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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 8, 2020

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Empty departure hall at Ben Gurion Airport on March 4, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israeli officials divided over quarantine for arrivals from US

Tourism minister: Decision must be made in cooperation with US; reported conflict said to lead to delay for statement on isolation for some travelers from the US

Netanyahu calls virus ‘pandemic’ as Israel plans restrictions on some US flights

Doctors union head: Keeping borders open could help Israel fight spread of virus

By Nathan Jeffay

Netanyahu plans to have teenagers disinfect railway, bus stations

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)

Condition of coronavirus patient in Israel deteriorates further

East Jerusalem man, 38, suffers from acute pneumonia and high fever and is said to be fighting for his life in Tiberias hospital after chauffeuring group of infected Greek tourists

Illustrative: A group of American Birthright tourists visits the Dead Sea on July 10, 2015. (Matt Hechter/Flash90)

Birthright calls off trips to Israel over coronavirus concerns

Travelers wearing protective masks arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv,, Feb. 27, 2020. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Four more Israelis diagnosed with coronavirus, bringing total to 25

People wear masks as they walks inside Vittorio Emanuele II gallery, in downtown Milan, Italy, Sunday, March 8, 2020. (AP/Antonio Calanni)

Live updates (closed)

Italy now second to China in number of COVID-19 cases

By Joshua Davidovich

Authorities say the country now has 7,375 cases, 62 more than South Korea, as northern Lombardy region hard hit by outbreak

7:31 pm

Report ups number of quarantined toddlers to 18
7:17 pm

Italian prisoners riot over coronavirus restrictions
7:12 pm

Entire daycare forced into quarantine after visit by sick dad

An elderly man wearing a protective masks reads from the Quran while seated in a mosque being sterilized by Palestinian Authority health workers in the West Bank city of Ramallah to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, March 7, 2020. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Israel media review

All is fair in love and coronavirus: 7 things to know for March 8

By Joshua Davidovich

There’s a bit of confusion about Israel’s policies regarding the virus and the US, and others see inconsistencies in the resolve to win the battle in the West Bank and elsewhere

IDF holds major ceremony despite warnings of coronavirus spread

Israelis join global panic buying amid coronavirus fears

By AFP and ToI Staff

US Christian pilgrims quarantined near Bethlehem turn to prayer, kinship

By Josef Federman

Illustrative: View of screens showing falling stocks at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange plummets as coronavirus fears deepen

Netanyahu promises emergency aid for vital industries; finance minister calls on businesses to allow working from home; airports authority announces cutbacks

El Al's new Jerusalem of Gold Boeing 787 Dreamliner arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport, September 19, 2019. (Flash 90)

El Al reports huge expected losses due to coronavirus travel slump

Three commuters, center, wear masks as they walk through the World Trade Center transportation hub, March 4, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

ExplainerWhat really works to keep coronavirus away?

Illustrative: a Jewish education program utilizes a musical Zoom session. (Courtesy of SAR Academy)

Analysis

How one New York school switched to online learning during coronavirus closure

SAR High School is at the center of the outbreak in New York City, which has spread to more than a dozen people in and around the Orthodox community of Westchester County

A sparse international departure terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) as concern over the coronavirus grows on March 7, 2020 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

As coronavirus cases rise, New York state declares emergency

By AFP

A frozen box of flu virus strains is seen at the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health, on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, in Bethesda, Md. 2018 was the 100th anniversary of the Spanish Flu pandemic. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Coronavirus follows a century of epidemics, dating back to the Spanish Flu

By Olivier THIBAULT and Jean-Philippe CHOGNOT

Workers disinfect the shrine of the Shiite Saint Imam Abdulazim to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Shahr-e-Ray, south of Tehran, March, 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran reports 49 new coronavirus deaths, highest single-day toll

By AFP and ToI Staff

New count brings the number of those killed by the virus in the country since mid-February to 194; Iran Air announces suspension of all flights to Europe until further notice

The deserted St Mark square in Venice on March 5, 2020. (Andrea Pattaro/AFP)

Italy quarantines 16 million people in coronavirus-hit north

In this image from video, provided by the California National Guard, a helicopter carrying airmen with the 129th Rescue Wing flies over the Grand Princess cruise ship off the coast of California, March 5, 2020. (California National Guard via AP)

