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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 28, 2020

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US President Donald Trump participates in an expanded bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, January 27, 2020, in the Oval Office of the White House. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)

Trump phones Netanyahu to congratulate him that he’ll form, head next government

Leaders also discuss steps needed to manage coronavirus pandemic; call comes day after Benny Gantz indicates he will enter unity government with PM

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

Gantz says he’s ‘at peace’ with decision, no other choice during virus crisis

Illustrative: A convoy of cars belonging to the 'black flags' protest movement arrives at Kibbutz Givat Haim to protest near the home of Israeli Resilience MK Ram Shefa, March 28, 2020 (video screenshot)

‘Black flag’ activists protest against Gantz outside homes of his party’s MKs

Op-ed

Abandoning core vow, doesn’t Gantz risk harming the democracy he said he’d save?

The Blue and White leader is laudably espousing unity amid our health and political crises. But at what cost?

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz speaks in Rehovot, February 18, 2020. (Avshalom Shoshani/Flash90)

Health Minister Yaakov Litzman (L) seen with speaker of the Israeli parliament Yuli Edelstein, after being sworn on September 2, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz said hoping to oust health minister, prevent Edelstein’s return as speaker

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

With 425 new cases, number of patients in Israel rises to 3,460

Medical personnel wearing protective gear handle a coronavirus test sample at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem on March 24, 2020 (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Health Ministry delays test results, amid reports patients given false diagnoses

The empty promenade and beach along the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in the city of Tel Aviv on March 27, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu: If cases don’t dip in 2 days, full lockdown will be only option

An ultra-Orthodox youth plays with a face mask in the neighborhood of Mea Sharim, Jerusalem, on March 16, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Haredi communities urged to ‘wake up’ as infections in Bnei Brak, Jerusalem soar

Health Ministry data shows cities, home to large ultra-Orthodox communities, have highest numbers of coronavirus patients and much higher infection rates than national average

Illustrative: A salesman on his phone while selling eggs at an eggs tand in Jerusalem's Machane Yehuda Market, January 27, 2018.

Eggsistential crisisAgriculture minister orders egg imports as panicked buyers spark shortage

An ambulance exits the Ayalon Prison in Ramle. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Cabinet approves release of 500 prisoners to house arrest to reduce virus threat

Rabbi Daniel Nevins donating blood plasma at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, March 27, 2020. (Courtesy/Daniel Nevins via JTA)

NY rabbi who survived COVID-19 donates blood plasma to treatment research

Rabbinical school dean Daniel Nevins, who had mild symptoms of disease, volunteers with program examining role of antibodies in potential coronavirus medicine

Illustrative image of an anti-Semitic banner draped over a Holocaust memorial in Lakewood, New Jersey, July 2, 2017. (Courtesy ADL)

Coronavirus increases anti-Semitic activity in divided New Jersey town

By JTA

Israeli children watch as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a live press conference on the new government restrictions for the public regarding the coronavirus COVID-19 on March 19, 2020. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

How to get through the virus lockdown with your marriage and family intact

Coronavirus and my husband’s shoelaces

In this crisis, my outlook has shrunk from global to local: More than ever, I’m relieved I moved to Israel, a place I feel cared for and wanted

A digital geniza: Collecting COVID-19 ephemera

Flitting between the fragile present and the long corridor of Jewish memory, this time capsule will let us look back on how we responded to the virus

An elderly COVID-19 patient is transferred to an ambulance from a Hospital in Barcelona, Spain, March 27, 2020. (AP/Felipe Dana)

US eyes new outbreaks as infections worldwide top 590,000

By Matt Sedensky, Kevin McGill and David Rising

Deaths surge in Italy and Spain as fatalities worldwide climb to 26,000; New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit emerge as new hot spots; over 6,000 hospitalized in New York

A bingo game at the Kaiserman JCC outside Philadelphia in 2015. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)

Philadelphia Jewish community center lays off 176 workers due to virus outbreak

Reporter's notebookIn a pandemic, US pro-Israel lobbies withdraw to the home office

