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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 23, 2020

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People in traditional Korean hanbok dresses wear face masks as they visit Gyeongbokgung palace in Seoul on February 23, 2020 (Jung Yeon-je / AFP)

Israel to ban entry to foreigners coming from South Korea, Japan

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Non-Israelis who visited the 2 Asian countries in past 14 days will be turned away due to virus fears; Israelis returning from Italy, Australia, Taiwan urged to check for symptoms

Health Ministry briefly signals Israel could close borders over coronavirus

Seoul protests Israel’s turning back plane; 18 Koreans have virus after visit

Some 200 Israeli students, teachers ordered into quarantine over virus fears

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An Israeli military bulldozer enters the Gaza buffer zone to retrieve the body of a suspected terrorist on February 23, 2020. (Screen capture/Shehab news)

IDF fights with Gazans over body of suspected bomb-planter

By Judah Ari Gross

An Israeli military bulldozer enters the Gaza buffer zone to retrieve the body of a suspected terrorist on February 23, 2020. (Screen capture/Shehab news)

Terror groups slam Israel after IDF bulldozer collects body from Gaza border

Israeli military surveillance footage of two alleged Palestinian Islamic Jihad members planting what appears to be a bomb along the Gaza border on February 23, 2020. (Screen capture: Israel Defense Forces)

IDF fires on Gazans it says were planting a bomb along border; 1 reported killed

By Judah Ari Gross

Family to petition High Court for case to be reopened

Probe shows Bedouin man was shot by police in 2017 for no reason, left to die

By Michael Bachner

Details from investigation into incident in Umm al-Hiran in which Yaqoub Abu Al-Qia’an and policeman Erez Levi were killed show multiple failures by forces at the scene

Israeli police stand next to a vehicle that crashed into police officers in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert, January 18, 2017. (Israel Police)

Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion (2L) visiting the hospital bed of Malik Eissa, 9, who was shot by a police officer in Issawiya, February 22, 2020. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Jerusalem mayor visits hospital bed of Palestinian boy shot by Israeli police

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, with his wife Jane, raises his hand as he speaks during a campaign event in San Antonio, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. (AP/Eric Gay)

Sanders wins big in Nevada, cementing lead among Democrats

By AP

Senator taps into support among minorities as Warren, Biden and Buttigieg look to snag second place and keep hopes alive heading into South Carolina and Super Tuesday contests

Democratic US presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during a campaign event in San Antonio, February 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

AnalysisSanders’s path in Democratic primaries has echoes of Trump’s 2016 campaign

The smoke trail of a rocket, fired by Palestinian terrorists, flying over the Gaza Strip, on February 23, 2020. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Israel strikes Gaza after over 20 rockets pound south

Sirens continue to wail in southern Israel, sending thousands to bomb shelters, as violence spikes around Strip

8:58 pm

Schools canceled in south as Gaza fighting escalates
8:39 pm

IDF says it targeted Islamic Jihad rocket squad: 'A hit was confirmed'
8:21 pm

IDF begins striking Gaza targets in response to rockets; sirens sound in south

Illustrative: An image said to be from a Palestinian school textbook covering physics which shows a Palestinian boy shooting a slingshot at Israeli soldiers. The caption, according to the Daily Mail, reads: 'What is the relationship between the elongation of the slingshot's rubber and the tensile strength affecting it? What are the forces that influence the stone after its release from the slingshot?' (Courtesy IMPACT-se)

Count the martyrs: UK to review funds for Palestinian schools whose books incite

London says it’ll look at tens of millions given to UN refugee agency; one physics book discusses use of slingshots against IDF soldiers, others praise terrorists

US President Donald Trump speaks to a bipartisan group of the Nation's mayors in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, January 24, 2020. (Alex Brandon/AP)

School history lesson compares Trump to Nazis, communists

By AP

A Korean airplane that arrived from South Korea, after landing at Ben Gurion International Airport on February 22, 2020. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Israel media review

To catch a coronavirus: 6 things to know for February 23

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel is now isolation nation, thanks to some Koreans who toured around, as officials mull whom to ban next and what damage it may do, and Evgeny tries to sell us a miracle cure

ExplainerCoronavirus: What we know and what we don’t

By Stéphane ORJOLLET

Iran’s leader claims enemy ‘propaganda’ on virus used to stifle voting

By AP

Iran’s health ministry raises death toll from new virus to 8

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center left, speaks during a situational assessment at the Health Ministry in Jerusalem, February 23, 2020 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu warns fake news on virus may be used to try to sway elections

PM, public security minister instruct Shin Bet, police to prepare to deal with anyone, including foreign actors, who seeks to stoke fear to harm integrity of vote

Education minister said to ban high schoolers’ trips to Poland over virus fears

El Al expected to scupper launch of direct line to Tokyo due to virus fears

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hundreds of Israelis contact coronavirus hotline as fears of epidemic rise

Who’s afraid of Corona in Israel?

