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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 7, 2020

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Police check drivers at a temporary checkpoint on Route 1 outside Jerusalem, to check that people are not disobeying government orders of a partial lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Passover closure to begin at 7 p.m., curfew to take effect Wednesday afternoon

Ministers approve emergency measures banning all intercity traffic for four days; restrictions to be tightened over seder night; Jerusalem divided into seven zones

Women help each other to put on face masks at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda fruit and vegetable market, April 3, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israelis will be required to wear face masks outdoors under new order

Border Police officers talk to a man in downtown Jerusalem on April 6, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewBlood, frogs, lice and curfew: 6 things to know for April 7

ToI investigates

Shoshanna Solomon

Israel’s banks accused of ‘piggish’ behavior as businesses suffer credit squeeze

Experts, MKs outraged as interest rates raised on loans and mortgages; banks say Israel not giving them enough cover as pandemic crisis adds to risk

Illustrative image of a credit crunch, recession (Morrison1977; iStock by Getty Images)

El Al planes at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, March 16, 2018. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Treasury rejects El Al’s $350m loan request as company struggles to survive

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Joint List party member Ahmad Tibi speaks during a Knesset plenary session on February 17, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

NIS 90 billion virus aid package scrapes through Knesset with help of Joint List

Illustrative: Magen David Adom medics wearing protective clothing, as a preventive measure against the coronavirus transfer a patient to the new coronavirus unit at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on April 6, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel’s death toll rises to 60 as coronavirus cases top 9,000

80-year-old man who succumbed to illness had been in serious condition for weeks; amid concerns of nationwide shortage, Health Ministry chief says 3,000 ventilators available

Police officers close synagogues and hand out fines to ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Bukharim quarter in Jerusalem on April 6, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Data shows nearly 1/3rd of all virus cases centered in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak

Illustrative: A young man with autism. (KatarzynaBialasiewicz/ iStock/ Getty Images)

Government plan to seal special needs facilities provokes uproar

The empty Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv on April 4, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

7 degrees of exit: Rollback of virus rules envisioned as lengthy, phased process

By Stuart Winer

Experts say essential industry and high-tech will return first; authorities may use localized lockdowns to contain future outbreaks; schools and air travel likely last to come back

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a televised statement from his official residence in Jerusalem on coronavirus-related restrictions to be implemented over the Passover holiday, April 6, 2020. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Netanyahu announces Passover closure and curfew, but says exit may be in sight

Police officers block the road to the skiing resort Saalbach Hinterglemm in Austrian province of Salzburg, Friday, April 3, 2020 after the city was quarantined. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

Austria could start loosening virus lockdown from April 14

By AFP

Members of the Palestinian Authority security forces patrolling in the village of Beitunia in the central West Bank on April 6, 2020. (Credit: Wafa)

Palestinians report 19 new coronavirus cases in West Bank, 1 in Gaza

Officials in Ramallah says four people in intensive care in the West Bank; Hamas-run health ministry releases 632 from quarantine facilities in territory

Palestinians leave the Makassed hospital in East Jerusalem, September 9, 2018. (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

East Jerusalem hospital officials fret over prospect of rise in virus cases

The IDF displays how the seder meals it plans to host on its bases will look, on April 6, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF gears up for larger than normal seder meals, offers cash to troops in need

By Judah Ari Gross

A coronavirus test being performed. (Health Ministry)

Live updates (closed)

Israel signs deal with Chinese firm to enable 10,000 virus tests a day

Equipment worth $25 million will allow boosted screening; to be installed in six different labs in coming weeks

8:16 pm

Report: Israel believes Hamas 'serious' about prisoner swap
7:45 pm

Britain's Johnson 'stable' in intensive care
7:43 pm

Israel signs deal with Chinese firm to enable 10,000 virus tests a day

Illustrative image of garlic ( Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Amid confusion over virus symptoms, Israeli scientist creates a sniff test tool

By Nathan Jeffay

Smell garlic and toothpaste and save lives from coronavirus: It’s not a folk cure, but a Weizmann Institute initiative, and 200 people an hour are joining

Police officers and Israeli soldiers at a temporary "checkpoint" in Jerusalem, to check people are not disobeying the government's orders on a partial lockdown in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, April 5, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

IDF ramps up involvement in national virus response, scales back reserves

By Judah Ari Gross

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

Israel’s Redhill Biopharma gets green light for experimental COVID-19 treatment

'Rock star' writer Meir Shalev at 2012 International Writer's Festival in Jerusalem (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Locked down? Open up to… Meir Shalev

By Mitch Ginsburg

My first on-call on the Corona ICU

A surreal experience, it made me a little anxious and a little proud — until a quick phone call turned things around, and not for the better

Ilana Sober Elzufon

For me, these holiday accessories have come to symbolize the fragility of life; you see, when we pack them away each year, we don’t know if or when we’’ll next see them

