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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 25, 2020

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Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein gives a press statement in the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In bombshell, Yuli Edelstein resigns to avoid calling vote on new speaker

By Raoul Wootliff

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (L) and Knesset legal adviser Eyal Yinon at the Knesset on May 7, 2013. (Flash)

In defiance of High Court order, Edelstein refuses to hold vote for new speaker

By Raoul Wootliff and Michael Bachner

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 11, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Opposition lawmakers blast Edelstein’s resignation as a ‘war on democracy’

By Michael Bachner

An Israeli woman takes part in a demonstration "to save Israel's democracy" outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 25, 2020. (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

Op-ed

Defying judges, Knesset speaker has plunged Israel into constitutional anarchy

With its executive in protracted transition, and its judiciary and legislature now deadlocked, Israel’s governance has broken down… during the worst health crisis in memory

New virus rules keeping people within 100 meters of home go into effect

Emergency regulations effective at 5 p.m. for 7 days, synagogues shut, public transportation scaled back; violators to be fined, face imprisonment for 6 months

Ambulance workers transfer a woman with suspected COVID-19 at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital, in Jerusalem, on March 22, 2020. (Flash90)

Israel announces 4th, 5th deaths in pandemic; 2,170 diagnosed with coronavirus

Israelis flee Milan on an Israir "rescue flight." (Screenshot/Channel 13)

330 Israelis flee Milan on ‘rescue flight’ amid devastating virus outbreak

Composite photo shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Defense Minister Benny Gantz, right. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Gantz, Netanyahu speak by phone about ‘national emergency government’

Political rivals instruct their negotiating teams to hold talks Thursday; Likud had threatened negotiations were off if Blue and White pushed for vote on new Knesset speaker

9:24 pm

Blue and White confirms Gantz spoke with Netanyahu about 'national emergency government'
9:01 pm

Netanyahu, Gantz spoke by phone about unity government -- reports
8:52 pm

NY governor says social distancing slowing spread of virus

Illustrative: a traditional Passover Seder plate is seen at Congregation Beth El in Tyler, Texas, on the first night of Passover. (AP/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman, File)

14 Sephardic Orthodox rabbis say Passover Seder can be held via videoconference

By Nathan Jeffay

In bold ruling, some Israeli religious authorities say use of technology permissible because it allows families to celebrate together during time of crisis

Critics warn rabbinate’s call for day of public prayer puts thousands at risk

Synagogues top coronavirus hotspot list, epidemiological report finds

By Stuart Winer

London rabbinical court loosens Passover dietary rules amid coronavirus crisis

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)

High Court lets Shin Bet continue phone tracking now Knesset oversight in place

But justices warn permission for use of cell data to help stem virus spread and enforce quarantine orders will be rescinded if regulatory legislation not advanced soon

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

Israeli startup aims to identify coronavirus carriers using their voice

MKs vote one by one in the Knesset plenary to form committees on March 24, 2020. (Adina Veldman/Knesset)

Knesset votes to form coronavirus committee, other oversight bodies

By Raoul Wootliff

Rachel Gemara, a nurse at Shaare Zedek's isolated ward for coronavirus patients in full protective gear (Courtesy)

They put their hands on him, they prayed, and said goodbye

Nurse in virus isolation ward describes patients’ touching farewell to dying man

By Marissa Newman

Rachel Gemara details final moments of Israel’s 1st virus fatality Aryeh Even, a Holocaust survivor, who, separated from his family, was comforted to the end in Jerusalem hospital

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)

IDF to assist elderly with food, medication deliveries during coronavirus crisis

By Judah Ari Gross

The director of the epidemics service, Dr Karina Glick, checking a patient vital signs monitor at a ward, while wearing protective clothing, during a press presentation of the hospitalization service for future patients with coronavirus at Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, on March 16, 2020, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)/

Health Ministry document reveals Israel has only 50 backup ventilators

Virus tears families apart as children strive to protect elderly by staying away

‘It dawned on me last night that I may never see, kiss or touch my sick father again before he dies,’ says one distraught daughter

A woman wearing protection mask looks on through the window, at San Martin nursing home, where several elderly people were infected by coronavirus in Vitoria, northern Spain, Thursday, March 19, 2020. Spain will mobilize 200 billion euros or the equivalent to one fifth of the country's annual output in loans, credit guarantees and subsidies for workers and vulnerable citizens, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Tuesday. 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. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Yongsters learning online at their home in Moshav Yashresh, central Israel, March 18, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Remote schooling resumes Wednesday after halt over teacher salary dispute

Leket Israel collected 2.2 million cooked meals from institutions in 2018 to donate to soup kitchens and charities across Israel, like this archive photo of volunteers collecting uneaten food from a hotel. (Courtesy, Leket Israel)

NGO that gives meals to schoolkids in need will deliver to homes amid pandemic

The radical irresponsibility of the Israeli Rabbinate

The greatest, holiest religious act of moral responsibility we are called to do today is simply to sit at home and do nothing — it really isn’t that hard

The disconcerting association between overpopulation and the COVID-19 crisis

Overcrowding and population density are indirect factors in a pandemic’s reach, and they are as important to its impact as its pathology

Based on China, S. Korea, and Italy, Israel will see more COVID-19 over the next few weeks; then, if we’ve done successful social distancing, we can hope for the other side of this

From a Bush West Wing staffer: Trump is endangering lives

How will the supporters of this president live with themselves when people they know begin dying due to his reckless decisions?