US cruise ship allowed to dock; first COVID-19 case reported in Washington, DC

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman in the Knesset, February 3, 2014. (FLASH90)

Liberman said to loathe Netanyahu for anonymous legal attacks on him, his kids

Yisrael Beytenu chief said to tell confidants PM committed ‘unforgivable sin’ by assailing him and family members with complaints, says ‘no chance’ of political alliance

Blue and White party chairman MK Benny Gantz, right and Yisrael Beytenu party chairman Avigdor Liberman give a joint statement to the media after a meeting for coalition negotiations at the Kfar Maccabia Hotel in Ramat Gan, on November 14, 2019. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Liberman sets out secularist conditions for joining coalition; Gantz agrees

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

‘No chance’ election results will change, says official in charge of vote count

Prime Minister and leader of the Likud Party Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement in Petah Tikva on March 7, 2020. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Three short of majority, Netanyahu says he won election, is ‘not going anywhere’

At ’emergency meeting,’ PM accuses Blue and White, Yisrael Beytenu of trying to steal vote with bill to disqualify him: ‘Even in Iran, they don’t ban you after elections’

Mtanes Shihadeh, leader of the Balad faction of the Joint List, at an election campaign event, August 20, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Head of Arab nationalist faction in Joint List sets terms for supporting Gantz

Joint List chair MK Ayman Odeh speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset on November 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Report: PM’s associates promise benefits for Arabs if Joint List opposes Gantz

Blue and White party chief Benny Gantz holds a press conference at Kfar Maccabiah on March 7, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz: Again and again, Israelis have ruled the Netanyahu era is over

Blue and White chief says he plans to quickly form ‘strong, stable government’; Liberman said to tell confidants once Gantz is tasked with forming coalition, PM will bleed support

Blue and White party chairman Benny Gantz campaigns at the Grand Canyon Mall in Haifa on election day, March 2, 2020. (Flash90)

Security upped for Benny Gantz after online death threats

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz holds a press conference in Ramat Gan, February 26, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz aide asks AG to investigate alleged campaign phone tracking

Coral reefs near the Red Sea city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 13, 2008. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

Scientists call for ‘urgent’ regional effort to save Red Sea coral

Reefs near Eilat may be world’s most resilient, but they need management as climate change threatens marine ecosystems, international team of researchers says

Dr. Lior Baruch. (Irene Axman)

Interview

Doctor sees ‘feminist medicine’ as cure for medical gender discrimination

By Ira Tolchin Immergluck

Israel’s ’overreaction’ to the Coronavirus is actually perfect

The response, including forced quarantine for tens of thousands, will end up saving a lot of lives, as well as a lot of money

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Judaism was the loser in these elections

Religious voices in the political discourse backed corruption and division as if the Torah has nothing to say about any of this

The woman of the quiet rebellion

In the story of Purim, Vashti’s only crime is saying no to a man in a position of power. It’s a tale as old as time

Letter from Tokyo: Escaping isolation in a time of crisis

As streets — and synagogue — empty out, virtual study and services are replacing those all important face-to-face gatherings

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A Nazi photo album bound with human skin identified by researchers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. (Courtesy/Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum)

Researchers find Nazi photo album bound with human skin

The International School for Refugee Children on the Greek island of Lesbos after it burned down on March 8, 2020. (Courtesy)

Fire damages refugee center founded by Israelis on Greek island; arson suspected

By ToI Staff and AP

Barak Ben-Ami with his wife and two daughters. (Courtesy)

Father suspected of killing baby daughter remanded for 10 days

A new model of Puma shoes has been compared online to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler (YouTube screenshot)

Stepping in itNew sneakers claimed to resemble Adolf Hitler

Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich at a URWP party conference in Lod, July 22, 2019. (Flash90)

Smotrich appears to post support for expulsion of Arab Israelis

Yeshiva forward Michael Bixon hugs forward Daniel Katz, back to camera, after the team's 102-83 win over Penn State-Harrisburg in the second round of the NCAA men's Division III college basketball tournament, March 7, 2020, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Yeshiva University basketball team reaches first Sweet 16

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO

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