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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 15, 2020

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A newborn baby (iStock illustrative)

Staring longingly at their babies through a glass window

8 healthy births, four wrenching separations, at first COVID-19 maternity ward

By Nathan Jeffay

Every birth in these circumstances ’is a joy and relief,’ says Sheba Medical Center nurse Orit Horovitz. Unfortunately, with coronavirus, the instinctive bonding is not so simple

Illustrative: Doctors and nurses treat a patient at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Mother of newborn with COVID-19, Israel’s youngest patient, also has virus

Illustrative: Doctors treat a baby at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel, on August 13, 2018. ( Hadas Parush/Flash90 )

Eight-day-old baby infected, Israel’s youngest coronavirus patient

The Mishan assisted living facility in Beersheba (Screen grab/Channel 13 news)

14th resident of Beersheba nursing home dies of virus; national toll reaches 126

Health Ministry announces 12,200 people infected with coronavirus; 176 patients in serious condition, with 132 of them on ventilators

IDF Home Front Command soldiers in protective gear at a nursing home in Bnei Brak on April 14, 2020. (Flash90)

60 senior living homes have at least one COVID-19 case, NSC said to warn

A Magen David Adom paramedic tests a woman for the coronavirus at drive-thru testing site in the northern city of Tamra on March 31, 2020. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Lockdown weighed in northern Arab town as ministry warns of virus outbreak there

Wastewater at the Yad Hanna Wastewater Treatment Plant bloodied by the detritus from slaughterhouses in the Palestinian Authority-controlled West Bank city of Tulkarem, April 14, 2020. (Courtesy, Alon Heyman)

Stream runs red with blood as abattoir waste conjures up biblical plague

As demand for chicken meat peaks for Passover and Ramadan, West Bank effluent drains into tributary of Israel’s Alexander River, highlighting cross-boundary pollution problem

Jackals in Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv on April 13, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)

Photo essayJackals roam deserted Tel Aviv park after virus forces public indoors

By AFP

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping visits the Chuanshan port area of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port in east China's Zhejiang Province, Sunday, March 29, 2020 (Ju Peng/Xinhua via AP)

China’s failure to warn of likely pandemic for 6 key days may have been critical

By AP

Documents show officials knew of potential danger almost a week before telling their public; experts say much of virus’s spread could have been prevented if they’d acted sooner

Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley testifies to Senate Armed Services Committee about the budget, March 4, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Top US general: Coronavirus appears to be of ‘natural’ origin

Paul McCartney performs on day one of the Austin City Limits Music Festival's first weekend on Friday, Oct. 5, 2018, in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP)

Paul McCartney calls to ban ‘medieval’ Chinese ‘wet markets’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab arrives at Downing Street, London, April 14, 2020 as he stands in for Prime Minister Boris Johnson who is convalescence following his hospitalization with the coronavirus. (Stefan Rousseau / PA via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu said to turn down UK request for ventilators

Prime minister rejects appeal from stand-in British leader Raab citing export ban; Spanish request also rejected despite order made prior to ban

9:03 pm

Ultra-Orthodox to petition High Court over prayer quorum ban -- report
8:49 pm

MK Asher to go into quarantine after aide tests positive for coronavirus
8:34 pm

Virus death toll climbs to 131

A patient arrives in an ambulance outside NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, April 13, 2020. (AP/John Minchillo)

New York death toll soars past 10,000 after officials add ‘probable’ fatalities

By AP

Authorities say 3,778 died of virus without being tested as outbreak in state appears to plateau; Cuomo clashes with Trump after president claims ‘total’ authority over states

Crew members of the HMS Bounty, including Clark Gable (left) as Fletcher Christian and Charles Laughton (right) as Captain Bligh, in the 1935 film version of Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty. (MGM)

As governors push back at ‘total authority,’ Trump sees ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’

By Jill Colvin, Zeke Miller and GEOFF MULVIHILL

A woman walks past light decorations on a retail street in Wuhan, China, April 10, 2020. (AP/Ng Han Guan)

How some countries are taking their first wary moves to ease virus lockdown

By AFP

US President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, April 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Global condemnation of Trump’s decision to suspend WHO funding during pandemic

By Agencies and ToI Staff

EU policy chief ‘deeply regrets’ move; China ‘seriously concerned’; US is the biggest funder of World Health Organization, providing $400 million last year

US President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus at the White House in Washington, April 14, 2020. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump announces funding halt to World Health Organization

By AFP

In this Feb. 15, 2019 file photo, Washington state Rep. Matt Shea, R-Spokane Valley, gestures as he gives a speech in front of the liberty state flag at the Capitol in Olympia, Washington, during a rally held by people advocating splitting Washington state into two separate states and questioning the legality of Washington's I-1639 gun-control measure (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Far-right US politicians label lockdowns anti-constitutional

By Nicholas K. Geranios

Hamas policemen carry out a raid in Nuseirat, south of Gaza City on March 22, 2018, that resulted in the arrest of a suspect in a recent bomb attack against the Palestinian prime minister, officials said. ( AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)

Arrest of Gazans by Hamas for Zoom chat with Israelis sparks free speech row

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Former Amnesty International researcher defends tagging Hamas officials in post criticizing activists for ‘normalization,’ denies responsibility for arrests but doesn’t oppose them

