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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 4, 2020

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Officials count vote ballots from the elections at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 4, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

With 99% of votes counted, right-wing bloc slips to 58 seats, 3 shy of majority

As double envelopes are tallied and updated, Likud climbs to 36 and Blue and White to 33, at expense of Joint List and Shas; results could fluctuate further

Composite photo shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Defense Minister Benny Gantz, right. (Flash90)

Blue and White to push law barring indicted PM from serving

By Michael Bachner

Elections officials record ballots cast by Israelis under coronavirus quarantine, March 3, 2020. (Courtesy/Central Elections Committee)

Hazmat-clad election officials begin handling coronavirus votes ahead of count

A nurse controls the temperature of a woman in the a pre-triage medical tent in front of the Cremona hospital, in Cremona, northern Italy, on March 4, 2020 (Miguel MEDINA / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Italy coronavirus death toll hits 107, with more than 3,000 cases

Israel dramatically widens coronavirus rules, Germany warns that the outbreak has turned into a global pandemic

7:26 pm

10th person dies in Washington state from virus
7:14 pm

Biden wins Maine, his 10th Super Tuesday victory
7:12 pm

Man who is supposed to be quarantined attends meeting with Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu smiles after first exit poll results for the Israeli elections at his party's headquarters in Tel Aviv, March 3, 2020. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Israel media review

58 is the new 60 (which is the new 61): Six things to know for March 4

By Joshua Davidovich

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Pundits declare something based on incomplete data, and then are forced to eat their words, learning no lessons along the way

Elections 2020Polls apart: Likud boosted turnout where it needed to, as Blue and White stalled

By Raoul Wootliff

Yair Revivo votes in municipal elections at a polling station in the central city of Lod on October 22, 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Likud campaign chief credits get out the vote data app for huge gains

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz at the party's post-election event in Tel Aviv on March 3, 2020. (Gali Tibbon/AFP)

Appearing to dismiss unity, Gantz says he will do all possible to oust Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff

Centrist leader and others rule out joining a government headed by a premier on trial, amid rampant speculation of Likud contacts with potential ‘deserters’ to fill out coalition

AnalysisIf Gantz wants to win an election, he needs to learn to talk the talk

By Raphael Ahren

ExplainerAll about splits: How can MKs ‘cross the aisle,’ and what price would they pay?

By Assaf Shapira

Amalia and Yair, north Tel Aviv, election day March 2, 2020 (Screenshot)

Analysis

Netanyahu’s election day manna from heaven: The emblematic saga of Amalia, age 4

After Yair Lapid blundered across a delightful tot at a Tel Aviv polling station, the PM’s efficient hierarchy had all the tools, skills and reach to capitalize on it

Joint List candidate poised to become the first hijab-wearing MK

Rivlin likely to task Netanyahu with forming government on first day of trial

By Raoul Wootliff

Lackluster showing sparks calls for ‘soul searching’ in left-wing alliance

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Naftali Bennett and senior officials from Israel's security services, including Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, center-left, meet to discuss growing tensions with terror groups in the Gaza Strip at the military's Tel Aviv headquarters on February 23, 2020. (Tal Oz/Defense Ministry)

IDF general met with Netanyahu after visit to coronavirus-stricken Italy

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF operations chief Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva returned from Italy last month and met with the prime minister before the Health Ministry required self-quarantine

Illustrative: Maccabi Tel Aviv fans during the UEFA Champions League playoff round second leg soccer match between Switzerland's FC Basel 1893 and Maccabi Tel Aviv at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv on August 25, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Over 1,000 students, soccer fans isolated as 9th-grader diagnosed with virus

Office workers wearing protective face masks during a lunch break in Beijing, China, February 24, 2020. (AP/Andy Wong)

Israeli doctors volunteer to advise foreigners under coronavirus quarantine

Rafael Grossi, director general of International Atomic Energy Agency, at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, February 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Iran refusing to give answers on 3 undeclared nuclear sites, UN watchdog says

Confidential IAEA report reveals Tehran has tripled its stockpile of enriched uranium in violation of nuclear deal; agency head demands ‘clarifications’ on site flagged by Israel

Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Gharib Abadi speaks to the media after the IAEA board of governors meeting at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, July 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Iran says ‘no obligation’ to let UN nuclear watchdog into certain sites

By AFP

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a primary election night campaign rally in Los Angeles, March 3, 2020. (Chris Carlson/AP)

Analysis

Biden’s stunning turnabout remakes Democratic race

Former vice president scoops up victories on Super Tuesday as party members drift toward seeing him as best alternative to liberal firebrand Sanders

Then-Democratic US presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a primary election night campaign rally Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in Los Angeles, California. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Super Tuesday: Biden surges, Bloomberg sinks, Sanders wins California

