In Israel, people don't understand why the Americans are treating Iran like a preferred customer over Saudi Arabia or Russia.

For mediation to be successful, a mediator needs tangible means of persuasion, namely carrots, and sticks, as he is useless without them. Israel cannot threaten Russia and Ukraine with a stick, nor can it offer them carrots.

Before western sanctions, many Russians were fine with their freedom of speech being eroded. But blocking Facebook won't restock empty supermarket shelves.

Israel Aerospace Industries and Rafael Advanced Systems beat out bids from Germany's Diehl Defense, Norway's Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace, the UK's MBDA.

Protesters hold a moment of silence for Ukrainian civilians and soldiers who have died in the fighting and denigrate Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hebrew, Ukrainian, Russian, and English.