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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 14, 2020

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Then-Justice Minister Amir Ohana delivers a speech at a Likud election rally in Or Yehuda, on February 13, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

As courts put on emergency footing, speculation Netanyahu trial could be put off

Justice minister warns there is ‘real fear of serious harm to public health’ if the court system continues as normal

11:51 pm

As courts put on emergency footing, speculation Netanyahu trial could be put off
10:05 pm

Blue and White's Ya'alon: Netanyahu exploiting virus for 'personal political needs'
9:45 pm

Video shows man in Tel Aviv being arrested for violating quarantine

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Health minister Yaakov Litzman and National Security Adviser and NSC Director Meir Ben-Shabbat hold a video conference with European Leaders in order to discuss challenges and cooperation between the countries in dealing with the coronavirus COVID-19, at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on March 9, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health Ministry said pushing for complete shutdown

Netanyahu weighs new, stricter measures to halt coronavirus pandemic

Senior minister says ‘inclination is for a slowdown, not a shutdown’; public transport, all education programs may be suspended

Workers wearing protective suits prepare to 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)

Israel coronavirus cases climb to 164; nearly 40,000 in quarantine

A closed school in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, March 13, 2020, as part of preventive measures amid fears over the spread of the coronavirus. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Fight against coronavirusIsrael set for drastic new restrictions on workplaces, gatherings; no lockdown

Illustrative: Workers inside a building at Tel Aviv's Tel Hashomer Hospital, which was converted into a coronavirus isolation unit, February 20, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Army told to set up three facilities for Israelis with mild coronavirus symptoms

By Judah Ari Gross

As alternative to hospitalization or home quarantine, defense minister orders centers — like ‘hotels with medical staff’ — for civilians lightly suffering from the virus

An IDF soldier has his temperature checked. (Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF: Soldiers should prepare for month-long stay on bases amid virus outbreak

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Incoming UK Ambassador to Israel Neil Wigan. (Courtesy: UK Embassy, Tel Aviv)

From our partnerBritish ambassador to Israel in self-isolation after virus case on flight

Empty shelves in a supermarket in Tel Aviv. People are stocking up on food supplies in fear they may run out, or have to be in self-quarantine, as Israel takes stricter precautions on the coronavirus. March 10, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/FLASH90)

Netanyahu reassures over food supplies: ‘No reason to storm the supermarkets’

Following meeting of top ministers dealing with coronavirus reaction, PM promises country has enough food, including for upcoming Passover holiday

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz speaks to supporters in Tel Aviv on February 20, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Coronavirus crisisGantz: Unity government needed now, I’m waiting for Netanyahu to okay talks

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bids farewell to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi at Ben Gurion International Airport on June 6, 2017. (Kobi Gideo/GPO)

PM said to ask India to lift export bans on masks, pharmaceuticals

People walk in the Ramblas of Barcelona on March 13, 2020 (Josep LAGO / AFP)

Spain’s virus cases shoot up by 1,500 in one day, amid reports of lockdown plan

As total number of sick nears 6,000, Madrid expected to announce a two-week state of emergency, movement restrictions in effort to contain rapid spread of pathogen

A hospital employee wearing a protection mask and gear, escorts a patient towards the radiology unit at a temporary emergency structure set up outside the accident and emergency department, where any new arrivals presenting suspect new coronavirus symptoms are being tested, at the Brescia hospital, Lombardy, on March 13, 2020. (Miguel Medina/AFP)

WHO says Europe now ‘epicenter’ of COVID-19 pandemic; over 5,000 dead worldwide

A medical worker wearing a protective suit assists students to an ambulance in Minsk, Belarus, March 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

EU urges border health checks as virus case count mounts

By LORNE COOK and Samuel Petrequin

People wear face masks as they shop at a market in Beijing, Saturday, March 14, 2020. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

WHO: Europe now 'epicenter of pandemic'

Coronavirus cases balloon around the world as China recovers

Beijing continues to ease up lockdown measures in hardest-hit Hubei province, where number of new cases dwindles

