncoHost predicts which specialized therapies will be most effective for late-stage cancer]( [‘They’re lying to you’: Staffer interrupts Russian TV to denounce Ukraine invasion]( By [AP]( [Marina Ovsyannikova arrested after displaying poster reading ‘No War,’ urging Russians not to believe propaganda; in video, she says: ‘Russia is an aggressor; Putin is responsible’]( [US warns China on aligning with Russia, says Beijing willing to bolster Putin]( By [AAMER MADHANI, Josh Boak and Matthew Lee]( [Power restored to Chernobyl after fresh outage — nuclear watchdog]( By [AFP]( [UN: Number of refugees from Ukraine tops 3 million, nearly half of them children]( By [Agencies]( [Refugee agency says 1.7 million have entered Poland; Red Cross warns millions facing food and medicine shortage and danger from shelling, airstrikes]( [Polish, Czech, Slovenian PMs to visit Kyiv Tuesday in show of ‘unequivocal support’]( By [Agencies]( [Ukraine’s Zelensky to address Congress as White House urged to get tougher on Russia]( By [Frankie TAGGART]( [Ukrainian cities buffeted by Russian strikes as ceasefire talks make little headway]( By [Dmitry Zaks and Dave Clark]( [Ministers defend hardline refugee policy at meeting marred by offensive jokes]( By [TOI staff]( [Liberman makes crack about Ukrainian women; Tamano-Shata calls out ‘hypocrisy’ of white colleagues who don’t support Ethiopian immigration]( [Israel rolls out plan to help incoming waves of new immigrants]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Yeshiva University students land in Vienna on mission to help Ukrainian refugees]( By [julia GERGELY]( Top Ops [Vitaliy Katsenelson]( [Putin has zombified my kind, good friends back in Russia]( [This isn’t the first time Russia has trusted an evil, leader. With ironclad control of media, Putin wants Russians to forget their history so he can repeat it.]( [Radha Stirling]( [Much of the world is ambivalent about the Ukraine war. Rightly so.]( [There is a distinct sentiment across Asia, Africa and the Arab world that Europe is throwing itself into a disaster and that the international order itself is crumbling]( [Yehuda Kurtzer]( [Ukraine, Russia and the unbearable lightness of ‘never again’]( [Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Syria and elsewhere: Our insistence on memory — and the belief that it will change things — never quite works]( [Haftam Yizhak-Heathwood]( [My heart breaks for Ukraine — and for Ethiopian Jews unable to get to Israel]( [White refugees are being welcomed in Israel while Black refugees are kept out. There’s a racial imbalance in our response – even in my response – to tragedies]( ToI podcast [TOI staff]( [Daily Briefing March 15: Is Israel’s Ukrainian refugee policy racist?]( [Tal Schneider on a long-awaited Israeli field hospital and a rabbi who brought Herzog and Erdogan together; Judah Ari Gross on how Israel is paving the way for Ukrainian aliya]( [Ukrainian woman to stay in Israel, judge rules, citing ‘human compassion’]( By [TOI staff]( [Once a powerful symbol of optimism, McDonald’s departure sends Russia into isolation]( By [DEE-ANN DURBIN]( [Israel decimated Iranian drone fleet in February airstrike inside Iran – report]( By [TOI staff]( [Attack said to destroy hundreds of drones near Kermanshah, prompting this week’s revenge missile fire at Iraq site alleged to have launched UAV-destroying mission]( [Iran claims to thwart Israeli sabotage plot at nuclear facility, arrests ‘network’]( By [Amir Vahdat]( [Russia says it received US guarantees on Iran nuclear deal]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Israeli government websites crash after ‘massive’ cyberattack, officials say]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Users unable to reach sites with gov.il extension for an hour, as National Cyber Directorate reportedly declares state of emergency over incident]( [Iran returns passport of detained UK charity worker held for five years]( By [AFP]( ToI Investigates [Ricky Ben-David]( [Not much use to Putin anymore, ‘toxic’ oligarchs in Israel come under scrutiny]( [Tycoons ‘shocked’ by scale of sanctions, years of reputation-building gone, experts say; 2018 estimate said 30-40 Russia-linked oligarchs