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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 29, 2020

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

Final surveys show ongoing deadlock, with Likud rise offset by strong Joint List

Channel 12 poll shows Netanyahu gaining momentum, but right-Orthodox bloc still 3 short of majority; both TV polls put mainly Arab Joint List at new high with record 14-15 seats

Reports: PM working to discredit, possibly dismiss Mandelblit after election

Bennett storms out of TV interview after feud with host over rocket statistics

PM’s son in legal quarrel after tweet leads followers to harass young woman

Natan Eshel attends Jerusalem Day celebrations, May 20, 2012. (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu: Aide’s comments on Likud voters ‘unacceptable’

PM says Natan Eshel apologizes for saying ‘non-Ashkenazi’ supporters driven by hate, claims his party is home to all parts of Israeli society

9:29 pm

Netanyahu says aide's leaked comments on Likud voters 'unnacceptable'
8:55 pm

Yair Netanyahu ordered to pay $81K after losing libel suit to journalist
8:46 pm

Virus fears keep hundreds of cruise passengers at sea

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman visits the Jordan Valley, January 26, 2020. (Flash90)

Liberman says Netanyahu told Jordan’s king that Israel won’t annex Jordan Valley

Likud calls claims that the PM downplayed his vow of annexation as a campaign pledge ‘a complete lie’; Yisrael Beytenu head also rules out joining any coalition led by Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on February 9, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool/AFP)

PM met rabbi who reportedly recorded Gantz aide, day before tape emerged

Labour-Gesher-Meretz leader Amir Peretz in Jerusalem on February 28, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Labor head says he and Gantz will form minority gov’t backed by Liberman, Arabs

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders I-Vt., smiles during his campaign event in Carson City, Nevada on February 16, 2020. (AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Sanders would beat Trump 65-30% among US Jewish voters, new poll finds

By Eric Cortellessa

Jewish Electorate Institute survey finds that 91% of American Jews identify as pro-Israel, but Israel is not driving the community’s vote

A Jewish US president? Sanders, Bloomberg vie to break a barrier many don’t see

By Michael Mathes

Biden, Klobuchar to address AIPAC by video after group departs from 2016 rules

By JTA and ToI Staff

Hundreds of US Jews sign public declaration of support for Elizabeth Warren

By PHILISSA CRAMER

An employee of Rambam Medical Center in Haifa moves equipment to a special wing being set up at the hospital to treat the coronavirus, February 29, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Health Ministry orders Haifa hospital to set up special unit for coronavirus

Rambam Medical Center stresses the move is strictly preparatory, in the event that the number of confirmed cases in Israel spikes

Health Ministry releases list of places visited by 2 Israelis with coronavirus

Under his careIsraelis held in Japan with virus taught their doctor Hebrew

Italian rabbis issue prayer for well-being of coronavirus patients

By Cnaan Liphshiz

This undated electron microscope image made available by the US National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. (NIAID-RML via AP)

Explainer

What is COVID-19 and what should a person with symptoms do?

By AP and ToI Staff

As number of new coronavirus cases rises worldwide, experts say death rate may turn out to be similar to seasonal flu, urge good hygiene to help prevent the pathogen’s spread

World Health Organization raises global virus risk to maximum level

By Dario Thuburn

Hong Kong pets face quarantine after dog tests positive for coronavirus

By AFP

Iranian death toll from coronavirus hits 43 as number of infections spikes

By Jon Gambrell

Illustrative: Researchers work in a lab that is developing testing for the COVID-19 coronavirus at Hackensack Meridian Health Center for Discovery and Innovation on February 28, 2020 in Nutley, New Jersey. (Keta Betancur/Getty Images North America/AFP)

US states to get test kits as White House amps up virus effort

By Ricardo ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Global coronavirus outbreak becoming test of Trump’s credibility and his administration’s competence, as health officials scramble and total number of US cases rises to 63