Workers wearing protective suits at a bus depot before they spray disinfectant inside the vehicles in Athens, March 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

As Trump declares state of emergency, European states go on war footing

By Andrew Taylor and Tim Sullivan

In this Feb. 28, 2020 file photo, Mayor David Depretis of Baldwin Borough brings in the sign announcing 'Fish Fry Today,' after Holy Angels parish sold out of fish in Pittsburgh, Pa. The parish church prepares 2,000 pounds of fish and often sells out early, according to organizer Cindy Depretis, who is married to the mayor. On March 12, Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik suggested that people enjoy the fish fries with a take-out order rather than dining in due to virus concerns. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)

Across faiths, religious rules bent as coronavirus alters worship in US

President and CEO of Walmart Inc. Doug McMillon (C) shakes hands with US President Donald Trump during press conference on COVID-19, known as the coronavirus, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, March 13, 2020 (JIM WATSON / AFP)

Trump coronavirus press conference an exemplar of what not to do

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US president and health executives flout their own advice, huddling up close to each other, shaking hands, touching faces and repeatedly adjusting the same microphone

US President Donald Trump, accompanied by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, left, and Vice President Mike Pence, right, speaks during a news conference about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden at the White House, Friday, March 13, 2020, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

After repeat exposure to coronavirus, Trump says he’s ‘likely’ to be tested

By Jill Colvin, Jonathan Lemire and Zeke Miller

In this handout photo released by Brazil's Presidential Press Office, Brazilian Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta, left, and President Jair Bolsonaro, wear masks as they speak about the new coronavirus during a Facebook Live transmission, in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, March 12, 2020.(Brazil's Presidential Press Office via AP)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro defiant as he tests negative for virus after aide infected

By AFP and ToI Staff

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, March 13, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump declares virus pandemic a national emergency; Pelosi announces aid deal

By Andrew Taylor, Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin and LISA MASCARO

President to open up $50 billion for state and local governments; existing laws waved to give hospitals more ‘flexibility,’ implementing online screening and drive-thru testing

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat of California, makes a statement ahead of a planned late-night vote on the coronavirus aid package deal at the Capitol in Washington, March 13, 2020. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

US House passes coronavirus aid bill after Trump declares national emergency

By LISA MASCARO, Zeke Miller, Andrew Taylor and Jill Colvin

Steve Moody, director of nursing at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Maine, mops the floor of a tent outside the emergency entrance to the hospital where patients are tested for of the coronavirus, March 13, 2020. (AP/Robert F. Bukaty)

US hospitals brace for ‘tremendous strain’ from coronavirus outbreak

By Lindsey Tanner

Servpro cleaning workers are sprayed as they exit the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., Thursday, March 12, 2020, at the end of a day spent cleaning inside the facility near Seattle. The nursing home is at the center of the outbreak of the new coronavirus in Washington state. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Analysis

Eric Cortellessa

Conspiracy theory that Jews created virus spreads on social media, ADL says

As coronavirus pandemic has impacted across the world, white nationalists have found a familiar bogeyman to blame online. But some of them also see an opportunity

Jared Kushner (R) joins US President Donald Trump as he holds a press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on October 1, 2018. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA)

Jared Kushner relative says he solicited coronavirus tips for him on Facebook

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Dispatch from the middle of the (coronavirus) story

Living in the messy, suspenseful journey to the unknown end of a narrative is challenging, but recognizing that we’re in the ’middle’ means we can help craft the rest of the tale

Gedalyah Reback

Talking to my 6-year-old about coronavirus

It’s okay to be scared, even when we need to make sure that we’re not *too* afraid. And I’m kind of ’sad and nervous’ too

Pink ribbons, displayed for community support, are tied to polls and trees outside the Young Israel synagogue, Tuesday, March 10, 2020, in New York. State officials are shuttering several schools and houses of worship for two weeks in the New York City suburb and sending in the National Guard to help with what appears to be the nation's biggest cluster of coronavirus cases, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Analysis

