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What Matters Most On Friday, March 6, 2020

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El Al planes at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, March 16, 2018. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

El Al cancels flights to San Francisco, Europe amid ‘unprecedented’ virus crisis

Israeli airline, hit hard by spread of coronavirus, combines flights, will use smaller planes as global travel slumps

A firefighter disinfects a traditional shopping center to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in northern Tehran, Iran, Friday, March, 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Virus kills 3,400 worldwide, with 100,000 cases upending lives, livelihoods

By Matt Sedensky and Angela Charlton

A Palestinian man wearing a protective mask as a measure of protection against the coronavirus COVID-19, stands in front of the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, ahead of the Friday prayers, on March 6, 2020. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Number of sick with virus in Israel up to 21; one patient in serious condition

A monitor displays world-wide statistics relating to the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus during a visit of Vice President Mike Pence to the Washington State Emergency Operations Center, Thursday, March 5, 2020 at Camp Murray in Washington state. (AP/Ted S. Warren)

Coronavirus outbreak already at pandemic levels, Israeli health official warns

By Nathan Jeffay

Health Ministry’s Asher Shalmon says situation around the world points to an emerging ‘full-blown international event,’ says vaccine a year away despite claims

Israel begins restrictions on visitors from 5 European nations over virus fears

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange continues slide as virus outbreak batters global markets

‘This is not a drill,’ WHO says, rallying global fight against virus

By AP

Police at the scene where a father is suspected of carrying out stabbing attack on his wife and daughters, Hod hasharon. March 06, 2020 (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Baby dead, mom and toddler seriously hurt in stabbing attack; dad is suspect

Father said to tell police: ‘I wanted to kill them’; police open probe into Hod Hasharon incident; man lightly wounded after suicide attempt, reportedly arrested, taken to hospital

New Rochelle Young Israel Synagogue in Westchester County, New York (Google Maps)

Rabbi at synagogue at center of NY outbreak diagnosed with coronavirus

By JTA and ToI Staff

Rabbi Reuven Fink, who also teaches at Yeshiva University, has been in quarantine after he was in contact with congregant who tested positive, institution says in tweet

Yeshiva University team shunned by hotel over virus fears

By AP

As Purim approaches, coronavirus crashes Judaism’s biggest party

March of the Living fate unclear as Poland gets first coronavirus case

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Palestinian security forces wear masks and disinfect their hands next to a hotel that has been sealed off in the town of Beit Jala, south of Jerusalem, following confirmed cases of coronavirus COVID-19, on March 5, 2020. (Musa Al Shaer/AFP)

PA shutters West Bank, Israel quarantines Bethlehem after coronavirus found

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian premier orders all schools closed, traffic between cities curtailed, after seven cases confirmed; Israeli and Palestinian officials hold meeting to coordinate response

People wearing masks visit the Church of the Nativity, revered as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on March 5, 2020. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Palestinians confirm 7 coronavirus cases, declare tourist ban

By Majeda El Batsh

Iranian fire fighters and municipality workers disinfect a street in the capital Tehran for corona virus COVID-19 on March 5, 2020 (STR / AFP)

Iran: 124 dead from virus including FM’s adviser, could use force to stop travel

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Ousting Netanyahu may turn out to be Gantz’s biggest mistake

The Blue and White leader may be set to finally pry the Likud head from the prime minister’s chair — and lose the premiership in the process

Blue and White party leader MK Benny Gantz at an election rally in Ramat Gan on February 25, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman speaks at a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 19, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Liberman may recommend Gantz for PM, will support bill to disqualify Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff and Jacob Magid

Blue and White parliament member Moshe Ya'alon arrives to the Blue White party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on election night, March 3, 2020 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Blue and White’s Ya’alon said to support minority coalition backed by Joint List

Israelis cast their ballot at a voting station in Jerusalem, March 2, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Full election resultsOver 56% of the votes went to Likud and Blue and White

Final results show Likud with 36 seats, Netanyahu bloc short of majority with 58

By Raoul Wootliff

Likud gains 235,554 more votes than in last election, confirmed as largest party ahead of Blue and White with 33 seats

An Israeli man casts his ballot at a polling station in Rosh Haayin, on March 2, 2020 (Jack Guez/AFP)

Likud says will petition High Court to allow it to fully review vote count

This combination of pictures created on March 02, 2020 shows
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden delivers remarks at his primary night election event in Columbia, South Carolina.(JIM WATSON and RINGO CHIU / AFP)

People of the PodLISTEN: A tale of two elections as US, Israel have some serious choices to make

A laborer sorts election posters bearing the portrait of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Likud party's electoral campaign headquarters in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on March 2, 2020. -(Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Interview

