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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 5, 2020

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In this handout photo provided by Number 10 Downing Street, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson chairs the morning Covid-19 Meeting remotely after self isolating after testing positive for the coronavirus, at 10 Downing Street, London, March 28, 2020. (Andrew Parsons/10 Downing Street via AP)

Live updates (Closed)

UK’s Johnson taken to the hospital for coronavirus tests

The office of the British PM, who tested positive for COVID-19 10 days ago, calls the move a ‘precautionary step,’ says it was at the advice of his doctor

8:29 pm

Infected UK PM taken to the hospital for precautionary virus tests
8:27 pm

PM, Health Ministry said seeking to declare 15 Jerusalem neighborhoods 'restricted zones'
8:09 pm

Bennett says he's okayed deployment of 700 more troops to enforce virus restrictions

Medics wearing protective clothes walk near a bus with a man who was tested positive for the coronavirus on Route 1 near Jerusalem on April 5, 2020. (Flash90)

Virus carrier nabbed on bus to J’lem, accused of deliberately endangering public

Suspect, from Beitar Illit, arrested en route to capital for allegedly fleeing quarantine after his family reportedly alerted police; 34 passengers ordered to self-isolate

Chairman of ZAKA, Israel’s voluntary emergency response organization, Yehuda Meshi Zahav. (ZAKA/Lydia Weitzman Communications)

ZAKA head: Ultra-Orthodox ‘completely confused’ by virus, looking for leadership

The damaged rear window of a Jerusalem municipality vehicle that had stones thrown at it, April 4, 2020 (Magen David Adom)

Medics attacked en route to virus test in Jerusalem Haredi neighborhood; 1 hurt

Israeli police officers, dressed in protective outfits, arrive at a yeshiva in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak on April 2, 2020, to ensure that social distancing measures imposed by Israeli authorities meant to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus are being respected. (JACK GUEZ/AFP)

Top public health official: No return to work after Passover

Tensions flare in Knesset hearing over virus tests; Health Ministry’s top doctor says government scouring the world for antibody tests to determine who had gotten over the virus

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)

3 more Israelis die of virus, bringing death toll to 47 as cases top 8,000

A microscopic 3D rendering of coronavirus, a pathogen that attacks the respiratory tract. (Naeblys/iStockPhoto)

Reinfection unlikely among COVID-19 patients, say experts

A lab technician carries out a coronavirus test at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa on March 30, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Instead of ramping up, coronavirus testing decreasing due to reagent shortage

Dearth of chemicals means Israel testing fewer than 10,000 people a day, despite goal of 30,000 set by Netanyahu; Health Ministry says solution may have been found

An Israeli shops for groceries at the Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem on April 2, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Grains of salt might helpNo, an herbal ‘cure’ has not spared Israelis from the coronavirus

By ToI Staff and AP

A lab technician carries out a coronavirus test at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa on March 30, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Hospitals reportedly told to prep to reuse protective gear amid shortage fears

Lessons from the special needs community on responding to coronavirus

The general public is now dealing with many of the questions and worries we face every day. Here is what we have learned

Dear Solo Seder Sitter: You are not alone!

I’m reminding myself, as much as anyone, that Elijah will join me — and all my family, ancestors, memories, and, for that matter, the Divine will be present at my table too

Ruth Balinsky Friedman

What do I risk if I go to the mikveh? What do I risk if I don’t go?

The angry and hurting women confronting these impossible life-or-death questions deserve a response, though I don’t have all the answers

Naomi Marmon Grumet

Transparency and due diligence at the mikveh

To ensure that women can go and feel safe going, we need both increased supervision and inspection and women who police their own experience and report violations

Employees deliver a body at Daniel J. Schaefer Funeral Home, Thursday, April 2, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP/John Minchillo)

As New York virus toll spikes, governor says worst yet to come

With over 3,500 dead across state, Cuomo says apex may only come in 4 or 14 days; state seeks ventilators in China and help from graduating medical students

Volunteers from the International Christian relief organization Samaritans Purse set up an emergency field hospital in New York, March 31, 2020. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP)

In the US, hunt for medical supplies creates marketplace of desperation

Pastor Tony Spell, center background, talks to congregants after an evening service at Life Tabernacle Church in Central, La., Tuesday, March 31, 2020. (AP/Gerald Herbert)

US coronavirus closure orders raise religious freedom tensions

Migrants wearing protective facemasks hurry to renew work and residence permits in Russia at a migration center in Saint Petersburg on April 3, 2020, amid the spread of the coronavirus. (Olga MALTSEVA / AFP)

Analysis

After the virus: What kind of world will we live in?

