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What Matters Most On Monday, April 13, 2020

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Israeli police at a temporary checkpoint to enforce travel restrictions due to the coronavirus in Jerusalem on April 11, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Cabinet weighing curfew for last days of Passover, Mimouna

Under proposal, public to be banned from intercity travel between Tuesday evening and Sunday morning; prohibition on leaving home from Tuesday to Thursday under consideration

The empty Ayalon highway near the entrance to Tel Aviv's usually buzzing business district, April 8, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

2-month phased rollback of lockdown pushed by National Security Council – report

A closed school in the northern Israeli city of Safed, March 13, 2020 (David Cohen/Flash90)

Online classes to continue; students to gradually return to school in batches

The funeral of Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, who died from complications of COVID-19, at the Har Hamenuhot cemetery in Jerusalem, April 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former chief rabbi Bakshi-Doron laid to rest in front of handful of mourners

Just 20 family members and senior rabbis allowed at funeral in Jerusalem after COVID-19 death; ‘There was nobody as honest as you,’ eulogizes Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau

Magen David Adom paramedics take a patient with suspicion of coronavirus to the coronavirus unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, April 10, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

11 new fatalities take Israel’s COVID-19 death toll to 116

Former Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron at the wedding of his granddaughter in Jerusalem on March 13, 2016.(Yaacov Cohen/Flash90)

Former Sephardic chief rabbi Bakshi-Doron succumbs to coronavirus, aged 79

Rahamim Bracha (R) and his wife Shoshana outside Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, on April 12, 2020, after recovering from COVID-19. (Screenshot: Ynet)

Israeli couple aged 90, 87 recover from COVID-19 in Ashkelon

Shoshana Bracha refused to leave hospital until her husband, Rahamim, overcame the virus: ‘I love him, I don’t leave him’

22-year-old who was in critical condition with coronavirus regains consciousness

By Stuart Winer

Unemployment balloons to 25.8%, with over 6,000 registering on Sunday

Health or wealth? Nations pressured to loosen virus rules

By Aritz Parra, Joseph Wilson and Elena Becatoros

Benjamin Netanyahu, left, Reuven Rivlin, center, and Benny Gantz at the President's Residence on September 23, 2019. (screen capture: GPO)

Israel media review

Somebody puts Bibi (or Benny) in a corner: 6 things to know for April 13

By Joshua Davidovich

Rivlin’s decision to not extend Gantz’s time to form a coalition and not pass the mandate to Netanyahu is seen as exerting pressure on both sides, putting 4th elections on table

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference about the coronavirus, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 11, 2020. (Flash90)

High Court dismisses petition seeking to block Netanyahu from being tasked as PM

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Israel’s frustrated president threatens new elections – in a bid to avoid them

Gantz’s mandate ends Monday with no unity deal in sight, but Rivlin believes it’s Netanyahu who is holding up an agreement, and is moving to force his hand

President Reuven Rivlin casts his ballot at a voting station in Jerusalem during the Knesset elections on March 2, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

President Reuven Rivlin, center, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz shake hands at the memorial ceremony for the late president Shimon Peres at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on September 19, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

With deadline looming, progress reported in unity government negotiations

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

Blue and White said threatening Likud with anti-Netanyahu law if unity bid fails

I’m so done with this pandemic. How about you?

The day I gave up on words and threw a tantrum — and my son with language disabilities came to comfort me

Winners and losers in the world after corona

Out with globalization, liberal democracy and US credibility. In with sustainability, social democracy and Bibi Netanyahu

Susannah Schild

A giant tallit, curtain knobs, and 4 broomsticks – what more do you need?

My daughter’s official wedding date was days away; the florist had cancelled, as had the hall and the band — but the empty cliffside was the perfect pandemic setting

What’s missing from COVID-19 management? Women.

Full recovery won’t happen without including gender disparities that reveal women have been harder hit economically and otherwise

A Magen David Adom emergency services worker, wearing protective clothing, arrives to test residents of Jerusalem's Nofim home for the elderly for coronavirus, March 27, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hospital director tapped by ministry to address COVID-19 nursing home fiasco

After 34 coronavirus deaths in homes, and under pressure from High Court, ministry announces that Sourasky head Ronni Gamzu will head virus management in elder care facilities

The Ateret Avot nursing home in Bnei Brak. (Screenshot: Google Street View)

24 residents of Bnei Brak nursing home infected with virus

This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the spherical particles of the new coronavirus, colorized blue, from the first US case of COVID-19. (Hannah A. Bullock, Azaibi Tamin/CDC via AP)

Fears of ‘Wild West’ as COVID-19 blood tests hit the market

By MATTHEW PERRONE

Worshipers at the Prima Palace isolation hotel. (Courtesy)

