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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 14, 2020

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A medical team treats a patient with COVID-19 at the coronavirus unit, in Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center, Bnei Brak, Israel, April 13, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel stockpiles malaria drug to treat virus, in case Trump is right about cure

By Nathan Jeffay

Israeli doctors don’t endorse giving hydroxychloroquine to patients, but the government is accumulating stores to avoid international race on pills should effectiveness be proven

In this December 2, 1947, photo, Charles D. Brown fills a vial with the BCG tuberculosis vaccine, at a state-operated laboratory in Albany, NY (AP Photo)

Could old vaccines for other germs protect against COVID-19?

By LAURAN NEERGAARD

Medical workers treat a COVID-19 patient at the coronavirus unit in Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center, Bnei Brak, April 13, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

2 Israeli COVID-19 patients said to improve in experimental drug trial

Isaac Ben-Israel (courtesy of Isaac Ben-Israel)

Top Israeli prof claims simple stats show virus plays itself out after 70 days

Isaac Ben-Israel, who is not a medical expert, says analysis worldwide shows new cases peaking after about 40 days, slams economic closures; leading doctor dismisses his claims

Cuomo says worst of virus outbreak over, as New York death toll passes 10,000

By AFP

Lack of new global hotspots fuels optimism, talk of emerging from lockdowns

By Eric Tucker, Aritz Parra and Joseph Wilson

IDF to gradually let troops go home in slight return to normal amid virus crisis

By Judah Ari Gross

Vehicles belonging to UN peacekeepers drive along a road along the Israel-Lebanon border near the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Kila on September 1, 2019. (Ali Dia/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

UNIFIL soldiers break up ‘short standoff’ between IDF and Lebanese troops

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Incident takes place south of Blue Line, but in area deemed contested by Beirut; troops photographed with rifles pointed at one another and peace-keeping force in between them

6:14 pm

Number of virus cases in Israel up to 12,046; 123 dead
5:56 pm

Ukrainian officials: Fires out near Chernobyl nuclear plant
5:50 pm

US diplomats warned White House of dangerous testing labs in Wuhan two years ago

From the blogs

This battle is between the virus and all of humankind

The vilification of China, out of political motives or plain ignorance, contradicts the facts: Experts have praised our safety measures and scientific efforts

Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Heber, founder of the "Matnat Chaim" organization, at the courtroom of the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on September 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rabbi who founded kidney donation organization seriously ill with coronavirus

Avraham Yeshayahu Heber, 55, on a ventilator after contracting disease; was meant to celebrate initiative’s 800th transplant this week

Coronavirus death toll rises to 121, with 11,868 infected

Police disperse violent protesters yelling ‘Nazis’ in Jerusalem Haredi area

Cabinet green-lights nationwide lockdown for end of Passover, Mimouna

We need a new era of no double-standards

The many Israelis who hold themselves apart from everyone else do no worse than the leaders who exempt themselves from the rules they impose on the rest of us. All to our detriment

Hilary Faverman

Stranded in paradise: A coronavirus oddysey

When we left Israel for 7 months of backpacking with the family, we could not have predicted that the coronavirus would extend our stay in Indonesia

The Angel of Death visited us this Passover

The tragedy is too big to avoid – which means we and our children too can give thanks for the unwanted opportunity to consider what matters in life

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi Doron – an interreligious appreciation

The former chief sephardic rabbi, who died Sunday of the coronavirus, viewed Judaism as a source of peace and worked to build bridges with other faiths

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, gestures during a brief news conference as he stands beside a Rear Adm. John B. Mustin as the USNS Comfort, a naval hospital ship with a 1,000 bed-capacity, pulls into Pier 90 Monday, March 30, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Cuomo says Trump is not a king, can’t force states to reopen

By Karen Matthews and Michael R. Sisak

New York governor says even if president orders it, he would not reopen his state, the epicenter of coronavirus outbreak, if he feels it puts people in further danger

US shutdown offers a glimpse of life without movie theaters

Trump’s Jewish developer friend dies of coronavirus

By AP and ToI Staff

New Trump panel on reopening US economy won’t include health officials

By Jonathan Lemire, KEVIN FREKING and AAMER MADHANI

An election poster hung by the Blue and White party shows their candidate Benny Gantz and Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu on February 18, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PM, Gantz suspend talks for holiday, will meet again Wednesday ahead of deadline

Teams negotiating national unity government will take discussions to the wire after president gives Blue and White chair until midnight Wednesday to finalize an agreement

Israel media reviewThe beggars and the king: 6 things to know for April 14

By Joshua Davidovich

Amid unity talks, poll predicts 40 seats for Likud and a majority rightist bloc

By Stuart Winer

Rivlin gives PM, Gantz 48 more hours to seal deal as sides cite ‘major progress’

Rachel Kaufman with her mother Margarete. (Courtesy)

Amid federal test shortages, LA nursing home works with city to distribute kits

By Noam Haykeen

Hebrew University COVID-19 testing process in action (Screenshot)

Lacking compounds for virus tests, Jerusalem scientists use tiny magnets instead

By Nathan Jeffay

Hebrew University professors say their homemade solution will reduce dependence on international markets