By Steve Peoples and Will Weissert

Democratic US presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks during a primary election night rally, March 3, 2020, at Eastern Market in Detroit. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Warren’s future uncertain after loss in home state of Massachusetts

By Will Weissert and Zeke Miller

Democratic Representative Ted Deutch of Florida during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence, at Capitol Hill in Washington, February 6, 2019. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

Democratic congressman: Pence turned AIPAC speech into a ‘political rally’

By Eric Cortellessa

Veteran lawmaker Ted Deutch says VP’s address at pro-Israel confab sign that Trump team will politicize Jewish state throughout 2020

Democratic US presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg waves to supporters as he arrives to his campaign rally at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, March 3, 2020. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald via AP)

Bloomberg to reassess campaign after disappointing results — source

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and Alexandra Jaffe

US President Donald Trump gestures after speaking during the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting at The Venetian Las Vegas, April 6, 2019. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images/via JTA)

Trump to speak at Republican Jewish Coalition conference for 2nd straight year

Joining a community of women without hair

I ordered a wig in anticipation of my hair falling out; I won’t be wearing it during chemotherapy

Alexander Shapiro

I remain hopeful for Israeli politics and society

Hundreds of Israeli leaders and thousands of citizens see the value of working across sectoral lines towards a shared common future – together, we can accomplish so much

Iranian First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri in 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Vice president said infected, as Iran’s virus death toll climbs to 92

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Islamic Republic announces 15 new deaths; Friday prayers in major cities canceled amid outbreak; Saudi Arabia bans citizens and residents from performing Muslim pilgrimage

Virus is biological attack on China and Iran, Iranian civil defense chief claims

By ToI Staff and AFP

El Al slashes executive salaries, further cuts back flights to Europe

3 Jewish day schools in New York close due to coronavirus fears

Sunrise in the Canazei area, which hosts a kosher Passover package that is being forced to shut down due to coronavirus concerns. (Frank Bienewald/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

Passover in the time of coronavirus: Cancellations mount at kosher resorts

As the deadly virus spreads, impacting international travel, several programs from Italy to Thailand have already been cancelled and others are in jeopardy

Illustrative: Milan resident Ruben Golran had to curtail his bar mitzvah celebration because of the coronavirus. (Courtesy of the Golran family via JTA)

Syrian donates tree in Israel for Italian boy as virus scuppers bar mitzvah

Yeshiva University's Mendel Gottesman Library. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

2 Yeshiva University students in self-quarantine due to coronavirus

By JTA

More Headlines

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, right, speaking at the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, in Washington, DC, March 2, 2020 (Dimitrije Goll/Presidency of Serbia)

Serbia to open ‘official state office’ in Jerusalem as sign of ‘respect’ to Jews

By Raphael Ahren

Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei at an undisclosed southern city of Germany, September 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Judo champion who fled Iran over Israel fight gets new Olympic nationality

By AP

Jon Bon Jovi, left, and David Bryan, of Bon Jovi, arrive at the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on March 11, 2018, in Inglewood, California. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Bon Jovi’s David Bryan on Broadway again, livin’ on a prayer

By Mark Kennedy

Jaguariúna, a city in southern Brazil, was the scene of an anti-Semitic attack on a 57-year-old Jewish man. (Courtesy of the Jaguariuna municipality via JTA)

3 assault Jewish man in Brazil, tell him ‘Hitler should’ve killed more Jews’

By Marcus M. Gilban

This photo from the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency shows Syrian President Bashar Assad casting his ballot in the parliamentary elections, as his wife Asma, left, stands next to him, in Damascus, Syria, April 13, 2016. (Syrian Presidency via AP, file)

Syrian regime announces parliamentary elections in April

By AFP

A Boeing KC-46A (L) conducts tests in 2015 over Edwards Air Force Base in California -- the tanker program has faced significant delays (AFP Photo/Handout)

US State Department approves sale of problematic KC-46 air refuelers to Israel

By AFP

Eden Alene, Israel's 2021 Eurovision representative and winner of the reality show 'The Next Star,' during the final in Neve Ilan studio near Jerusalem on February 4, 2020. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Israel picks its 2020 Eurovision entry, sung in four languages

By Michael Bachner

The Mellanox Technologies building in Yokne'am, January 15, 2013. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Mellanox acquires network intelligence firm Titan IC

In this frame grab from Egyptian State Television, a blindfolded Hisham el-Ashmawi is escorted by Egyptian military officers and placed in a vehicle after being taken off a military plane at an airport in Cairo, Egypt, May 29, 2019 (Egyptian State Television via AP)

Egyptian army says high-profile Islamic jihadist executed

Film director Woody Allen attends a press conference at La Scala opera house, in Milan, Italy, on July 2, 2019. (Luca Bruno/AP)

Ronan Farrow dumps publisher for memoir deal with estranged father Woody Allen

By AFP

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