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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 10, 2020

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Workers wearing protective suits disinfect a bus as a preventive measure amid fears over the spread of the coronavirus, in Tel Aviv on March 9, 2020, . (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Mapping spread of virus, Health Ministry says 58 now infected

From Jerusalem supermarkets and synagogues to Tel Aviv polling stations and cafes, list of areas where those sick with COVID-19 have visited grows longer

Workers wearing protective suits disinfect a bus as a preventive measure amid fears over the spread of the coronavirus, in Tel Aviv on March 9, 2020, . (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Condition of Israel’s sickest coronavirus patient stabilizes

Illustrative: An IDF medic prepares to take blood from a soldier, in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

As virus concerns deepen, IDF bars all soldiers returning from abroad from bases

By Judah Ari Gross

The empty departure halls of Ben Gurion Airport on March 8, 2020. (Flash90)

Fighting virus, Israel orders all arrivals from abroad into 2-week quarantine

Measure to be in place for 2 weeks, not applied retroactively; foreigners given 3-day reprieve, then will be allowed in only if they can show they have way to isolate for 14 days

US Vice President Mike Pence and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Residence, in Jerusalem, January 22, 2018. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Pence urged Netanyahu to apply quarantine to all arrivals, not just US — report

Illustrative: South Korean tourists wearing face masks for protection from the coronavirus wait for their flight at Ben Gurion International Airport on February 24, 2020. (Flash90)

Tourists will need to leave Israel as part of new travel restrictions

Passengers wearing masks to help protect against coronavirus arrive at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

People are completely undefended against it - Hadassah prof

Expert: COVID-19 virus has caught humanity off guard, unlikely to wane in summer

By Nathan Jeffay

Coronavirus in a different league from flu, Israeli officials say; predict quarantine rules will remain in force far beyond initial 2 weeks; Netanyahu at odds with Trump on policy

Illustrative: Arab and Israeli children are seen at the Max Rayne Hand in Hand school for bilingual education in Jerusalem, February 14, 2012. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90/File)

Jewish Arab school puts some staff, pupils in quarantine, denies total lockdown

By Stuart Winer

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy dressed in a costume as an elderly ultra-Orthodox Jew walks by an elderly ultra-Orthodox Jew (who is not in costume), two days ahead of the official holiday of Purim, in the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem, on March 8, 2020. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Heal thyselfRabbis dispense advice, some even factual, for handling outbreak

By Michael Blum and Hossam Ezzedine

El Al Airlines' Boeing 737s are pictured on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, March 10, 2020. (Jack Guez/ AFP/ File)

Ben Gurion Airport on ‘Yom Kippur footing’ after sweeping virus restrictions

‘We’ve never seen anything like this,’ says head of workers union as manpower reduced by 70%, half of main terminal shuttered

After quarantine order expanded, Israeli charter airlines cancel flights abroad

Already clobbered, travel industry bemoans ‘death blow’ quarantine order

Bank of Israel expects only minor hit to economy, end of virus crisis by July

The front seats of a Jerusalem public bus are blocked off on March 10, 2020, as part of preventive measures amid fears over the spread of a new coronavirus. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Health Ministry announces 3 new coronavirus cases, bringing total number to 61

All three individuals returned recently from trips abroad, with two of the men in their 60s and another 29-years-old; one of them violated quarantine order for 3 days

7:23 pm

Vatican closes to tourists -- but not the faithful
7:09 pm

Police to use immigration authority statistics to enforce quarantine
7:01 pm

Health Ministry announces 3 new coronavirus cases, with numbers expected to rise

The front seats of a Jerusalem public bus are blocked off on March 10, 2020, as part of preventive measures amid fears over the spread of a new coronavirus. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel media review

Gone quarantinin’: 6 things to know for March 10

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel seals off its borders to protect itself from the coronavirus threat as some fret about economic collapse and what’s really behind the move

Despite coronavirus, event organizers say the show must go on (later)

By Jessica Steinberg

Virus outbreak disrupts joyous Purim fest but some improvise

Jordan restricts use of West Bank crossing amid coronavirus fears

In the past 24 hours site was visited by 3 million people

Updated every minute, 17-year-old whiz kid’s coronavirus site used by millions

By Renee Ghert-Zand

A self-taught computer maven from Seattle, Avi Schiffmann uses web scraping technology to accurately report on developing pandemic, while fighting misinformation and panic

As virus closes in on Trump, he remains focused on calming spooked markets

Trump confidants in quarantine after exposure to coronavirus patient

AIPAC caught in the middle of coronavirus quandary

Participants in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks its annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on May 1, 2019. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Some survivors fear coronavirus has killed a last chance to march at Auschwitz

By Nathan Jeffay

March of the Living president Phyllis Greenberg Heideman says decision to delay annual event is particularly painful coming in the 75th year since Auschwitz liberation