A Clalit medical team member wearing protective gear, with a sample for a coronavirus test in Lod, April 12, 2020.
(Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Health official: 10,000 coronavirus samples went ‘missing’

Illustrative: A man wearing a face mask walks through the empty market in Ramla, on March 23, 2020. (Flash90)

IDF general: We don’t need an exit strategy, we need a coping strategy

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative image of a exit from darkness to light. Israel formulates an exit strategy to salvage economy from coronavirus havoc (Julia Kuznetsova; iStock by Getty Images)

Analysis

Shoshanna Solomon

How Israeli exit strategy aims to save economy while keeping virus under control

Proposed Finance Ministry plan, which may come into force next week, sees tech, financial and services sectors leading a phased ‘return to normal,’ reassessed at each stage

Israelis in the central city of Lod outside a pharmacy on April 12, 2020. ( Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Cabinet said set to convene Thursday to discuss plans to ease virus rules

United Airlines commercial jets sit at a gate at Terminal C of Newark Liberty International Airport, July 18, 2018, in Newark, New Jersey. (AP /Julio Cortez)

Israel Consumer Council launches class suit to force airlines to refund tickets

A Gaga class from 2019 (Courtesy Ascaf)

Israeli movement language Gaga draws thousands with daily online classes

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews walk in Antwerp, Belgium, March 16, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Analysis

In some European Jewish communities, getting coronavirus carries a stigma

Jews and Jewish leaders in places like Belgium, Italy and the UK have avoided discussion of virus in communities that could most vulnerable to it

Women wearing face masks take selfies outside a shop in Graz, Austria, on April 14, 2020 as businesses re-opened following a "shutdown" in a measure to limit the spread of the new coronavirus. (ERWIN SCHERIAU / APA / AFP)

Austria scales back virus lockdown, reopens some stores

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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)

From our partnerNumber of UK Jews to die from COVID-19 rises to 209

A woman wearing a protective face mask with her dog in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, April 11, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

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Marc Maron is prescient and timely in 'End Times Fun.' (Netflix/ via JTA)

Locked down? Open up to… Marc Maron’s ‘End Times Fun’

Illustrative: A car torched in a price-tag attack targeting the Palestinian village of Far'ata on December 20, 2019. (Far'ata municipality)

Radical settlers suspected of attacking Palestinians, cars near quarantine site

Assailants throw rocks, unleash pepper-spray on Palestinians; incident occurs near isolation outpost built by IDF for far-right extremists; Arab Israeli woman in one car faints

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh speaks to reporters during a press conference on April 13, 2020. (Wafa)

PA rebuffs call to stop ‘incitement’ campaign blaming Israel for its virus cases

Hamas's leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, center, chants slogans with protesters during a visit to the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, April 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Hamas said demanding release of 250 prisoners for info on missing Israelis

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Former US vice president Joe Biden, left, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, right, greet each other before they participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate at CNN Studios in Washington, March 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Bernie Sanders endorses former rival Joe Biden for US president

By Bill Barrow and Alexandra Jaffe

Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn at a campaign event in Stainton Village, northeast England, December 11, 2019. (Oli Scarff/AFP)

Report: Internal UK Labour probe finds several in party were ‘frankly neo-Nazis’

Lori Palatnik, founding director of Momentum, was selected to light the 2020 Independence Day torch representing the Diaspora community. (Courtesy of Momentum)

Founder of ‘Birthright for Moms’ to light torch for Diaspora on Independence Day

By JTA

A picture taken from the controversial E1 corridor in the West Bank shows the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim in the background, Feb. 25, 2020. (Ahamd Gharabli/AFP)

Pro-Israel US group warns Israeli leaders annexation would damage alliance

People participate in a Jewish solidarity march across the Brooklyn Bridge on January 5, 2020 in New York City. (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images/AFP)

New York Jewish liberals launch new advocacy organization

By Eric Cortellessa

A view of the city of Arkhangelsk (CC-BY SA Forum Arctica/Wikipedia)

Synagogue in northern Russia badly damaged in suspected arson attack

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A billboard with Arabic and Hebrew writing promoting the new season for the hit Israeli television series "Fauda" is pictured in Tel Aviv, December 31, 2017. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Back in actionNew season of Fauda to debut this week on Netflix

By AFP

US President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, April 8, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

From the webIsraeli companies can cash in on $10 million check from Trump

Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2004. (Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)

Ohio State to give Epstein donation to human trafficking initiative

Illustrative photo of Israeli travelers arriving at Ben Gurion airport on March 23, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Mandatory stay at quarantine hotels enforced on arrivals from abroad — TV

Harel Wiesel, left, and Avi Simhon arguing in the Channel 12 studio on April 13, 2020. (Screen capture: Channel 12)

PM’s economic adviser, clothing firm CEO get into heated shouting match on TV

Illustrative: Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg seen at the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, November 3, 2019. (Peter Barreras/ Invision/ AP)

Mark Zuckerberg, wife donate $1 million to fight virus in Kauai, Hawaii

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