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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 23, 2020

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Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz, who is interim Knesset speaker, speaks in the plenum hall of the Knesset on February 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As top court watches, MKs launch legislative blitz to cement coalition deal

Constitutional overhaul comes as justices mull whether to strike down parts of Likud-Blue and White agreement, which limits lawmaking and heads off future rulings against Netanyahu

Chairman of the Labor party Amir Peretz during a press conference in Tel Aviv, March 12, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

After staking mustache on not joining Netanyahu, Peretz defends doing so anyway

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 16, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Courts to expand activity, greenlighting start of Netanyahu corruption trial

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

‘Monstrous’ coalition deal neuters Knesset. Should judges intervene? Will they?

Israel’s top court is hearing six petitions against the Netanyahu-Gantz ’emergency’ agreement, many of whose clauses play havoc with Israel’s Basic Laws

Composite photo shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Blue and White party chief Benny Gantz, right. (Flash90)

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at Bar-Ilan University. March 4, 2020 (FLASH90)

AG threatens criminal probe after journalist given access to cabinet meeting

Illustrative: A Druze man wearing a surgical mask walks past an ambulance outside Ziv Medical Center in the northern city of Safed on April 23, 2020. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Number of virus cases in Israel rises to 14,803, with 192 deaths

Health Ministry reports 305 new infections over the past 24 hours; 139 people in serious condition, 109 of whom are on ventilators

8:07 pm

Israel inks deal with genealogy company to perform 10,000 virus tests a day
7:48 pm

Number of virus cases rises to 14,803, with 192 deaths
7:45 pm

3 East Jerusalem teens nabbed on suspicion of throwing Molotov cocktails at Jewish homes

Customers try maintain a safe distance from each other as they wait in line to enter an IKEA outlet in the Israeli coastal town of Netanya on April 22, 2020, after authorities eased down some of the measures that have been in place during the novel conronavirus pandemic crisis. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Cabinet set to further ease COVID-19 restrictions amid rising public frustration

Reopened IKEA draws crowds, lottery booths given permission to resume activities; with still-shuttered businesses fuming, cabinet to rethink on Thursday

A woman walks past closed storefronts in downtown Jerusalem, April 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Unemployment likely to level off at 11%, with up to 400,000 jobless, expert says

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

Israel to ‘fast track’ funds to keep startups afloat amid coronavirus crisis

By Shoshanna Solomon

Roads are empty during a lockdown to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, in Tel Aviv, April 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Cabinet approves closures for Memorial Day, Independence Day and Ramadan

Government decision seeks to prevent gatherings where virus could spread; in Arab towns and cities, lockdown to be implemented in evenings only

The national military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett says opening cemeteries on Memorial Day would have been a ‘virus bomb’

By Judah Ari Gross

A woman cleans a grave of a family member at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 22, 2020. This year, due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus, there will be restrictions on going to the cemeteries on Memorial Day itself. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police won’t physically block bereaved families from cemeteries on Memorial Day

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Chabad's Kathmandu emissary Chani Lipshitz, November 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

On rabbis’ orders, Chabad Nepal emissary turns down Independence Day honor

Chani Lifshitz says she can’t enter ‘fires of controversy’ as Hasidic religious leaders tell her not to go ahead with torch-lighting ritual

Spiritual leaders of all faiths in Israel: Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III, the Latin Patriarch Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Imam Sheikh Gamal el Ubra, Imam Sheikh Agel Al-Atrash and Druze Spiritual leader Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif attend a united prayer at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on April 22, 2020.(Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

‘Avert the plague’: Religious leaders in J’lem say joint prayer against COVID-19

Police officers close synagogues and hand out fines to Haredi Jews in Jerusalem's Bukharim neighborhood, following government restrictions imposed as part of the effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus, April 6, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Three ultra-Orthodox towns surpass Tel Aviv in active coronavirus cases

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Analysis

The IKEA test: Month after PM’s medieval plague talk, is Israel thwarting virus?

