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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 25, 2020

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A worker sprays disinfectant to sanitize Duomo square in downtown Milan, Italy, March 31, 2020. (AP/Luca Bruno)

Scientists in Italy find coronavirus on air pollution particles

In preliminary study, researchers detect distinct virus genes on airborne pollutants, suggesting disease could travel farther by air than previously assumed

WHO says no evidence recovered COVID-19 patients are immune to reinfection

Vaccinations drop amid COVID-19 fears, raising specter of fresh measles outbreak

Netanyahu expresses concern over virus reinfection in call with world leaders

By Raphael Ahren

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Health Minister Yaakov Litzman (right) and Health Ministry Director General Moshe Bar Siman-Tov at a press conference about the coronavirus COVID-19, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 11, 2020. Netanyahu is explaining how the coronavirus can spread from a sneeze. (Flash90)

Israel health chief: If we’d not been tough, we could have wound up like Belgium

If early trends had continued, today there’d be 600,000 sick Israelis and thousands ‘would have ended their lives,’ says Bar Siman-Tov, defending policies amid economic meltdown

Police officers close synagogues and hand out fines in the city of Beit Shemesh to ultra-Orthodox Jews who violated coronavirus regulations, April 16, 2020. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Cabinet orders lockdowns on virus hotspot neighborhoods in Beit Shemesh, Netivot

Police check cars at a temporary checkpoint in the northern Arab Israeli town of Deir el-Assad on April 16, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic . (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Checkpoints dismantled as lockdown of virus-hit Arab towns in north lifted

World War II veteran Philip Kahn, who died from the coronavirus on April 17, 2020. (Facebook)

WWII veteran dies from coronavirus 100 years after his twin died of Spanish Flu

Grandson of Philip Kahn says he would often warn that history repeats itself, ‘knew the irony of what was going on’ after he began coughing

A customer gets her eyebrows waxed at Three-13 Salon, Spa & Boutique on Friday, April 24, 2020, in Marietta, Georgia. The salon had been closed for more than a month due to the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Ron Harris)

US coronavirus death toll tops 50,000 as some Georgia businesses reopen

By Michael Mathes

A shuttered business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 23, 2020. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Virus drives US unemployment toward highest rate since Great Depression

By David Crary, regina garcia cano and Angela Charlton

Taylor Swift at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Jan. 23, 2020. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images, via JTA)

Taylor Swift calls out Soros family’s ‘shameless greed’ in beef with record co.

By Emily Burack

Pop superstar draws criticism as white supremacists seen associating her post with widespread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Soros

AnalysisVirus-linked increase in US online activity raises fear of anti-Semitic violence

AnalysisBiden seeks fundraising, foreign policy support from Jewish backers

Police detain a surfer who allegedly refused to leave the water despite coronavirus regulations, April 24, 2020. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Gnarly

Watch: Police swarm Tel Aviv surfer said to refuse to leave water

Law officers enforcing virus restrictions use helicopter, jet skis, boat to round up boarders; said to cancel pro-surfing protest

Magen David Adom medics wearing protective clothing evacuate a suspected coronavirus patient to the coronavirus unit at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, April 20, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

4 deaths take virus toll to 198, including 3rd resident of J’lem nursing home

People shop for food at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on April 24, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel’s latest COVID-19 rules: All stores except in malls reopened

An illustrative photo of a United Airlines plane taking off from Ben Gurion Airport on June 18, 2013. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israeli with coronavirus boarded flight to Tel Aviv without notifying crew

Passenger had been tested in Israel before heading to US and received results while abroad; 38 others on plane all sent to quarantine hotel where they’ll be tested

A stock market ticker in the lobby of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, March 15, 2020. (Flash90)

Moody’s lowers outlook on Israeli debt from positive to stable

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on April 24, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ministers said to push for limiting protests, but face opposition from AG

Dozens attend a Jewish wedding in Golders Green in London, on April 22, 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic (Screen grab/MailOnline)

Police shut down ‘despicable’ London Jewish wedding with dozens of guests

Homeowner told cops ahead of event there would be just 10 guests; father of bride quits his police liaison role; UK Jewry has been disproportionately hit by virus, with 335 deaths

Relatives of Fiet Aussen get ready to meet her from a crane outside the window of her Jewish nursing home in Amsterdam, April 15, 2020. (Courtesy of Riwal Holding Group via JTA)

Crane used at Dutch Jewish nursing home so family visitors can see loved ones

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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

Archdiocese of Bucharest replaces priest spokesman said to equate Jews and virus

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The Dam Hamaccabim Project's memorial pin. (Efrat Cohen)

Analysis

‘Blood of Maccabees’ wildflower grows in popularity in time for Memorial Day

Family project succeeds in cultivating plant, producing memorial pins that connect ancient legend of heroism with modern day martyrs

