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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 15, 2020

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An Israeli woman shops at a supermarket in Jerusalem on March 14, 2020 (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

'A new way of life'

No more daycare, restaurants, gyms or shopping malls: The new virus regulations

Following up on Netanyahu’s announcement, Health Ministry lays out long list of businesses, services and activities that Israelis will now have to do without

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers an speech at his Jerusalem office on March 14, 2020 (GALI TIBBON / POOL / AFP)

All leisure venues closing as Netanyahu tells Israel: Adjust to new way of life

Passengers wear masks at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, March 10, 2020 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Number of sick Israelis rises to 200 as government announces tough new measures

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky at his home in Bnei Brak on April 15, 2018. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Police bid to convince rabbi to close yeshivas as his sect defies virus rules

While Hasidic and national religious sectors follow Health Ministry restrictions, Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox leadership orders schools to remain open, violating regulations

Israelis buy food at a supermarket in Jerusalem on March 14, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israel media reviewFlatten your enthusiasm: 6 things to know for March 15

By Joshua Davidovich

Shoppers flood a Tel Aviv supermarket on March 14, 2020 (Courtesy)

Government urges public not to storm supermarkets, as shelves emptied

Man wearing a mask walks past closed a cafe in Jerusalem on March 15, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Service industry reels as guidelines force restaurants, some stores to shutter

Owners lament new measures, say they should be allowed to serve up to 10 customers at a time, and more governmental help needed; many shops close altogether

Police officers in protective gear arrest an individual who allegedly violated a quarantine order in Tel Aviv on March 14, 2020. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Video shows man in Tel Aviv being arrested for violating quarantine

A Magen David Adom paramedic holds a bagged and sealed coronavirus screening test kit during a training exercise in the central city of Kiryat Ono on February 26, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Daily tests to triple, virus will eventually ‘disappear,’ says health official

By Nathan Jeffay

Local police officers patrol a street in order to control people's movement in Ronda, Spain, in light of the coronavirus, COVID-19, spread, on March 15, 2020. (JORGE GUERRERO / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Countries across globe lock down as world passes China in coronavirus cases

By Michael Bachner and Joshua Davidovich

Hundreds of deaths reported in Western Europe alone as US and other places begin putting heavy restrictions on movement and close contact between people to stem pandemic

8:29 pm

Young woman arrested in Tel Aviv after breaking quarantine
8:09 pm

Americans should prepare for more hunkering, administration says
7:55 pm

Fatalities in France jump by 29

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 12, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Analysis

Thriving in a crisis, Netanyahu urges Israelis to wage ‘war on invisible enemy’

Exuding indispensability, PM in latest broadcast to nation unveils new raft of restrictions, far-reaching though less drastic than many had expected, to tackle coronavirus pandemic

ERAN volunteer Odi Gruber wearing her headset in her Toronto home, where she volunteers taking calls from Israel via her laptop. (Robert Sarner/ Times of Israel)

Crisis hotline says thousands of Israelis calling over virus, isolation worries

Empty shelves at a supermarket in Jerusalem, March 14, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Finance Ministry said to predict NIS 11 billion hit to economy in 6 weeks

Illustrative image (iStock)

Netanyahu sparks privacy scare with move to track corona patients’ phones

By Judah Ari Gross

Shin Bet says it won’t use the invasive technology to enforce quarantines; attorney general says measure will be subjected to legal restrictions

Israeli soldiers get out of a bus as they arrive to the Israel-Gaza border region of southern Israel on March 25, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

IDF to tell some troops to stay home in fight to slow spread of virus

By Judah Ari Gross

The 36th Foreign Ministry cadet's course, March 2020 (MFA)

Entire Foreign Ministry cadet course in quarantine due to case of COVID-19

By Raphael Ahren

Shayna Goldberg

Getting through this

As we face this external menace that makes me worry that we are in free-fall, I try to feel the experience deeply, and find its purpose

Catriella Freedman

WFH: Tales from a work-from-home addict

9 tips for the new reality that has so many unexpectedly working from home, including: Stay away from the laundry!