An Israeli army jeep patrols on the Israeli Gaza border on March 25, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90

IDF arrests 3 armed suspects caught crossing Gaza border into Israel

Yamina leaders (left to right) Transportation Minister Betzalel Smotrich, Defense Minister Naftali Bennett, former justice minister Ayelet Shaked and Education Minister Rafi Peretz at the party's election-night headquarters in Ramat Gan on March 2, 2020. (Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Sidelined in unity talks, religious right may be better off walking away

Why the Yamina party could wield more influence over the next government from the opposition than from the cabinet table

Jason Alexander, upper right, invites non-Jews Josh Groban, upper left, Darren Criss, lower left and Rachel Brosnahan to join in a virtual Seder webcast on YouTube, April 11, 2020. (Screenshot)

Stars’ Saturday Night Seder: 1m viewers, $2.6m in charity, 4 big Jewish insights

Ahead of Memorial Day events, IDF soldiers put flowers on the graves of fallen soldiers in Mount Herzl Military Cemetery, Jerusalem, April 30, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Defense officials to weigh Memorial Day-Independence Day lockdown, report says

Officials from National Security Council and Defense Ministry said considering strict restrictions amid fears of crowding, infections at cemeteries and memorial ceremonies

Israeli police patrol in Dizengoff square in Tel Aviv to check people are not disobeying the government's orders on a partial lockdown in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, April 14, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel under full lockdown for second time as nation celebrates end of Passover

President Reuven Rivlin meets family members over Zoom as Israelis are under a national lockdown as they celebrate the last day of Passover on April 14, 2020 (Twitter)

Rivlin again apologizes for flouting virus ban, celebrates end of Passover alone

Graham Gouldman: 'I had a gift, I had encouragement and a guitar.' (Photo: Courtesy)

Interview

One of classic pop’s greatest hit-writers is back on track after COVID-19 bout

Tim Downie as Paul in 'The Jewish Enquirer.' (Courtesy Amazon)

TV series review

Find the Jangle as Jewish media goes mainstream in very funny Amazon series

By Jordan Hoffman

My FOMO moved online and boy, am I tired!

This is a time to slow down, you say? Become more contemplative? Hell no! I’ve got to get to my Zoom class on ’The Science of Well Being’

Mikie Goldstein

I quit my job as rabbi to save my Israeli synagogue

With no public funding for our non-Orthodox congregation, the decision was painful but necessary despite my shaky my personal finances

IDF Home Front Command soldiers hand out food packages in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, April 5, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Haredi settlement said to complain IDF Passover food parcels not kosher enough

TV report says Modiin Illit halted distribution of food because kosher certification not sufficiently stringent; municipality says it gave out the packages it received

Police officers at a temporary checkpoint at the entrance to the Ramot neighborhood in Jerusalem, April 12, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court rejects petition to lift lockdown on Jerusalem neighborhood

Illustrative: Travelers wearing protective masks arrive at Ben Gurion Airport, Feb. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Arrivals from US account for 40% of Israel’s virus cases from abroad

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

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A vehicle allegedly used by Hezbollah to transfer arms targeted by the IDF near the Lebanon border in Syria, April 15, 2020 (Channel 13 screenshot)

Israel said to hit Hezbollah vehicle carrying arms in Syria, near Lebanon border

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)

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

A British teenager convicted of falsely accusing a group of Israelis of gang rape covers her face as she arrives with her mother to the Famagusta District Court, in Paralimni in eastern Cyprus on January 7, 2020. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou/AFP)

UK woman says Cyprus police forced retraction of Israeli gang rape accusation

Rabbi Avrohom Pinter, right, speaks with other community leaders in London, June 5, 2017. (Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images via JTA)

ObituaryAvrohom Pinter, a prominent London rabbi, dies of coronavirus

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Andrew Lemond Costas, who was arrested and charged with spraying swastikas on a synagogue in Rockville, Maryland. (Montogomery County Police)

Satanist who tried to torch church said behind Maryland synagogue vandalism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A nursing home operated by Chelsea Jewish Life Care near Boston, Massachusetts. (Screenshot/Google streetview)

32 residents die of COVID-19 at 2 Massachusetts Jewish senior living facilities

By Penny Schwartz

Then-US vice president Joe Biden, left, watches then-US president Barack Obama, center, at Conmy Hall, Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, on January 4, 2017 (AP Photo/Susan Walsh/File)

Obama endorses Biden, says former VP has ‘qualities we need’

By Alexandra Jaffe, Julie Pace and Bill Barrow

Illustrative -- Members of the medical staff of a hospital where patients suffering from the Covid-19 disease caused by the novel coronavirus are treated, in the city of Sale, north of the Moroccan capital Rabat, on April 12, 2020. (FADEL SENNA / AFP)

Morocco’s small Jewish community in mourning as virus death toll reaches 12

By AFP

Romanian Catholic priest Francisc Dobos, the spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Bucharest, in 2019. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Romanian priest accused of equating Jews with virus says he was misinterpreted

By Cnaan Liphshiz

This 2019 photo provided by Olga Weiss shows her in France. (Olga Weiss via AP)

Again behind doors, Holocaust survivors relive past traumas in coronavirus era

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