Jerusalem Municipality workers close the entrances to the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on March 24, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

The Lockdown Monster: 7 things to know for March 25

By Joshua Davidovich

Stricter regulations rise like a fog-covered beast out of the murk of a government meeting, while the erstwhile Knesset speaker leaves the future of Israel more shrouded than ever

Jerusalem Municipality workers close the entrances to the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on March 24, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel unemployment rate nears 20% with some 800,000 registered as out of work

Palestinian workers wait to cross through a checkpoint in Bethlehem, June 2, 2013 (Neal Badache/FLASH90)

PA urges Palestinian workers to return to West Bank as Israel’s virus cases grow

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)

Americans living in Israel would qualify for US government’s coronavirus relief

By Eric Cortellessa

Congressional aides say direct cash payments in stimulus package can go to any US citizen with a tax ID number

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, left, accompanied by White House Legislative Affairs Director Eric Ueland and acting White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, speaks with reporters as he walks to the offices of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump, US Congress agree on $2 trillion virus rescue bill, biggest in history

By LISA MASCARO, Andrew Taylor and Jonathan Lemire

Illustrative: People line up for coronavirus testing at Elmhurst Hospital on March 24, 2020, in Queens, New York. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images/AFP)

US could overtake Europe as next epicenter of pandemic, WHO warns

By AFP

Mina Farid (left) and Zahia Dehar in 'An Easy Girl,' written and directed by Rebecca Zlotowski. (Courtesy)

Interview

With controversial coming-of-age tale, female director made Frenchest film ever

By Jordan Hoffman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz at a memorial ceremony marking 24 years since the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in the Knesset on November 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Op-ed

How to end the political deadlock? A minority government… headed by Netanyahu

Blue and White could position itself as a responsible opposition by backing PM’s virus crisis management, and fighting him on everything else. It could always depose him later

Then Blue and White leaders Benny Gantz (right) and Yair Lapid during a faction meeting at the Knesset on November 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Blue and White may pass a law freezing coalition-building for 6 months

By Michael Bachner

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Likud MK Yariv Levin during a faction meeting at the Knesset on December 9, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Minister sank proposal to let Netanyahu trial take place via videoconference

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte visits the national coordination center for Intensive Cares in Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, March 24, 2020. (Photo by Sem VAN DER WAL / ANP / AFP)

First person

The Netherlands lets the virus run loose. That’s terrifying to me and other Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Dutch authorities aren’t imposing movement restrictions, seeking to build up herd immunity. But that will result in many people dying, especially in the tight-knit Jewish community

Holocaust survivor rabbi who led US House in prayer dies of coronavirus at 91

In Milan, Jewish 54-year-old father of 4 dies of coronavirus

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Yehuda Yaakov Refson, senior UK Chabad rabbi, dies of coronavirus

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A patient is transferred to a hotel converted into a facility for coronavirus amid an outbreak in Madrid, Spain, March 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Spain’s death toll hits 3,434, surpassing China’s

By AFP

With 738 deaths over past 24 hours, senior Spanish health official says his country is ‘approaching the peak’

World Health Organization: Coronavirus infections in Italy finally slowing

Prince Charles, 71, heir to the British throne, tests positive for coronavirus

By Agencies and ToI Staff

UK clamps down to fight virus, but confusion still reigns

By Jill Lawless

More Headlines

Yael Mordechay models her technology-driven, stylish mask made during a Bezalel Academy class project earlier this year (Courtesy Yael Mordechay)

Fashion forwardPrescient Bezalel student designs stylish antiviral mask

By Jessica Steinberg

Right Wing activists protest against the Supreme Court and in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, March 24, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Right mimics left in convoy protest to Knesset, in support of Edelstein

A worker in protective clothing disinfects a public playground in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on March 22, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Environment ministry warns against excessive disinfecting of public spaces

The exterior of an Oxfam store in London (Nick Ansell/PA via AP, File)

Charity removes anti-Semitic ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ from online store

Miguel Krigsner, center, at a ceremony on December 5, 2018. (CC-BY-2.0/ Michel Temer)

Brazilian cosmetics magnate donates 1.7 tons of gel alcohol to fight coronavirus

By Marcus M. Gilban

The Bolshaya Bronnaya Synagogue in Moscow. (Wikimedia Commons/Sergeiy Estrin)

Moscow congregation to self-isolate after synagogue’s rabbi gets coronavirus

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A medical worker gestures at a COVID-19 testing station at The Brooklyn Hospital Center, March 23, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

‘Cacophony of coughing’: Inside NYC’s virus-besieged ERs

By Michael R. Sisak, Jim Mustian and Jennifer Peltz

Iranian workers set up a makeshift hospital inside the Iran Mall, northwest of Tehran, on March 21, 2020 amid the coronavirus outbreak. (AFP)

UN urges easing of sanctions on Iran, others facing virus

By AFP

In this photo provided by Brett Seidl, Jonathon Seidl sits in his home office in Dallas on March 18, 2020 (Brett Seidl via AP)

They already had an anxiety disorder. Then came a pandemic

By Malcolm Ritter

The official promo poster for 'Wonder Woman 1984' starring Gal Gadot. (Photo via the Wonder Woman Film official Twitter account)

Waiting for GadotGal Gadot’s ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ postponed due to virus

A picture taken from the Israeli side of Tarkumiya checkpoint near the southern city of Kiryat Gat shows Palestinian workers crossing into Israel to reach their jobs on November 14, 2019 (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

PA accuses Israel of abandoning sick Palestinian worker at West Bank checkpoint

A pair of Palestinian farmer from Umm-Safa allegedly assaulted by Israeli farmers on March 24, 2020. (Yesh Din)

Several incidents of settler, Palestinian violence reported in West Bank

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