At isolation hotels, COVID-carrying worshipers say Kaddish for those who cannot

By Nathan Jeffay

Reeling from virus bereavements and unable to sit shiva in normal way, Jewish mourners worldwide are turning to Israeli hotels where patients stay together and pray together

Illustrative: A baby seen at a 'Tipat Chalav' family health center on March 5, 2019. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Baby clinics must resume full service to avoid health time bomb — health workers

By Nathan Jeffay

Police at a temporary checkpoint at the entrance to Jerusalem on April 8, 2020, to check Israelis are adhering to coronavirus-related restrictions. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Cabinet approves new city closures for end of Passover to prevent virus spread

36-hour lockdown will be observed between 5 p.m. Tuesday and 5 a.m. Thursday, during which time Israelis will not be able to leave their towns of residence

10:44 pm

Cabinet approves new city closures for Second Passover
9:51 pm

Netanyahu, Gantz say 'significant progress' in talks, will reconvene in morning
9:42 pm

Rivlin extends Gantz's mandate till Wednesday night after PM joins request

Pigeons fly over a deserted Piazza del Duomo in central Milan on April 12, 2020, during the country's lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 infection. (Piero CRUCIATTI/AFP)

Cautious global hope for pandemic peak as Italy, France, US see drops in deaths

By HAZEL WARD and Dmitry Zaks

With toll slowing in epicenters, some countries are starting to reopen their stalled economies, but signs loom that virus could be taking hold in vulnerable parts of the world

People stand on their balconies to listen to an Easter Mass delivered from the roof of a church, in Rome, April 12, 2020. (Luigi Navarra/AP)

Even as UK deaths rise, virus outbreak in Europe showing signs of slow down

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a message to the public on his release from the hospital after treatment for COVID-19, April 12, 2020 (Screenshot)

UK’s Johnson out of the hospital, says staff saved his life

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Children using the safe water facility at IsraAID space in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. (Lior Sperandeo/IsraAID)

Crowding, lack of water spell COVID-19 nightmare for world’s 71 million refugees

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In this Tuesday, April 7, 2020 photo, a paramedic from the Palestinian 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. (AP/Nasser Nasser)

Israel said fuming at PA accusations it’s spreading virus in West Bank

Jerusalem warns Ramallah to immediately cease ‘incitement’ claim that Jewish state ‘polluting’ Palestinian towns, after 73% of cases there said linked to those who work in Israel

Brazilian blogger slammed for likening COVID-19 patients to Holocaust victims

By Marcus M. Gilban

Senior priest in Romania accused of likening Jews to virus in Easter greeting

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Abbas in phone call blitz to prevent Israeli annexation in West Bank

Israeli pro-Ukrainian activist Victor Vertsner (Facebook)

Meet the Jewish activists who want Israel to support Ukraine against Russia

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Police personnel in India stand guard at a traffic light during the first day of a 21-day government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Amritsar on March 25, 2020. (Narinder Nanu/AFP)

Israelis and others forced to write ‘sorry’ 500 times for India lockdown breach

By AFP

A police officer is filmed pepper-spraying a Haredi man in Netivot who was praying outside of his home on April 7, 2020. (Screen capture/TikTok)

Cop filmed kicking, pepper-spraying man praying outside his home

View of the Sea of Galilee as it seen from the beach promenade in the northern Israeli city of Tiberias, on January 30, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Sea of Galilee about to fill up for 1st time since 1992; dam opening possible

This electron microscope image provided shows part of a Neanderthal cord from Abri du Maras, France. (M-H. Moncel via AP)

Oldest known string upends assumptions on Neanderthal intelligence

By Malcolm Ritter

A memorial stone for the young diarist Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, on the grounds of the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. (AFP)

Anne Frank’s diary more relevant than ever, 75 years on

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

Liberman, like Netanyahu and Rivlin, accused of flouting ban on Passover guests

Democratic presidential candidate former US Vice President Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus, March 12, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Former US Senate staffer accuses Joe Biden of sexual assault

By Alexandra Jaffe

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, April 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

In New York, an LGBT rabbi who confronted AIDS crisis now faces COVID-19

Blue and White parliament member Gabi Ashkenazi attends the annual international Municipal Innovation Conference in Tel Aviv, on February February 19, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Police hand out fines to protesters outside Gabi Ashkenazi’s home

IDF and Cypriot National Guard soldiers take part in a joint exercise at the Israeli army's Tzeelim training base in southern Israel on October 25, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces/ File)

Soldier lightly injured while trying to arrest suspect who broke into army base

By Judah Ari Gross

US foundation teams up with Kan channel to provide accessible coronavirus news

Screenshot of the The Doing Good Map section for Israel, showing good deeds being carried out all over the country.

COVID-19 maps spur enterprising teenagers to launch map of good deeds

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