58 is not enough: A Likud minister makes peace with life in opposition

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Senior politician, seen as close to Netanyahu, says Gantz-led government would crumble within a year under internal discord and constant attack, positioning Likud for a comeback

Benny Gantz, head of the Blue and White party, during an elections campaign event in Petah Tikva on March 13, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Investigation inevitable in alleged Likud-linked tracking of Gantz – report

Head of the Israel Beyteinu party Avigdor Liberman speaks with the media during a faction meeting in the Knesset on November 25, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Likud demands corruption probe into Liberman after he backs Netanyahu ouster

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during an inauguration ceremony of a new neighborhood in the Kiryat Arba settlement on February 23, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Analysis

Vote count shows settlers came out in droves for Netanyahu; Yamina, Otzma fell

While some attribute bump for Likud to annexation pledges, others say it had to do with allegiance to premier, who is seen as being under attack

US said threatening to okay annexation if Palestinians don’t resume negotiations

In first, UN settlement blacklist used in Norway to urge Israel divestment

By AFP and ToI Staff

US denies that it attempted to communicate with Hamas terror group

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 ends 2020 presidential bid after Super Tuesday rout

By Will Weissert

Progressive US senator has been outperformed by Bernie Sanders, had poor showing this week that included losing her home state of Massachusetts

Supporters along with two US based officials for the Mike Bloomberg campaign gather on March 3, 2020, in Tafuna village near Pago Pago, American Samoa (AP Photo/Fili Sagapolutele)

Bloomberg’s hope for Super Tuesday splash lands in Pacific

By Michelle L. Price and FILI SAGAPOLUTELE

Purim and the present panic

Our ordered reality is threatened by a super-virus, politics, and our fear of the unknown. I say we embrace that precariousness and rise on up out of the chaos

Andrew Silow-Carroll

‘Hunters’ plays unacceptable games with the truth

There is absolutely no need to concoct sadistic fantasy beyond what we know of the Nazis’ gruesome acts of torture; the truth of the Holocaust is hard enough to assimilate

Homophobia is the real abomination

There is no sin in being gay, just as there is no mitzvah in being straight, because both just are

The jewel in the clouds

Finding most stones for the high priest’s breastplate in the wilderness may have required divine intervention, but turquoise is there in the Sinai Desert for the taking (Tetzaveh)

A still from 'Broken Bird,' the first film made by Rachel Harrison Gordon. (Courtesy)

Interview

Biracial Jew portrays ostracism as a child in NJ in Berlin film festival debut

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Illustrative - Moroccan police stand guard in Jemaa el-Fnaa, the central market plaza in Marrakech, Morocco, November 10, 2016. (Getty Images)

In further sign of detente, Israel attends anti-terrorism conference in Morocco

By Raphael Ahren

View of Jerusalem's Nayot neighborhood on January 10, 2015, after a snowy day. Many properties in this neighborhood have been sold by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch to private investors. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Jerusalem court rules in favor of developers in case of former church land

Barbed wire is seen at the memorial site of the former Nazi concentration camp 'Neuengamme' in Hamburg, northern Germany, on May 4, 2010. (apn/Axel Heimken)

Former Nazi camp guard, 94, who lived in US for years, to be deported

By AP

John T. Earnest appears for his arraignment hearing on April 30, 2019, in San Diego facing charges of murder and attempted murder in the April 27 assault on the Chabad of Poway synagogue, which killed one woman and injured three people. (Nelvin C. Cepeda/San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, Pool)

Prosecutors to seek death penalty for Poway synagogue shooter

By AP

English artist Morrissey (Courtesy Donniie Knutson)

How soon is now?Ex-Smiths frontman Morrissey returning to Israel for 2 shows

By Jessica Steinberg

Guy Aon showing his photo developing technology that allows him to place photos on the body, in a kind of flexible body mask (Courtesy Guy Aon)

Make a faceNeed a Purim mask? Try one in 3D

By Jessica Steinberg

A patient gets treatment at the Limb Reconstruction Center at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

New ward provides hope for Gazans coping with gunshot wounds

A smoke-filled street in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza after a huge fire broke out on March 5, 2020. (Screenshot: Al-Aqsa TV)

10 Palestinians die, dozens injured after blaze breaks out in central Gaza

Illustrative. A criminal in handcuffs. (Yakobchuk Olena/ iStock, by Getty Images)

Man arrested for attack on anti-Netanyahu activist outside president’s house

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

Knesset legal adviser to step down after spat over PM’s cases

Illustrative: Magen David Adom ambulances at the scene of a deadly traffic accident, February 17, 2020. (Courtesy Magen David Adom)

3 killed in car crash in northern West Bank

In this November 1, 2019 file photo, Turkish and Russian soldiers patrol near the town of Darbasiyah, Syria. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)

Russia, Turkey announce ceasefire in northwestern Syria

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and Suzan Fraser

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