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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 5, 2020

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Electoral workers count ballots cast by Israelis under home quarantine after returning from coronavirus infected zones, in the central town of Shoham on March 4, 2020. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Israel 'in best state of all nations' -- PM

Israel dramatically widens coronavirus rules, adds EU nations to quarantine list

Foreigners from 5 countries who can’t home quarantine in Israel will be barred; no special rules announced for arrivals from US; handshakes advised against, large gatherings banned

Officials said to fume over ‘insane’ Health Ministry anti-virus restrictions

German airlines cancel Israel flights over virus restrictions

By AFP

Israel media reviewA plague on everyone’s houses: 6 things to know for March 5

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative: A Yeshiva student wears a face mask on the grounds of the university on March 4, 2020 in New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images via JTA)

Live updates (closed)

Virus cases in New York state double to 22

17th Israeli confirmed to be carrying COVID-19, along with seven Palestinian hotel workers in West Bank

6:51 pm

Jerusalem marathon: Runners can request refunds starting Sunday
6:37 pm

Virus cases in New York state double to 22
6:17 pm

17th Israeli diagnosed with coronavirus

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with the heads of the right-wing parties, following the results of the Israeli elections, leaving Netanyahu's Likud party with a lead of 36 seats, allowing him to try and form the next Israeli government, March 4, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM says votes for predominately Arab party don't count

Netanyahu claims Gantz ‘trying to steal vote’ with bill to block him from power

At meeting of right-wing chiefs amid failure to clinch majority, Netanyahu says planned legislation undermines democracy; Gantz: ‘Bibi, drink a glass of water and accept results’

Yesh Atid MK Ofer Shelah attends a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Blue and White MK: In knocking Joint List, PM ‘declared war’ on Jewish democracy

Blue and White chair Benny Gantz (C) meeting with leaders of the Joint List alliance, Ayman Odeh (L) and Ahmed Tibi, October 31, 2019. (Ofek Avshalom)

Odeh: We could back Gantz if he stops supporting ‘Jewish majority,’ annexation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a meeting with members of the right-wing and Orthodox parties. On the board, he writes that the Zionist right has won 58 seats in the elections, and the Zionist left 47 -- comprising Blue and White, Yisrael Beytenu and Labor-Gesher-Meretz. (Crossed out is "Left-wing camp - 54.) These figures exclude the Joint List of mainly Arab parties, which won 15 seats in the March 2 election (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Op-ed

In another Israeli election nail-biter, do only the Jewish votes really count?

Trying to bend arithmetic to his needs, Netanyahu says Joint List of Arab parties has no place in the equation when determining the people’s will… and opens a foundational debate

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters on the night of the Israeli elections, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

ToI podcastLISTEN: What’s on David Horovitz’s mind after once, twice, three times elections

Arab Israelis cast their votes during parliamentary election in the Bedouin town of Rahat near the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on March 2, 2020 (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Joint List captured almost total Arab vote, pollster calculates

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman sign a coalition agreement in the Knesset on May 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman says his party will back law that would bar Netanyahu from being PM

With Yisrael Beytenu’s support, legislation preventing indicted MK from leading government will have majority in Knesset; secular, right-wing slate also pushes law for term limits

Knesset legal adviser Eyal Yinon attends a Knesset committee meeting on June 6, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Knesset legal adviser hedges on bill to block Netanyahu premiership

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Gesher head Orly Levy-Abekasis (left), with Labor leader Amir Peretz in Tel Aviv on election night, March 2, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Gesher’s Levy-Abekasis denies claims she could defect to Netanyahu coalition

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

2020 elections

Final election results delayed due to ‘extra checks’ in some 20 polling stations

By Raoul Wootliff

With 99.9% of ballots counted, Likud has 36 seats to Blue and White’s 33; results unlikely to fluctuate further

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 11, 2018. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool)

3 days after election, Austria’s Kurz the only world leader to congratulate PM

By Raphael Ahren

The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, February 9, 2011. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Authorities said to weigh limiting court hearings due to virus fears

An ambulance carrying an Israeli man who returned from Italy and tested positive for coronavirus arrives at Tel Hashomer Hospital, February 27, 2020 (Flash 90)

Israel on verge of uncontrollable outbreak of virus, warns foreign minister

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israel Katz defends strict travel limits, says aim is to save lives, prevent a spread that could see country isolated; denies decision to leave US off list is politically motivated

Illustrative: Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball team against Hapoel Jerusalem in the National Cup final game in Jerusalem, on February 17, 2017. (Flash90)

Maccabi Tel Aviv plays in front of fans after Spain trip, violating virus rules

Screen capture from video of a passenger leaving a flight from Tel Aviv to Berlin after the Health Ministry broadened self-quarantine demands for travelers, March 4, 2010. (Twitter)

As Israel rolls out virus rules, dozens rush to exit planes heading for Europe

By Stuart Winer

Shayna Abramson

Reading the megillah in quarantine

The rabbis are paying attention to scientific research and prioritizing health — which is exactly what I’d expect and… I’m pleasantly surprised

Netanyahu did not ‘win’ the election

Bibi doesn’t have 61 seats needed to triumph in an Israeli election. Why are TV and radio spinning him as the winner?

