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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 29, 2020

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on March 25, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Husband of Netanyahu aide hospitalized with coronavirus

PM’s office says ‘distance was kept’ from his adviser on ultra-Orthodox affairs, who met with him on Thursday

Attendees at a Bnei Brak funeral on March 29, 2020. (screen capture: Twitter)

'This is total chaos, real disaster, total lack of control'

Flouting rules, hundreds gather for Bnei Brak funeral as police look on

Officials reportedly allow procession for leading figure of Haredi sect to go ahead with little attempt to enforce social distancing, as fears grow of community outbreak

Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray outside a synagogue in Bnei Brak on March 25, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox leader bans ‘minyan’ prayers; officials mull Bnei Brak quarantine

Attendees at a Bnei Brak funeral on March 29, 2020. (screen capture: Twitter)

Israel media reviewIt’s their funeral: 6 things to know for March 29

By Joshua Davidovich

Mourners at a funeral in Bnai Brak, March 28, 2020 (Twitter)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Failure to stop mass Haredi funeral reveals distancing’s fatal flaw: Enforcement

Police say they decided to allow hundreds of ultra-Orthodox to attend burial for important rabbi to avoid clashing with participants, tout victory that ‘only 400 people’ took part

Police patrol on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem on March 28, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police fine 1,300 for breaking virus rules; official: Only 8 test results wrong

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on March 25, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Cabinet to weigh further restrictions as coronavirus cases climb

In this photograph taken from behind a window, doctors work on COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit of San Matteo Hospital, in Pavia, northern Italy, March 26, 2020. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

'We are soldiers in the biggest army in the world'

Israeli doctor in Italy says innovative treatments offering hopes of recovery

By Ira Tolchin Immergluck

Carmi Sheffer describes connecting patients to ventilators via scuba gear, placing them on stomachs, in battle with unpredictable virus which ‘spreads like wildfire’ among elderly

In this photograph taken from behind a window, doctors work on COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit of San Matteo Hospital, in Pavia, northern Italy, March 26, 2020. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

82-year-old Israeli tourist dies in Italy after contracting coronavirus

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: A man holds an urn at a cremation funeral parlor in Rome, October 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Cremation of first Jewish victim of coronavirus in Argentina stirs controversy

By JTA

Exclusive: From the blogs

I chose the only path possible at this time, a national emergency government

I will never compromise on democracy or on the underlying principles of the more than one million Israelis who voted for Blue and White

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with then-health minister Yaakov Litzman, in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2020. (Flash90)

Litzman to remain health minister in unity government as Gantz backs down

Israel Resilience will instead get justice portfolio, reports say; top doctors had demanded that a professional replace Litzman to deal with pandemic

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) greets Benny Gantz, leader of Blue and White party, at a memorial ceremony for late Israeli president Shimon Peres, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on September 19, 2019. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP)

Netanyahu, Gantz make ‘significant progress’ in all-night coalition talks

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman holds a press conference in Neve Ilan, near Jerusalem, on March 11, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman says his party headed to opposition, slams Netanyahu-Gantz ‘unity’ deal

Labor MKs Itzik Shmuli (L) and Amir Peretz at the party's headquarters in Tel Aviv on February 13, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Labor’s Amir Peretz, Itzik Shmuli expected to join government

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Dovish lawmakers said negotiating for economy and welfare portfolios

8:29 pm

Cabinet meeting postponed
7:55 pm

Labor's Peretz and Shmuli expected to join government
7:45 pm

In reversal, Health Ministry won't conduct COVID-19 testing at supermarkets

Magen David Adom paramedics in protective clothing are seen in Jerusalem on March 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Virus cases in Israel rise to 3,865; 66 seriously ill including man in his 20s

Hospital says patient has no preexisiting illness; Health Ministry says 54 people on ventilators, while vast majority of COVID-19 patients have only light symptoms

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh addressing a press conference in Ramallah on March 29, 2020. (Wafa)

