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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 7, 2020

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An illustrative photo of a United Airlines plane taking off from Ben Gurion Airport on June 18, 2013. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel weighs barring Americans, quarantine for Israelis coming back from US

Official says government blocking move thus far over fears it could harm economic, political ties with United States; National Security Council to take over coronavirus decisions

People wearing face masks for fear of the coronavirus at Ben Gurion International airport, February 27, 2020. (Avshalom Shoshani/Flash90)

Two more airlines cancel flights to Israel amid coronavirus crisis

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)

US health officials say no known risk to AIPAC attendees despite infections

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Blue and White MK Asaf Zamir at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Blue and White, Yisrael Beytenu MKs vow to form government, say no 4th election

Asaf Zamir of Gantz’s party says it won’t break vow not to join a government with the Arab Joint List, but parties can cooperate on legislation both support

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

Gantz accuses PM of incitement: ‘The next political murder is around the corner’

New Rochelle Young Israel Synagogue in Westchester County, New York (Google Maps). Inset: Rabbi Reuven Fink (Courtesy)

First person

With G-d’s help, we’ll conquer this: A letter from the NY rabbi with coronavirus

‘I just found out I am infected,’ writes Rabbi Reuven Fink, whose New Rochelle congregation is quarantined. ‘I am doing reasonably well. Crisis is bringing out the best in people’

The author is tested for coronavirus while under quarantine in Israel. (Courtesy/Uriel Heilman)

First person

My family is among 80,000 Israelis living in quarantine. Here’s what it’s like

By Uriel Heilman

Palestinian men, one of them wearing a protective mask, walk out of the Angel Hotel hotel in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on March 6, 2020. (Musa Al Shaer/AFP)

15 Americans under quarantine at Bethlehem hotel linked to virus cases

Israeli bus driver infected after ferrying Greek tourists and stayed at hotel still in serious condition; mosques, churches in Ramallah sanitized as part of precautionary measures

Amid Bethlehem lockdown, Palestinians report 9 more coronavirus cases

Cruise ship off California in limbo after 21 test positive for coronavirus

By Joe McDonald

In shakeup, Trump names Congressman Mark Meadows his new chief of staff

By Zeke Miller and Jill Colvin

Tweets issued by Defense Minister Naftali Bennett's account in an apparent hack, March 7, 2020. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Defense minister’s Twitter hacked, shares Palestinian flag, Turkish anthem

Bennett’s ostensible post calling for ‘freedom for Palestine’ quickly deleted, password to account changed; cyber investigators said probing if his cellphone also compromised

The front page of the February 28 edition of al-Meshwar, an Arabic-language Canadian newspaper that published an article falsely accusing Israel of burying Palestinians alive and stealing their organs. (Screenshot)

Arabic paper in Canada says Israelis bury Palestinians alive, steal their organs

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Smoke trails from a rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists are seen over the Gaza Strip on February 24, 2020. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Gaza rocket fired toward Israel, falls short of the border

Batya Ivry-Friedman

Should we close our shuls for Purim?

When Esther removed her mask, the Divine light shone forth. Now is the time to be a light unto the nations

Israeli democracy is no longer a given – but there’s hope

While virulent rhetoric by Likud leaders undermines the legal system, Arab-Israelis have voted to be partners in a shared society

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)

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

An Iron Dome Missile Defense battery fires an intercepting missile on August 9, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US Army scraps $1b. Iron Dome project, after Israel refuses to provide key codes

By Jason Sherman

American military abandons plans to buy two more Israeli missile defense batteries, integrate system into existing air defenses, due to cyber vulnerabilities and other problems

Fatemeh Rahbar (Screen capture: YouTube)

2nd Tehran lawmaker dies from coronavirus as Iran death toll hits 145

By AFP and ToI Staff

Officials report 1,076 fresh cases in past 24 hours, says 16,000 people suspected of having virus hospitalized; Zarif accuses US of ‘medical terrorism’ through sanctions

Friday prayers across Middle East overshadowed by coronavirus fears

By Majeda El Batsh

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seeks absolution in fight against coronavirus

By Jon Gambrell

Shake it offHospital dance clips lighten virus gloom in hard-hit Iran

By AFP

A man unfurls a swastika at a Bernie Sanders rally in Arizona on March 5, 2020 (Screencapture/YouTube)

White nationalist unfurls Nazi flag at Bernie Sanders rally in Arizona

By ToI Staff and Agencies

‘It is horrific. It is beyond disgusting that, in the United States of America, there are people who would’ display Nazi symbols, Sanders says

