 Launched a special event I would like to thank you, Mr. President, friend of Israel, for honoring us with your presence during those hard days to speak in front of the lawmakers and ministers here in Israel. As parliament speaker of the State of Israel, I would like to show our sympathy with the Ukrainian people being attacked at their home and to send from here in Jerusalem our capital condolences to the families of victims and those who were hurt during the war. As I've said during my conversation with the Ukrainian parliament speaker, the Russian assault on Ukraine is a violent violation of world order and we need to do whatever we can to bring a speedy end to the war. I am full of hope that mediation efforts between Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and other global figures will bring about an end to the tragedy the Ukrainian people is undergoing. My friend, your Honorary President Zelensky, please take the podium. Thank you very much, Mr. Parliament Speaker, Mr. Prime Minister Bennett. I thank you very much for your support. Thank you very much to all the lawmakers, dignitaries, the Israeli people as a whole. Ukrainian, Jewish Ukrainian communities have always been profoundly intertwined. We will always continue to live one next to the other and we will feel together joy and pain and this is why I would like to remind you all the words of a Ukrainian that you all know very well, the words of Golden Mayor that I am sure that many Ukrainians are also familiar with those words and I'm sure there are those in Russia who are well familiar with us. We would like to live but our neighbors want to see us dead. It doesn't give us much room for compromise. I don't need to convince you that indeed the history of our nation is intertwined. Jews and Ukrainians in the past and even during those terrible times. We're in different countries in different conditions completely but the threat we are facing is one. For you and for us, total destruction of the nation, of the state, of the culture and even of the name Ukraine, Israel, I would like you to feel all of this. I would like you to think about this date, March 20th, the February 24th, the beginning of the war, the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, February 24th. This day will be remembered in global history, is remembered as a tragedy for Ukrainians, for Jews, for the entire world. Same day, back in the 1920s, the Nazi Party was founded, a party that killed millions, that destroyed entire nations, that tried to commit genocide. 102 years afterwards, on the same day on February 24th, the order to invade Ukraine was given to the Russian military. And thousands of people have already been killed, millions have been displaced from their homes. They became refugees, moved to neighboring countries, Poland, Slovakia, Germany, the Czech Republic and dozens of other countries. Our nation is now fleeing, looking for security, looking to stay in the world in peace. Similarly to what you have sought in the past, the invasion of Russia to Ukraine is not just a military operation, as Moscow is presenting it. We're talking about a full-fledged war, an unjustified one that is aimed to terminate our culture, our nation, our people, our children, everything that makes Ukrainians Ukrainian, everything that the Russian military is now maliciously destroying and the entire world is looking, is watching. And this is why I can make this comparison between your history to our survivability now, the World War II and what's going on now. Listen to what the Kremlin is saying. They're using the same terminology of the Nazi Party. This is a tragedy. When they sought to destroy all of Europe, they didn't want to leave anything, any one of you, and now from us. They called it the final solution to the Jewish question you must remember. I'm sure you do. You will never forget it, but listen to what they're saying now in Moscow. They're using the same or the same terminology, the final solution, but now it is directed at us. They're openly saying that in Moscow. You can see it on official sites, their exact quotes in the media, Russian media. This is what is being explicitly said in Moscow without the war against Ukraine. They couldn't, they allegedly couldn't secure their own safety. It's similar to what I've been saying. Eight years ago, the Israeli nation, you've seen how Russian missiles targeted Kiev. You know this location. You know that this is a memorial site to the victims of the Holocaust. The Jewish cemetery was hit by Russian missiles and also in the city of Uman, a city where tens of thousands of Israelis are visiting every year. The grave of Rabbi Nachman. What will be left of our cities in Ukraine after this terrible war? I'm sure that you share and feel our pain, but can you explain why until this point in time, we're still urging countries around the world to look for help. We're reaching out to you and looking for help, even visas, entry visas. What is it, indifference or sitting on the fence? I'm leaving this open question to you to answer. I would like to say clearly, indifference kills. Calculations of interests kill. You can navigate between interests, but not between good or bad. In Israel, you know very well, the iron dome anti missile system, your system is the best in the world. We know that you know how to defend your interests and also to help Ukraine, to defend the Ukrainians, to defend the Jews in Ukraine. One can wonder why we cannot get ammunition from you, why Israel did not impose serious sanctions against Russia. Why there is no pressure on Russian businesses. You're the ones who need to answer these questions and then live with the answers you're providing. The Ukrainians made their choice 80 years ago. We saved Jews, and this is why the Israeli people now need to choose to make a similar decision. Thank you very much, Mr. President, for honoring us with your presence. And articulating your short remarks. This is how friends behave. I pray for ceasefire. I genuinely do hope that in the first opportunity possible, we'll be able to officially welcome you to a visit here in Jerusalem in the Israeli parliament. Ministers, lawmakers, thank you very much for your participation. Goodbye from Jerusalem. Israeli