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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 21, 2020

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Aryeh Even, Israel's first fatality in the coronavirus pandemic (Courtesy)

Israel’s first virus fatality named as 88-year-old Holocaust survivor Aryeh Even

Family say he was strong until the end, regret that they couldn’t be by his side; born in Hungary, he had 4 children, 18 grandchildren, and a great-grandchild

Jerusalem's Nofim Tower sheltered living facility. (Courtesy)

Jerusalem nursing home residents mourn Israel’s first coronavirus victim

Medical staff seen after the arrival of a patient to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, over suspicions she may be infected with the Coronavirus on January 27, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man, 88, dies in Jerusalem hospital, Israel’s first coronavirus death

First person

DR. ALYSA FRENKEL-SCHICK

I’m a pediatrician who sees kids with coronavirus daily. It’s changed everything

In New York, health care providers are becoming overwhelmed, not testing children, and not seeing kids who are moderately ill, while staffers increasingly get sick themselves

Jewish men use "social distancing" as they pray outside the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, March 20, 2020. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

A woman dressed in a poncho, face mask and protective eyewear pushes her grocery cart in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on Friday, March 20, 2020. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is ordering all workers in non-essential businesses to stay home and banning gatherings statewide. Nonessential gatherings of individuals of any size or for any reason are canceled or postponed. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

New York, Illinois join California in ordering residents to shelter at home

By Tim Sullivan and Nicole Winfield

Yuval Diskin address online protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on March 21, 2020. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

Live updates (closed)

Nearly 600K watch virtual protest against PM, Likud’s shuttering of Knesset

Former Shin Bet, Mossad heads and ex- Supreme Court deputy chief address Facebook event, calling on Gantz to refrain from joining coalition led by Likud leader under indictment

9:07 pm

Lebanon calls in army to enforce coronavirus lockdown
9:05 pm

Report: Number of coronavirus cases to climb by 300 after weekend slow-down in testing
8:57 pm

Country music legend Kenny Rogers dies at 81

View of closed shops in the empty Dizengoff Center, in Tel Aviv on March 19, 2020 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Employment Service head: 1 million Israelis could be unemployed by end of crisis

By ToI Staff and Luke Tress

Rami Garor says a quarter of workers could be jobless, estimates 20% of those currently on unpaid leave will be out of work at end of the pandemic

The Carmel Market in Tel Aviv, March 17, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel’s 2 largest outdoor markets set to close, to stem spread of coronavirus

Israeli travelers who had been stranded in South America, arrive at Ben Gurion airport on March 20, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Cornavirus crisisFour rescue flights from Peru land in Israel, 2 more being sent to India

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An Israeli firefighter sprays disinfectant at the entrance of Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv on March 20, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)

883 people in Israel diagnosed with coronavirus, 15 in serious state; 1 fatality

Jump of 178 people since Friday evening; 19 people listed in moderate condition and the remainder have mild symptoms a day after the country’s first fatality from the virus

Magen David Adom personnel at a drive-through site to collect samples for coronavirus testing, Tel Aviv, March 20, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel opens first drive-through coronavirus testing facility in Tel Aviv

Medical technicians perform a diagnostic test for coronavirus in a lab at a Leumit Health Care Services branch in Or Yehuda on March 19, 2020. (Flash90)

Medical labs say they’re not being allowed to work at full capacity on Shabbat

View of Jaffa street in downtown Jerusalem on March 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coronavirus crisis

Cabinet slashes public and private workforce to just 30% in bid to slow virus

Critical sectors like health, welfare and security to be exempt, as will food, utilities and banks; businesses can stay open as long as they abide by Health Ministry restrictions

Composite photo shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Blue and White party chief Benny Gantz, right. (Flash90)

Likud, Blue and White said closing in on deal for emergency government

A view of the entrance to the Russian Compound detention center in Jerusalem, March 12. 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel to send some 500 prisoners to house arrest to reduce jail virus threat

Despite warnings from government officials to take caution and self distance because of the coronavirus, beach goers enjoy the Isle of Palms beach in South Carolina, March 20, 2020. (AP/Mic Smith)

WHO warns young people: This virus can kill you too

By AP

World Health Organization says youth ‘are not spared’ by coronavirus, patients 50 and under are ‘significant proportion’ of those who need hospitalization

A convoy of Italian military vehicles reportedly being used to transport bodies of coronavirus fatalities for burial, March 19, 2020 (Youtube screenshot)

Record 627 deaths in Italy; military vehicles said used to transport bodies

A municipality worker wearing a face mask and protective suits disinfects chairs outside the the historical Sultan Ahmed Mosque, also known as Blue Mosque, amid the coronavirus outbreak, in Istanbul, March 21, 2020 (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

World underestimated pandemic, says former World Bank VP who saw it coming

By Veronique DUPONT

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opens the winter session of the Knesset on October 15, 2018. (Knesset)

Gantz: Efforts to stifle Knesset leading toward dictatorship

Netanyahu said to have pushed for new virus restrictions to apply to Knesset

PM, other Likud ministers, reportedly argued that not extending limitations to parliament could endanger at-risk lawmakers, but AG ruled government has no authority over Knesset

BlogDigital tracking of citizens is too high a price to pay

By Yedidia Stern

Op-edCoronavirus or democracy? Which crisis should Israelis be more worried about?

