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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 16, 2020

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People with shopping bags walking through the shuttered Mahane Yehuda open-air market in Jerusalem on April 16, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Israel said preparing to reopen stores next week, but keep schools shut

Sources close to defense minister say his proposal to fully restart economic activity has been accepted; some special education classes will resume, reports say

8:26 pm

Yair Netanyahu erases tweet against left-wing protesters; PM condemns it
8:02 pm

Stores to reopen, but schools to remain closed -- report
8:01 pm

Trump to US governors: Reopening states is your call

President Reuven Rivlin pictured at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on January 6, 2020. (Flash90)

Rivlin gives Knesset 21 days to agree on the PM it wants, or go to new election

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

After talks fail to produce government by Gantz’s Wednesday night deadline, president says he hopes legislature can choose an MK to form a coalition

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R), and Benny Gantz (L), leader of Blue and White party, at a memorial ceremony for late president Shimon Peres, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on September 19, 2019. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Gantz mandate to form coalition expires but Likud, Blue and White talks to go on

By ToI Staff and AFP

AnalysisNetanyahu and Gantz negotiate as if time is on their side — and on ours

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Op-ed

Tactics lousy, party broken and deal elusive, Gantz plays into Netanyahu’s hands

In 6 weeks, the Blue and White head has engineered an extraordinary reversal – from being endorsed as PM by most MKs, to heading a diminished party merely irritating the incumbent

Election campaign billboards for Likud and its leader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (foreground), and the Blue and White party led by Benny Gantz (background), in Bnei Brak, February 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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

Pushing bills against PM, Liberman says he means to press him to join with Gantz

The Wuhan Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, where the coronavirus is believed to have initially spread, seen January 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

US said probing possibility that virus came from Chinese laboratory

Intelligence officials tell CNN they are looking into theory virus was accidentally released by infected technician, though they stress it is far from substantiated

In this March 24, 2014, file photo, a doctor examines a tuberculosis patient in a government TB hospital in Allahabad, India. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

Coronavirus could erode global fight against other diseases

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and Victoria Milko

Medics transport a patient to the King David Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in the Gravesend neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, Wednesday, April 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Cuomo says threat that virus will overwhelm New York hospital system averted

By ToI Staff and Agencies

New York governor orders people to wear face masks in public, sending 150 ventilators to Michigan and Maryland; State develops own antibody test

The downtown New York City skyline looms over pedestrians wearing masks due to COVID-19 concerns, Friday, April 10, 2020, in Jersey City, NJ (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

ExplainerWhy have so many died of coronavirus in New York?

By Catherine TRIOMPHE

A worker wears a mask as he cleans up an area outside an entrance to Boeing Coroporation's airplane assembly facility north of Seattle, April 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

US factory shutdowns near levels of post-WWII demobilization

By PAUL WISEMAN and AP

Police set up temporary checkpoints at the entrance to the city of Bnei Brak, April 3, 2020 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Police remove Bnei Brak roadblocks, anticipating end of closure

As cabinet ministers discuss whether to extend restrictions on city, authorities appear to believe lockdown at an end; no immediate news on Jerusalem

Illustrative: A Moroccan Jewish man looks out his window at the street below from his house in the 'Mellah' Jewish quarter of the Medina in Marrakesh, on October 13, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / FADEL SENNA)

Report: Morocco blocks joint UAE-Israel effort to repatriate stranded citizens

By Raphael Ahren

An Israir flight seen taking off from Ben Gurion Airport, on March 24, 2018. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

In new low, only a single flight departs from Israel Wednesday

Magen David Adom medical workers seen at a drive-through site to collect samples for coronavirus testing, at the entrance to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, on April 2, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel said to shut down East Jerusalem virus testing site operating under PA

Police arrest 4 who were running the clinic; UNRWA says Israeli authorities hindering efforts to curb virus in city’s east

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

Settler extremists quarantined in West Bank abscond with IDF-supplied tents

By Judah Ari Gross and Jacob Magid

An Israeli child watch as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a live press conference on the new government restrictions for the public regarding the coronavirus COVID-19 on March 19, 2020. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Analysis

Ahead of curve, now marred by politics: Fading praise for Netanyahu’s leadership

Most Israelis satisfied with Netanyahu’s management of battle against pandemic, but analysts say his initially savvy handling is being overshadowed by mistakes and petty politics

Illustrative: In this Tuesday, April 7, 2020 photo provided by the U.S. Air National Guard, airmen from the 146th Airlift Wing of the California Air National Guard in Oxnard, Calif., deliver 200 ventilators to the New York Air National Guard's 105th Airlift wing at Stewart Air National Guard Base, adjacent to Newburgh, N.Y. (Senior Airman Jonathan Lane/U.S. Air National Guard via AP)

Netanyahu said to have turned down UK request for ventilators

A Korean Air plane carrying chemicals for 100,000 coronavirus tests arrives at Ben Gurion Airport, April 15, 2020 (Courtesy Defense Ministry)

Flights from US, S. Korea bring 100 ventilators, chemicals for 100k virus tests

An Israeli man with a face mask walks in an empty street in Jerusalem on April 14, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90

National death toll rises to 143 with 12 new deaths, as Passover closure lifted

Infection cases at 12,591; bakeries reopen, limited public transportation resumes and Israelis can again leave hometowns if they comply with restrictions