Trump accuses Democrats of ‘hoax’ for criticizing his virus plans

By KEVIN FREKING and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Virus fear sparks global run on face masks, straining world supply

By DEE-ANN DURBIN, Anne D'Innocenzio and JOSEPH PISANI

Wall Street has worst week since 2008 as S&P 500 drops 11.5% amid virus spread

By ALEX VEIGA and DAMIAN J. TROISE

Visitors at the Hermon, Israel's only ski area. (Uriel Heilman/ JTA)

Reporter's notebook

Welcome to Mount Hermon, Israel’s only ski mountain. It shuts down when it snows

By Uriel Heilman

Illustrative: A painting by Georgia O'Keeffe, 'Lake George Reflection,' that can be viewed horizontally or vertically. It was inspired by O'Keeffe's visits to Alfred Stieglitz's family compound on the upstate New York lake. (Christie's/Copyright 2016 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, via AP)

Tumultuous art duo Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz rejoined in book, auction

By JP O’ Malley

Evolution of an American mom in Israel

Is there fire at every celebration? Yes. Are the ’adult’ supervisors adults? No, but my kids are savoring freedom and learning independence

Who gains and who loses when parties merge

Only one party merger in the last 20 years saw the whole become truly greater than the sum of its parts: the Joint List

Ben Schwartz arrives at the LA Premiere of 'Sonic The Hedgehog' at the Paramount Studios on Saturday, January 25, 2020, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/ Invision/AP)

Entertainment news

‘Sonic: The Hedgehog’ actor Ben Schwartz is still a neurotic Jew from Riverdale

By Curt Schleier

Nissim Black says he's 'Hitler's worst nightmare.' (Screenshot from 'Mothaland Bounce' video/ via JTA)

Interview

Orthodox rapper Nissim Black reintroduces himself to the world

By Emily Burack

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Feminist activists paste posters on police vehicles outside Cesar Film Awards Ceremony in Paris as guests arrive, February 28, 2020. (Lucas Barioulet/AFP)

Walkouts as Roman Polanski wins best director at French Oscars

By Fiachra GIBBONS

Copies of the biography that forms part of the exhibition are displayed for sale as part of the exhibition titled "The young Hitler, the formative years of a dictator" at the house of history in Sankt Poelten, Austria on February 27, 2020. (JOE KLAMAR / AFP)

Hitler’s attempt at an opera goes on display for the first time in Austria

By Celine JANKOWIAK

US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad, left, and Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar shake hands after signing a peace agreement during a ceremony in the Qatari capital Doha on February 29, 2020. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP)

US, Taliban sign historic deal aimed at ending war in Afghanistan

By Matthew Lee and KATHY GANNON

The new director of Poland's landmark POLIN museum of Jewish history, Zygmunt Stepinski, at the museum in Warsaw, Poland, Feb. 28, 2020. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

New director of Poland’s Jewish museum vows independence

By AP

Hay Valer (Channel 12 screenshot)

Ex-Haredi woman dies by suicide after speaking of difficulties leaving religion

Illustrative image of a brit mila in Jerusalem, December 12 , 2011. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

From the webJewish women move into a male domain: Ritual circumcision

Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, third right, attends a funeral ceremony for Halil Ibrahim Akkaya, one of dozens of Turkish soldiers killed in Syria, in Bahce, Osmaniye, Turkey, Feb. 28, 2020. (AP)

Turkey, Russia talk amid spiraling tensions in Syria as migrants push west

By Mehmet Guzel and andrew wilks

Illustrative. A Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, in Jerusalem, December 13, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Safed man seriously hurt in attack by his cat

Pope Francis wipes his nose during the Ash Wednesday Mass opening Lent, Feb. 26, 2020. (AP/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope sick a 2nd day with apparent cold, cancels audiences

By AP

Visitors walk through the infamous gate reading 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' or 'work sets you free,' at the former site of Auschwitz-Birkenau, January 28, 2020. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)

Auschwitz museum calls to halt visits from countries infected with virus

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