By David Horovitz

Coronavirus crisis

Yaakov Schwartz

Cut off from the world, Europe’s smaller Jewish communities practice creativity

With borders closed around the continent due to the virus outbreak and Passover around the corner, Jews who once relied on larger population centers must now fend for themselves

Illustrative: A Lithuanian border guard stands next to trucks stuck in traffic jams for 60 kilometers (36 miles) on the Lithuanian border to enter Poland Tuesday, March 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Rabbi Shimon Freundlich speaking at Family Hospital in Beijing, China in 2018. (Courtesy of Chabad China via JTA)

China rabbi says synagogue shutdowns shielded congregants from coronavirus

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: An Israeli family seen during the Passover Seder on April 3, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Passover in a plague: Families on Zoom, solo seders and broken traditions

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

The message of the coronavirus

We are forced to live radically differently, which makes us wonder what our lives are really about — what a marvelous opportunity to make a new start!

Jackie Kennedy’s haute couture and the Tabernacle

It takes great skill to weave and spin protection for the beauty of the home from the outside, ensuring that we maintain everything within

Charles Lindbergh poses alongside the Spirit of St. Louis, the plane in which he completed the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. (Bettmann/Getty Images, via JTA)

Analysis

The true history behind HBO’s ‘The Plot Against America’

Yes, Charles Lindbergh really did give that anti-Semitic speech. No, he didn’t really run for US president… but the idea is not simply a product of Philip Roth’s imagination

Shiri Koenigsberg Levy in viral video about remote learning during coronavirus shutdown (Screen grab)

Teaching moment

Israeli mom unleashes video rant about remote schooling

‘If we don’t die of corona, we’ll die of distance learning,’ rails teacher and mother of 4 Shiri Koenigsberg Levy in clip

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and his wife Sarah Clarke announce they are expecting a baby, March 19, 2020. (Twitter screenshot)

3 uplifting Jewish stories to finish a grim week

Jonny Daniels delivers groceries to a rescuer of Jews in Warsaw, Poland, March 17, 2020. (Courtesy of From the Depths/ via JTA)

Coronavirus crisis

Jewish group delivers food to aging Poles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A person is taken on a stretcher into treatment after going through testing for the coronavirus in Houston, Texas, March 19, 2020. (AP/David J. Phillip)

Congress toils on $1 trillion coronavirus rescue package as Trump unleashes fury

By AP and ToI Staff

Over 200 Americans dead, 14,000 infected, as New York City emerges as nation’s epicenter; global deaths surpass 11,000; China claims no new infections for 3rd straight day

Member of Mike Pence’s staff tests positive for coronavirus

By AFP

Dow drops more than 900 points, ending worst week since 2008

Trump angrily defends his handling of coronavirus pandemic

By Jill Colvin and Jonathan Lemire

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An employee of the Greater Amman Municipality sanitizes vehicles at one of their stations, amid concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, in Amman, Jordan, March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Air raid sirens mark start of virus lockdown in Jordan

Palestinian men, one of them wearing a protective mask, walk out of the Angel Hotel hotel in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on March 6, 2020. (Musa Al Shaer/AFP)

PA health minister says 17 people in Bethlehem have recovered from COVID-19

Israeli police officers stand guard outside the Old City on March 20, 2020, in Jerusalem. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Clashes in East Jerusalem as police limit Old City access amid pandemic

By ToI Staff and AFP

An Iranian woman wearing a protective face mask chooses traditional items ahead of Nowruz, the national New Year 2-week celebration, at the Tajrish Bazaar in the capital Tehran on March 19, 2020, despite the heavy death toll due to infections by the novel coronavirus in the country (STR / AFP)

Iran’s leaders take upbeat tone even as virus deaths climb

By Nasser Karimi

This July 5, 2016, photo shows Amer Fakhoury, owner of the Little Lebanon To Go restaurant in Dover, New Hampshire, US. (John Huff/Foster's Daily Democrat via AP, File)

Lebanon summons US envoy over flight of man who served in Israel-backed militia

Kenneth Weinstein, president of the Hudson Institute, speaks in Washington, July 24, 2018. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images via JTA)

Trump taps Jewish conservative think tank chief as ambassador to Japan

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