Saved by the plague

The last thing this country needs is an ’emergency government’ led by a devious Bibi and a stammering Gantz

Corona is not funny

It’s not all bad, though: for example, I enjoy reading about other people’s schedules — why do all the people with COVID-19 have the time to go from café to cafe?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference about the coronavirus, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 11, 2020. (Flash90)

Netanyahu’s trial delayed by over 2 months as court activity limited over virus

By Raoul Wootliff

As country slows down with introduction of fresh far-reaching rules in attempt to stop pandemic, May 24 date announced just two days before scheduled hearing

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with then-IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, center, and then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon, right, in southern Israel on July 21, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Ya’alon: Netanyahu exploiting virus crisis for ‘personal political needs’

By Raoul Wootliff

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

Courts put in ‘state of emergency,’ likely postponing Netanyahu’s trial

By Raoul Wootliff

President Reuven Rivlin (L) meeting the leaders of the Joint List party (L-R) Ayman Odeh, Mtanes Shihadeh and Ahmad Tibi, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on March 15, 2020. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Entire Joint List backs Gantz as PM, heralding possible center-left government

By Raoul Wootliff

Arab-led alliance, including Balad, could hand centrist leader the majority he needs to be tasked by president; says it’s only to counter Netanyahu; will oppose unity government

A composite image of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Benny Gantz at polling stations in Jerusalem and Rosh Haayin, respectively, during the Knesset Elections on March 2, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL, AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

PM’s offer to Gantz: I lead 6-month emergency coalition, or 4 years and I go 1st

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein presides over a Knesset plenum session, on June 12, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset speaker insists MKs to be sworn in Monday, despite virus crisis

Members of the Joint List seen at the party's headquarters, in the Arab city of Shfar'am, during the Knesset Elections, on March 2, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Analysis

Aviad Houminer-Rosenblum

Joint List — 4 Arab parties on 1 slate — is poles apart but strong together

The consolidation of Arab factions creates an unlikely band of religious zealots, social democrats, racist agitators — and pragmatic centrists – that is the 3rd-largest in Knesset

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

Likud MK seeks to curb opposition chief’s powers in case it’s Joint List’s Odeh

A vehicle vandalized in an apparent hate crime in the northern West Bank Palestinian village of Hawara on March 15, 2020. (Yesh Din)

Vehicles smashed in apparent hate crime targeting Palestinian town

People wearing masks and carrying supplies walk past a mannequin wearing a mask in downtown Barcelona, Spain, March 14, 2020 (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Spain locks down its citizens, while France shuts nightlife

By Joseph Wilson and Geir Moulson

China, where the virus first appeared late last year, continues to relax its restrictions as crisis shifts westward toward Europe

A man plays guitar on the balcony of his home during a flash mob launched throughout Italy to bring people together and try to cope with the emergency of coronavirus, in Milan, Italy,March 13, 2020 (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Lifting spiritsLocked down Italians sing from balconies, dance the ‘Macarena’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and his wife Begona Gomez arrive at 10 Downing Street in London, December 3, 2019 (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Wife of Spain’s prime minister tests positive for virus

By AP

People wear face masks as they sit on the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain in Piccadilly Circus, in London, March 13, 2020 (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

UK departs from world in virus response, draws criticism

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Strategy based on presumption that most people will eventually get virus, and that severe measures unlikely to work; former health secretary concerned by lack of social distancing

Hamas-run Gaza government shuts Egypt crossing to travelers amid virus crisis

Iran says outbreak could strain health services already pressured by sanctions

By Nasser Karimi

Iran death toll from virus passes 600, as Syria shuts schools

By Amir Vahdat and Zeina Karam

US President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing on coronavirus in the Brady press briefing room at the White House, March 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump tests negative for coronavirus, doctor says

White House checks temperatures of reporters before they enter briefing room for press conference with US president, who has been in close contact with infected individuals

A view of the near empty departure area at London's Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 departure, March 12, 2020 (Steve Parsons/PA via AP)

US extends European travel ban to UK, Ireland starting Tuesday

By Colleen Long, MICHAEL BALSAMO and AAMER MADHANI

From left, Democratic US presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, talk before a Democratic presidential primary debate, February 25, 2020, in Charleston, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Biden, Sanders to debate against backdrop of global pandemic

Eliana Light is one of several young Jewish musicians and spiritual leaders moving their work online. (Ori Salzberg)

Analysis

Gigs canceled by coronavirus, Jewish performers and educators innovate online

Unlike synagogues and organizations that have a built-in audience, young Jewish artists and spiritual leaders have to get creative

An illustrative photo of children at summer camp. (kali9/Getty Images)

US Jewish summer camps are already preparing for the coronavirus

File: The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam (AP Photo/Margriet Faber)

Top Dutch museums close over coronavirus, including Anne Frank House

By AFP

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