Representatives of the Pest Jewish Community visit the community's matzo bakery on Tuzer Street in the 1920s. (Photograph by Kalman Boronkay/ Courtesy CEU Press)

Flavor of prewar Hungarian Jewish life captured in book of recipes and folklore

By Rich Tenorio

President Donald Trump gestures to Vice President Mike Pence as Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, steps back to the podium to answer a question during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Friday, April 24, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

After furor over ‘disinfectant’ comments, Trump may curb role in virus briefings

By Jonathan Lemire and Jill Colvin

Advisers have warned US president his controversial, often combative appearances could be alienating some viewers, including senior citizens worried about their health

In this March 11, 2009 photo, Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, special advisor for health care at the Office of Management and Budget, speaks at the American Medical Association's annual conference at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

InterviewFormer Obama bioethicist says Trump’s coronavirus exit plan has ‘many problems’

By Rich Tenorio

Then-US president Donald Trump (R) listens as Dr. Deborah Birx, then-White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks about the coronavirus, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 22, 2020, in Washington. (AP/ Alex Brandon)

Doctors struggle to stay true to science without crossing Trump

By Deb Riechmann, AAMER MADHANI and Jonathan Lemire

US Congressman Max Rose, in military fatigues, deployed with the National Guard to build convert an unused psychiatric facility into the nation’s first state-run, COVID-19-only emergency hospital, April 2020. (Courtesy of Rose)

Interview

US Army vet-turned-NY-congressman dons uniform to build COVID-19 hospital

By Rich Tenorio

A cardboard coffin with a body sits on the roof rack of a car before it is taken away to be buried, outside the Teodoro Maldonado Hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Monday, April 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Luis Perez)

Latin American Jews suffer lockdown on religion as virus ravages communities

By Rich Tenorio

Empathetic imagination during a pandemic

For those of us who feel far away from this horror, it’s easy to forget that we all play a role in perpetuating the tragedy or helping to stop it

It’s a leap to connect the naming of dinosaurs with the priestly declaration that one was afflicted with tzara’at, but the power of verbal statement allows us to do just that

Historian, professor and author Yuval Noah Harari. (Courtesy)

Interview

Yuval Harari: Pandemic policy will influence world politics, economy for decades

By Maria Sterkl

Portrait of Samuel Pepys. (Wikipedia Commons)

Plague in the 1660s

Ute Lotz-Heumann

Diary of Samuel Pepys shows how life under bubonic plague mirrored coronavirus

In journal, 17th-century British naval administrator frets about quarantines, social distancing, dubious treatments and mounting death toll in London

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

Likud officials: If High Court meddles with deal, we’ll go to 4th elections

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz speaking at a party rally in Tel Aviv, February 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Poll indicates Gantz losing support over unity deal with Netanyahu

Palestinian factions, in coordination with Lebanese security forces, impose a lockdown on the Wavel camp in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley, April 22, 2020. (AFP)

Lebanon closes off Palestinian refugee camp after virus cases found

By BASSAM HATOUM and HUSSEIN MALLA

Shira (L) and Eitan (R) Shnerb, whose daughter Rina was killed in a terror attack, with their new baby daughter, April 22, 2020 (Screen grab/Kan)

Mother of teen killed in terror attack gives birth 8 months later

IDF troops snooze following a 40-kilometer hike, February 16, 2010. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Sleeping in: Army says soldiers entitled to 7 hours of shut-eye per night

In this photo from June 20, 2019, released by China's Xinhua News Agency, visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wave from an open top limousine as they travel along a street in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Ju Peng/Xinhua via AP)

Chinese medical team said to travel to N. Korea amid rumors about Kim’s health

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative image of an Israeli-Arab town in the Lower Galilee (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Amit A. - Public Domain)

9 injured, 2 of them seriously, in shooting in northern Israeli village

Illustrative: Northeastern University students protest after Students for Justice in Palestine was temporarily suspended by the university, March 18, 2014. (AP/Stephan Savoia)

Tufts president says award for pro-Palestinian club ‘should not have happened’

Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the third holiest place in Islam, stands empty of worshipers, at the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, early on April 24, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic crisis. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Muslims begin marking a subdued Ramadan under virus closures

By Niniek Karmini

Keir Starmer, left, with Jeremy Corbyn at the European Union headquarters in Brussels after a bilateral Brexit meeting, September 27, 2018. (Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

UK Labour party vows quick probe into leaking of anti-Semitism report

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

Jewish Democratic Council of America endorses Biden for president

By Josefin Dolsten

Chinese President Xi Jinping talks by video with patients and medical workers at the Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, March 10, 2020. (Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via AP)

China’s ‘wolf warrior’ diplomats show teeth in defending virus response

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