Ben Harris and Josefin Dolsten

In shadow of coronavirus, American Jews brace for a Shabbat like no other

From New York to Chicago to Dallas, synagogues across US cancel public prayers, community meals and gatherings; some non-Orthodox congregations move services online

Residents learn how to use Facebook at the Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly in Massachusetts. (Suzanne Kreiter/Getty Images)

How US Jewish nursing homes are trying to keep seniors safe from the coronavirus

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, center, speaks during a news conference in Ewing, New Jersey, Monday, March 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

To stop coronavirus New Jersey rabbis decide to shut down their Jewish community

By Josefin Dolsten

Iranian firefighters disinfect streets in the capital Tehran in a bid to halt the wild spread of coronavirus on March 13 2020. (AFP)

With 500 dead, Iran to empty the streets, check all 80 million people for virus

By Ahmad Parhizi

Top general announces: ‘Over next 10 days, entire nation will be monitored via cyberspace, by phone and, if necessary, in person; those suspected of being ill will be identified’

A picture taken on June 18, 2018, in Geneva, Switzerland, shows a general view during the opening of the 38th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. (AFP/Alain Grosclaude)

UN Human Rights Council applauds Iran in periodic review

The United Nations (UN) headquarters stands in Manhattan on September 19, 2019 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

United Nations non-essential staff in NY to work from home

By AFP

Medical personnel leave one of the emergency structures that were set up to ease procedures outside the hospital of Brescia, Northern Italy, March 10, 2020. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

Explainer

How does the coronavirus enter the body, and what makes it so dangerous?

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In severe cases, the viral infection moves from the nasal passage and throat to the lungs, where it can cause pneumonia and prove fatal

A pedestrian uses her phone while wearing a face mask in Herald Square, Thursday, March 12, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

In coronavirus crisis, you need to clean the bundle of germs that is your phone

MK Aida Touma-Sliman of the Joint List speaks at the party's Hebrew-language campaign launch in Tel Aviv, August 20, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Arab MK accuses IDF of ‘atrocity’ for spraying Palestinians, then backtracks

Joint List’s Aida Touma-Sliman later acknowledges video actually shows PA disinfecting West Bank checkpoint as part of efforts against coronavirus; Bennett calls her ‘anti-Semitic’

Palestinian Authority security forces man a checkpoint at one of the entrances to the West Bank city of Bethlehem on March 10, 2020, currently under lockdown due to coronavirus. (Musa Al Shaer/AFP)

Coronavirus cases in West Bank climb to 35 as PA calls on public to pray at home

A Palestinian man wearing a mask as a means of protection against the coronavirus COVID-19, sits on the seashore in Gaza City on March 13, 2020. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Finally, Gaza has something to brag about: No virus cases… apparently

By Avi Issacharoff

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Brazilian Jewish schools close to prevent coronavirus infections

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Illustrative: Jewish Agency head Isaac Herzog, center, at an event at Ben Gurion Airport to welcome some 300 new immigrants from France on a special flight organized by the Jewish Agency, July 23, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jewish Agency sending teen emissaries home to Israel from US, and to quarantine

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Muslim worshippers circumambulate the sacred Kaaba in Mecca's Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest site, on March 13, 2020. (Photo by AFP)

Saudis cancel all flights as Gulf nations move to contain virus

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Visitors take photos at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., Friday, March 13, 2020. Disneyland is closing its doors for the rest of the month, shuttering one of California's best-known attractions as the state hurries to stop the spread of the coronavirus. (AP/Amy Taxin)

Disneyland visitors savor final day before closure for coronavirus

In this file photo US Microsoft founder, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, poses for a picture on October 9, 2019, in Lyon, central eastern France, during the funding conference of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. (JEFF PACHOUD / AFP)

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates leaves board to focus on philanthropy

By Agencies and ToI Staff

This photo released by the government-affiliated Media Security Cell on Thursday, March 12, 2020, shows a rocket-rigged truck launcher after a rocket attack on Camp Taji, a few miles north of Baghdad, in Rashidiya, Iraq. (Media Security Cell via AP)

Iraq officials: Rocket attack hits base housing US troops

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

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