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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 27, 2020

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Passengers wearing masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19 arrive to the Sao Paulo International Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. (AP/Andre Penner)

In unprecedented move, Israelis advised to avoid all travel abroad over virus

Health Ministry warning sees ‘high probability’ pathogen has now spread worldwide and is no longer containable; Israelis returning from Italy ordered to 14-day quarantine

El Al signals mayday, as extraordinary virus warning jolts travelers, carriers

Israel media reviewFlight or fright: 8 things to know for February 27

By Joshua Davidovich

Israeli diagnosed with virus after Italy trip; visitors from there to be barred

Israel Bachar. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Live updates (closed)

TV airs recording of Gantz adviser assailing him as a ‘danger’ to Israel

Israel Bachar also says his boss ‘doesn’t have the courage to attack Iran’; Blue and White dismisses the report as Likud ‘lies’

7:10 pm

Netanyahu piles on Gantz over recording of adviser criticizing him
6:54 pm

TV airs recording of Gantz adviser assailing him as a 'threat' to Israel
6:39 pm

Likud the largest party in TV poll, inching toward majority with allies

Iranian Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar. (YouTube screenshot)

Iranian vice president said infected with coronavirus

By Jon Gambrell

In unprecedented move, Saudi Arabia bars Muslim pilgrims from visiting holy city of Mecca

Saudi Arabia halts travel to Islam’s holiest sites over coronavirus

By Jon Gambrell

Iran reports 7 new virus deaths as another senior government official infected

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Pope suffering ‘mild ailment,’ will skip mass, Vatican says

By AFP

Analysis

Polls suggest momentum with Netanyahu, as campaigns turn nasty in final days

Likud has risen slightly, but the balance between the blocs suggests continued deadlock on March 2 — unless one of the two rivals manages to inspire higher turnout from his camp

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz. (Oded Balilty and Jack Guez/AFP)

Blue and White party chief Benny Gantz at a press conference at Kfar Hamaccabiya on February 26, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

As campaign turns muddy, Gantz says Netanyahu ‘poisoning’ Israel with divisions

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman seen at a conference at the Israeli Institute for Democracy, in Jerusalem, on February 24, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman: Gantz is not ready to be PM; only I pose a challenge to Netanyahu

Analysis

Campaigns use tens of millions in extra state funds for ‘all-out’ election push

Vastly increased allocations of state funds have been put into parties’ coffers to allow them pitch voters for third time in a year. And most have been saving up

Far-right leader says he will quit race if PM meets near-impossible demands

Blue and White slashes left, right in home-stretch scramble to regain top spot

Blue and White urges probe of alleged Likud hiring of intel firm

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on a video from Israel to the 2019 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference, at Washington Convention Center, in Washington, DC, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

347 US rabbis denounce Sanders’ AIPAC bigotry comments as ‘outrageous’

By JTA

Reform, Conservative, Orthodox religious leaders call Israel lobby ‘one of last remaining vehicles in that seeks to bring Americans from across political spectrum together’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on December 29, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu on Bernie Sanders calling him a racist: ‘He’s wrong’

Democratic presidential candidates, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Democat-Minnesota, right, speaks as former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg looks on during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by NBC News and MSNBC in Las Vegas, February 19, 2020. (John Locher/AP)

Democrats Buttigieg, Klobuchar latest to skip AIPAC conference

By Eric Cortellessa

An explosion is seen following an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City in response to the firing of rockets by Palestinian terrorists in the coastal enclave toward Israel, February 24, 2020. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

10 bouts in Gaza later, Israel not much closer to preventing the next round

The Strip remains a powder keg, with terror groups just waiting for another excuse — like Sunday’s bulldozer incident — to set it off

1 killed in Israeli drone strike near Quneitra — Syrian state TV

Israeli jets down drone launched from Gaza

Thousands rally for Israelis held in Gaza as families blast government inaction

Shoshannah Stern as Dr. Lauren Riley in 'Grey's Anatomy' (Courtesy of Disney/ABC TV)

Interview

Jewish actress plays first deaf doctor on ABC medical drama ‘Grey’s Anatomy’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Joshua Hammerman

