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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 22, 2020

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Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky (front R) and Rabbi Gershon Edelstein (Front C) attend a rally of the UTJ party to support the candidacy of Moshe Lion ahead of the Jerusalem municipal elections, on October 25, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

'Drastic steps' threatened if yeshivas aren't opened soon

Top Haredi rabbi Kanievsky orders yeshivas opened; his colleague blocks him – TV

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Amid report of unprecedented split among ultra-Orthodox leaders, joint statement warns government against ‘foot dragging’ on solution to COVID-19 closures of religious institutions

Chief rabbis to join Christian, Muslim, Druze leaders in interfaith prayer

Extremist Haredim in Beit Shemesh don yellow stars to protest synagogue ban

Rocks thrown at troops bringing food to Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox neighborhood

By Judah Ari Gross

A woman visits the grave of a family member at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 22, 2020. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Police reportedly agree not to scuffle with bereaved families on Memorial Day

Cops will block cemeteries, but won’t physically stop those who insist on forcing their way in anyway despite coronavirus restrictions

8:32 pm

UN agency says grenade found at Gaza school for refugees
8:29 pm

Eye in sky reveals damage to missile stronghold in Syria
8:15 pm

Police will not fight families who force way to cemeteries on Memorial Day

Yesh Atid-Telem leader Yair Lapid gives a statement to the press on April 21, 2020. (Elad Guttman/Yesh Atid-Telem)

Excoriating ex-ally Gantz, Lapid vows to battle coalition, predicts its collapse

Opposition leader accuses former colleague of ‘worst act of fraud’ in Israel’s history, propping up corrupt Netanyahu, surrendering to ultra-Orthodox coercion, dooming Jordan peace

Blue and White chief Benny Gantz in his first public address after signing a deal to form a unity government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, April 21, 2020. (Elad Malka/Blue and White)

Gantz admits joining Netanyahu unpopular, but says it’s needed for virus fight

By Raoul Wootliff

In this March 28, 2020, photo, a cat walks in a closed food market during lockdown following government measures to help stop the spread of the coronavirus in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel media reviewCoalition of the whatever: 6 things to know for April 22

By Joshua Davidovich

Coalition explainer

Has Netanyahu outfoxed Gantz? Will judges block the deal? Why so many ministers?

If the emergency unity government is indeed sworn in, Israel will have been spared its fourth elections in 16 months. But what does the coalition stand for? And will it hold?

MK Benny Gantz, head of Blue and White (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of Likud, sign their unity government agreement on April 20, 2020. (GPO)

The weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 29, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem)

Amid unprecedented economic downturn, new cabinet could cost whopping NIS 1b.

MK Benny Gantz, head of Blue and White (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of Likud, sign their unity government agreement on April 20, 2020. (GPO)

Poll: 62% of public support unity deal, only 31% think PM will honor rotation

The scene of a combined car ramming-stabbing attack at a checkpoint near the Maale Adumim settlement in the West Bank on April 22, 2020. (Israel Police)

Police: Border guard hurt in ramming-stabbing attack outside Jerusalem

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian assailant shot dead by troops during assault at checkpoint near Ma’ale Adumim settlement; pipe bomb found at scene

Illustrative photo of Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium during an international soccer match, on October 10, 2015. (Flash90)

Shin Bet nabs 3 Palestinian men in Hamas plot to bomb Jerusalem soccer arena

By Judah Ari Gross

Border Police arrive at a home slated for demolition in the Kumi Ori outpost on April 22, 2020. (Courtesy)

Hundreds of security forces descend on Yitzhar-area outposts to raze 6 buildings

A worker checks the temperature of a customer before allowing him to enter a hardware store in Jerusalem on April 20, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

After decline in rate of new infections, Israel records biggest rise in a week

443 additional COVID-19 cases since Tuesday morning bring total to 14,326, with 187 fatalities; increase comes amid jump in number of tests performed daily

Illustrative: Magen David Adom workers and a Shaare Zedek hospital medical team, wearing protective clothing as a preventive measure against the coronavirus in Jerusalem on April 2, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Baby girl born prematurely to woman with COVID-19 dies

