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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 24, 2020

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Israeli police officers seen raiding the ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, closing shops and dispersing public gatherings in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus, March 24, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Ministers to approve new lockdown rules as virus death toll climbs to 3

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Stricter emergency regulations not yet made public, are believed to include restrictions on outdoor exercise, restaurants, public transportation

9:16 pm

State comptroller enters home quarantine
8:21 pm

Dow has biggest one-day jump since 1933, surging 11.4% on stimulus hopes
7:39 pm

Health Ministry: Number of coronavirus cases rises to 1,930

Op-ed

Edelstein must heed court ruling. The alternative is the end of the rule of law

The justices have reminded the speaker ‘the Knesset is sovereign.’ That decision may mark a major defeat for Netanyahu today, but he could turn it to his advantage down the line

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein at a Likud party faction meeting in the Knesset, on April 30, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz (L) addressing the Knesset next to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, March 23, 2020. (Shmulik Grossman/Knesset)

Gantz in Knesset: Great democracies died during crises; we won’t allow that here

By Raoul Wootliff

Protesters take part in a demonstration against government actions explained as precautions due to the coronavirus outbreak but which they see as anti-democratic, seen here outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 23, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Hundreds rally outside Knesset to challenge speaker’s ‘undemocratic’ actions

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right), Blue and White leader Benny Gantz and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut at the memorial ceremony for the late President Shimon Peres, at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, on September 19, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court: Edelstein undermining democracy, must hold speaker vote by Wednesday

By Raoul Wootliff

Justices issue damning unanimous ruling an hour after Netanyahu ally rebuffs its earlier position; if Edelstein says no again, Israel will be in constitutional crisis

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein signing an official response to the High Court about a petition asking to order him to hold a vote in the Knesset plenum to replace him, March 23, 2020. (Courtesy)

Defiant Edelstein tells court he won’t hold quick vote on Knesset speaker

By Raoul Wootliff

Protesters take part in a demonstration against government actions explained as precautions due to the coronavirus outbreak but which they see as anti-democratic, seen here outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 23, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu allies urge defiance of High Court on Knesset speaker vote

By Raoul Wootliff

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)

Netanyahu, Gantz talk up unity as their parties sling mud at each other

By Michael Bachner

PM says differences small, urges Blue and White chief to meet him immediately to form coalition; Gantz insists on heading such a government

Likud says right-wing bloc will boycott ‘stolen, undemocratic’ Knesset

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Blue and White-led bloc takes control of 6 key Knesset oversight committees

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

In victory for Blue and White, Knesset votes to form key oversight panel

By Raoul Wootliff

Analysis

How digital surveillance in virus fight watches you more closely than any GPS

Average phone has 14 sensors collecting data on its owner’s ‘micro-environment,’ says systems engineer whose firm is helping the Israeli government

Israelis visit the beach in Tel Aviv despite government orders to avoid public gatherings due to the spread of the new coronavirus, March 21, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israeli police at the Tel Aviv beach promenade on March 23, 2020. Police were dispatched all over the country to keep people from gathering in public spaces in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

138 Israelis being investigated for violating quarantine

By Nathan Jeffay

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

State asks High Court to allow use of cellphone locations to enforce quarantines

Comedian Jonathan Barak (courtesy)

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Heard the one about Hitler killing another Jew? My kid told it during quarantine

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Israeli firefighter wearing protective clothes disinfects the entrance of the emergency of Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in Jerusalem on March 22, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Comptroller report: Israel’s healthcare system cannot cope with a pandemic

Officials in newly appointed comptroller’s office blast him for delayed publication, saying report was ready months ago, failure to name those at fault means criticism is toothless

A drive-through coronavirus testing facility in Haifa on March 23, 2020. (Magen David Adom)

Drive-through coronavirus testing sites open in Haifa, Jerusalem and Beersheba

Health Ministry Director-General Moshe Bar Siman-Tov at a press conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on March 11, 2020. (Flash90)

Dozens of senior doctors call for replacing Health Ministry director-general

The coronavirus has made me more Jewishly connected than ever

We young people want to be more involved than you think — this scary time of isolation has given me exactly what I need, from connection to ritual to community

Maybe God is angry at us

The panic corona has created in wealthy countries is an important wake-up call about the worth of human lives, wherever they are

A unity government is nearly impossible. It’s also the only option

With the health crisis and the Joint List’s ineligibility as partners in a center-left coalition, there’s one good solution for the political impasse

Suzanne Patt Benvenisti

Distance learning must be accessible for all

Every Israeli child in the public education system needs a laptop or tablet, to ensure that even the lowest-income children can continue their studies during this challenging time