had taken Israeli citizenship or residency]( [EU imposes 4th set of sanctions against Russia, also targeting Abramovich]( By [Agencies]( [UK mulls using seized oligarchs’ homes for refugees fleeing war in Ukraine]( By [AFP]( [Abramovich’s plane lands in Moscow, hours after he was spotted at Israel’s airport]( By [TOI staff]( [Oligarch apparently touched down in Turkey before heading to Russia, after a day in Israel; UK welcomes Israel’s announcement it won’t allow oligarchs to bypass sanctions]( [Roman Abramovich seen at Israel’s airport, just before his plane leaves for Turkey]( By [TOI staff]( [Russian authorities accused Abramovich of ‘organized criminal group’ fraud – report]( By [TOI staff]( Reporter's notebook [Mission possible for Israel’s relocated Ukraine embassy, despite car crash, COVID]( By [Carrie Keller-Lynn]( [Diplomats at the embassy’s HQ, now based in Poland near the border, describe the slowing stream of exiting Israelis and the growing demand for any other help they can provide]( [In Poland, Jewish Federations head calls on world to welcome all Ukrainian refugees]( By [Carrie Keller-Lynn]( [Police kill Arab man after ‘coming under fire’ during undercover raid in Rahat]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Border Police set out to arrest two Palestinians who were illegally in Israel, one suspected of terror activity; slain 27-year-old named as Sanad Salem al-Harbar]( ToI investigates [Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teen. The army hasn’t said what he did wrong]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [Family demands soldiers who shot teenager Ammar Abu Afifa be prosecuted. But few soldiers who shoot Palestinians in murky circumstances are indicted, with convictions even rarer]( [2 Palestinians killed in overnight West Bank clashes; 3 terror suspects arrested]( By [Aaron Boxerman and Emanuel Fabian]( [Settlers ram troops, assault Palestinians near Homesh, IDF alleges]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [New combo COVID strain Deltacron detected in Israel, report says]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [First ‘recombination’ variant of the coronavirus, uniting aspects of Delta and Omicron, said found in Israeli samples]( [China battles multiple COVID outbreaks fueled by ‘stealth Omicron’ variant]( By [Agencies]( [How to make Purim meaningful as war rages in Ukraine]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [The Book of Esther, the traditional 3-cornered pastries, and other ways to observe a holiday that celebrates the triumph of good over evil]( [Hillel and other Jewish groups call for dedication of pre-Purim fast day to Ukraine]( By [PHILISSA CRAMER]( [14 NYC bakeries offering delectable hamentaschen this Purim]( By [Rachel Ringler]( [CRM]( More Headlines [Ben & Jerry’s Israel distributor seeks injunction to keep selling during lawsuit]( By [Luke Tress]( [Interview / New Yorker cartoonist David Sipress smiles through the pain in a new memoir]( By [Andrew Silow-Carroll]( [In rare show of unity, all Jewish US House Dems slam Amnesty chief’s Israel comments]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Germany warns against use of anti-virus software made by Russia’s Kaspersky]( By [AFP]( [UN chief warns war in Ukraine hurts poorer nations reliant on wheat]( By [Edith M. Lederer]( [Bennett, Lapid looking to Northern Ireland conflict for lessons on gluing coalition]( By [TOI staff]( [Holocaust survivor Leon Schwarzbaum, key witness in trials of Nazis, dies at 101]( By [AFP]( [Court rules Military Police officer wrongly ousted, rejecting IDF chief’s appeal]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Bus crashes into Tel Aviv store, 4 lightly hurt]( By [TOI staff]( [Idaho GOP official tried to install an antisemite in Democratic leadership]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Keyboard warrior / Elon Musk challenges Putin to ‘single combat’ over Ukraine]( By [AFP]( [UN human rights chief condemns Saudi Arabia’s mass execution of 81 on a single day]( By [AFP]( [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? [Subscribe here]( [Unsubscribe]( from this List © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved