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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 9, 2020

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An Israeli man stands on his hands on an empty road during a lockdown following government measures to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, in Tel Aviv, April 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Under Passover lockdown, thousands take to balconies to sing ‘Mah Nishtana’

With families confined at home, country belts out Four Questions, traditionally sung by youngest member of household, asking ‘Why is this night different from every other night?’

Members of the Israeli police man a checkpoint on a highway leading to Jerusalem near the Arab-Israeli town of Abu Ghosh, on April 9, 2020 (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Passover curfew ends, though general lockdown remains in place

Perahia Shilo arranges the Passover Seder dinner table next to a picture of her children and grandchildren, on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Passover, in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, April 8, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Solitary seders and Zoom: Israel celebrates Passover under coronavirus lockdown

Illustrative: An ambulance brings an Israeli man who tested positive for the coronavirus to Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer on February 27, 2020. (Flash90)

5-week-old baby hospitalized in Ramat Gan with coronavirus

Boy to be treated in designated quarantined area for unique COVID-19 cases at Sheba Medical Center’s ICU unit for virus patients

Materials used in experimental drugs against virus arrive in Israel from India

6 more virus deaths bring Israel’s death toll to 79; 119 people on ventilators

With 30% of deaths said to be in nursing homes, ministry starts new test program

This image from video provided by the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign shows Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., as he announces he is ending his presidential campaign Wednesday, April 8, 2020, in Burlington, Vt. (Bernie Sanders for President via AP)

Bernie Sanders drops 2020 bid, leaving Biden as likely Democrat nominee

By Will Weissert

Vermont senator, who became the first Jewish frontrunner in a major party nomination race for president, saw early lead evaporate as Democratic establishment lined up behind Biden

In this combination of file photos, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Del., on March 12, 2020, left, and President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in Washington on April 5, 2020 (AP Photo)

AnalysisBiden vs. Trump: US general election battle is now set

By Steve Peoples

In this file photo Democratic presidential hopeful former US Vice President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks during a town hall at The Novo in Los Angeles on October 10, 2019 (Robyn Beck / AFP)

Joe Biden bursts from twilight of career onto biggest stage

By Sebastian Smith

Mark Cuban at Dallas Mavericks game at Madison Square Garden in New York, Nov. 14, 2019. (Mike Stobe/Getty Images via JTA)

So Bernie won’t be the first Jewish president — here are 10 people who could be

By PHILISSA CRAMER, Gabe Friedman and Ron Kampeas

A police officer walks with soldiers as they patrol Jerusalem city center to enforce a partial lockdown against the spread of the coronavirus on March 31, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Inside story

‘Exiteers’ pitch a range of on-off lockdown proposals to get Israel back to work

Scientists, mathematicians and strategists are devising all manner of plans to beat the virus and revive the economy. The government is listening… and weighing its next moves

Analysis

Thousands have crisscrossed the globe to be home for the pandemic. A smart move?

Many governments, including Israel and the US, are making massive efforts to repatriate citizens stuck abroad. From a medical perspective, it often doesn’t make sense

Israeli tourists boarding a Honduran military plane on their way back home, March 26, 2020. (courtesy Honduran Military)

Randi Bergman says her Toronto apartment is not an ideal setting for a seder. (Courtesy of Bergman/ via JTA)

For young Jews away from their families, coronavirus puts Passover in jeopardy

By Gabe Friedman

In this March 24, 2020, file photo, medical staff members check a ventilator in protective suits at the care unit for the new COVID-19 infected patients inside the Koranyi National Institute of Pulmonology in Budapest (Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP, File)

Some doctors fear ventilators could actually be harming virus patients

With reports of unusually high death rates for those on breathing machines, some practitioners are turning to other measures when possible

In this April 7, 2020 photo, Erica Harris, right, and her daughter Jordan, wear their protective masks as they walk back home after getting a lunch and homework from the child’s school on Chicago’s Southside in Chicago (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Outcry over racial data grows as virus hits black Americans hard

By Kat Stafford, Meghan Hoyer and Aaron Morrison

A TV grab taken from a video released by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attending a virtual news briefing on COVID-19 from the WHO headquarters in Geneva on April 6, 2020. (AFP)

WHO finds itself under fire in virus-stricken America

By Shaun Tandon

The 2020 census contains a question that is raising questions for Jews. (Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

US Census poses a dilemma for Jews — are you white and what are your ‘origins’?

For first time, question on race asks white and African-American respondents to fill in origin, and for many it’s a surprising, sometimes unwelcome, invitation for self-reflection

A woman wears a mask while shopping for Passover items at a grocery store in Overland Park, Kan., April 7, 2020. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images via JTA)

Shopping for Passover is different this year than all other years

By Josefin Dolsten

I had to choose between buying Passover food and paying my bills

We need to move to systems of social welfare that provide assistance universally and, as Maimonides taught, anonymously

Sivan Rahav Meir

Miriam Peretz’s message for a solo seder

We can look at the current situation and see it as a lonely time, or we can say: just a minute, I am giving this moment to myself as a gift

A Hamas police officer looks at a billboard in Gaza City from the terror group's military wing bearing a portrait of Israeli soldier Oron Shaul, who was killed in the 2014 Gaza war, on December 29, 2017. (Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

