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What Matters Most On Monday, March 30, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on March 16, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu, aides self-isolating as precaution after adviser infected with virus

PM entering quarantine until health officials complete investigation into his possible exposure, contradicting earlier statement from his office saying isolation unnecessary

Rivka Paluch, left, walks alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on March 3, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu aide tests positive for coronavirus

View of the empty Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on March 29, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Cabinet discussion on tightening virus restrictions delayed

Israel Police officers enter Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood to enforce the government's anti-coronavirus restrictions on March 30, 2020. (Screen capture: Israel Police)

Jerusalem Haredim attack medics coming to perform coronavirus test, injure 1

By Judah Ari Gross

Police crack down on violations of virus rules in ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood, arresting 4 , amid public outcry over perceived lack of enforcement

Quarantine hotels set to open for ultra-Orthodox as fight against virus steps up

Around half of Israelis hospitalized with coronavirus are ultra-Orthodox – TV

Prominent rabbi: Media trying to ‘slur’ Haredim in coronavirus reports

By Nathan Jeffay

[Illustrative] An El Al Israel Airlines Boeing 747 at the John F. Kennedy International Airport (Photo: iStock/Maciej_Bledowski)

ToI investigates'Something outrageous happened on that flight'

How Israelis fleeing the coronavirus in New York met contagion in the skies

By Simona Weinglass

When a Brooklyn yeshiva closed, 100+ Israeli students flew home on El Al. Dozens have now tested positive, and other passengers, fearful, want to know why they were put at risk

An illustrative photo of an El Al plane taking off from Ben Gurion Airport on September 3, 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Foreign Ministry sends planes to Australia, New Zealand for stranded Israelis

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

The empty departure hall at Ben Gurion International Airport, March 11, 2020. (Flash90)

US embassy warns citizens in Israel: Leave now or virus may keep you here

The Assaf Harofeh hospital (CC BY-SA, Wikipedia)

58-year-old wrongly reported as Israel’s 16th virus victim, died of other causes

The patient was initially said to be country’s youngest COVID-19 victim so far, with ‘significant’ preexisting medical conditions

Coronavirus cases in Israel rise to 4,347, with 80 in serious condition

Woman who died of virus had been moved to nursing home due to abuse from carer

‘Mom, I’m afraid,’ seriously ill virus patient, 22, said before being sedated

Illustrative: A closed school in the northern Israeli town of Safed on March 13, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Israeli schools unlikely to resume after Passover – top Health Ministry official

Moshe Bar Siman-Tov says continuous rise in cases means more lockdown steps are required, predicts Israel will have to deal with thousands of fatalities

Illustrative: A doctor checks a medical ventilator control panel while wearing protective clothing at the Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, March 16, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)

IDF, Mossad, government import ventilators, masks in battle against virus

Illustrative: Zoom University Hillel. (Collage by Emily Burack/ Alma via JTA)

Forced to leave school, Jewish college students unite in Zoom University Hillel

By Deanna Schwartz

Palestinian health workers handle a Coronavirus test sample of Palestinian workers as they cross back from Israel at a checkpoint near Hebron, March 25, 2020. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

UN praises ‘excellent’ Israeli-Palestinian cooperation in fight against pandemic

By Raphael Ahren

But officials in Ramallah, while acknowledging coordinating emergency response with Jerusalem, continue to slam Israel, say ‘occupation knows nothing of humanity’

Magen David Adom medical team members, wearing protective gear, handle a coronavirus test sample at a drive-through site for testing in Tel Aviv, on March 22, 2020. (Flash90)

Mobile coronavirus testing clinic opens for Arab village of Arara

Palestinian groom Mohamed abu Daga and his bride Israa wear face masks amid the novel coronavirus epidemic, during a photoshoot at a studio before their wedding ceremony in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 23, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

Fearing Gaza virus spread, Hamas preps for mass quarantines

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man wearing a plastic-covered hat speaks on the phone at the nearly deserted Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on March 12, 2020, after Israel announced new restrictions to contain the coronavirus. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Cabinet said to approve exemption for group prayer at Western Wall

Despite new ban on gatherings of more than 2 people, quorum of 10 worshipers to reportedly pray at holy site 3 times a day

8:23 pm

Cabinet said to approve exemption for group prayer at Western Wall
8:05 pm

Democratic congresswoman says she has presumed virus infection
7:56 pm

Cardinal close to Pope France tests positive for coronavirus

A jumbo-size government? Now? Really?