Virus cases top 100 in West Bank and Gaza after infections emerge in more towns

An Israeli man walks past closed stores in the empty Mamila Mall in Jerusalem on March 23, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Coronavirus crisisGovernment reportedly close to deal on NIS 80 billion rescue package

It doesn’t matter if you wear PJ-bottoms with your suit jacket or if your kid unmutes you at the the worst moment, for we are not isolated, but together in the cloud

When COVID restrictions become counterproductive

Strict home confinement will harm the immune system and the 100 meter distance limit might create more social interaction, not less

Magen David Adom paramedics in protective clothing are seen in Jerusalem on March 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Woman in her 90s dies from COVID-19, raising Israel’s death toll to 14

Director of Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak says the patient suffered from existing medical conditions before contracting the virus

92-year-old man in Jerusalem dies of COVID-19, Israel’s 13th death from virus

Protest held outside Beersheba old age home after residents infected with virus

Number of jobless Israelis nears 1 million, but rate of increase slows

A man wearing a face mask for fear of the coronavirus, walks past a homeless person near a closed shopping mall in Jerusalem on March 23, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

For Israel’s homeless, shelters become a haven from pandemic

A member of the Rhode Island National Guard Military Police directs a motorist with New York license plates at a checkpoint on I-95 near the border with Connecticut where New Yorkers must pull over and provide contact information and are told to self-quarantine for two weeks, Saturday, March 28, 2020, in Hope Valley, R.I. (AP/David Goldman)

Trump backs away from New York quarantine idea after criticism

US president says strong travel advisory to be issued instead of roping off hotspot; US death toll from coronavirus outbreak tops 2,100, including over 650 dead in New York City

A Russian Army specialist walks outside the Honegger nursing home where 35 people have died so far from coronavirus in Albino, Italy, on March 28, 2020, amid the spread of the COVID-19 (new coronavirus) pandemic. (Piero CRUCIATTI / AFP)

Global coronavirus death toll passes 30,000, two-thirds in Europe

By AFP

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro greets supporters and journalists as he arrives to give a news conference on the new coronavirus at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, March 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Andre Borges)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro makes life-or-death gamble on coronavirus

By David Biller

Israelis on their balconies in Tel Aviv on March 19, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

As coronavirus coops up many at home, ways to find inner peace indoors

By Jessica Steinberg

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., departs Capitol Hill in Washington, March 18, 2020, after the Senate passed a second coronavirus response bill. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Swastikas spray-painted at Bernie Sanders campaign office in Florida

Rabbi Neil Kraft with his family. (Courtesy)

From our partner‘Adored’ British Reform rabbi Neil Kraft dies of COVID-19

An Israeli grabs the arm of Theresa Khalsa at Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel on May 9, 1972. (AP Photo)

Theresa Khalsa, hijacker of 1972 Sabena flight to Tel Aviv, dies at 65

Israeli travelers ready to board a Czech government-organized flight from Lima, Peru, March 28, 2020 (Foreign Ministry)

6 Israelis stranded in Peru airlifted out on Czech government-run flight

A priest and relatives pray as a victim of the COVID-19 is buried by undertakers at the Almudena cemetery in Madrid, Spain, March 28, 2020 (AP Photo/Olmo Calvo)

Spain announces record 838 virus deaths in 24 hours

By AFP

People walk along the main pedestrian shopping street in Stockholm, March 25, 2020. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

With cafes and bars still open, Sweden’s virus restrictions make it an outlier

By david keyton

Israeli tourists boarding a Honduran military plane on their way back home, March 26, 2020. (courtesy Honduran Military)

Israeli travelers stranded in Asian countries to make their way home — report

In this file photo taken on July 22, 2012, Bob Dylan performs during the 21st edition of the Vieilles Charrues music festival in Carhaix-Plouguer, western France (Fred TANNEAU / AFP)

Tangled up in historyBob Dylan releases 17-minute song about JFK assassination

By AFP

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