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

Outrage as Israel’s doctors, nurses are docked pay for time spent in quarantine

By Nathan Jeffay

A photo from the collection of Julio Palencia and Zoe Dragoumis, who were stationed in eight different places around the world including Costa Rica, China, Morocco, South Africa, Turkey and Bulgaria between 1914-1943. (Courtesy Gennadius Library)

Exclusive

What made an anti-Semitic Spanish diplomat rescue 150 Macedonian Jews? His wife

By Bernard Dichek

New evidence shows that Julio Palencia was likely influenced by his Greek spouse, Zoe Dragoumis, to issue last-minute passports, pull 150 off trains – and adopt two Jewish children

The Facebook invitation to the event (Screen capture/Facebook)

Anti-Semites break into virtual Holocaust memorial at Israeli embassy in Germany

By Raphael Ahren

File picture taken on October 10, 2019 shows a man in a white overall is escorted by police officers as he arrives at the federal prosecutor's office in Karlsruhe, Germany. (Uli Deck/dpa via AP, file)

Murder charges filed against Halle synagogue Yom Kippur attack suspect

By AP

Bereaved Israelis mourn next to graves of fallen soldiers at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, during Israeli Memorial Day, April 18, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Cabinet set to shutter military cemeteries for Memorial Day

Despite coronavirus closure, some families insist they will visit their loved ones’ graves ‘at all costs’

View of Mount Herzl military cemetery and the National Memorial Hall on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cemeteries to be shut on Memorial Day, lockdown planned for Independence Day

By Judah Ari Gross

Police at a temporary checkpoint in the northern town of Deir al-Asad on April 18, 2020, after it was declared a 'restricted area' due to the rising number of coronavirus cases. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Police start fining people for not wearing face masks in public

An Earth Day like no other

Even as we grieve and rage over the death and destruction that this virus has wreaked, it is impossible not to notice the drastic benefit to the environment

Only the center can hold: Democracy and the battle of ideas

Neither the left’s radical universalism nor the extreme nationalism of Netanyahu’s right: A manifesto for a shared Israeli future

Jeremy Kalmanofsky

Yeshivas that refuse to teach math, science…or the Holocaust

New York ultra-Orthodox schools must open up their curricula to secular studies, including history — especially the history of the Shoah

‘Unorthodox’ overlooked the humanity of my old Satmar community

Instead of accepting the view of one who felt trapped and left the Hasidic world, what if we try to understand how it feels to be part of it from the inside?

People and students hold placards and a banner showing 16-year-old Swedish political activist Greta Thunberg, who seeks to stop global warming and climate change, as they take part in a protest against global warming in central Rome on March 15, 2019. (Andreas Solaro/AFP)

Analysis: Earth Day

When coronavirus curbs end, will we go back to abusing planet Earth?

The 50th annual Earth Day on Wednesday is a good time to think about the links between pandemics and climate change

As virus keeps people at home, Earth turns wilder and cleaner

By Seth Borenstein

Photo essayIn empty Tel Aviv, only the clouds seem to move

By Oded Balilty

Groundswell of livestreaming events planned for Earth Day Wednesday

Israel's Scentech Medical hopes to create a breath test to sniff out the coronavirus (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli startup’s breath test device to sniff out COVID-19 set to start trials

By Shoshanna Solomon

Scentech Medical starting to test its breath analysis technology with Meir Medical Center in coming weeks; aims to then expand trial to IDF soldiers

Israeli innovators want to help Africans breathe through COVID-19

By Nathan Jeffay

Maccabi, Medial EarlySign develop algorithm to identify high-risk COVID-19 cases

Malaria drug stockpiled by Israel shows no benefit in virus treatment — study

By AP and ToI Staff

David Berman performs with the Silver Jews in 2006. (Yani Yordanova/Redferns/Getty Images via JTA)

Locked down? Open up to… the Silver Jews

By Judah Ari Gross

Rep. Alan Lowenthal, Democrat of California, speaks as the House of Representatives debates the articles of impeachment against US President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington, December 18, 2019. (House Television via AP)

Interview

Eric Cortellessa

A California congressman warns against Trump’s rush to end social distancing

The Golden State has begun to flatten the curve, but a hasty return to normal could reverse that progress, argues Alan Lowenthal

A man wearing a face mask in Munich, Germany, April 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Europe, US push ahead with reopening amid health warnings

