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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 18, 2020

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People wear protective masks in Tel Aviv, on April 18, 2020 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Reports say manufacturing, services industries to reopen

Amid encouraging stats, Israel to ease lockdown, gradually start opening economy

Ministers likely late Saturday to let many small shops, workplaces reopen, permit outdoor prayer for up to 10; top health official warns of new coronavirus wave in winter

Staff move a patient to a new ward at the Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, March 22, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

8 deaths take Israel’s virus toll to 159, including 2 from Bat Yam nursing home

An ultra-Orthodox Jew prays next to his house as synagogues are closed following the government's measures to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, in Bnei Brak, April 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel set to allow outdoor prayer quorums amid mounting ultra-Orthodox anger

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky at his home in Bnei Brak on April 15, 2018. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Charity tied to top rabbi raises cash with promise of immunity from coronavirus

Bnei Brak-based Kupat Ha’ir organization, associated with Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, tells donors a NIS 3,000 payment will guarantee their family protection from COVID-19

Clalit Health Maintenance Organization lab technicians wearing protective gear handle coronavirus tests in Lod, April 12, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

To move to more normal life, Israel must do what it hasn’t yet: Mass testing

Though rates have picked up in recent days, the Health Ministry has been slow to prioritize tests and has all but ignored more efficient sampling methods

Patients are brought into Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, April 7, 2020. (AP/John Minchillo, File)

Confusion, seizure, strokes: How COVID-19 may affect the brain

A medical personnel takes a sample from a driver at a Magen David Adom drive-through testing site in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona on April 12, 2020. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Israel sees sharp increase in coronavirus testing, inks deal with Chinese firm

Sara Treves celebrates her 107th birthday through the glass window of her nursing home (Screen grab/Channel 12)

Raise a glass

Woman celebrates 107th birthday via nursing home window with tenacious relatives

Grandson tells Sara Treves he had to go through two checkpoints to get there: ‘I told them my grandmother is 107 and they must let me through, so they did!’

Shaarei Zedek hospital medical team, wearing protective clothing, as a preventive measure against the coronavirus in Jerusalem on March 30, 2020 (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Tel Aviv hospital spares rare protective gear to allow visits to dying relatives

By ISAAC SCHARF

A man arrives at the the Poble Nou cemetery in Barcelona, Spain, April 18, 2020, to attend the funeral of his mother who died of coronavirus. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Spain virus deaths top 20,000 as global toll passes 150,000

Number of deaths in Africa reaches 1,000; believing the worst is behind them, some European countries are looking to open up

A paramedic suits up in personal protective equipment on an emergency call for a man in the Bronx, New York, April 15, 2020. (AP/John Minchillo)

US virus death toll passes 36,000 as Trump clashes with governors, China

US President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus, accompanied by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

‘LIBERATE!’: Trump goads states to lift virus restrictions

By Zeke Miller and Matt Sedensky

Magen David Adom workers wearing protective clothing with a patient with suspected coronavirus at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on April 10, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

78-year-old woman is East Jerusalem’s first virus fatality

Victim from Issawiya said to have preexisting health problems; death comes 2 days after report Israeli authorities considering lockdown of some Arab areas in city’s eastern sector

Police at a temporary checkpoint in the northern Arab Israeli town of Deir al-Asad, April 15, 2020. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

2 Arab Israeli towns locked down as ‘restricted area’ amid fears of outbreak

Magen David Adom medical workers seen at a drive-through site to collect samples for coronavirus testing, alongside the security barrier outside Shuafat Refugee Camp, Jerusalem, April 16, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli officials fear virus spread in E. Jerusalem areas past security barrier

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Screenshot from 'Je ne rêve que de vous,' or 'An Irrepressible Woman.' (Courtesy)

Film review

The Jewish woman who entered a Nazi camp to marry the French prime minister

By Rich Tenorio

Iran marks annual 'Army Day' with parade including disinfectant trucks and mobile medical units as country faces coronavirus pandemic (Screen grab/Twitter)

Iran marks Army Day with medical gear parade instead of usual missiles and jets

Rouhani says ‘the enemy now is hidden,’ and that ‘doctors and nurses are at the frontlines of the battlefield,’ as Islamic Republic faces coronavirus pandemic

Public health officers at the grave of a coronavirus fatality at the Langata cemetery in Nairobi, Kenya, April 16, 2020. (AP/Patrick Ngugi)

Africa next: In best-case scenario, it could see 300,000 COVID-19 deaths in 2020

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

At-home deaths spike in Brooklyn Jewish neighborhoods during pandemic

Th Wilder-Freeman family, photographed by Elliot Sylman in April 2020. (Courtesy)