Of the Coronavirus, the Red Sea, and Fear

It’s OK to place your personal and family safety above your calling to do good in the world, but some really do put it all on the line, and I’m in awe

Elizabeth Warren

Trump’s Middle East peace plan is a disaster. I’ve got a plan for that

Also, we are all affected by the recent attacks against the Jewish community – and we must all stand up against anti-Semitism, together

Yamileth Lopez with a photo of her deceased friend Javier Amir Rodriguez at a makeshift memorial for victims of a mass shooting which left at least 22 people dead, on August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP

Far-right extremists killed at least 38 in US in 2019, ADL says

By Michael Kunzelman

None of the killings last year were linked to domestic Islamist terrorism, a first since 2012, watchdog reports; Jersey City anti-Semitic attack defies ‘left-right classification’

2 months after deadly shooting, Jersey City kosher supermarket starts to reopen

Monsey stabbing victim opens eyes after 59 days in coma

US arrests 5 neo-Nazis over threats to journalists, activists

By AFP

Duma terror attack suspect Amiram Ben-Uliel sits in the Lod District Court on June 26, 2019. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Duma terror suspect’s petition denied because he won’t look at women in court

In hearing, judge says he regrets offering solutions to allow Amiram Ben-Uliel, alleged arsonist in deadly attack, to participate in proceedings in line with his extremist views

Image shows a car in Yasuf on February 26, 2020 after its tires were slashed. (Credit: Yasuf Village Council)

Tires slashed, West Bank village threatened with ‘war’ in apparent hate attack

United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov addresses a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, on March 24, 2016, at United Nations headquarters in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

UN slams ‘worrying’ Israeli plans to build in West Bank, East Jerusalem

Peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov says moves promoted by Netanyahu endanger prospects for two-state solution

US President Donald Trump (left) and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu take part in an announcement of Trump's Middle East peace plan in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 28, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

50 ex-European leaders and FMs condemn Trump plan, cite apartheid similarities

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Illustrative: Students outside Anderson High School in Austin, Texas (YouTube screenshot)

Texas Jewish student punished for self-deprecating joke about Jews, money

By JTA

French-Polish director Roman Polanski looks on on stage after the preview of his last movie 'J'accuse' (An Officer and a Spy) in Paris, November 4, 2019. (Thomas SAMSON/AFP)

Polanski snubs French Oscars for Dreyfus movie, fearing ‘lynching’ by activists

By Fiachra GIBBONS

Volleyball players from Brooklyn College take a knee during the playing of Israel’s national anthem before a match at Yeshiva University (video screenshot)

Athletes take a knee in protest during playing of Israeli anthem at Yeshiva U

By JTA

Carnival float in the Spanish town of Campo de Criptana features uniforms of Nazis, concentration camp inmates and crematoria trains, in February 2020. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)

Israeli ambassador denounces anti-Semitic float at Spanish carnival

By AP

Bread and butter (iStock)

Government lifts import tariffs to end year-long butter famine

Illustrative: planes on an airport tarmac (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Defense Ministry plane with NIS 1b in cash said stranded abroad in worker feud

Major General (Res.) Israel Ziv in Tel Aviv, December 06, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

US lifts sanctions on ex-IDF general accused of arms sales to South Sudan

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives to a court hearing at the regional labor court in Jerusalem, in the case of Shira Raban, a former employee at the Prime Minister's Residence, December 23, 2019. (Yonatan SIndel/FLASH90)

Another former employee at PM’s residence sues Sara Netanyahu for abuse

Illustrative: Offices of the Jerusalem Venture Partners tech investment firm in Jerusalem, February 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

High tech workforce growing but lacks skilled employees, report says

Illustrative: The Moovit app running on a phone. (Itamar Sharon)

Israel-founded urban transport app Moovit reaches its 100th country

File: Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal in 2007 (Edi Israel /FLASH90)

Former Sderot mayor Eli Moyal laid to rest in his hometown

Paul von Hindenburg, left, and Adolf Hitler ride in an open car during a parade in Berlin, Germany, May 1933 (photo credit: unknown/German Federal Archive)

Berlin drops Hindenburg’s honorary title for his role in Nazis’ rise

By AP

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