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What Matters Most On Monday, April 6, 2020

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An empty street in Jerusalem on April 4, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel set for nationwide lockdown from Tuesday afternoon to early Friday

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Movement between cities reportedly to be banned for almost three days; Haredi ministers said to have opposed earlier plan for shutdown focused primarily on their community’s areas

Israeli police officers near an Eged Bus on road number 1 near Jerusalem on April 5, 2020, after earlier a man who was tested positive for the coronavirus was arrested on the bus. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cabinet names lockdown committee, with 8 cities, Jerusalem areas in crosshairs

The empty promenade and beach along the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Tel Aviv, March 28, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Government considering general lockdown in Israel over Passover

From the blogs

Yossi Klein Halevi

‘And you shall tell your children.’ This Passover more than ever.

Now, with so many elders dying, with so many of us isolated from family, is the time to explain why the Jewish story matters to us. Here is what I will tell my children

President Reuven Rivlin (second from right) holds a pre-Passover video conference with world Jewish leaders on April 5, 2020 (Mark Neyman / GPO)

Modern-day plague won’t break our ties, Rivlin tells world Jewish leaders

By Stuart Winer

Ramat Gan municipal workers put up a fence to block pedestrians from neighboring Bnei Brak, April 6, 2020 (Screen grab/Ynet)

Ramat Gan erects fences to block Bnei Brak residents, is ordered to remove them

Interior Ministry: Municipality not authorized to stop foot traffic from virus-stricken neighbor; Bnei Brak mayor decries ‘ghetto’

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

Liberman: Ultra-Orthodox politicians ‘endangering public health’

By Raoul Wootliff

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past an electoral billboard bearing a portrait of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem, on April 1, 2019. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Netanyahu slams ‘wild incitement’ against ultra-Orthodox amid pandemic

By Michael Bachner

180 Jewish guests from around the world visit the newly renovated Eliyahu Hanavi synagogue in the northwestern Egyptian city of Alexandria on February 14, 2020. (David Lisbona)

Rising to the challenge

Israel sends matzahs, Passover items to Jews in… Egypt

Foreign Ministry says boxes of kosher for Passover food went to tiny Jewish communities in Cairo and Alexandria

Adeena Sussman's Olive Oil Chocolate Spread on matzah, from the 'Sababa' cookbook (Courtesy Adeena Sussman)

ToI podcastLISTEN: On this seder night, cook whatever you wish

By Jessica Steinberg

An boy carries a box of matzah for Passover that he picked up from his synagogue in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on March 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Jews prepare for a pandemic Passover: smaller but no less vital

A man walks along an empty street in the old town area of Salzburg on April 6, 2020 during the exit restrictions amid the new coronavirus / Covid-19 pandemic. (BARBARA GINDL / APA / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Some European countries begin to plot lockdown exit amid signs of encouragement

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Austria to re-open stores soon, Denmark says some daycares and schools may be back in businesses in 10 days, but France and other locales, still getting walloped by virus

8:32 pm

Thoughts and prayers for UK's Johnson from Israel
8:30 pm

Israeli Arabs say they should not need to shut down for Jewish holiday
8:17 pm

Georgia to let in 15 Israelis having kids through surrogates

Illustrative: An ambulance driving in the central Israeli city of Elad, April 5, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

8 more fatalities take coronavirus toll to 57; infections climb to 8,904

Health Ministry says 140 patients are in serious condition, with 109 on ventilators; 670 have recovered

Israel media reviewBlack hat hackers: 6 things to know for April 6

20 tons of medical equipment arrive in Israel from China on flight no. 1 of 11

Maccabi HMO says it’s worried about Bnei Brak but ‘no idea’ of infection levels

By Nathan Jeffay

Medical workers wearing equipment to protect themselves from coronavirus bring a patient to St Thomas' Hospital in Westminster in London, April 6, 2020 (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

US, UK brace for soaring death tolls as pandemic bears down

By Lori Hinnant and DANICA KIRKA

US surgeon general offers stark warning about surge of coronavirus deaths: ‘This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment’ British PM remains in hospital

A sign acknowledging the work of doctors and nurses is posted on a traffic control box outside Brooklyn Hospital Center, as a hospital worker, right, waits for a traffic light to change before reporting to duty, Sunday, April 5, 2020, in New York. The Brooklyn hospital is one of several in the area treating high numbers of coronavirus patients. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

NY’s death count nears 4,200, but there’s a glimmer of hope

By Jim Mustian and David Porter

In this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo, smoke rises from the battleship USS Arizona as it sinks during a Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP File Photo)

Pearl Harbor, 9/11: Virus raises specter of gravest attacks in modern US times

By Will Weissert and KEVIN FREKING

IDF troops deliver food to residents of the city of Bnei Brak in central Israel, which was largely closed off from the rest of the country due to a coronavirus outbreak, on April 5, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