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, accompanied by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland right, and other bipartisan legislators, signs the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act after it passed in the House on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 27, 2020. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Congress locks oversight into $2.2 trillion coronavirus rescue package

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and Matthew Daly

Legislation creates multiple layers of accountability to ensure funds not misused, in move likely to fray ties between Congress and White House

US President Donald Trump signs the coronavirus stimulus relief package at the White House in Washington, DC, March 27, 2020. From left: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, House Minority Kevin McCarthy of California, and Vice President Mike Pence. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump signs $2.2 trillion stimulus package after swift congressional votes

By Andrew Taylor, Alan Fram, Laurie Kellman and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

US President Donald Trump signs the coronavirus stimulus relief package in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, March 27, 2020. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Jewish leaders say $2.2 trillion stimulus offers community needed assistance

By Eric Cortellessa

Medical personnel in protective suits await the arrival of possible COVID-19 infections in the Molinette Hospital lobby in Turin, Italy, March 26, 2020. (Stefano Guidi/Getty Images/ via JTA)

Analysis

For Italian Jews, the ‘smell of death’ is all around

As the toll rises, the Jewish community of Italy relies on its own local media and communal institutions as lifelines for social welfare and solidarity

Coffins arriving from the Bergamo area, where the coronavirus infections caused many victims, being unloaded from a military truck that transported them in the cemetery of Cinisello Balsamo, near Milan in Northern Italy, March 27, 2020. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

Italy sees fatalities spike, is 2nd country to pass Chinese virus case total

By David Rising, Jill Lawless and Matt Sedensky

Rabbi Harold Abraham, the chief rabbi of Strasbourg, in 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

Chief rabbi of Strasbourg believes majority of city’s Jewish population infected

A Ukrainian Jewish couple with food parcels provided by Christians for Israel. (Christians for Israel)

In Ukraine, Christian group steps in to feed needy Jews confined by COVID-19

Workers wearing personal protective equipment at a mass manufacturing operation to supply New York City with gear for the coronavirus at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York, March 27, 2020, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. (AP/John Minchillo)

New York plans more hospitals as virus death toll surges

By AFP

State records 519 fatalities as governor announces 4 temporary medical centers throughout New York City; outbreak in area expected to peak in 3 weeks

A worker delivers caskets to the Gerard Neufeld Funeral Home in the Queens borough of New York City, March 27, 2020. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Closed caskets, empty chairs at funeral home in New York virus epicenter

By TED SHAFFREY and Deepti Hajela

Patients wearing face masks and personal protective equipment wait on line for COVID-19 testing outside Elmhurst Hospital Center in New York, March 27, 2020. (AP/John Minchillo)

States impose new restrictions on travelers from New York

By Philip Marcelo and Mark Pratt

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A segment of the painting “The Martyrdom of St. Simon of Trento for Jewish ritual murde.” (Giovanni Gasparro/Facebook via JTA)

Prominent Italian painter unveils a work depicting anti-Semitic blood libel

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, November 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Gazans fire rocket into Israel, breaking lull in violence amid virus outbreak

Palestinian protestors run for cover from tear gas fired by Israeli security forces during clashes following a demonstration commemorating Land Day, near the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, on March 30, 2018. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Organizers of Gaza border protests cancel Land Day event over virus concerns

Israeli startup AnyVision uses artificial intelligence to recognize faces, bodies and objects for security and other purposes. (YouTube screenshot)

Microsoft divests from Israeli facial-recognition startup

By Matt O'Brien

Jonathan Herzog will offer a rare challenge to Rep. Jerry Nadler in the Democratic primary. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)

Israeli-American adviser to Andrew Yang challenges Nadler for congressional seat

In this Thursday, March 19, 2020 photo, a man smokes waterpipe at Tahrir square, Baghdad, Iraq (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

With virus, cherished Mideast traditions come to abrupt halt

By SAMYA KULLAB

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