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What Matters Most On Friday, March 27, 2020

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

From PM’s legal troubles to coalition assurances, many unity issues still open

Gantz, Netanyahu have reportedly agreed on a series of top portfolios, but many unknowns remain, including who else in the anti-Netanyahu camp could yet join

Gesher head Orly Levy-Abekasis (left), with Labor leader Amir Peretz in Tel Aviv on election night, March 2, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Labor, Gesher said set to join Gantz in gov’t; Liberman allies say ‘no chance’

Benny Gantz (L) and Foreign Minister Israel Katz of Likud exchange an elbow bump in lieu of a handshake at the Knesset on March 26, 2020, during the vote on Gantz's election as Knesset speaker (video screenshot)

From foes to best buds: Right embraces Gantz after swerve toward Netanyahu

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Defying ruthless, deadlocked politics, Gantz sacrifices everything for stability

With Lapid continuing to maneuver despite the national emergency, Gantz willingly gave up on his political career to ally with Netanyahu in hopes of helping his beleaguered nation

Then-Blue and White leader Benny Gantz holds a press conference at Kfar Hamaccabia on February 26, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

AnalysisGantz sees ‘opportunity’ in deal with Netanyahu; ex-allies fume: he’ll regret it

By David Horovitz

AnalysisTo place ‘Israel before all else,’ Gantz threw away his insurance policy

Yair Lapid holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, March 26, 2020. (Elad Gutman/Blue and White)

Lapid: I trusted Gantz, but he stole our votes and handed them to Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff

Announcing breakoff from former partner, chairs of Yesh Atid and Telem factions slam his ‘disappointing decision’ to ‘crawl’ into government with PM

Gantz to former allies: Coronavirus challenge bigger than politicking

Elected Knesset speaker by right wing, Gantz heads for government with Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff

Israel media reviewThe Gantz must be crazy: 6 things to know for March 27

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative: An Israeli medical team member is cleaning and disinfecting an ambulance at Tel Aviv’s Dan Panorama hotel which was turned into quarantine facility in Tel Aviv, on March 26, 2020. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

Four more Israelis die of virus, bringing COVID-19 death toll to 12

Man, 93, succumbs hours after diagnosis; other casualties in their seventies; 3,035 infected with virus in Israel, including 49 in serious condition

Israeli border police wear protective gear and masks against the coronavirus, at the Ein Yael Checkpoint, near the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, March 11, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

500 armed soldiers to join police in enforcing coronavirus restrictions

By Judah Ari Gross

Police man a temporary checkpoint at the entrance to Jerusalem as they enforce new emergency regulations to to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, March 26, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

Police begin handing out fines for lockdown breakers

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

Anxious Israelis count ventilators, or try to build their own

By Nathan Jeffay

Nobody is sure how many machines Israel actually has, but with many predicting it won’t be enough and the world market jammed, some are looking at possible workarounds

Israel opens first designated coronavirus hospital

Mossad brings another 400,000 coronavirus test kits to Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Shin Bet says it found 500 coronavirus carriers with its mass surveillance

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon in Jerusalem on March 11, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Finance Ministry to present PM with NIS 80b coronavirus aid package

Intended to cushion economic blow of pandemic, funds include billions for health, unemployment payments for hundreds of thousands of Israelis, help for small businesses

Palestinians transform factories into mask manufacturing plants as virus spreads

Fewer than 1,500 Israelis stranded abroad, as hundreds return on special flights

By Raphael Ahren

Israel’s unemployment rate tops 21 percent

Confronting coronavirus, curbing climate change

How much can the world do when we take a threat seriously! If China and S. Korea can arrest the spread of COVID-19, curbing climate change is surely possible

Which God are you praying to with bloodstained hands?

God said to suspend Shabbat to save human life. He said to follow the laws of our lands. Yet so many claim to believe in Him and defy those rules, letting the bodies pile up

Tammy Jacobowitz

In need of wisdom

All aspects of life are suddenly governed by the same concerns: a single-minded focus on preserving life, or as Leviticus would have it, the source of holiness (Vayikra)

Yossi Kuperwasser

Iran’s back is against the wall. What will it do?

