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Israel's Bennett speaks with Putin and Zelenskiy

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who has proposed Israeli mediation between Russia and Ukraine, spoke with the leaders of both countries on Wednesday.

Reuters · Mar 2, 2022

Ukraine police officer’s entire family ‘killed while fleeing Russian invasion’

Wife, daughter, baby son and parents of Oleg Fedko reportedly killed in attack while cameraman and Israeli DJ among other fatalities

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2022

Israel tries to balance backing for Ukrainians and not offending Russia

Criticism of invasion has been muted and officials yet to condemn Moscow for attack on Holocaust memorial

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2022

German Leader Visits Israel as Russia-Ukraine War Rages

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz kicked off a visited to Israel on Wednesday, briefly leaving Europe as the continent's largest ground war in generations rages between Russia and Ukraine. Scholz arrived in Israel Tuesday evening and will return to Germany later Wednesday in a visit — his first to Israel since…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 2, 2022

Indo-Israel centre helps Basti farmers turn to fruitful farming

BASTI: The focus is always on strategic, military cooperation and technology exchange between India and Israel, but the relationship is bringing a big change in the rural belts of east UP. The Indo-Israel Centre for Excellence, 200 metre off the Basti-Gorakhpur highway, has started commercial operations and is helping increase…

The Times of India · Mar 2, 2022

Israel Freezes Palestinian Evictions in East Jerusalem

Israel's Supreme Court on Tuesday froze the eviction of four Palestinian families from the flashpoint east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, where Jewish settler groups have sought to seize control. Justice Isaac Amit, in a ruling by a three-judge panel, wrote the families would be recognized as protected tenants, and…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 1, 2022

Ukraine Appeals for More Help from Israel, Which Eyes Ties to Moscow

The Ukrainian envoy to Israel tearfully implored it to provide more war aid on Tuesday even as Prime Minister Naftali Bennett defended his government's open channels to both Kyiv and Moscow as a means of offering "quiet" help. While the Israeli foreign minister has condemned the Russian invasion, Bennett's rhetoric…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 1, 2022

Israel's Yad Vashem condemns Russian strike near Kyiv Holocaust monument

Israel's Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Centre voiced its "vehement condemnation" of a Russian attack on Tuesday near a Kyiv monument to Babyn Yar, site of a World War Two massacre of Jews by German occupation troops and Ukrainian auxiliaries.

Reuters · Mar 1, 2022

Top Israeli court suspends evictions in flashpoint Jerusalem district

Israel's top court halted on Tuesday the planned evictions of four Palestinian families from a flashpoint East Jerusalem neighbourhood pending clarification of claims on their homes.

Reuters · Mar 1, 2022

Tinder Swindler Simon Leviev 'sued by diamond company he pretended to be heir of'

Simon Leviev became well known after the Netflix documentary about him came out earlier this year. He had claimed he had ties with Israeli Russian diamond tycoon Lev Leviev

Daily Mirror · Mar 1, 2022