The IDF’s goal for Bnei Brak: 1,000 tons of food delivered by Passover

By Judah Ari Gross

Senior military officer says troops have not encountered violent opposition to their presence in the ultra-Orthodox city; rather, ‘the opposite is true’

An ultra-Orthodox youth in Jerusalem, March 16, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

InterviewPandemic could deepen individualist trends in Haredi society, expert says

By Raphael Ahren

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi visits the city of Bnei Brak in central Israel, which is largely closed off from the rest of the country due to a coronavirus outbreak, on April 5, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief visits virus-stricken Bnei Brak as troops operate inside city

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative. (iStock)

ToI investigates

Simona Weinglass

Spies are already in your phone. A highly controversial private firm may be next

Fighting the coronavirus contagion, the government has introduced extremely intrusive tracking. Now it wants to bring in the NSO Group, a company accused of human rights violations

Gabi Arnovitz (center) with David Suraqui (L) and Uriel Shuraki. (Courtesy)

Seniors stuck amid lockdown learn to operate smartphones with online course

Donniel Hartman

When life is on the line, we don’t point fingers of blame

Right now, we must not distinguish between the responsible and the irresponsible; there is a time for judgement and moralizing and it will come

Adam S. Ferziger

Will Corona usher the internet into the Haredi Orthodox home?

The web has proven critically important for health. Now rabbinic leaders must forge a strategy to enable their community to reap its full benefits

Feathering our nests

Some days, I want to buy the world a Coke; some days, I have to remember that we’re all in this together — while birds soar, and build homes wherever they want

Avi Novis-Deutsch

Zoom before the holiday, then turn off the tech: A seder guide

Instructions for conducting portions of the seder shortly before the holiday starts, and for scheduling a date to meet up when the lockdown finally ends

Labor-Gesher party leader Amir Peretz and Blue and White party chairmen Benny Gantz meet in Jerusalem on October 28, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Blue and White, Labor plan merger as Gantz and Netanyahu hold coalition talks

Labor’s Michaeli accuses Amir Peretz of selling out party’s legacy with planned union; PM and his centrist rival claim progress toward formation of ‘national emergency government’

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

Blue and White said willing to bend on annexation, but not on judge appointments

By Raoul Wootliff

President Reuven Rivlin (R) tasks Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz with forming a government in a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on March 16, 2020. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Gantz tells Rivlin he’ll likely request extension of mandate to form government

In this photo sent out by the Defense Ministry on April 5, 2020, an El Al plane in China is loaded with medical equipment to bring to Israel. (El Al)

With 11 planes, Israel airlifts huge quantities of medical equipment from China

Defense Ministry says first flight with 900,000 surgical masks and half a million protective suits will arrive Monday; additional shipments will include ventilators

The Wuhan Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, beleived to be the source of the coronavirus sits closed in Wuhan, China, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

Where it all began: Wuhan’s virus ground-zero ‘wet market’ hides in plain sight

By Hector RETAMAL

Illustrative: A male Siberian Tiger. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

Tiger at NYC’s Bronx Zoo tests positive for coronavirus

By Jennifer Peltz

A coronavirus test being performed. (Health Ministry)

Israeli, Chinese firms announce testing lab for Palestinians in West Bank, Gaza

BGI Group, a genome sequencing company based in southern China, partners with Rehovot-based AID GENOMICS to build facility that can carry out around 3,000 coronavirus tests per day

Members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group's armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, spray disinfectant in the streets of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, during a campaign aimed at slowing down the spread of the novel coronavirus, March 26, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Gaza running out of coronavirus tests, warns Hamas-run Health Ministry

Palestinian Authority security forces and an elderly man standing near the entrance to the Thabet Thabet Government Hospital in Tulkarem on April 5, 2019. (Credit: Wafa)

PA repurposes West Bank hospital for virus cases after infected man visits site

In this image taken from video and made available by Buckingham Palace, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II addresses the nation and the Commonwealth from Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, Sunday April 5, 2020. Queen Elizabeth II made a rare address, calling on Britons to rise to the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic, to exercise self-discipline in “an increasingly challenging time”. (Buckingham Palace via AP)

‘We will meet again’: Queen delivers message of hope to UK amid virus outbreak

By DANICA KIRKA

Only 4th time British monarch has given a national address like this; draws on WWII experience and promises nation that it will rise to challenge and overcome pandemic

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson claps outside 11 Downing Street to salute local heroes during a nationwide initiative to applaud workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic, in London, April 2, 2020. (Pippa Fowles/10 Downing Street via AP)

British PM Boris Johnson hospitalized with coronavirus, will undergo tests

By Jill Lawless

Iranian women, members of paramilitary Basij organization, make face masks and other protective items at a mosque in the capital Tehran, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic crisis on April 5, 2020. (ATTA KENARE/AFP)

Iran says coronavirus infections show ‘gradual’ decline

By AFP

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Illustrative: A phone showing the Twitter icon, July 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Twitter removes over 8,000 fake accounts tied to Saudi, Egyptian governments

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