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What Matters Most On Monday, March 2, 2020

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People cast their ballot at a voting station in Jerusalem, during the Knesset Elections, on March 2, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

4,000 quarantined Israelis vote in special polling stations

Turnout highest since 2015 as voters defy predictions of apathy, virus fears

71% of Israelis vote, despite analysts’ prediction turnout could be depressed by fatigue for 3rd election in a year

President Reuven Rivlin casts his ballot at a voting station in Jerusalem, during the Knesset Elections, on March 2, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Rivlin feels ‘shame’ voters forced back to polls, slams ‘awful, grubby’ campaign

Blue and White party chief Benny Gantz and his wife Revital vote at a polling station in the city of Rosh Ha'ayin during parliamentary election on March 2, 2020 (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Election day 2020Gantz rejects mudslinging, Netanyahu dismisses virus fears as party leaders vote

By Raoul Wootliff

Joint List MK Ahmad Tibi voting in his hometown Taibe on March 2, 2020. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)

Election day 2020

Joint List predicts boost from Arab voters opposed to Trump plan, Netanyahu

Before casting ballot in his hometown Taibe, MK Ahmad Tibi says votes for his party will stop Likud leader from forming coalition; resident says Arabs ‘fed up’ with PM’s ‘racism’

Joint Arab List head Ayman Odeh courts the Jewish vote at a hip Tel Aviv cafe, February 2020. (Amir Ben-David/Zman Yisrael)

At a Tel Aviv café, the top Arab lawmaker Ayman Odeh courts the Jewish vote

By Amir Ben-David

A charm distributed by Shas political activists at election day polling stations, offering divine protection against the coronavirus, on March 2, 2020 (ToI staff)

Shas party slapped with fine for anti-virus charms

A voter and his daughter cast a ballot at a voting station in Tel Aviv, March 2, 2020 (Flash90)

Israel media review

Fool me thrice, shame on everyone: 7 things to know for March 2

By Joshua Davidovich

Israelis head back to the polls, hoping this time will be different but fearing that’s about as likely as the day passing without fake coronavirus news

Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Strength) party holds a press conference in Jerusalem on March 1, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bucking call to pull out of election, far-right party says: ‘We’re here to stay’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech at a Likud election rally in Ramat Gan, Feb 29, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Netanyahu claims his party is now a hair’s breadth away from Knesset majority

An Israeli under home quarantine arrives to cast a vote in a special polling station outside the city of Modiin, March 2, 2020 (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)

Election Day 2020

Out of quarantine, into the polling station. Then back to quarantine

‘The chance of the wrong person leading the country is worse than coronavirus’: 16 special polling stations across the country serve the 5,630 people in quarantine over virus fears

A special polling station for voters quarantined due to possible exposure to the new coronavirus, in Tel Aviv on March 1, 2020. ( Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Election day 2020Police on alert for fake coronavirus news as 3rd election in a year opens

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Workers disinfect a shop in Or Yehuda, after a man who works at the shop and returned from Italy tested positive for coronavirus, February 28, 2020. (Flash90)

Health Ministry urges Israelis to vote, says no need to worry about coronavirus

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and his wife Sara address supporters at the Likud party campaign headquarters in the coastal city of Tel Aviv early on March 3, 2020, after polls officially closed. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

ELECTION DAY AS IT HAPPENED: Likud surges, but PM’s path to coalition uncertain

Gantz expresses ‘disappointment’ with projected results, but doesn’t concede; Liberman rules out joining Netanyahu-led government; PM vows to heal nation’s rifts

4:22 am

This liveblog is closing, but live updates continue
3:29 am

Vote-counters said refusing to touch ballots cast by quarantined Israelis
3:21 am

Netanyahu aide: Opposition MKs will defect to right to support coalition

Analysis

Yossi Klein Halevi

With democracy at stake, voting today feels like an act of prayer

It’s because I feel so passionately about this election that I must remind myself how those voting for the other camp see Israeli reality

BlogWhat’s at stake in this election?

By Yedidia Stern

Ultra-orthodox man votes during elections in Bnei Brak, Israel, March 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Election day 2020Voting under way across Israel as Netanyahu, Gantz seek to break deadlock

Left-wing activists protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling on him to quit, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on February 29, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Uncourted and underrepresented, Israel’s female voters could decide election

For first time in 14 years, there won’t be a Knesset party led by a woman and little effort was made to address women’s issues – even though most of the undecided voters are women

A scene from 'State of Israel Anime,' in which Israeli politicians are turned into Japanese-speaking anime characters (Courtesy Frankendo)

Turning JapaneseOriginal anime video pokes fun at Israeli politicians

By Jessica Steinberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits at Ministry of Health Call Center in Kiryat Malachi on March 1, 2020. (Flash90)

PM reportedly involved in leak of Gantz aide’s tape, despite denying knowledge

Blue and White MK Pnina Tamano Shata takes a photo with supporters outside of a polling station in Kiryat Malachi on March 2, 2020. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Election day 2020