Some economies may never recover; civil liberties could erode as leaders tighten control; multilateral groups such as WHO and UN could be marginalized… but nobody knows for sure

In this March 16, 2020 file photo, a woman walks through an almost empty Times Square in New York, March 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

A gentler Gotham? New Yorkers anxiously wait out coronavirus

Red Cross volunteers register people during the first day of the government's food distribution for people who have been affected by the lockdown in Kampala, Uganda, on April 4, 2020. (SUMY SADURNI/AFP)

‘Complete collapse of economies’ ahead as Africa faces virus

By Rodney Muhumuza

Funeral home workers carry a body from the Vitalia nursing home in Leganes, Spain, April 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain sees 3rd daily drop in coronavirus deaths, with 674 fatalities

By AFP and ToI Staff

Total death toll in country at 12,418, world’s second-highest after Italy; 1,215,940 people infected and 65,666 dead worldwide as of Sunday

Medical staff move bodies from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center to a refrigerated truck on April 2, 2020, in Brooklyn, New York. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

Global coronavirus death toll tops 60,000 as advice on masks shifts

By Phil HAZLEWOOD

A woman carries a diabled man wearing a protective face mask the Sabra neighbourhood of Beirut where many Palestinian refugees still live on March 22, 2020. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Lebanon brace for virus onslaught

By Tony Gamal-Gabriel

Illustration by Avi Katz

Necessary Stories

Doors

By Haim Watzman

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

Cargo ships carrying eggs arrive in Israel, but they may not be enough

Estimating a shortfall of some 30 million eggs, the government steps up import efforts ahead of the start of Passover on Wednesday evening

Consumer watchdog asks Health Ministry to fix facial mask prices

New startups at risk as tech investment ‘backs out’ in March, report shows

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israelis will not receive unemployment benefits and stipends before Passover

Bnei Brak lockdown tightens, in bid to head off ‘much worse crisis’

Military officer coordinating effort says operation should concentrate on increased virus testing, not removing those at risk; public transportation into city cut off

An ultra-Orthodox man crosses a main deserted street in Bnei Brak on April 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli police officers check vehicles at a checkpoint in the predominantly ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, on April 3, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Senior health official calls for more virus-hit Haredi towns to be locked down

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)

Israel media reviewMake my people stay: 6 things to know for April 5

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative: A nursing home for the elderly in Jerusalem, April 15, 2008. (Anna Kaplan/Flash90)

As nursing homes become virus hotspots, government turns to military for help

Beersheba assisted living facility has seen six deaths, four recorded in Jerusalem home; outbreaks also occur in Holon and Nahariya

The Mishan assisted living facility in Beersheba (Screen grab/Channel 13 news)

Relatives of senior living home residents killed by virus said planning lawsuit

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett is interviewed on Channel 12 news, April 4, 2020 (Screen grab)

Bennett demands his Defense Ministry take over virus battle from Health Ministry

New UK Labour chief sends condolences to Jewish community for high virus deaths

In one of his first acts as party leader, Keir Starmer offers assistance to community’s umbrella group amid COVID-19 toll, repeats vow to stamp out anti-Semitism

In this file photo taken on November 21, 2019 Britain's Labour Party shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the EU Keir Starmer attends the launch of the Labour party election manifesto in Birmingham, northwest England (Oli SCARFF / AFP)

Foreign Minister Israel Katz attends a Likud party rally, ahead of the Israeli general elections, in the northern town of Safed, February 24, 2020. (David Cohen/FLASH90)

Katz, Peretz welcome new UK Labour chief, hope he’ll eradicate anti-Semitism

NHS workers are swabbed at a drive-in facility to test for the novel coronavirus COVID-19, set up in the car park on the outskirts of Manchester on April 4, 2020. (Oli SCARFF / AFP)

Rabbi Osher Yaakov Westheim, British authority on kosher laws, dies of virus

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (left) and Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert, in February 2008. (Wikimedia commons/ CC BY-SA 2.0/ Joan Halifax)

Author interview

Studying US Buddhist centers, researcher finds 130-year history of fellow Jews

By Rich Tenorio

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Labor Party leader Amir Peretz (R) and Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz at a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 12, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Labor head ends merger with Meretz, in move toward joining government

Pope Francis holds a palm branch as he celebrates Palm Sunday Mass behind closed doors in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 5, 2020, during the lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus. (AP Photo/pool/Alberto Pizzoli)

Handful of monks attend Jerusalem’s Palm Sunday march amid pandemic

A Palestinian worker gets his temperature checked as he returns to the West Bank via the Mitar checkpoint, March 25, 2020. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

PA announces 6 new virus cases, raising total of confirmed infections to 216

Police officers investigate after a man wielding a knife attacked residents venturing out to shop in the town under lockdown, Saturday April 4, 2020 in Romans-sur-Isere, southern France. (AP)

French police open terror probe into deadly stabbing spree

By AFP

Governor of the Bank of Israel Karnit Flug during a meeting of the Finance Committee in the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 06, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash90)

Coronavirus crisis justifies more government spending, former bank governor says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Convicted murderer Roman Zadorov in the courtroom of the Supreme Court, Jerusalem, December 23, 2015. (Gili Yohanan/POOL)

State opposes retrial for convicted murderer who insists he was framed

Palestinian Authority Jerusalem Governor Adnan Ghaith. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Israel again detains Palestinian governor of Jerusalem

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A screen grab shared by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson of a cabinet meeting held over the Zoom app (Twitter)

Video app Zoom rockets to fame during pandemic despite abuse, privacy concerns

By Julie JAMMOT

Ali Mohammed Younes, a Hezbollah commander reported killed by unknown assailants on April 5, 2020. (Fars News Agency)

Hezbollah anti-spy commander killed in south Lebanon

A lab technician carries out a coronavirus test at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa on March 30, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Council for Higher Education, philanthropies set $4m for coronavirus research

By Shoshanna Solomon

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