Hamas said to propose prisoner exchange deal with Israel

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Lebanese newspaper says Egypt mediating between the sides, floated similar proposal that would see release of some Palestinian prisoners for info on 2 dead Israeli soldiers

Hilltop youth quarantining together in a tent provided by the IDF on April 7, 2020. (Courtesy)

IDF confirms temporary outpost set up for hilltop youth quarantine violators

A paramedic from the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health disinfects Palestinian laborers to help contain the coronavirus, as they exit an Israeli army checkpoint after returning from work in Israel, near the West Bank village of Nilin, west of Ramallah, April 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Virus outbreak poses dilemma for Palestinians working in Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A man walks past a toy shop displaying penitent clothes for children on April 8, 2020, in Seville, Spain, where Easter processions were cancelled during a national lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease. (Cristina Quicler/AFP)

Number of coronavirus cases worldwide passes 1.5 million

By AFP

US has the most infections of any country from COVID-19, which has killed 87,320 people across the globe since it first emerged in China

Medical workers putting on protective gear at the beginning of their shift at the emergency field hospital run by Samaritan's Purse and Mount Sinai Health System in Central Park on April 8, 2020 in New York. (Misha Friedman/Getty Images/AFP)

Virus deaths soar in US, Europe as Trump sees light at end of tunnel

US President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus at the White House, April 3, 2020, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Report: US intelligence warned of coronavirus threat as early as November

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Car driers move on the Grand Central Parkway during rush hour Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

With 149,000 cases, New York state becomes world’s top coronavirus hotspot

By ToI Staff and AFP

State now has more patients than any country outside America; Governor Cuomo says epidemic appears to be stabilizing: ‘We are flattening the curve’

An ultra-Orthodox Jew in Brooklyn, New York on April 7, 2020. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

‘Seder in place’: New York Jews observe Passover amid pandemic

By Maggy DONALDSON

Beth Shalom nursing home in the Netherlands. (Beth Shalom via JTA)

Coronavirus kills 15 at Amsterdam’s Jewish old-age home

By Cnaan Liphshiz

These are some of the new children's books for Passover this year. (Photos courtesy of their publishers/ via JTA)

People of the books

Meet a googly eyed gator and have a seder in space in new Passover books

By Penny Schwartz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz at a memorial ceremony marking 24 years since the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in the Knesset on November 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu, Gantz agree to press ahead with unity talks after holiday

After trading blame for breakdown in negotiations, Likud leader phones Blue and White counterpart to wish him a ‘Happy Passover’

Police officers in protective gear stand on Route 1 near Jerusalem on April 5, 2020, after a man infected with the coronavirus was arrested on a bus traveling to the city. (Flash90)

Cabinet extends phone tracking by Shin Bet to fight coronavirus

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) welcomes US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to his residence in Jerusalem on March 21, 2019. (Jim Young/Pool/AFP)

Pompeo speaks with Netanyahu about coronavirus, Iran’s ‘destabilizing behavior’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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Pastor Tony Spell holds a Holy Bible and bottle of hand sanitizer as he speaks with the press at Life Tabernacle Church before a Palm Sunday service in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on April 5, 2020, despite statewide stay-at-home orders due to the coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic (Claire BANGSER / AFP)

As cases balloon, Louisiana pastor defies orders, hosts hundreds at church

By ToI Staff and AP

Idina Menzel attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif., Feb. 9, 2020. (Karwai Tang/Getty Images via JTA)

Idina Menzel and others to lead ‘Saturday Night Seder’ to raise funds for CDC

By JTA

A man inspects rubble after a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, February 4, 2018. (Hani Mohammed/AP)

Saudi officials announce Yemen ceasefire with Iran-backed Houthi amid pandemic

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and Ahmed al-Haj

In this file photo taken on July 29, 1998 Linda Tripp talks to reporters outside of the Federal Courthouse in Washington, DC, following her eighth day of testimony before the grand jury investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair (WILLIAM PHILPOTT / AFP)

Linda Tripp, who exposed Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandal, dead from cancer at 70

By AFP

In this photo released on March 20, 2020 by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei poses for a portrait prior to delivering his message for the Iranian New Year, or Nowruz, in Tehran, Iran (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s Khamenei suggests mass Ramadan events may be banned over virus

A resident of Boisbriand, Canada during lockdown (YouTube screenshot)

Hasidic community near Montreal under lockdown demonstrates against police

By JTA

This Sept. 24, 1984 file photo shows Allen Garfield at the screening for 'Irreconcilable Differences' in Los Angeles (AP Photo/Scott Harms, File)

Allen Garfield, elite ’70s character actor, dies of coronavirus at 80

By AP and ToI Staff

Fishing boats in the Gaza City port, June 25, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

2 Gazan fishermen said injured by Israeli fire

President Reuven Rivlin meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican, September 3, 2015. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Rivlin, Pope discuss ‘enemy’ virus, exchange holiday greetings in phone call

Illustrative: The Bedouin city of Rahat in southern Israel, February 16, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90/File)

Police officers lightly injured as they respond to reports of shooting in Rahat

Graffiti at the Ahavat Shalom synagogue in Los Angelos on April 7, 2020. (Twitter/ADL)

‘F**k Kikes’ spray-painted on Los Angeles synagogue

A woman and her daughter wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus sell fruit and vegetables at the taxi station in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, South Africa, April 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Half a billion more people could fall into poverty due to virus, report says

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