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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 11, 2020

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Gesher party leader MK Orly Levy-Abekasis registers her party's slate for the coming elections, February 21, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Meretz leaders savage Levy-Abekasis for ‘betrayal’ in opposing Gantz government

‘She should step down,’ demands Nitzan Horowitz after Gesher party chief ‘elected on our backs’ rejects Joint List-backed coalition; Labor chief Peretz remains conspicuously silent

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, left, and Labor party leader Amir Peretz meet to discuss coalition talks, on March 11, 2020. (Blue and White/Elad Malka)

Gantz, Peretz press ahead with center-left coalition bid despite setbacks

MK Orly Levy Abekasis speaks during an campaign event in Tel Aviv for her Gesher party on February 5, 2019. (Flash90)

In blow to Gantz, Gesher’s Levy-Abekasis appears to doom minority coalition bid

Labour-Gesher party co-chairwoman Orly Levy-Abekasis at a faction meeting at the Knesset on November 11, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90 )

Israel media review

Promises, promises: 6 things to know for March 11

MK Orly Levy-Abekasis is flogged as a turncoat after apparently dooming Arab-backed government; but some note Benny Gantz was also quick to drop his campaign vows

Central Elections Committee chairman Supreme Court Justice Neal Hendel, left, hands the official results of the elections to the 23rd Knesset to President Reuven Rivlin, at the President's House, March 11, 2020. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Receiving election results, Rivlin again pushes his unity government proposal

Yisrael Beytenu's Avigdor Liberman (C) meets Tuesday March 10 with Blue and White leaders Benny Gantz (2L), Yair Lapid (2R), Gabi Ashkenazi (R) and Moshe Ya'alon (L) (Courtesy/Elad Malka)

Gantz said planning to put together minority government by March 23

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

Virus cases in Israel rise, including airport worker, yeshiva head, 9-year-old

Airfield employee was admitted to hospital, released, then diagnosed 2 days later; Delta suspends NY-TLV route; Health Ministry chief: We want to avoid nationwide school closures

Illustrative: Girls wear face masks during celebrations of the Jewish festival of Purim in Bnei Brak, Israel, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel bars gatherings over 2,000 people, limits visits to sick or elderly

The Allenby Crossing, the main route from the Palestinian West Bank into neighbouring Jordan, is pictured on March 10, 2020 after it was partially closed over coronavirus fear. (Photo by ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

Jordan partially closes borders with Israel, West Bank amid virus fears

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A general view of the Knesset in Jerusalem, file (Orel Cohen/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

New Knesset’s swearing-in could be affected by ban on gatherings

It’s not yet clear whether the latest limit on congregations of over 100 people will cause issues for new legislature, set to convene on Monday

7:56 pm

Tel Aviv coronavirus patient in serious condition, under sedation
7:51 pm

UN experts denounce Iranian 'threats' against BBC staff
7:42 pm

Israeli scientists said closing in on vaccine, but may take year to okay; report denied

A lab worker at Migal in an undated photo released by the research institute. (Courtesy: Lior Journo)

Israeli-made oral vaccine for coronavirus on track, but testing will take months

By Nathan Jeffay

Soldiers spray disinfectant as a precaution against a new coronavirus at an apartment building in Daegu, South Korea, March 9, 2020. (Kim Ju-sung/Yonhap via AP)

US study says coronavirus usually takes 5 days to show symptoms

Profile

Haviv Rettig Gur

Meet ‘Barsi,’ the ruthless economist directing Israel’s drastic virus fight

Moshe Bar Siman-Tov, 43, the first non-doctor to lead the Health Ministry, is bucking withering criticism with a strategy aimed to prevent coronavirus from overwhelming hospitals

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Director General of the Ministry of Health Moshe Bar Siman-Tov hold a press conference about the coronavirus COVID-19, at the Ministry of Health in Jerusalem, on March 4, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

People wearing face masks for fear of the coronavirus arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, March 10, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

El Al reportedly set to request $700m government loan to survive virus crisis

Illustrative: Students seen at the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, October 27, 2014. (Miriam Alster/FLASh90)

Hebrew University determined to open semester despite coronavirus hurdles

By Stuart Winer

Media wearing protective mask film outside the Young Israel of New Rochelle synagogue in New York on March 10, 2020, at the center of a Westchester County COVID-19 outbreak. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)

NY governor sends National Guard to virus ‘containment area’ around synagogue

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Schools, houses of worship to be shut for two weeks in 1-mile-radius zone in New Rochelle, the heart of US’s biggest cluster of reported cases of coronavirus

A self-quarantined resident who claims to have tested positive for COVID-19 listens beside his window as volunteers perform a Purim reading from the Book of Esther, Monday, March 9, 2020, in New Rochelle, N.Y. (AP/John Minchillo)

New York Jewish school says 29 students, staff diagnosed with virus

Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2020 Conference, March 2, 2020 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

2 more AIPAC attendees test positive for coronavirus, bringing total to 5

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally at Renaissance High School in Detroit, Monday, March 9, 2020. (AP/Paul Sancya)

Biden wins Michigan primary, dealing major blow to Sanders

By AP

Former vice president racks up three largest states in Tuesday voting, though Vermont senator still hoping for turnaround in remaining contests, vows not to drop out