Mourners wearing face masks and gloves pray over the body of former politburo official in the Revolutionary Guard Farzad Tazari, who died Monday after being infected with the new coronavirus, at the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery just outside Tehran, Iran, March 10, 2020 (Mahmood Hosseini/Tasnim News Agency via AP)

Iran says 54 more killed by new virus, will recognize dead medics as ‘martrys’

By Nasser Karimi and Amir Vahdat

Police officers and soldiers check passengers leaving from Milan main train station, Italy, Monday, March 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Italian PM locks down entire country to stop virus; 60 million told to stay home

By Colleen Barry and ANTONIO CALANNI

Since when do Israelis follow directions?!

The Purim story is a good example of both the trust required to heed another’s word and the level of responsibility we feel for our brethren — even in quarantine

Jennifer Raskas

Taking control of the narrative: Writing in the Scroll of Esther

Through writing, Esther takes ownership of her story and the story of Purim that the Jewish people will tell for generations to come

When Gantz told a joke and Liberman made me cry

No party has yet discarded the politics of mutual hatred in favor of the multicultural, cooperation that is relevant to me and my young Russian-speaking Israeli peers

The political lessons of the Book of Esther

Mordechai refuses to bow to Haman in protest of the government’s new megalomaniac idolatry that contradicts both the people’s interests and those of God

Lapid: Joint List-backed minority coalition the only alternative to 4th election

Blue and White MK defends bid to woo Arab support, while admitting it’s ‘not the government we wanted’; says another national vote would be a ‘catastrophe’

Blue and White MK Yair Lapid speaks at the Maariv conference in Herzliya, on February 26, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Joint List rebukes Gantz for calling only 3 of 4 of its sub-faction leaders

Blue and White may oust 2 renegade MKs as Gantz-Liberman alliance moves forward

Arab MK files complaint after his face is pasted on yeshiva’s Purim piñata

Israel Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks at an event in Glilot, on December 20, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Op-ed

Avigdor Liberman, torturer of the Israeli electorate, owes us an explanation

He could have crowned Netanyahu as PM in April, and either Netanyahu or Gantz in September. If he’s finally getting off the fence now, why did he condemn us to a year’s deadlock?

Officials count the remaining ballots at the Knesset in Jerusalem, two days after the general elections, early on March 4, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Central Elections Committee approves Israel’s final vote results. Nobody won

President Reuven Rivlin meets with Joint List members Ayman Odeh (3rd-R), Ahmad Tibi (2nd-R) and Mansour Abbas (R) during consultations on who should be tasked with forming the next government, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on September 22, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Rivlin to speed up coalition consultations due to twin political, health crises

Illustration by Avi Katz

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By Haim Watzman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a videoconference with European leaders in order to discuss challenges and cooperation in dealing with the coronavirus, at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on March 9, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court rejects Netanyahu bid to postpone trial, requires him to attend next week

PM had sought 45-day postponement; will have to be present at the Jerusalem District Court when charges are read out on March 17

Dana Benvenisti-Gabay, center, sits across delegates from Liberia and Kuwait at an anti-terrorism conference in Morocco, March 2020. (MFA)

Israel uses anti-terror conference in Morocco to rally world against Iran

By Raphael Ahren

While Marrakesh summit focused on al-Qaeda, Jerusalem and Gulf states made ‘joint effort’ to stress threats emanating from Hezbollah, Foreign Ministry’s Dana Benvenisti-Gabay says

Director general of International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, speaks before the start of the IAEA board of governors meeting at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, March 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

UN atomic watchdog says Iran still providing access to nuclear sites

By Philipp Jenne and David Rising

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks after a meeting of the Palestinian leadership, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, January 22, 2020. (AP Photo/ Majdi Mohammed)

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NY woman charged with hate crime for attacking Israeli college student

In this Jan. 19, 2020 file photo, Britain's Prince Andrew accompanies Queen Elizabeth II to attend a church service at St Mary the Virgin, in Hillington, England. (Joe Giddens/PA via AP)

Prince Andrew shuts door on cooperation in Epstein case

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One-time Washington Redskins teammates Adrian Peterson and Josh Norman ran obstacle courses with Israeli soldiers and took Krav Maga lessons while on a visit to Israel. (IDF Twitter via JTA)

Working on defense2 NFL players train with the Israeli army

Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign rally at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., Sunday, March 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Phillip Agnew, who called Zionism ‘racist,’ named Sanders campaign adviser

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Billionaire bids anxious farewell to a Picasso

By John Leicester

In this Feb. 21, 2020, file photo, Harvey Weinstein leaves the courthouse during jury deliberations in his rape trial in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Weinstein lawyers seek mercy after his ‘historic’ fall

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