Screen capture from video of Supreme Court President Justice Esther Hayut during a pilot to broadcast court sessions live, April 16, 2020. (Supreme Court)

In landmark pilot, High Court livestreams hearing on Shin Bet phone tracking

Screen capture from video of a funeral in the Arab Israeli town of Isfiya, April 15, 2020. (Channel 12 news)

Virus rules ignored at Druze funeral, ultra-Orthodox circumcision

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers present what they claim is a 'smart device' capable of detecting coronavirus from a radius of 100 meters within five seconds. (Screen grab: FARS)

Iran unveils ‘smart system’ to detect virus from 100m in seconds, faces derision

IRGC commander says Mosta’an can find infections in five seconds ‘creating a magnetic field and using a bipolar virus’; critics claim it is based on scam tool for detecting bombs

Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels sail close to US military ships in the Persian Gulf near Kuwait, April 15, 2020. (US Navy via AP)

US accuses Iran of ‘dangerous’ harassment of its warships in Strait of Hormuz

By AP

Ivanka Trump, US President Donald Trump's daughter and senior adviser, joins in a video conference with representatives of large banks and credit card companies about financial assistance for small businesses, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, April 7, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images/AFP)

Flouting social distancing rules, Ivanka Trump flew to New Jersey for seder

President’s daughter has been at forefront of administration’s response to coronavirus, and repeatedly urged Americans to refrain from discretionary travel

Minister of Immigration and Absorption Yoav Galant attends a memorial ceremony for late Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon on February 21, 2020, at the family's Sycamore ranch, near the Israeli city of Sderot. (Flash90)

Absorption Minister Galant latest top official accused of flouting virus rules

Lady Gaga attends the AT&T TV Super Saturday Night at Meridian on Island Gardens in Miami, February 1, 2020 (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP)

Dozens of world’s top entertainers to lead virus extravaganza — from home

By ToI Staff and AP

Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney among stars to headline ‘One World: Together At Home,’ airing globally on April 18 to raise funds and awareness for frontline health care workers

Novice Buddhist monks with protective masks and face shields, seated maintaining social distancing participate in a religious class at Molilokayaram Educational Institute in Bangkok, Thailand, April 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

World’s coronavirus cases top 2 million — more than doubling in two weeks

By ToI Staff and AP

German Labor Minister Hubertus Heil gives a press conference on April 16, 2020 in Berlin, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

Europe still ‘in eye of the storm’ despite moves to ease virus lockdowns

Shula Mola and Micha Odenheimer

They moved school online and locked the underprivileged kids out

Educational authorities have a moral obligation to find solutions for families with limited or no access to computers, internet and tech skills

I’m a different kind of ‘prepper’

I may resemble a Doomsday hoarder, but the opposite is true: I’m busy chopping garlic and getting ready for the New Beginning to come

A man walks by a mural depicting hand washing in Logan Square by artist James Mosher, Saturday, April 11, 2020 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

From the Bible to Ignaz Semmelweis — the disease-fighting power of hand-washing

By Leslie S. Leighton

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A vehicle allegedly used by Hezbollah to transfer arms that was targeted in an airstrike attributed to Israel near the Lebanon border in Syria on April 15, 2020. (Social media)

Man who escaped strike on car in Syria named as slain Hezbollah leader’s son

By Judah Ari Gross

One of several mass graves at the memorial site on the grounds of the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The sign reads: 'Here lie 5,000 dead. April 1945.' (Photo credit: CC, BY-SA Drow69/Wikimedia)

Germany marks liberation of Bergen-Belsen Nazi camp as memorial event canceled

By AFP

This file photo taken on December 5, 2019, shows a man walking by the barbed wire fence enclosing the memorial site of the former Auschwitz German Nazi death camp. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP)

Auschwitz online: Raising Holocaust awareness in the digital age

By Bernard OSSER

Democratic presidential candidates former Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Democrat-Massachusetts, shake hands on stage before the start of a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by ABC News, Apple News, and WMUR-TV at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, February 7, 2020. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Warren becomes latest ex-presidential rival to back Biden

By Will Weissert

Tom Moore, a 99-year-old British veteran who has started a campaign to thank the National Health Service by walking lengths in his garden.(Moore Family via AP)

Captain Tom, inspirationUK WWII veteran, 99, raises $25 million (and rising) for health service

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a daily press briefing on COVID-19 virus at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 9, 2020 (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

World Health Organization voices ‘regret’ at US decision to halt funding

By AFP and ToI Staff

A composite photo of IDF soldiers Oron Shaul, left, and Hadar Goldin, right.

Progress reported on possible prisoner swap with Hamas amid ‘rare opportunity’

Jeff Bezos speaks at an event unveiling Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander in Washington, May 9, 2019. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Amazon donates $300,000 to help Israel buy equipment to fight coronavirus

By Shoshanna Solomon

A man receives a shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine for COVID-19, March 16, 2020, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Oxford University scientists starting human trials for virus vaccine next week

By ToI Staff and AP

An illustrative image of a credit crunch, bancruptcy, recession, economic downturn as coronavirus strikes economies globally (spukkato; iStock by Getty Images)

As virus strikes small businesses, social bank seeks to provide credit lifeline

By Shoshanna Solomon

Thousands of Polish nationalists march to the US Embassy, in Warsaw, Poland, May 11, 2019, to protest against pressure from Washington to compensate Jews whose families lost property during the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland blocks bill that would prevent restitution of private Jewish property

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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