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)

UK Prime Minister Johnson remains in intensive care as he battles coronavirus

By Alice Ritchie and Phil HAZLEWOOD

Cabinet minister says PM, who spent night in hospital, was given ‘some oxygen’ but is not on a ventilator; foreign minister steps in to lead country, though his powers unclear

Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab leaves a meeting in Downing Street, London, April 6, 2020. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)

Dominic Raab, the UK minister who will take over if Johnson incapacitated

By Phil HAZLEWOOD

Illustrative: Volunteers from the Hatzola ambulance service, wearing gloves and masks to protect against the coronavirus, wheel a patient into Royal London Hospital in London on March 29, 2020. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP)

30 British Jewish victims of coronavirus buried in three-day span

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands at an overview overlooking the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa, where he announced a new neighborhood is to be built, February 20, 2020. (Debbie Hill/Pool via AP)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

As talks founder again, Netanyahu caught between Gantz and right-wing base

A new government was in hand: Likud had won on annexation, Blue and White on judicial reforms; but a last-minute outcry from the PM’s rightist flank forced a backtrack

Benny Gantz (L) and Gabi Ashkenazi at a Blue and White campaign event in Kfar Saba on February 12, 2020. (Gili Yaari/ Flash90)

Nearly 140 US Jewish leaders urge Gantz, Ashkenazi to block annexation

By Eric Cortellessa

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, on October 27, 2019. (Elad Malka)

Blue and White calls off coalition talks over dispute on judicial appointments

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

First person

LISTEN: How to throw off the yoke of supermarkets and produce your own eggs

With the country experiencing an egg shortage before Passover, raising your own fowl could have kept you in steady supply even while cooped up

Kulthum the chicken looking guilty after it was discovered where she was hiding all the eggs in Tel Aviv on May 25, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Screen capture from video of eggs on pallets ahead of their airlift to Israel, April 6, 2020. (Twitter)

Millions of eggs land in Israel to ease Passover scramble; some flew in style

Members of Kibbutz Kfar Etzion helping get peonies ready for sale in Israel earlier this year, before many social distancing regulations took effect. (Courtesy Kibbutz Kfar Etzion)

With exports shuttered, farmers turn to WhatsApp to hawk their produce

By Jessica Steinberg

Israel Police wearing protective clothing seen in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem to arrest a man diagnosed with the coronavirus who broke quarantine orders April 6, 2020. (Israel Police)

Coronavirus carrier who left home-quarantine nabbed in Jerusalem

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Netanya man, 22, arrested by police in ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood of capital; cops put on full protective suits to detain him

Residents of Haredi town brawl with hardliners rallying against lockdown rules

Deri denies Litzman and he insisted on national, rather than localized, lockdown

4 Bnei Brak residents petition High Court against coronavirus closure

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This undated family photo provided by Julia Chachere shows Joan and Ed Porco in Orient, New York. (Julia Chachere via AP)

A mismatched pair’s love story ends with coronavirus

By Matt Sedensky

Tear gas fired as settlers and Palestinians fight near the West Bank town of Qusra on April 6, 2020. (Courtesy: Qusra Municipality)

Settlers hurl stones at group of Palestinian farmers, rights group says

Hundreds of Israeli backpackers aboard an El Al Dreamlimer taking them from Lima, Peru, to Tel Aviv, March 2020 (Sivan Farage)

Over 1,800 Israeli travelers still stranded abroad amid pandemic

By ToI Staff and JTA

Screen capture from video of Argentine journalist Tomás Ariel Méndez on ADN Tv. (JTA)

Argentine journalist: Coronavirus was created by rich Americans and Israelis

By JTA

Betty Xi (right) and Danielle Gurevitch (Courtesy)

In recovery mode, Chinese donors shell out for Israel’s coronavirus fight

By Nathan Jeffay

Commuters ride a train in Tokyo, April 7, 2020. (Jae C. Hong/AP)

Japan declares state of emergency as global coronavirus toll tops 75,000

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez speaks in North Carolina before Super Tuesday, February 29, 2020. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images via JTA)

DNC chair reassures Jewish Democrats party platform will back 2-state solution

The Big Israeli Seder will bring together Israeli personalities and celebrities to share the seder together with all Israelis sequestered at home (Courtesy Keshet)

Home but not aloneIsrael’s Keshet TV to televise celebrity seder

By Jessica Steinberg

Members of the Israel Philharmonic created a Passover video greeting of seder song favorites (Courtesy Israel Philharmonic)

Doing their bitsIsrael Philharmonic offers Passover medley for holiday

By Jessica Steinberg

Koolulam's Ben Yefet announced a global singing initiative by YouTube (Courtesy Koolulam)

Virtual voxUncowed by coronavirus, Koolulam wants to teach the world to sing

By Jessica Steinberg

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