Speaker of Parliament, Nikki Levy thanking the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky making his historic virtual address to the Israeli parliament via Zoom, making an impassioned appeal in his trademark t-shirt. You can see it on your screen right now at the same time. That speech has been broadcast live at Habima Square. You can see it on your screen right now. Crowds of supporters showing their solidarity there in Tel Aviv, but to unpack exactly what we've just heard with me in studio. Danny Ayalon, former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. and Chairman of Silver Road Capital, and Dan Perry, International Affairs Analyst, the former Europe Editor of Associated Press. So Ambassador, I'm going to start with you because moments before we heard that speech, you mentioned Golda Meir. You said it's very likely comparisons would be drawn, break down what stood out for you with this impassioned appeal to Israel to do more. Well, I would say he used every, I don't want to say every trick in the book because he's really in such a dire situation, but he certainly tried to really play on the very inner chords of the Israeli psyche, not just by mentioning Golda Meir, but also mentioning the history and the common history and comparing the Israeli and the Jewish history to the Ukrainians. So this was the morality issue that we discussed before here. And then there was the practicality. He didn't mean words about, you know, it will be on your conscience based on your decision. It is your decision to make. And if you're sitting on the fence, if you are not, you know, going all the way in for the Ukraine, that means you're helping the killing of people, sitting on the fence helping killing people. And then he mentioned very specifically Iron Dome, that he would like to have Iron Dome. Same thing he did with Biden and the Americans when he asked Biden to supply them planes and also to enforce and no fly zone. Of course, Biden did not answer directly to this request. I don't think the Israelis will do the same. I think they will also equivocate here. Dan, I'm going to come to you very shortly for your insights. But first, that solidarity demonstration taking place in Tel Aviv, thousands taking a stand under the banner Israel stand with Ukraine. Our correspondent Pierre Kloshendler is there in Tel Aviv at Abima Square. Pierre, we can see the blue and yellow flags in full display. Talk us through the reaction when President Vladimir Zelensky was speaking just moments ago. People just listened and they applauded the speech because I think that they were caught by very strong emotions actually. When the President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned the need for maybe supplying Ukraine with the Iron Dome anti-missile system, the people applauded and cheered the Ukrainian President. But there was also a very note of a very strong note of sadness in the crowd amidst the crowd because you could see President Volodymyr Zelensky in some sort of bunker in Kiev looking tired, looking actually exhausted and in some sort of military t-shirt. And the people here understand that this is an embattled President representing an embattled people. They drew a comparison with Nazis and are not sure that every Israeli will buy into that because the situation is different. But on the other hand, when Volodymyr Zelensky spoke about the mediation effort by the Israeli President, by the Israeli Prime Minister, sorry, there was some note of skepticism in Zelensky's speech because he said you cannot mediate between good and evil. And this is basically the equation in this rally, the fight against evil, the need to protect the good, the mayor of Tel Aviv, Ron Khudai spoke in those terms, Zelensky spoke in those terms, the Ukrainian ambassador to Israel also spoke in those terms. And there is another element in this battle for public opinion at this moment just here as President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke in this forum in front of Israeli legislators but also in front of the Israeli public. The Supreme Court of Israel is delving onto the thorny issue of whom to allow inside Israel after an appeal presented by a lawyer who represents the Ukrainian ambassador to Israel. And the debates are being carried live at the same time. So there is a, sorry, a legal battle on one hand and a battle for public opinion. And these two battles here in Israel are coalescing at this moment. Benita. Talking of public opinion, Pierre, you've been speaking to people there on the ground for the last few hours in the buildup to the speech. Give us an idea of the sentiment there. Why are people coming out in their numbers? What are they saying to you? There is extreme sadness and extreme worry because many of the people that are here are from the former Soviet Union. Some of them are from Ukraine. And they all feel a sense of urgency, of emergency, that there is a real tragedy in foiling in Ukraine. And people are even more radical than President Volodymyr Zelensky, because they don't only mention defensive equipment such as the Iron Dome or guns. They also want helmets. They want flag jackets to protect the Ukrainian soldiers. They want a no-fly zone. And this appeal is sheer, but it also echoes, appeals that we've seen in various capitals in Western countries. So you have basically the same kind of mood in this crowd, a lot of blue and yellow flags, and a lot of glory to Ukraine, glory to the heroes of Ukraine. You know this famous slogan, Slava Ukraini, Geroam Ukraini. And this is what you hear here, trying to cheer up the very, very sad mood, actually. Correspondent Pierre Klosschenkler, who's been covering this invasion from Kiev in recent weeks now, live for us in Tel Aviv at Abima Square. Thank you so much, Pierre, for that update. Well, breaking news now just in from East Jerusalem reports that two policemen have been injured in a stabbing attack, one of them moderately the other lightly after being stabbed in the back. The one attacker then fled on foot. A search is underway at the moment. The officers have been treated on the scene. This is the second stabbing attack in East Jerusalem in two days and the fifth since the beginning of the month. We will bring you more.