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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 22, 2020

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A nearly empty plenum, due to restrictions against the coronavirus, is seen at the swearing-in of the 23rd Knesset, March 16, 2020. (Gideon Sharon/Knesset Spokesperson)

Speaker shuttered House on Wednesday; says it'll open Monday

AG, Knesset adviser agree: Neither virus nor politics justifies shutting Knesset

As court opens hearing on Knesset closure amid storm over democracy, Edelstein defends his action as only path out of political deadlock; Likud warns of 4th election if he’s ousted

A photojournalist wears face mask and gloves for fear of the coronavirus at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on March 22, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewDiseased and confused: 6 things to know for March 22

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

Nearly 600,000 watch virtual protest against PM, Likud’s shuttering of Knesset

A nearly empty plenum, due to restrictions against the coronavirus, is seen at the swearing-in of the 23rd Knesset, March 16, 2020. (Gideon Sharon/Knesset Spokesperson)

Live updates (closed)

Knesset officials say MKs will enter plenum to vote Monday in groups of 6

No more than 10 people will be allowed in main hall at any time, while others will watch on video screens; committees will also be split up to adhere to guidelines

8:53 pm

Egypt senior military officer dies of COVID-19
8:20 pm

Report: Right-wing bloc could boycott Knesset proceedings tomorrow
8:06 pm

Knesset officials say MKs will enter plenum to vote Monday in groups of 6

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a Channel 12 interview, March 21, 2020 (Screenshot)

Coronavirus and politicsVows he'll hand over as PM in 18 months if rival takes deal

Netanyahu urges Gantz to help him ‘save Israel’ as nations sink like ‘Titanics’

Sets out terms for emergency coalition; says pandemic could prove worst since Middle Ages, with world’s medical services at risk of collapse, UK and US on brink of losing control

AnalysisBlue and White says Netanyahu’s unity plea is a bluff. Not necessarily

By Raoul Wootliff

Yair Lapid (left) and Benny Gantz speak to supporters in Tel Aviv, on February 20, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz’s party vows to push on with Edelstein’s ouster as PM says it’ll nix unity

The funeral of Aryeh Even, Israel's first coronavirus victim, March 21, 2020 (Ynet screenshot)

Volunteers in protective gear bury Israel’s first virus victim; 20 at funeral

88-year-old Jerusalem resident Aryeh Even, a Holocaust survivor, is laid to rest at ceremony constrained by pandemic

An Israeli firefighter sprays disinfectant at the entrance of the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv on March 20, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Five more people in serious condition from virus, 945 total cases reported

Illustrative: Doctors and nurses treat a patient at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Coronavirus crisisNumber of sick medical staff rises to 42, with over 3,000 quarantined

Israeli police officers close shops following the government decision, at the Carmel market in Tel Aviv on March 22, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Police shut popular open air markets, but may allow up to 20 people at weddings

Jerusalem and Tel Aviv markets shuttered as new rules sow confusion; internal law enforcement directives also said to state that action won’t be taken against individuals

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

Coronavirus crisisSocial distancing rules will last at least into the summer, health official says

A man wearing a face mask for fear of the coronavirus walks near by the Jaffa Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem on March 21, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Coronavirus crisisIsrael’s strict new regulations go into effect amid fears of spike in new cases

Closed shops and restaurants in Tel Aviv on March 15, 2020 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel’s jobless rate surges to 16.5% as virus puts 500,000 out of work

Employment Service says new applications slowing after ebbing of initial wave of layoffs in travel, service industries, but more expected as pandemic affects other industries

Then-foreign minister Israel Katz at a Likud election campaign stop in Jerusalem, September 16, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coronavirus crisisFM says will launch emergency plan to rescue Israelis stranded abroad

By ToI Staff and Agencies

El Al planes seen at Ben Gurion International Airport, file (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Cornavirus crisisIsraeli travelers beg to come home, complain Foreign Ministry not doing enough

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An ultra-Orthodox youth in Jerusalem, March 16, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As virus hits tight-knit Haredi communities, rabbis among first to fall ill

Chabad’s Rabbi Masoud Tubul, 64, passes away from COVID-19 in Paris; Satmar’s Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, 72-year-old head of world’s largest Hasidic sect, is diagnosed with virus

Groom JJ Deitch and wife, Fraida, ride in the back of a convertible as people gather for their wedding in Brooklyn on March 19, 2020. (Maggy DONALDSON/AFP)

In Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jewish community, a socially distant wedding

By Maggy DONALDSON

This March 20, 2020 photo shows a free gym at Tel Aviv's beachfront taped off to prevent public access. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Photo essayNo games today: Virus (mostly) clears out Tel Aviv beach, play areas

By Oded Balilty

What does a ‘good sendoff’ look like now?