By Cara Anna, Elena Becatoros and JAN M. OLSEN

In this March 21, 2020, file photo, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern holds up a card showing a new alert system for COVID-19 in Wellington, New Zealand (AP Photo/Nick Perry)

New Zealand could pull off bold goal of eliminating virus

Director interview

Sharon Rosen Leib

Photographer Henri Dauman shot Hollywood greats, after being shot at by Nazis

The documentary ‘Henri Dauman: Looking Up’ sees a Parisian orphan become a successful US photojournalist, and true to form, the film’s subject won’t let the pandemic get him down

Virtual memorial plaques are projected on the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau for Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 20, 2020. (Marcin Kozlowski/March of the Living)

Holocaust Remembrance DayWith visits nixed, virtual memorials projected onto Auschwitz instead

Dr. Nelson Teich backed Jair Bolsonaro's presidential bid and was his handpicked candidate for health minister. (Marcelo Casal Jr./Agencia Brasil/ via JTA)

Brazil’s new health minister isn’t Jewish, but some news outlets say he is

By Marcus M. Gilban

Israeli self-employed and small business owners participate in a rally calling for financial support from the government outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Shoshanna Solomon

Drowning small business owners demand government life raft to stay afloat

There are half a million self-employed workers and owners of small businesses who feel the state does not have their back amid pandemic; their survival is crucial for the economy

A woman sits along the empty Red Sea shore in the southern resort city of Eilat on April 17, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Israeli Red Sea resort reels from virus lockdown: ‘It’s as if a bomb dropped’

By Claire Gounon

An illustration of a man working on computers. (scyther5; iStock by Getty Images)

Four out of 10 world startups may die from lack of funds in virus woes – survey

By Shoshanna Solomon

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Illustrative: An Iranian rocket carrying a satellite is launched from Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Iran’s Semnan province, February 9, 2020. (Screenshot, IRIB via AP)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claim to put satellite in orbit

By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell

Date trees in the Jordan Valley pollinated by Blue and White Robotics and Dropcopter (Courtesy)

Israel drone maker, US firm team up to pollinate Jordan Valley date palms

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Brazil's capital landmark projects a Yom Hashoah message, April 20, 2020. (Roberto Suguinoa/Agencia Senado)

‘Never Again’ projected on Brazilian congress buildings for Yom Hashoah

By Marcus M. Gilban

Honor guards carry flowers during a commemoration ceremony for the victims of a World War II camp in Jasenovac, Croatia, April 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Jews, Serbs and Roma join WWII concentration camp commemorations in Croatia

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Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina drinks a sample of the "Covid Organics" or CVO remedy at a launch ceremony in Antananarivo on April 20, 2020. "Covid Organics" or CVO is a remedy produced by the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research (IMRA) created from the Artemisia plant and is claimed to help prevent coronavirus Covid-19 infection. (RIJASOLO / AFP)

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Bottles of the sedative midazolam. (AP Photo/File)

US doctors ask states for secret execution drugs to help COVID-19 patients

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A honeybee pollinating a flower. (Dana Wachter/Times of Israel)

Artificial pollinator aims to take sting out of bee colony loss

When he's not working from home, Simmy Cohen keeps himself busy chanting classic children's books to Torah trope. (Screenshot from Twitter/Courtesy of Cohen/ via JTA)

Literary tropesDad’s Torah reading of ‘Goodnight Moon’ goes viral

Protesters for LGBT rights in Jerusalem, July 22, 2018 (The Aguda Facebook page)

Court rules against Beersheba print shop that refused to serve LGBT group

Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, wears a mask to help protect from the coronavirus, as he speaks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who also wore a mask and gloves, in Damascus, Syria, April. 20, 2020. (SANA via AP)

Nine pro-regime fighters reported killed in overnight Syria strikes

By AFP and ToI Staff

Workers disinfect the Wavel camp for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley, on April 22, 2020, after the UN announced the first confirmed case of coronavirus there. (AFP)

Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon put on lockdown after 1st virus case found

By AFP

Michael Weinstock, shown in a campaign video, is running in a Democratic primary for a House seat in New York and its suburbs. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)

Candidate’s Jewish observance becomes an issue in a New York primary

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