Ready for their closeups

Toronto photographer’s Porch Pics portraits raise morale — and charitable funds

By Robert Sarner

How to re-start the start-up nation (for real)

The plan to keep everyone safe, and also let people resume their lives begins with full quarantine for the vulnerable, and ends with intense testing to know who that is

Nancy Strichman

‘Waste not, want not’ and other lessons

Even as the pandemic has shuttered so many food businesses, Pesia’s Kitchen is finding ways to keep feeding Tel Aviv’s needy

Vienna-born director and filmmaker, Billy Wilder, is seen on a Hollywood lot on January 16, 1946. (AP Photo)

His top 5 films

Locked down? Open up to… Hollywood director Billy Wilder

By Jordan Hoffman

Morgan Spector, center, as Herman Levin, and Zoe Kazan, right, as Bess Levin, in HBO's "The Plot Against America." (Michele K. Short/HBO)

First Person

I cover anti-Semitism. ‘The Plot Against America’ is the scariest show I’ve seen

With an incredibly realistic world and characters, and an unsettling sense of government manipulation, TV drama has made everything I work with feel more close to home

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

Analysis

Biden welcomes J Street endorsement, showing liberal pro-Israel lobby’s sway

Biden has been a standard-bearer for Democratic party’s mainstream — which has not always seen eye to eye with J Street — in addition to touting his friendship with Netanyahu

Dianne Lob's HIAS group has been the lead plaintiff in lawsuits trying to inhibit the Trump administration's immigration initiatives. (Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations via JTA)

US Jewish foreign policy umbrella nominates White House foe as new leader

US President Donald Trump signs the coronavirus stimulus relief package at the White House in Washington, DC, March 27, 2020. From left: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, House Minority Kevin McCarthy of California, and Vice President Mike Pence. (AP/Evan Vucci)

US virus stimulus brings relief to some Jewish groups, confusion to most

A scene from the London production of 'The Prince of Egypt' (Tristram Kenton/ via JTA)

Interview

‘Prince of Egypt,’ ‘Wicked’ composer says inspired fans are his greatest reward

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Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz delivers a statement in Tel Aviv, March 7, 2020 after receiving the mandate to form a government. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Gantz: No idea if unity will succeed; will go to elections with ‘head held high’

Rival bids submitted for UK’s two bankrupt Jewish newspapers

Israeli historian and writer Yuval Noah Harari gives a lecture on artificial intelligence during the X World Future Evolution on July 6, 2017 in Beijing, China. (VCG/VCG via Getty Images via JTA)

Israeli historian donates $1 million to WHO after US cuts funding

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers patrolling near the northern Israeli town of Avivim, close to the border with Lebanon, August 26, 2019. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Lebanon border fence damaged at 3 locations, but not breached, IDF says

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh speaks at the funeral of Qassem Soleimani, in Tehran, Iran, January 6, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)

Hamas leader Haniyeh ‘optimistic’ about chance for prisoner swap with Israel

The scene of a shooting at a hotel in Tel Aviv, April 18, 2020 (Magen David Adom)

2 held in shooting of man at Tel Aviv hotel; man charged in Lod woman’s murder

American saxophonist Lee Konitz plays his instrument during the XXXIth International Jazz Festival in Debrecen,Hungary, June 29, 2002 (AP Photo/MTI/Tibor Olah)

ObituaryTrailblazing jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz dies at 92

By AFP

Bob Dylan accepts the 2015 MusiCares Person of the Year award at a ceremony in Los Angeles, February 6, 2015. (Vince Bucci/Invision/AP)

Out of many, oneIn new tune, Dylan likens himself to Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Frank

By AFP

In this Aug. 25, 2008, file photo, people walk into the Sacramento Bee newspaper building in Sacramento, California (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California newspaper apologizes for running Easter ad it says was anti-Semitic

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Kelly Clarkson sings in Hebrew with Israeli singer Maya Buskila (Screen grab)

Perfect harmonyKelly Clarkson duets in Hebrew with Israeli singer Maya Buskila

Several hundred Lebanese people protest in the northern city of Tripoli on April 17, 2020 despite the country's coronavirus lockdown, marking six months since the country was rocked by mass rallies over government corruption and economic hardships. (Ibrahim CHALHOUB / AFP)

Hundreds protest government corruption in Lebanon despite virus lockdown

By AFP

Iranians, some wearing personal protective equipment, walk past shops in the southeastern city of Kerman on April 11, 2020, amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. (ISNA / AFP)

Iran lets some Tehran businesses reopen after virus lockdown

By AP

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