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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 26, 2020

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Benny Gantz in Ramat Gan on March 9, 2020 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Gantz said to have been swayed by bad polls, a call from Aryeh Deri

TV report: Internal Blue and White surveys showed Netanyahu surging in 4th election; Shas chief vowed to ensure agreements honored

9:01 pm

Reminder: Israel moves to daylight saving time tonight
9:00 pm

UN envoy: Israeli-Palestinian cooperation on coronavirus 'excellent'
8:50 pm

El Al flight brings back 70 Israelis who had been stranded in Colombia

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

3 more die from virus as Israel death toll reaches 8; number of cases hits 2,666

Wolfson Medical Center says 91-year-old woman died after being in critical condition for days; 2 others die in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak; 39 people in serious condition

An ambulance carrying an Israeli man who returned from Italy and tested positive for coronavirus arrives at Tel Hashomer Hospital, February 27, 2020 (Flash 90)

Virus victim wasn’t tested for days, and then it was too late — granddaughter

Dr. Ofer Merin speaking with reporters at Shaare Zedek medical center following a terror attack in Jerusalem, January 8, 2017. (Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel)

Jerusalem hospital chief voices cautious optimism over virus statistics

By Nathan Jeffay

Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut at a court hearing on the Shin Bet's new emergency powers to track Israelis' movements using their cellphone location data to help combat the spread of the new coronavirus, March 19, 2019. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

High Court orders vote for new Knesset speaker to go ahead Thursday

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Late-night decision authorizes veteran Labor MK Amir Peretz to oversee vote; slams defiant resigned speaker Yuli Edelstein for causing ‘untold and serious damage’ to rule of law

Netanyahu allies slam High Court for ordering Thursday vote on new speaker

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

AG: Edelstein’s resignation shouldn’t prevent an immediate vote on his successor

AnalysisEdelstein showed us the rules of Israeli politics are changing fast

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Police patrol on the Tel Aviv beach boardwalk on March 25, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel media review

Locked, stocked, and barreling toward closure: 6 things to know for March 26

New restrictions on movement are barely introduced before additional measures are threatened; Edelstein’s refusal to heed court order sees jaws drop in Israeli press

Netanyahu and Gantz discuss unity government, plan fresh talks

By Raoul Wootliff

Rapping Edelstein, Rivlin says ‘unthinkable’ for lawmaker to ignore court order

Edelstein to High Court: My conscience won’t allow me to comply with your order

By Raoul Wootliff, Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference about the coronavirus outbreak, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 25, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Full lockdown possible within days if virus spread doesn’t slow

‘You stay home, you stay alive,’ PM says at press conference, hours after rules on movement tightened; concedes he doesn’t know when it will end

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) holds the weekly cabinet meeting via videoconference call from the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem due to coronavirus regulations, March 15, 2020. (Haim Zach/GPO)

No more falafel stands?! In transcript, ministers plead for virus exemptions

Israeli police officers stand guard in the Geula neighborhood in Jerusalem on March 25, 2020, as they arrive to close shops in the area following a state order. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As lockdown tightens, police begin enforcing rules with explanations, then fines

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Analysis

In Israel, where preserving life is core medical ethos, wrenching dilemmas loom

If coronavirus infections spiral, hospitals could find themselves with more patients than life-saving ventilators. Authorities should set criteria, but they won’t, experts say

The director of the epidemics service, Dr. Karina Glick, checking a patient's monitor while wearing protective clothing, during a press presentation on hospital services 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)

Illustrative: Staff and Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv move a patient to a new ward, March 22, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

As ventilators run short, health chief ‘not optimistic’ there’ll be enough

By Stuart Winer

Children make kiddush at a model Passover seder (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

No extended family allowed at Passover seders, Health Ministry rules

Palestinian health workers disinfect Palestinian laborers as they cross back from Israel at a checkpoint in Tarqumiya on March 25, 2020 (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

PA warns virus outbreak nearing ‘dangerous’ level as cases in village grow

Spokesman says 13 new cases found in West Bank village where woman died; Israeli health chief worried by spread among Palestinians: ‘We’re epidemiologically integrated organs’

First Palestinian dies after becoming infected with coronavirus

Rivlin to Egypt ambassador: Let’s cooperate in fight against coronavirus

By Raphael Ahren

Seven new cases of coronavirus emerge in Gaza Strip, bringing total to nine

Dr. Judy Melinek (left) and colleague in their PPEs, including PAPR for Melinek. (Twitter)

Interview

Forensic pathologists beware: COVID-19 lives on in blood after death

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Yellow cabs line an empty 42nd St. waiting for fares outside Grand Central Terminal, in New York, March 25, 2020. (Mary Altaffer/AP)

US Senate unanimously passes colossal $2.2 trillion coronavirus rescue package

By Andrew Taylor

Unparalleled economic rescue bill approved despite misgivings on both sides about whether it goes too far or not far enough

Medical Examiner personnel and construction workers are seen at the site of a makeshift morgue being built in New York, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