Fighter jets from the IAF's second F-35 squadron, the Lions of the South, fly over southern Israel, January 2020. (IDF spokesperson)

IDF, US to hold air exercise with F-35 jets and no physical contact

By Judah Ari Gross

Despite general ban on international exercises in light of coronavirus crisis, drill gets go-ahead because participants never meet

A woman walks her dog under a "don't panic" sign hanging on the entrance of the shuttered Carmel Market in Tel Aviv, March 23, 2020. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Coronavirus crisis

No buses, strolls or shopping: Drastic new restrictions said set to be applied

Government reportedly to announce strictest limitations yet, including shuttering all stores but food markets and pharmacies and keeping people within 150 meters of home

Police officers in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem close shops and disperse public gatherings following government orders in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus. March 24, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coronavirus cases climb to 1,656, up 214 from Monday night

Illustrative picture of a lonely woman. (LSO photo/iStock/Getty images)

Calls to crisis hotline triple as Israelis reel from coronavirus travails

Illustrative: Elderly Israelis play cards at a coffeeshop in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, January 10, 2012. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90/File)

Behavioral expert: Israelis will never stay at home, but the elderly might

By Nathan Jeffay

Get most of the country back to normal, quarantine seniors, and take measures to prevent contact between them and younger people, says says Technion scientist

Police officers in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem close shops and disperse public gatherings following government orders in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus. March 24, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF dedicates 8 battalions to help police if national lockdown declared

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli preschool students engage in remote learning, March 16, 2020. (Education Ministry)

Coronavirus crisisIsraeli teachers, Finance Ministry negotiating to reinstitute remote learning

By Simona Weinglass

Ethiopian immigrants shortly after landing at Ben Gurion Airport, March 24, 2020. (Michael Dimenstein/ GPO)tein / GPO.

Hours before border closes, 72 Ethiopian immigrants land in Israel overnight

Dr Ami Appelbaum, the chairman of the Israel Innovation Authority and Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Economy and Industry (Israel Innovation Authority)

Interview

Keep your workers, Israel chief scientist urges, as virus threatens startups

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: The main entrance of the Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center in Denver, July 27, 2018. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images/ via JTA)

US Jewish nonprofits face dire economic prospects during and after coronavirus

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The promenade in the northern Israeli city of Tiberias, by the Sea of Galilee, on January 30, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Sea of Galilee hits highest water level since 2004; dam opening mulled

In this screen grab taken from video, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson addresses the nation from 10 Downing Street, in London, Monday March 23, 2020. (UK Pool via AP)

‘Stay at home’: UK’s Johnson ramps up response to virus

By DANICA KIRKA and Pan Pylas

Nati Hadad. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Israeli jailed in Thailand to serve rest of sentence in Israel, president says

People applaud from their window in support of the medical staff working on the COVID-19 virus outbreak in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, March 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

In global fight vs. virus, over 1.5 billion told: Stay home

By ADAM GELLER and Lori Hinnant

President Donald Trump gestures as he asks a question to Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Briefing Room, Monday, March 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says he intends to reopen US in weeks, not months

By Jill Colvin, Josh Boak and Ricardo ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

Holocaust survivor Hannah Nudel talks to volunteer Freida Rothman, who is delivering meals to survivors isolated in their homes because of coronavirus concerns, in Brooklyn, New York, on March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Vital meal deliveries help Holocaust survivors amid coronavirus crisis

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and JESSIE WARDARSKI

A woman poses for a photo with the Olympic Flame during a ceremony in Fukushima City, Japan, March 24, 2020 (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Tokyo Olympics officially postponed until 2021 over coronavirus concerns

By Stephen Wade and Mari Yamaguchi

An Israeli woman wearing a face mask for fear of the coronavirus at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, March 22, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bank of Israel to buy NIS 50 billion in bonds to steady sinking economy

A screenshot from an American Zionist Movement video explaining how to vote in the 2020 World Zionist Congress elections. (American Zionist Movement)

Orthodox, settlement-backers surge in US part of World Zionist Congress election

Lee Elbaz arrives at federal court for jury selection in her trial in Greenbelt, Maryland, July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

US prosecutors: Israeli binary options scammer should pay back $28 million

By AP

Natan Sharansky, the chairman of the Jewish Agency, at his office in Jerusalem on September 22, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Solitary assignmentNatan Sharansky gives tips for quarantine based on Soviet gulag

By Michael Bachner

Former students of Andre Touboul, shown in 2014, who died on March 2020 of the coronavirus, remembered their late teacher online with great affection and respect. (Courtesy of Beth Hanna via JTA)

ObituaryIn Paris, a pillar of Jewish education dies from coronavirus

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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