Democratic US presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders visits outside a polling location at Warren E. Bow Elementary School in Detroit, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Disappointing results leave Sanders campaign at crossroads

By Steve Peoples

Imam Al-Hasan Qazwini from the Islamic Institute of America, speaks during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders at Salina Intermediate School in Dearborn, Michigan, on March 7, 2020. (JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)

Sanders campaign decries previous ‘toxic’ statements of imam who spoke at rally

Daniel Orenstein

COVID-19’s silver lining

Emergency preparedness, personal hygiene and science are among the winners in this crisis

To the brave students who counter ‘Apartheid’ Week

The campus event is performance art whose goal is not a 2-state solution, but rather delegitimizing Israel and, in that process, you

Charities will get us through Corona — here’s how

Nonprofits should now be radically revising plans and brainstorming creative solutions — and anyone who can should be volunteering

Kenneth Jacobson

For Jews, the New Delhi riots have a painfully familiar ring

Violent xenophobia fueled by nationalism and scapegoating. Crowds running amok without police intervention. We call it a pogrom.

Iranian firefighters disinfect streets and alleys in southern Tehran to halt the spread of coronavirus on March 11, 2020 (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran announces 63 new virus deaths, highest single-day toll

Total number of deaths caused by coronavirus in the Islamic Republic hits 354 out of 9,000 cases, Tehran says

Nadine Dorries in an official portrait. (Chris McAndrew/Gov.uk)

UK health minister has coronavirus; she helped write the rules to fight it

By AFP

Palestinian security forces wearing face masks block the entrance to the West Bank city of Bethlehem, March 8, 2020. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

PA nabs 3 Palestinians for spreading coronavirus rumors

Analysis

‘It’s separating families’: Italy’s Jews face realities of coronavirus lockdown

One woman forced to choose between staying and taking care of elderly parents in Milan, or being with her 3 kids in Israel in wake of harsh quarantine rules in both countries

Police officers and soldiers check passengers leaving from Milan main train station, Italy, March 9, 2020 (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

A worker sprays disinfectant as sanitization operations against Coronavirus are carried out in the museum hosted by the Maschio Angioino medieval castle, in Naples, Italy, March 10, 2020. (Alessandro Pone/LaPresse via AP)

Italy passes 10,000 infections as virus clusters spur worry in US

By Nicole Winfield and Matt Sedensky

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping talks by video with patients and medical workers at the Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via AP)

China’s Xi says Wuhan has ‘turned the tide’ against virus epidemic

Jewish ultra-Orthodox men celebrate the Jewish festival of Purim in Bnei Brak, Israel, Tuesday, March 10, 2020.. (AP/Oded Balilty)

In Israel and US, many refuse to let virus infect their Purim partying

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Holiday meant for spreading drunken joy brings worries of spreading germs as well, but some communities find workarounds for quarantines as others hope for divine protection

President Donald Trump shakes hands after presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Jack Keane in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Despite health advice, some leaders can’t help but shake hands

US President Donald Trump speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting at The Venetian Las Vegas on April 6, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images/AFP)

GOP Jewish group says confab and Trump speech still on

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In this file photo taken on May 20, 2016 French cartoonist, writer and director Joann Sfar, poses in Paris. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP)

Author interview

Hating Jews has become mainstream, warns French writer Sfar

By Alain JEAN-ROBERT

The comic artist and director tackles his fears in his latest book ‘The Last European Jew,’ a satirical novel exploring the reemergence of anti-Semitism in Europe

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Palestinian youths take cover amidst tear gas smoke during clashes with Israeli forces in a village south of Nablus in the West Bank on March 11, 2020. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Palestinian teen shot dead in clashes with troops near Nablus

Sanad Al-Turman, the suspect in a car-ramming attack that injured a dozen soldiers near the Jerusalem First Station, is seen at the District Court in Jerusalem on March 11, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Suspect indicted for attempted murder in Jerusalem ramming that hurt 12 soldiers

View of the nuclear reactor in Dimona, southern Israel, August 13, 2016. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Worker at Israel’s nuclear energy authority charged with hacking computer system

Head of the Blue and White party Benny Gantz arrives for a meeting with Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman in Ramat Gan on March 9, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Shin Bet takes over security for Gantz amid threats against him

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Paratrooper Evyatar Yosefi, 20, drowned during a training exercise in northern Israel on January 7, 2018. (Facebook)

Three officers indicted over drowning of soldier during hike

By Judah Ari Gross

A US Air National Guard F-16 during an exercise in Oklahoma, February 26, 2020. (US Air National Guard/Master Sgt. C.T. Michael)

Israeli defense firm Elbit wins US Air Force contract worth up to $476 million

Border Police officers are seen at the Old City of Jerusalem's Damascus Gate, December 7, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

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Danielle Haim (L) Este Haim (C) and Alana Haim (R) attend the Vanity Fair Oscar Party at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 09, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California. (Taylor Hill/FilmMagic via JTA)

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By Emily Burack

Lebanese military intelligence inspects the scene where two drones came down in the vicinity of a Hezbollah media center in the south of the capital Beirut, August 25, 2019. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Lebanese man pleads guilty in US to buying drone parts for Hezbollah

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