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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 4, 2020

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Labor-Gesher head Amir Peretz, left, and Meretz party leader Nitzan Horowitz during a press conference in Tel Aviv on January 13, 2020. (Flash90)

Live updates (Closed)

Labor chairman ends merger with Meretz as he prepares to join government

More leftist faction brands Amir Peretz ‘an opportunist and a con man’ for apparently breaking promise not to sit under Netanyahu

8:54 pm

Puerto Rico discovers protective supply cache amid COVID-19
8:45 pm

New Orleans preps convention center for patients
8:26 pm

Michaeli reiterates refusal to follow Labor leader, deputy into Netanyahu gov't

File: Labour Party lawmaker Keir Starmer speaks to the media following the launch of his campaign to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as party leader, in Stevenage, England, Sunday Jan. 5, 2020 (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)

Says he supports Zionism, but fears term has been weaponized

After Corbyn, UK Labour elects Keir Starmer, Zionist with Jewish wife, as leader

By ToI Staff and AFP

New opposition chief immediately apologizes to Jews for anti-Semitism in ranks, vows to ‘tear out this poison’; his wife comes from a Jewish family, has relatives in Tel Aviv

Labour's Keir Starmer gestures, during the Labour leadership hustings at the SEC centre, in Glasgow, Scotland, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020 (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)

Keir Starmer: From radical lawyer to leader of a Labour party that needs uniting

By Alice Ritchie

Danny and Julia Avrahami. Both died of coronavirus within a week of each other (Courtesy of the family)

Elderly Israeli married couple die of coronavirus within a week of each other

Julia Avrahami passed away Friday, a week after husband Danny succumbed to virus; his daughter believes he was infected due to poor practices during hospital visit in early March

Magen David Adom workers wearing protective clothing as a preventive measure against the coronavirus evacuate a patient with suspected coronavirus outside a coronavirus unit at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on April 3, 2020. ( Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel’s virus death toll rises to 43 with deaths of three more people

An ultra-Orthodox youth is tested for the coronavirus in Bnei Brak, March 31, 2020. (Ariel Schalit/ AP)

Health Ministry said to tighten criteria for virus testing due to lab shortages

Police and Magen David Adom personnel at a drop off station for residents from the ultra Orthodox city of Bnei Brak who have been infected by the coronavirus, and are on their way to quarantine hotels, near Rama Gan's Ayalon mall on April 3, 2020 (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Coronavirus crisis

Police minimize Bnei Brak enforcement on Shabbat; arrest 10 Haredim in Jerusalem

Authorities maintain low-key presence to respect Jewish day of rest while upholding restrictions; break up illicit gatherings in capital’s Mea Shearim neighborhood

Blurry footage aired on Channel 12 on April 3, 2020, shows a large gathering of soldiers outside a mess hall at a base in central Israel (video screenshot)

Military continues to see distancing rules flouted amid pandemic

Israel Police set up temporary checkpoints at the entrance to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish city of Bnei Brak as part of an effort to enforce lockdown in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, April 3, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Bnei Brak deputy mayor says virus closure a ‘death trap’ for city’s elderly

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Israeli border police wear face masks as they patrol Jerusalem city center to check people are not disobeying the governments orders on a partial lockdown in order to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus, April 03, 2020.(Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Top health official: Some virus restrictions could be lifted after Passover

Moshe Bar Siman-Tov defends work of Health Minister Litzman, accused of catching COVID-19 after flouting isolation rules; IDF to take over old age homes amid fear of mass outbreak

Israel Police set up temporary checkpoints at the entrance to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish city of Bnei Brak as part of an effort to enforce lockdown in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, April 3, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Stipends for children, elderly will not arrive by Passover, despite PM’s vow: TV

An Israeli shops for groceries in Jerusalem on March 18, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Amid shortages, PM authorizes emergency airlift of eggs ahead of Passover

In this handout photo released by the Foundation for Fighting Corruption, Dr. Anastasia Vasilyeva of the Alliance of Doctors union, right, and the Foundation for Fighting Corruption's lawyer Vyacheslav Gimadi sit in court room in Okulovo, Novgorod region, about 400 kilometers (about 250 miles) northwest of Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 3, 2020. (The Foundation for Fighting Corruption via AP)

Russia detains activist doctor who told ‘Zman Yisrael’ Moscow lying about virus

By AP and ToI Staff

Anastasia Vasilyeva of the Alliance of Doctors union later fined and released; she was trying to bring masks, sanitizers, hazmat suits to hospital in Novgorod region

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin walk to participate in a group photo at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 28, 2019. (AP/Susan Walsh, File)

Russia to the rescue? Trump thanks Putin, but diplomats wary on aid deliveries

Montage: Head of Blue and White, Benny Gantz, left; and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right. (Photos: Flash90)

With Gantz on patio and PM quarantined inside, progress made toward unity deal

Two leaders forced to yell to each other with PM in precautionary isolation; main disagreement is still over annexing parts of West Bank, which Netanyahu wants as his ‘legacy’

Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, left, and Alain Soral arrive at the Paris courthouse for Soral's trial for inciting hatred against Jews, March 12, 2015. (Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images/ JTA)

Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories an odious symptom of France’s virus crisis

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Medical workers wait for patients at a special coronavirus intake area at Maimonides Medical Center in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn which has seen an upsurge of coronavirus patients, April 2, 2020 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

US sets grim new global record with 1,480 COVID-19 deaths in 24 hours

By AFP

Death toll in Europe passes 40,000, with over 900 fatalities in Spain in past day; UN warns of coming catastrophe in war-torn countries; economists predict deep worldwide recession

A temporary hospital in Indio, California, March 29, 2020. (Apu Gomes/AFP)

As virus surges, field hospitals emerge across US; now they need staff

By Ivan Couronne

A patient wears a protective mask and gloves while waiting for COVID-19 testing outside Elmhurst Hospital Center, in New York, March 27, 2020. (AP/John Minchillo)

Face coverings recommended for all of US, but Trump says he won’t wear one

By Eric Tucker, Zeke Miller and Mike Schneider

The "Tree of Life" monument by Jacques (Chaim Jacob) Lipshitz outside Haddasah Medical Center in Jerusalem depicts Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Moses. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

From Elijah & Moses to the Gate of Faith, sculptures echo Israel’s Biblical past

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Splendid isolation

The word ’quarantine’ originates with the Black Death, but separating from the community goes back to the biblical Aaron, and it is about spiritual purification and growth (Tzav)

Malynnda Littky-Porath

How Israel’s decision to require masks turned me into a conspiracy theorist

Overnight, we’ve gone from a policy of hard-line isolation, handwashing, and distancing to masks we wouldn’t need if we followed those guidelines to begin with

Revere Beach, Massachusetts, not far from the COVID-19 outbreak at the Jack Satter House, April 1, 2020 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

Analysis

When the deadly virus hit a Jewish care facility on shore of 1st US public beach

In Massachusetts, a Hebrew SeniorLife independent living facility grapples with ‘gut-wrenching’ loss of six residents to COVID-19 outbreak

Daniel Ostrov and Stephanie Cole assemble face shields in Kohelet Yeshiva High School's 'fab lab' (Courtesy of Kohelet via JTA)

US Jewish day school turns its art center into a medical face shield factory

By Josefin Dolsten

Illustrative: Children sitting at the Park East Synagogue, a Modern Orthodox congregation in New York City, March 3, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images, via JTA)

Religious groups clash over US government giving virus aid to houses of worship

By Eric Cortellessa

Interfaith Alliance says move violates separation of religion and state; Orthodox Union argues it would be discriminatory to leave religious groups out of relief package

AnalysisThe pandemic, and how the US Jewish community survives it

A person on a stretcher is removed from Carnival's Holland America cruise ship Zaandam at Port Everglades during the coronavirus pandemic, April 2, 2020, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Florida finally takes in cruise ship passengers, some on stretchers

By KELLI KENNEDY and WILFREDO LEE

French Municipal Police officers stand in a street in the center of Romans-sur-Isere, on April 4, 2020 (JEFF PACHOUD / AFP)

2 dead, several injured in southern France knife attack; suspect arrested

By AP

Prosecutors don’t confirm reports that suspect shouted ‘Allahu akbar’ (God is great) as he carried out attack; say evaluating whether he was motivated by terrorism

Newly-elected Ra'am MK, Iman Khatib-Yasin. (Gili Yaari/ Flash90/ via Zman)

How Israel’s first hijab-wearing MK plans to fight for Arab women

By Ira Tolchin Immergluck

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Palestinian health professionals standing in a quarantine facility in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem on April 3, 2020. (Credit: Wafa)

PA announces 22 new virus cases, raising total of confirmed infections to 193

People walk down a quiet cobbled street in Stockholm, March 25, 2020. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

Sweden’s Jewish community, with 9 dead, hit disproportionately hard by virus

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Michael Atkinson, the inspector general of the intelligence community, arrives at the Capitol in Washington for closed-door questioning about a whistleblower complaint that triggered US President Donald Trump's impeachment, October 4, 2019. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Trump fires watchdog who handled Ukraine whistleblower complaint

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

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)

Iraq suspends, fines Reuters news agency over virus report

By AP

The Canadian Jewish News posted a farewell statement on its website on April 3. (Screenshot via JTA)

After 60 years, Canada’s leading Jewish newspaper to close due to virus crisis

By David Lazarus

In this April 13, 2018, file photo the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier is anchored off Manila Bay west of Manila, Philippines. The captain of the US Navy aircraft carrier facing a growing outbreak of the coronavirus is asking for permission to isolate the bulk of his roughly 5,000 crew members on shore, which would take the warship out of duty in an effort to save lives. The ship is docked in Guam (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

Sailors cheer USS Roosevelt captain fired for exposing virus outbreak onboard

By Lolita C. Baldor and Robert Burns

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