There is no online equivalent for holding a hand. There is no technology that equals simply showing up, arms open, to comfort mourners.

Noa Hirsch Choritz

When ‘Do no harm’ becomes ‘Do the best you can’

Everything I learned in nursing school has been abandoned in favor of rationing, creativity, and the need to adapt to this new reality

Shana Strauch Schick

Joe Biden and me

Knowing that the candidate copes with the same speech disorder I struggle with has been a revelation for me

Jason Fredric Gilbert

10 people worse off than you during the crisis

Feeling sorry for yourself? Give a thought for medical workers, house robbers and Benjamin Netanyahu. Then go chat with a bot

Shira Haas in Netflix's 'Unorthodox.' (Anika Molnar/Netflix)

Young NY Hasidic woman reboots life in secular Berlin in Netflix’s ‘Unorthodox’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Disasters apparently don't propel people to act against climate warming. Flooding in Nahariya, northern Israel, January 8, 2020. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Coronavirus kicks global warming off the public agenda

World’s focus on pandemic raises questions about climate change and why the public response to both has been so different

Coffins wait to be transported to cemetery, in the church of Serina, near Bergamo, northern Italy, March 21, 2020 (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

Global coronavirus death toll tops 13,000 as medical supplies dwindle

A man receives a shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine for COVID-19, March 16, 2020, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Coronavirus crisisOver 20 vaccines, multiple treatments currently in development for coronavirus

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Medical personnel at work in the intensive care unit of the hospital of Brescia, Italy, March 19, 2020 (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

First Person

What US Jews can learn from my Italian Jewish community’s response to the virus

‘Canceling every social gathering, working from home when possible, closing down schools and testing aggressively are probably the best weapons we have against the virus’

An employee of the municipal company disinfects a street by the Ponte Vecchio, in Florence, on March, 21 2020, as part of the measures taken by Italian government to fight against the spread of the COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. (Carlo BRESSAN / AFP)

A month after the first Italian died of coronavirus, the country is transformed

By Alexandria SAGE

A convoy of Italian Army trucks is unloaded upon arrival from Bergamo carrying bodies of coronavirus victims to the cemetery of Ferrara, Italy, where they will be cremated, Saturday, March 21, 2020. The transfer was made necessary since Bergamo mortuary reached maximum capacity. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)

World battles coronavirusItaly: Record 800 dead from virus in a day, with almost 5,000 fatalities in all

By Amy Forliti and Frank Jordans

In this photo released March 20, 2020, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei poses for a portrait prior to delivering his message for the Iranian New Year, or Nowruz, in Tehran, Iran. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran leader refuses US help, citing conspiracy theory that virus man-made

By Jon Gambrell

Claim with no scientific evidence is increasingly used by Chinese officials to deflect blame for the pandemic

Palestinian health workers wearing protective face masks are pictured in the courtyard of a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) school at al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on March 18, 2020, as preparations are underway to receive, examine and isolate victims of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Palestinians announce first two cases of coronavirus in Gaza Strip

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Fighters of a military battalion loyal to Libyan General Khalifa Hafta patrol the streets in the eastern city of Benghazi during a state of emergency to combat the coronavirus outbreak, on March 21, 2020. (Abdullah DOMA / AFP)

AnalysisWill coronavirus slow the world’s conflicts — or intensify them?

By Philippe RATER

In this detail of an image from his haggadah, artist Leon Fenster depicts the Israelites as children dressed in Beijing school uniforms. (Courtesy of Fenster/ via JTA)

Analysis

Release of Passover haggadah encapsulating Beijing Jewry delayed due to virus

London-born artist Leon Fenster planned to unveil the years-in-the-making 180-page text illustrating Jewish history in China’s transient capital, but was forced to leave the city

Illustrative: A luxury mikveh (ritual bath) for women, in the Israeli settlement of Alon Shvut on August 25, 2015. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)

Jewish communities keep mikvehs open amid the coronavirus outbreak, for now

By Josefin Dolsten

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 11, 2018. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool)

Austria’s chancellor says Netanyahu ‘shocked’ him into tough moves to stop virus

By ToI Staff and AFP

Two men wrestle each other as spring break revelers look on during a contest on the beach, March 17, 2020, in Pompano Beach, Florida (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

From France to Florida, authorities look to crash lockdown rebels’ parties

By Elaine Ganley

In this file photo taken on March 16, 2020 US Vice President Mike Pence and US President Donald Trump talk during a COVID-19 pandemic briefing at the White House in Washington, DC (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

US vice president and his wife test negative for coronavirus

Illustrative: Israeli youth during a remote learning session at their home in Moshav Yashresh, on March 18, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

No joke‘Step away’: How to not kill your kids during coronavirus lockdown

By Julie CHARPENTRAT

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