Government is to restrict Memorial and Independence Day gatherings, but ministers are pushing to restart schools, open more stores, as statistics give room for cautious optimism

Israelis outside Ikea's Rishon LeZion branch, April 22, 2020 (Youtube screenshot)

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

Senior health official: Current virus wave has just about exhausted itself

Israeli border police wear protective gear and masks at the Ein Yael Checkpoint, near the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, March 11, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )

Knesset panel freezes police tracking of phones to enforce quarantine

Illustrative: A maternity ward in an Israeli hospital. (Flash90)

In hospital drama, preemie baby delivered as virus-hit mom struggles to breathe

By Nathan Jeffay

After C-section, boy is well, mom is stable, but no relatives visit: Father is in same northern Israeli hospital with COVID-19, and family live in locked down hotspot Deir al-Asad

An Israeli firefighter disinfect the entrance to St Joseph hospital in East Jerusalem on April 16, 2020, as preventive measures against the spread of the coronavirus. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel supplies 1 ventilator, 50 tests to East Jerusalem hospital’s virus unit

Palestinians shop in the Zawiya market ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Gaza City, April 22, 2020. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Muslims prepare for restrained Ramadan clouded by coronavirus

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Why do you deserve a minyan?

The outdoor prayer services, now permitted with distance guidelines, inevitably cause a disturbance to the general public

The pandemic and asylum seekers: Threat and response

African asylum seekers are more of an asset to Israel than a burden; when the country ties up their funds with the Deposit Law, it penalizes the very people it should be helping

Ronald S. Lauder

The Jewish imperative for the post-corona world

Globalization will wane, nationalism will rise: we must act now to re-embrace our age-old ethos of mutual responsibility and love-of-Israel

Food-supply crisis as an opportunity for Israel

Israelis can offer food expertise to expand cooperation with Egypt and Jordan, and help reduce their dependence on food suppliers like Russia

Illustrative: Mayanei Hayeshua Medical team treat a patient with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Bnei Brak, Israel, April 13, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Week after appearing to recover, man back in hospital with virus as deaths climb

Nursing home resident released after testing negative twice, but now in serious condition; 2 Alzheimer’s patients succumb overnight, though number of new cases appears to slow

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)

Test every single Israeli to avoid a second COVID-19 wave, top economist urges

By Nathan Jeffay and Shoshanna Solomon

Volunteer scientists process samples taken from people tested for the novel coronavirus, at a laboratory recently dedicated for the processing of COVID-19 samples by Medicines Discovery Catapult, at The Lighthouse Lab at Alderley Park in Cheshire, northern England, on April 22, 2020. (Paul Ellis/AFP)

Race for virus vaccine picks up as Germany, UK begin human trials

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a briefing on April 8, 2020 in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House, in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Praising government-to-be, Pompeo says West Bank annexation is up to Israel

Secretary of state says Washington will share views on matter privately, asserts US would be happy to provide more aid to Palestinians, but is concerned it’s not reaching them

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks to the UN Security Council at the United Nations headquarters on February 11, 2020 in New York. (Johannes EISELE / AFP)

Abbas threatens to rip up accords with Israel and US if annexation plans proceed

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and then-defense minister Naftali Bennett (2nd L) visit an army base on the Golan Heights overlooking Syrian territory, on November 24, 2019. (Atef Safadi/Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu speaks with Bennett as Yamina considers joining unity government

By Raoul Wootliff

Adam Frankel learning to type with his paternal grandfather. (Courtesy Adam Frankel)

Former Obama speechwriter exposes his family’s post-Holocaust trauma and secrecy

By Karen Goldfarb

Members of Chesed Shel Emes, a burial society based in Brooklyn, transport a body for burial at the cemetery it operates in Woodridge, New York. (Courtesy of Rabbi Mayer Berger/ via JTA)

Analysis

Jewish burial societies face difficult choices as deaths from coronavirus mount

In the last month, the Chesed Shel Emes in Brooklyn’s work has risen fivefold, as it faces hurdles from fears of contagion to mountains of paperwork

This circa 1987 photo provided by the family shows Isaiah Kuperstein with his sons, Daniel, left, and Adam in the Queens borough of New York. (Kuperstein family via AP)

Among virus victims, a Holocaust scholar who studied darkness, but beamed light

By Matt Sedensky

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

German police open probe into hack of Israeli Holocaust memorial event on Zoom

By AP and Raphael Ahren

A common redstart, photographed in Jerusalem (Courtesy Dudu Ben Or)

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By Jessica Steinberg

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