The mask I wore was my name

Being called Heather Dean allowed me to witness my fellow college students’ unguarded moments of casual anti-Semitism

No, the tycoons are not driving up prices in Israel

More regulation and busting up monopolies is not the answer: Israeli prices are high because costs are high

A young couple wearing protective masks are greeted upon arrival at Ben Gurion Airport on March 4, 2020 (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

Greece says 23 tourists who recently visited Israel sick with COVID-19

By AFP and Adam Rasgon

Authorities in Athens say group was in Israel, West Bank and Egypt on February 19-27; at West Bank hotel where they stayed, 4 people may be infected

People stroll through the Mamilla Mall in Jerusalem on March 13, 2013. (Sarah Schuman/FLASH90)

Israelis in contact with US tourist in Jerusalem ordered into virus quarantine

By Stuart Winer

CoronApp, the new Health Ministry app for info on the coronavirus in Israel (Courtesy)

New Health Ministry app is one-stop shop for all things coronavirus

Illustrative: An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man kisses the mezuzah as he exits a synagogue in Jerusalem, August 5 2008. (Olivier Fitoussi /FLASH90)

Coronavirus takes toll on religious life as rabbis advise against ritual kissing

By Stuart Winer

Chief rabbi urges keeping lips off hands touching mezuzahs; European rabbinical group bans those feeling unwell from synagogue, even to recite the Kaddish prayer for the dead

Purim parades, sporting events scrapped over coronavirus fears

Bank of Israel says virus yet to damage economy, but ready to step in

El Al axes hundreds as carrier feels crunch from coronavirus crisis

American, Israeli troops deploy a Patriot missile defense battery during the 2018 Juniper Cobra air defense exercise in March 2018. (US Army)

IDF halts major air defense drill with US as coronavirus restrictions intensify

By Judah Ari Gross

Military calls off ‘Juniper Cobra’ — one of its largest exercises of the year — as some of the American troops came from Germany, which was recently added to travel advisory list

A Magen David Adom ambulance service 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)

IDF bars all foreign travel for troops, considers next steps to confront virus

By Judah Ari Gross

US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, left, and Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi, right, at a ceremony at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, November 24, 2019. (IDF)

IDF chief calls off US visit out of coronavirus fears

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Attendees meet with Nefesh B’Nefesh staff at the Mega Aliyah Event in Teaneck, New Jersey, March 10, 2019 (Shahar Azran)

Nefesh B’Nefesh cancels New Jersey event due to coronavirus concerns

Annual aliya fair of some 1,250 people in Teaneck, NJ, scrapped after local man diagnosed with potentially deadly virus

US Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2020 Policy Conference in Washington, DC, March 2, 2020. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

AIPAC alerts participants that some were in contact with coronavirus patient

Yeshiva University, New York. (Wikimedia Commons)

Yeshiva University cancels classes after student confirmed to carry COVID-19

By JTA

Tourists and pilgrims visit the Manger Square outside the Church of the Nativity in the biblical West Bank city of Bethlehem on December 24, 2019. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

PA: 4 people at Bethlehem-area hotel may have virus, Nativity church to shutter

Palestinian Tourism Ministry decides hotels throughout West Bank will stop welcoming tourists as of Friday

IDF demolishes West Bank homes of 2 suspected killers of Rina Shnerb

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Amazon to provide free shipping to Palestinians after PA complaint

Swiss diplomat tapped to lead UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees

By AFP and ToI Staff

Kids at the Chabad-run preschool in Burlington, Vermont, play in the yard. (Courtesy of Draizy Junik/ via JTA)

4th-generation Vermont Orthodox Jew starts state’s first Jewish day school

By Josefin Dolsten

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Mandelblit assails justice minister for seeking to subvert legal system

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. speaks during abortion rights rally outside of the US Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, March 4, 2020. The Supreme Court is taking up the first major abortion case of the Trump era Wednesday, an election-year look at a Louisiana dispute that could reveal how willing the more conservative court is to roll back abortion rights. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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