Brazilian high school students display a Nazi salute in the northern city of Recife. (Screen shot/Instagram via JTA)

Brazilian high school students display Nazi salute to support a classmate

By Marcus M. Gilban

The soccer pitch of the GeuzenMiddenmeer team in Amsterdam (Google Maps via JTA)

Dutch little league soccer coach allegedly called Jewish player ‘cancer Jew’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A funerary stele of an ancient Yemenite Jew is inscribed with his name, Abd. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Prophets, priests, Jewish kings: Ancient Yemen made vivid in Jerusalem exhibit

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Former Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, center, and Deputy Prosecutor James Stewart, right, attend the first audience with the chief of Central African Republic's soccer federation Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Netherlands on January 25, 2019. (Koen Van Well/Pool photo via AP)

Israeli delegation said holding talks in US on countering ICC war crimes probes

Report says trip was planned to coincide with court’s approval of investigation on Afghanistan, in order to underscore joint US-Israeli interest in opposing The Hague

Israelis in Hebron parade through the streets in celebration of the Purim holiday on March 21, 2019. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

IDF to impose 4-day West Bank, Gaza closure on Palestinians for Purim holiday

By Judah Ari Gross

Congressman Ted Deutch at the Crypt of the Capitol, during the annual tour he gives to Camp Ramah alumni during the AIPAC Policy Conference, this year on March 1, 2020 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Reporter's Notebook

A Capitol Hill reunion with a camper who became a congressman

By Jessica Steinberg

A question-answer session was part of 'couples therapy' for Israeli and American journalists, and diplomatic staff, at a 'Valentine's Day' event for Israeli and Diaspora Jewry at the home of the consul general in New York. (Office of the Consul General of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

At NY consulate, Dr. Ruth gives couples therapy to Israeli and Diaspora Jews

By Emily Benedek

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Police at the scene where a father is suspected of carrying out stabbing attack on his wife and daughters, Hod Hasharon, March 6, 2020 (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Man suspected of killing baby daughter released from hospital, to be questioned

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman poses during a group picture ahead of Islamic Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, June 1, 2019 (AP /Amr Nabil)

Saudis reportedly detain three royal princes over ‘coup plot’

By AFP

US President Bill Clinton walks to the podium to deliver a short statement on his impeachment at the White House in Washington, Dec. 11, 1998. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Bill Clinton says Lewinsky affair was to ‘manage anxieties’

By Peter HUTCHISON

Mamdouh Hassan (R) shows a crocodile to visitors at his house in the Nubian village of Gharb Soheil, on the west bank of the Nile river off Egypt's southern city of Aswan, February 3, 2020. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

SmileEgypt’s Nubians tame crocodiles for selfie-snapping tourists

By Bassem Aboualabass

IDF soldier Yishai Halevi is seen in video filmed inside the luggage compartment of a moving bus on March 6, 2020. (Screen capture: Channel 12)

Police rescue IDF soldier trapped in luggage compartment of moving bus

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

Publisher cancels Woody Allen memoir after backlash over assault allegations

By Catherine TRIOMPHE

Forensic officers work on a blast site near the US Embassy in Tunis, Friday, March 6, 2020. Tunisian media are reporting that two people on a motorcycle have set off a blast near the US Embassy in the capital Tunis, the private Radio Mosaique said that five police officers were wounded and described it as a suicide attack. (AP Photo/Riadh Dridi)

Tunisia: Suicide bombs near US Embassy kill, injure police

By MEHDI EL AREM and BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA

Yeshiva forward Gabriel Leifer (4) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute guard John Wessel (25) battle for rebound during the first half in a first-round game at the men's Division III NCAA college basketball tournament at Johns Hopkins University's Goldfarb Gymnasium, March 6, 2020, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)

In first, Yeshiva University men’s basketball team wins NCAA tournament game

David Krumholtz attends the premiere of HBO's "The Deuce" third and final season in New York, Sept. 5, 2019. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Driving Mr. Lansky‘Numb3rs’ star says his grandfather was Meyer Lansky’s driver

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative: Iranian mourners carry the flag-draped coffin of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Hossein Hamedani during his funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, October 11, 2015. Hamedani, a senior commander of the Guard, was killed by Islamic State extremists near the Syrian city of Aleppo, according to a state TV report. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Senior member of Iran Guards reported killed in Syria

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