Reports of a 30- to 34-minister cabinet in the works beg for a public outcry: Costly, inefficient and divisive is not what we need today

Price gouging in the time of corona

Retailers must be held accountable for exploiting our fears and anxieties at a time of dire national emergency. Help us do just that

Think we’ve got a working government now? Guess again

The rule of law and the norms of governance have been all but unraveled — we’re looking at a multi-system failure of Israeli democracy

Shari Sarah Motro

The space between continents

I’d been expecting disaster to strike; now, as the story that gives shape to our lives falls apart, I’m learning to be patient while I wait for a new one to emerge

Illustrative: In this March 23, 2020 file photo, coffins are placed on scaffolding in the Crematorium Temple of Piacenza, northern Italy, awaiting cremation due to the coronavirus emergency. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

State-mandated cremation is a posthumous ‘mitzvah,’ says leading Orthodox rabbi

By Nathan Jeffay

Head of the Israeli Ohr Torah Stone network Rabbi Kenneth Brander states unequivocally that fighting the virus is more important than Jewish funeral rites

A man wears a mask as he walks along Waikiki Beach in Honolulu on Saturday, March 28, 2020. (AP/Caleb Jones)

COVID-19 hits elderly hardest, but risks abound for others – men more than women

By LAURAN NEERGAARD

Illustrative: Iraqi soldiers, wearing protective face-masks and gloves, man a checkpoint at the entrance of Baghdad's eastern Sadr City suburb as the country tries to stem the spread of the COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, March 28, 2020. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP)

In Iraq, no resting place for coronavirus dead

From the blogs

You need to discuss your end-of-life treatment choices now

All adults should make their advance medical directives known: Do it for yourself, and for health workers struggling with the pandemic’s agonizing load

Then-Yamina party chair Ayelet Shaked, right, with party members Bezalel Smotrich, center, and Rafi Peretz, left, at Yamina's campaign headquarters on election night in Ramat Gan, September 17, 2019. (Flash90)

Yamina party threatens to go to opposition if sidelined in emerging government

By Michael Bachner

Party source accuses Netanyahu of ‘betrayal’ amid reports it will be cut from 3 ministers to 1; Ayelet Shaked says she hopes PM won’t ‘break up’ right-wing bloc

Labor’s Peretz and Shmuli on the way to unity government – reports

By Raoul Wootliff

Likud source: Regev mooted as education minister in unity government

By Raoul Wootliff

Knesset panel okays breakup of Blue and White; Gantz keeps the name

By Raoul Wootliff

This abandoned dog recently found a new home. (Courtesy, Tel Aviv Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals).

More pets abandoned, and more adopted, since coronavirus outbreak

Animal welfare organizations fear that many adopted animals will be returned to shelters once people return to work, school

Dutch diplomat turned Jewish rescuer Sally Noach (Courtesy: Road on the Show Productions Ltd)

Dutch Jew who rescued 100s in Vichy France finally recognized — 80 years later

By Robert Philpot

Interview

Invoking Jewish experience, deputy CDC head says fear the virus, not the foreign

By Rich Tenorio

Dr. Anne Schuchat says Jews know what it’s like to be stigmatized, as she pushes for tight-knit yet socially distant response to COVID-19, predicting that battle may take years

US President Donald Trump takes questions from reporters in the Rose Garden for the daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on March 29, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump extends shutdown guidelines, says US death rate may peak in mid-April

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a briefing on coronavirus in the Brady press briefing room at the White House, March 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US coronavirus deaths likely to be ‘between 100,000 and 200,000,’ Fauci says

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Josef Neumann, 72, who was seriously injured during a December 29, 2019, machete assault in Monsey, New York, and died three months later. (Courtesy)

Man stabbed in Monsey Hanukkah attack succumbs to wounds

By ToI Staff and AP

A mortuary employee wearing a face mask places the coffin of a COVID-19 coronavirus victim into a niche during a burial at the Fuencarral cemetery in Madrid on March 29, 2020. (BALDESCA SAMPER/AFP)

Spain surpasses China in number of virus cases with 85,195

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An illustrative image of how the coronavirus is affecting economies and stock markets globally (Dina Damotseva; iStock by Getty Images)

InterviewEconomy to shrink, deficit to surge as virus runs amok, top economist says

By Shoshanna Solomon

A member of the Iranian Army works at a temporary hospital in Tehran, Iran, March 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Prisoners riot in Iran after 100,000 convicts released to curb virus

By Amir Vahdat and OMAR AKOUR

A man walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, March 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

World shares extend losses as toll from pandemic surges

By Elaine Kurtenbach

Daniel Azulay, an influential Brazilian children's entertainer and educator. (Daniel Azulay Facebook via JTA)

Cherished Jewish Brazilian artist and educator dies of COVID-19

By Marcus M. Gilban

Britain's Prince Harry congratulates a member of the United States wheelchair basketball team after winning the gold medal in the finals during day eight of the Invictus Games in Sydney, Australia, October 27, 2018. (Chris Jackson/Pool Photo via AP)

Israeli war wounded said set to participate in Prince Harry’s Invictus Games

People wearing face masks for fear of the coronavirus arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport on March 10, 2020 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

The only way is up: The coronavirus hasn’t stopped immigration to Israel

Illustrative photo of police at a crime scene in the central city of Ramle, June 1, 2015. (Flash90)

Man’s burnt body found on outskirts of Ramle

Attendees, including Holocaust survivors, at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020.(Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

German foundation gives million euros to help Holocaust survivors amid pandemic

Illustrative photo of elderly residents in a nursing home. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

US Jewish foundation announces $4 million in COVID-19 funds for nonprofits

Rick Wiles of TruNews (Screen capture: YouTube)

Conservative pastor says coronavirus spread in synagogues is punishment from God

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