New York struggles with coronavirus as US deaths top 1,000

By Jennifer Peltz and Colleen Long

Socially distanced apart, from left, US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer at a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 20, 2020. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/ via JTA)

What US Jewish groups want to see in $2 trillion Congress pandemic spending bill

The wedding of Judah Ari Gross and Anna. (Courtesy)

Times of Israel Podcasts

LISTEN: Stories to quarantine by — from the WhyWhyWhy! podcast

By Miriam Herschlag

A monthly storytelling event normally held in a crowded Tel Aviv bar is rejiggered here for the new coronavirus reality, recorded from lockdown to keep the story flame burning

My hero — the cashier in Omer

These low-paid workers on the frontlines of the health crisis perform their duties with a smile and a bewildering level of dedication

Talli Rosenbaum

Sex and intimacy in lockdown

Deprived of routine and privacy… what’s a couple to do? How to sustain emotional and physical relationships through vitality and resilience

Pamela Laufer-Ukeles

Beyond protection and sacrifice: Talk to the elderly

Seniors are neither incompetents needing protection nor martyrs for the greater good; all ages must work together to get everyone through this

Can Kaddish be said in a virtual minyan?

Guidelines to enable those who are reluctant to give up communal daily prayer to fulfill their prayer needs, by remote connection

Eliav Rodman, chief marketing officer of myInterview, working from home surrounded by his three children in Jerusalem; March 26, 2020 (Maor Rodman)

Analysis

Shoshanna Solomon

As coronavirus strikes, Israeli tech firms gear up to new normal

Sales reps switch to online demos, development teams work from home and startups hold on to cash, hoping to make it through the storm; some are faring better than others

A man passes shuttered stores on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem on March 25, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Unemployment in Israel surges past 20%; almost 700,000 jobless sign up in March

Illustrative image of a computer hacker using a smartphone. (stevanovicigor; iStock by Getty Images)

Hackers exploiting remote workers amid coronavirus crisis, cyber authority warns

European Council President Charles Michel arrives to address a nearly empty press theater after a videoconference with G7 leaders at the European Council building in Brussels, March 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Analysis

Though world focused on fighting virus, Mideast diplomacy simmers on

ICC, EU delay but don’t freeze discussions about Israel-Palestine, as Israel and US say they’re still working on Trump’s peace plan, including mapping West Bank ahead of annexation

Russian police guard in front of the Israeli embassy in Moscow on September 18, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / Vasily MAXIMOV)

Israel evacuates families of diplomats from Russia, African countries

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

Israelis coming from US, Italy, France, Spain to be tested for virus upon return

By Judah Ari Gross

More Headlines

Undated photo of CIA contractor and retired FBI agent Robert Levinson (AP/Levinson family)

Family believes ex-FBI agent Levinson, who disappeared in Iran in 2007, is dead

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow speaks during ceremonies on campus where W.E.B. Dubois Medals were awarded for contributions to black history and culture, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Lawrence Bacow, Harvard University’s president, has the coronavirus

By Penny Schwartz

Jacob Margolis, front left, was joined by his sister Sophie, his parents Elana and Ariel, and other volunteers who donned protective masks and gloves in the kitchen of The Chubby Chickpea, a food truck company in Boston owned by Avi Shemtov, to prep sandwiches to give to school kids and others in Sharon, Massachusetts. (Courtesy of Neil Morris/ via JTA)

In the Boston area, 2 Jewish chefs team up to feed kids while schools are closed

By Penny Schwartz

A general view of the Houses of Parliament seen from the south bank of the River Thanes in London, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Community is just 0.3% of population, yet nearly 5% of UK virus dead are Jewish

By Cnaan Liphshiz

An F-16 fighter jet sits in a flooded hangar on the Hatzor air force base in southern Israel in January 2020. (Social media)

IDF denies cover-up attempt in censoring news of F-16s damaged in flood

By Judah Ari Gross

F-35 fighter jets from Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom take part in an aerial exercise over the Mediterranean Sea, on June 25, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF, US postpone air exercise planned for this week

By Judah Ari Gross

Adeeb Joude, the custodian in charge of the ancient key to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, closes the entrance gate to the church due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, in Jerusalem's Old City on March 25, 2020. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Jerusalem’s Church of Holy Sepulchre closes as Israel ups anti-virus measures

By AFP

A shopper walks past empty shelves where bread is normally displayed in a supermarket, March 15, 2020, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Supermarkets see more shoplifters amid outbreak; most are regular customers

Some of the 100 students from the Thelma Yellin school in Jerusalem, who got to take part in a virtual concert (Courtesy Facebook video screen grab)

My soul cries to youTeens record Mendelssohn on phones after virus cancels gig

By Jessica Steinberg

A worker walks outside the Lebanese Central Bank that has been shut down as part of the preventive measures against the coronavirus, in Beirut, Lebanon, March 18, 2020. (Bilal Hussein/AP)

Coronavirus delivers tough blow to Lebanon’s dying economy

By Zeina Karam and Bassam Mroue

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