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(JTA) — Israel announced plans to set up a field hospital in western Ukraine as the Russian war against the country shows no sign of abating.

(JNS) Some 550 new immigrants from the Bnei Menashe community who recently immigrated to Israel and now live in the Galilee visited the Western Wall on March 9 for the first time, together with Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi David Lau.

(JNS) Ukrainian-speaking and Russian-speaking soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces will assist new olim from Ukraine and Russia throughout their absorption process, according to a joint statement on Monday by Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata.

(Israel21c via JNS) Prehistoric human beings collected and recycled old tools, possibly to preserve their ancestors’ memory, according to scientists at Tel Aviv University who examined flint tools from 500,000 years ago found at an archeological site in Revadim, in southern Israel.

(JTA) — Israel will allow Ukrainian refugees who are ineligible for Israeli citizenship but who have relatives in Israel to seek refuge in the country without counting towards a refugee cap announced last week.

(JNS) Some 15,000 Ukrainian refugees could enter Israel by the end of the month if the current pace of immigration continues, according to Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, who vowed on Monday to reevaluate the country’s policy on the issue.

(JNS) Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from 18 countries co-signed a letter calling for the reduction of funding to the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) if the latter continues to refuse to change its educational material that includes antisemitic incitement to violence and the demonization of Israel.

(JTA) — Israeli-Canadian hockey player Eliezer Sherbatov detailed his harrowing experience fleeing Ukraine as war broke out last week on Instagram and in an emotional interview with Canada’s The Sports Network.

(JTA) — Russian troops appeared to strike part of the Babyn Yar memorial site, which pays tribute to the tens of thousands of Jews buried in the area in a Holocaust pogrom, while hitting Kyiv’s main TV transmitter tower on Tuesday.

(JTA) Four years ago, Volodymyr Zelensky was an actor on the humorous Ukrainian TV show “Servant of the People,” starring as an unlikely president of the Eastern European country.