In southern Likud stronghold, young Ethiopians lose patience with status quo

While their parents have long voted for Netanyahu’s party, younger generation jaded by years of discrimination are demanding more from lawmakers of all parties

BlogI was wrong, and my Ethiopian-Israeli friends were right

By Micha Odenheimer

Israelis cast their ballots at a voting station in Jerusalem, during the Knesset Elections, on April 9, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud election observer faces criminal charges for alleged ballot stuffing

A screen capture from a video reportedly showing an Israeli helicopter attacking a vehicle in the Syrian Golan Heights on March 2, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Israel bombs vehicle in Syrian Golan after cross-border sniper attempt

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

No immediate reports of injuries; Syrian state-run news says attack carried out on civilian vehicle near Quneitra

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks from Israel via video link at the annual AIPAC conference in Washington on March 26, 2019. ( Jim Watson/AFP)

Netanyahu slams Bernie Sanders’ AIPAC ‘bigots’ jab as ‘libelous’

By Eric Cortellessa

Prime minister castigates Democratic frontrunner without naming him, tells pro-Israel lobby confab he will annex West Bank settlements, but willing to negotiate with Palestinians

Sanders: I am pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian; I want to bring people together

Biden tells AIPAC Israel’s policies undermining support among US youth

Gantz tells AIPAC he won’t let Israel ‘become a partisan issue’ in US

By Eric Cortellessa

The new kingmakers: Israel’s Arab citizens

The assault on one fifth of the population is backfiring: at stake is the value of equality that lies at the core of any democratic society

Moshe, Moyshe, Maurice, Morris: They do not all smell as sweet

When your name keeps alive the memory of your father’s uncle, you wear it like a badge of honor

Magen David Adom worker wears protective clothing as a preventive measure against the coronavirus seen outside the special emergency Call Center in Kiryat Ono on February 26, 2020. (Flash90)

3 more Israelis diagnosed with coronavirus, bringing total number of sick to 10

Two of the patients from a family recently returned from Italy, third worked with a person diagnosed with virus; all three exhibit light symptoms only

Soldier who worked at toy store identified as woman with virus

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Netanyahu vows support for El Al as it starts layoffs amid virus fears

Global coronavirus death toll tops 3,000 as second man dies in US

By Laurent THOMET

Illustrative: Kosher butchers picket outside a shop in the heart of a Jewish neighborhood on Orchard Street in New York's Lower East Side, October 4, 1937. (AP Photo)

Author interview

From Venice, to Nazis, to US inner cities — how the ghetto got its name

By Rich Tenorio

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Senior German politician Armin Laschet, center, the minister-president of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, attends the opening of his state's new cultural and business office in Tel Aviv, March 1, 2020. (Ralph Sondermann/ NRW)

Germany’s most populous state opens culture and trade office in Tel Aviv

By Raphael Ahren

Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi delivers his speech at the Paris Peace Forum Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019 in Paris. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP)

DR Congo leader to appoint Israel envoy within days, vows closer ties

By AFP

Then-Democratic US presidential candidate and former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg walks to speak with members of the media, March 1, 2020, in Plains, Georgia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Buttigieg ends historic presidential campaign, urges unity

By Thomas Beaumont

This undated photo provided by Italian news agency Ansa on February 23, 2020, shows Pope Pius XII blessing worshipers and attendees during the Urbi et Orbi apostolic blessing at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican (STRINGER / ANSA / AFP)

Vatican opens archives on highly controversial Holocaust-era pope

By Catherine MARCIANO

Ziad al-Nakhala, secretary-general of Islamic Jihad, delivering a televised speech on December 19, 2019. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Islamic Jihad chief will visit Russia at Moscow’s invitation, terror group says

Dr. Amit Goffer's UPnRIDE Robotics Ltd. has developed a system that enables paraplegics to stand up straight, walk and climb stairs. (Courtesy)

FDA clears Israeli robotic standing wheelchair for US sales

Maccabees guard Eitan Halpert (15) jumps for a layup in the second half of the Skyline Conference semifinal game against Farmingdale State College at Yeshiva University in New York, Feb. 27, 2020. Yeshiva won 74-69, advancing to the championship game against Purchase College. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Faith before basketball for Yeshiva University champions

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO

A man wearing a surgical masks looks on as the pack rides by during stage five the UAE Cycling Tour from al-Maroom to Jebel Hafeet, in Dubai on February 27, 2020. (Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)

Israeli cycling competitors depart UAE after coronavirus scare cuts event short

By AFP and ToI Staff

Carvings adorning the Piano of Siena, a 19th century instrument that disappeared for decades and was expected to fetch more than $1 million when put up for auction, seen in a home in the Israeli coastal city of Caesarea, February 18, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Seized by Nazis, found in Israel, ‘Immortal Piano’ expected to fetch $1m

By AFP

Pedestrians wearing face masks cross a square in western Tehran, Iran, February 29, 2020. Iran is preparing for the possibility of "tens of thousands" of people getting tested for the new coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases spiked again Saturday, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said, underscoring the fear both at home and abroad over the outbreak in the Islamic Republic. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Adviser to Iran’s supreme leader felled by coronavirus

By AP

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