It’s not just the horrific coronavirus outbreak: Desperate and unfettered by the JCPOA, the regime may step up nuclear enrichment

Jesse Eisenberg as Marcel Marceau in 'Resistance.' (Courtesy IFC Films)

Director interview

Now streaming, film shows mime Marceau saved kids from unspeakable Nazi horrors

By Jordan Hoffman

Forty-year-old Dani Schuchman regularly rides 30 miles on his bicycle. (Courtesy)

Young fit UK bicyclist hit hard by COVID-19; Wife says, ‘No one is immune’

By Jenni Frazer

People in protective clothing walk past rows of beds at a temporary 2,000-bed hospital for coronavirus patients set up by the Iranian army at the international exhibition center in northern Tehran, Iran, March 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Analysis

Amir Vahdat and Joseph Krauss

As deaths soar, Iran’s military sets up 2,000-bed hospital in exhibition center

Field hospital completed in 48 hours, Tehran says, as toll of virus dead nears 2,400 in the region’s worst outbreak

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

Hundreds die of poisoning in Iran as fake news suggests methanol cure for virus

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

A Palestinian policeman mans a checkpoint to receive and register laborers exiting an Israeli army checkpoint, on their way home at the end of a day work in Israel, near the West Bank village of Nilin, west of Ramallah, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. (AP/Nasser Nasser)

UN sees guns go silent as world faces off against common enemy

By Philippe RATER

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a statement from his home about contracting COVID-19 on March 27, 2020 (screenshot)

Boris Johnson tests positive for coronavirus, has mild symptoms

By ToI Staff and AFP

British prime minister says he has been diagnosed with the disease and will remain at home while continuing to lead the government response to pandemic

This undated photo shows Kious Kelly. Kelly, an Emergency Room nurse at the Mount Sinai West Hospital in New York, died Tuesday, March 24, 2020, after a bout with the new coronavirus (Marya Sherron via AP)

Fighting virus on NYC’s front lines, health workers worry they will be next

By Bernard Condon, Jim Mustian and Jennifer Peltz

A member of the Brooklyn Hospital Center COVID-19 testing team calls in the next patient in line, Thursday, March 26, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

US surpasses China, Italy to become world leader in virus cases

By AFP

A view of the ICU of the emergency field hospital that is being set up outside Cremona hospital, northern Italy, March 20, 2020. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

‘My father died alone and now I can’t even comfort my mother,’ says Italian Jew

By Giovanni Vigna

Illustrative: In this photo taken Thursday, June 20, 2013, Israeli Rabbi Miriam Berkowitz, left, of the Kashuvot organization for pastoral care, posed for a photo with a patient and nurse at a hospital in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Analysis

Cathryn J. Prince

While working remotely, chaplains aim to give COVID-19 patients rare human touch

With a ‘new normal’ causing most clerical duties to be conducted via phone or video chat, spiritual caregivers try to adapt without changing what works most

Jalna Silverstein and Asael Papour are married in New York, March 22, 2020. (Courtesy of Silverstein/via JTA)

NY couple’s wedding attended on Zoom by friends, family — and officiating rabbi

Comedian Jonathan Barak (courtesy)

Times of Israel Podcast

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

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

More Headlines

An El Al Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Ben Gurion International Airport. (Flash90)

El Al suspends all commercial flights

Illustrative: Italian Aldo Rolfi stands in front of the door to his home, where the writing ‘’Juden Hier,’’ German for ‘’Jews Here,’’ with a Star of David, was painted, during a torchlit protest against anti-Semitism, in Mondovi, northern Italy, January 24, 2020. (Marco Alpozzi/LaPresse via AP)

People of the PodLISTEN: Tablet’s Yair Rosenberg talks anti-Semitism during coronavirus crisis

Lin-Manuel Miranda at The Public Theater in New York City on February 20, 2018. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images via JTA)

Heights of coolLin-Manuel Miranda joins Twitter debate on his songs — in Hebrew

By JTA and ToI Staff

Cast members of satiric comedy show, 'Eretz Nehederet,' singing about being home with the family during the coronavirus (Courtesy Eretz Nehederet)

The best medicineStuck at home, ‘Eretz Nehederet’ TV comics sing about virus closure

By Jessica Steinberg

Molotov cocktails hurled at Border Police outside of the Yitzhar settlement on March 27, 2020. (Border Police)

IDF, cops condemn settler firebombing of troops as ‘serious terror attack’

By Judah Ari Gross and Jacob Magid

Screen capture from video of buses waiting to transport Arab Israeli students from Jordan back to the country, March 26, 2020. (Twitter)

Israel pulls hundreds of citizens from Jordan amid virus fears

Ralph Lauren at his fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week 2015 in New York City, Feb. 19, 2015. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week/JTA)

Ralph Lauren’s foundation to donate $10 million to coronavirus fight

By JTA

Illustrative: A drone that the IDF says was flown into Israel from Lebanon by Hezbollah before it was shot down by IDF troops, on March 26, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF shoots down drone from Lebanon, says it was flown by Hezbollah

By Judah Ari Gross

All-American first teamer Ryan Turell plays in a game for the Yeshiva University Maccabees. (Courtesy of Yeshiva University)

More firsts for Yeshiva U men’s basketball

By Marc Brodsky

Antique clocks (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Israel springs forward to daylight saving time overnight

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