The virus doesn’t worry me as much as the Ministry of Health’s unprecedented measures that whip the public into a frenzy of panic

Raising the Flag: The story of a victory, a photo, a camera

The Jewish war photographer who snapped the iconic image didn’t see it before it was published, and no, he didn’t pose it

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks during the Kohelet Forum Conference at the Begin Heritage Center, in Jerusalem, on January 8, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

US mapping team for West Bank annexation said en route to Israel

US officials, among them the ambassador to Israel, are set to meet with three Israeli counterparts to begin work on carrying out Trump peace plan

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell during a press conference in Belgrade, Serbia, January 31, 2020. (Darko Vojinovic/AP)

EU calls Netanyahu’s plans for East Jerusalem construction ‘deeply detrimental’

Gil Haskel, head of MASHAV, Israel's Agency for International Development Cooperation, in Nepal. (MASHAV)

Trade instead of aid? As export markets shrink, Israel looks to developing world

Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Liberman at the Annual International Conference of the Institute for National Security Studies, in Tel Aviv, on January 30, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Liberman defends violating censor gag on Mossad chief’s secret Qatar trip

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Yisrael Beytenu party chief denies he risked national security by revealing that the spy chief and an IDF general traveled to Doha to discuss Gaza ceasefire

Head of the Mossad Yossi Cohen speaks at a cyber conference at Tel Aviv University on June 24, 2019. (Flash90)

Liberman: Netanyahu sent Mossad head, general to Qatar, ‘begged’ it to pay Hamas

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks to Channel 12 news on February 22, 2020 (Channel 12 screenshot)

PM running in election only to get a good plea deal, Liberman claims

Responders at the scene of a shooting that left multiple people dead at a kosher market, December 11, 2019, in Jersey City, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)

New Jersey raises threat posed by white supremacists after increase in attacks

Threat level goes from moderate to high, months after deadly shooting in Jersey City kosher market and amid reported 65% rise in bias incidents in 2019

Newly appointed CEO Jostein Solheim serves a cone at the Ben & Jerry's ice cream scoop shop in Burlington, Vermont, Tuesday, March 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

The Jewish history of America’s most famous ice creams

By Joanna O'Leary

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In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, February 23, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s state TV: Hardliners win all seats for Tehran in vote

By AP

US President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with national security adviser John Bolton in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, April 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Report: Trump seeking to block publication of ‘traitor’ Bolton’s book

By ToI Staff and AP

In this Sept. 18, 2019, file photo, US President Donald Trump and new national security adviser Robert C. O'Brien talk with reporters before boarding Air Force One in Los Angeles. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Top US security adviser says no evidence Russia interfering to help Trump

By AP

File: Ryanair Chief Executive, Michael O'Leary at the airline's Dublin headquarters in April 2016 (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik)

Ryanair CEO sparks outrage after calling to profile Muslim men at airports

In this February 21, 2020, photo, friends and relatives hold up photos of victims of a shooting, in Hanau, Germany. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

AnalysisGermany admits there’s a far-right problem, but what can be done?

By David Rising

Thuringia's State Premier of the left-wing 'Die Linke' party Bodo Ramelow reacts during the elections of Thuringia's prime minister on February 5, 2020, in the Thuringian state parliament in Erfurt, eastern Germany (JENS SCHLUETER / AFP)

German state lawmakers at center of far-right scandal agree on governor

By AP

Israel Start-Up Nation cycling team members pose before the start of the first stage of the UAE Tour from the Pointe to Silicon Oasis in Dubai on February 23, 2020. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)

Israeli team races in UAE cycling tour in sporting overture

By AFP and ToI Staff

Pop artist Ivri Lider at one of his recent solo concerts, February 2020 (Courtesy Ivri Lider)

Lasers and lovePop artist Ivri Lider sings about the joys of new parenthood

By Jessica Steinberg

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