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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 26, 2020

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Police arrest a man during a protest by stall-owners at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem against the ongoing closure of their businesses, April 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Many major chains choose to stay shut, demand compensation

Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda traders protest unfair closure, as other stores reopen

1 arrested as stall-holders, backed by mayor, demonstrate over what they see as unfair treatment; other small businesses nationwide worry that ongoing restrictions deter customers

File: People walk past black friday advertisements at an outlet of the "Castro" fashion chain in Jerusalem, November 24, 2019 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Hundreds of chains spurn government, remain closed as owners demand compensation

A man walks past closed stores in the Mamilla Mall in Jerusalem on April 22, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel media reviewLooking for an opening: 6 things to know for April 26

By Joshua Davidovich

A Magen David Adom paramedic performs a coronavirus test on an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man at a mobile testing station, in Jerusalem's Geula neighborhood, on April 20, 2020. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Israeli death toll hits 200, cases reach 15,398 as conditions eased

132 people in serious condition with 100 on ventilators and 93 moderately ill; 6,602 Israelis have recovered from coronavirus

Zvi (L) and Bayla Porush, who died of COVID-19 within days of each other (Courtesy)

58-year-old Jerusalem man dies of COVID-19 days after wife, 52, succumbs

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

300 new sick a day: Officials set maximum infection rates for loosening rules

Health Minister Yaakov Litzman speaks during a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on March 12, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90/File)

Litzman confirms he’s leaving Health Ministry, prefers to solve housing shortage

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

After heading ministry for years, ultra-Orthodox leader says he wants to become housing minister amid pandemic; not clear he’ll get that job; ‘Good riddance,’ says former official

Then-health minister Yaakov Litzman at a press conference about the coronavirus at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 11, 2020. (Flash90)

Health minister denies donations influenced his decision to let IKEA reopen

In this March 3, 2020, photo, homeless people crowd a sidewalk in downtown Salem, Oregon, where they have set up a makeshift camp. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)

Economist’s warnings on inequality draw attention as pandemic rages

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As we heard our Jerusalem neighbors’ Sabbath prayers, I thought: we are locked down in the one place Jews would want to be locked down

People at Bograshov Beach in Tel Aviv watch the military airshow on Israel's 71st Independence Day, May 9, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

As it turns 72, Israel’s population stands at 9.2 million

Lieutenant Colonel (res.) Shimon Deri seen at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, where the official national celebrations will be held in honor of Israel's 72nd independence day next week, April 22, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Marching ordersArmy calls on families to film home foot drills for Independence Day

Thousands attend a 'black flag' protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday, April 25, 2020. (Black Flag Movement)

Ex-Shin Bet chief: Blood of a murdered judge will be on PM

‘Destroying the Knesset’: Thousands protest in Tel Aviv against coalition deal

By Raoul Wootliff

Demonstrators castigate Blue and White’s Gantz for failing to prevent Prime Minister Netanyahu from obtaining leverage over the justice system that is trying him

Police officers prepare a drone to find residents who fail to comply with the stay-at-home order implemented due to the coronavirus pandemic in Szolnok, Hungary, April 13, 2020. (Janos Meszaros/MTI via AP)

Live updates (closed)

High Court: No security agency coronavirus phone tracking without legislation

Justices say extension of emergency measures permitting Shin Bet to gather cell phone location data of those diagnosed can only be granted if work starts on enshrining it in law

8:11 pm

New York announces lowest death toll this month, may partially reopen May 15
8:07 pm

Gantz calls Peretz to congratulate him on party approving joining government
7:22 pm

Meretz leaders slam Labor for joining government, call on activists to leave party

A closed school in the northern city of Safed, March 13, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Netanyahu to meet with top officials on reopening schools next week

Education Ministry plan would see students gradually return to studies but would be conditioned on continued improvement in public health picture

A closed school in the northern Israeli city of Safed, March 13, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Education Ministry proposes reopening some schools starting May 3

Illustrative: First grade students sit in a classroom on their first day of school at Hashalom elementary school in Mevaseret Zion, September 1, 2019. (Flash90)

As Israel weighs return to school, it has no seriously ill patients under 19

Channa Lockshin Bob

The four children of distance learning

Many teachers keep order in class by making sure everyone does the same thing at the same time; at home, the kids pace themselves and some are succeeding for the first time

Dyonna Ginsburg

This Yom HaAtzmaut, balancing internal and external needs

Should Jews support vulnerable non-Jews living far away during this crisis? Israeli history has a precedent for answering yes

A man pets his cat as he sits by the window of his apartment during a nationwide quarantine, in Jerusalem, on March 18, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Six strategies to stay sane, even thrive, amid COVID-19 and social distancing

By Simona Weinglass

For the wealthy and prominent, there's also a private option

Digging deep: Diaspora Jews are still flying loved ones to Israel for burial

By Raphael Ahren

With flights curtailed, more paperwork and special coffins for virus victims, it’s no longer easy to transport relatives to be laid to rest in Holy Land. But it is still possible

Illustrative: Chevra Kadisha workers wearing protective clothes carry the body of a patient who died from complications of COVID-19 at the Shamgar Funeral Home in Jerusalem, March 29, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Parking airplanes and other equipment at Ben Gurion airport on April 6, 2020. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Several airlines announce resumption of Israel routes after virus grounds travel

Illustrative: A Dreamliner 787-10 pulls up to a gate in Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, in 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

US said to annul work visa of Israeli who took flight home knowing he had virus

Mourners set down the coffin of a Guinean man who died of COVID-19 during a funeral at the cemetery of Evere, Belgium, Friday, April 24, 2020 (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Global death toll from coronavirus surpasses 200,000

Many governments begin easing restrictions as World Health Organization warns recovering from coronavirus may not protect people from reinfection

A woman sleeps on Brighton Beach in the Brooklyn borough of New York as seagulls flutter around her, on Saturday, April 25, 2020. (AP/Wong Maye-E)

US virus death toll surges again as push to reopen ramps up

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks from 10 Downing Street praising NHS staff in a video message, after he was discharged from hospital a week after being admitted with persistent coronavirus symptoms, in London, April 12, 2020 (Pippa Fowles/10 Downing Street via AP)

UK’s Johnson to return to work amid growing criticism over virus policies

By Jill Lawless

Healthcare workers assist a COVID-19 patient at one of the intensive care units (ICU) of the Ramon y Cajal hospital in Madrid, Spain, on April 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Coronavirus said to be causing strokes in some younger patients

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US doctors say newly discovered trend shows how much remains unknown about the novel pathogen, which has killed more than 200,000 people worldwide

A view shows some of 35 coffins of deceased people stored in a warehouse in Ponte San Pietro, near Bergamo, Lombardy, on March 26, 2020 prior to be transported in another region to be cremated. (Piero CRUCIATTI / AFP)

What went wrong? Italy tries to figure out why it got so battered by COVID-19

By Nicole Winfield

Freshly dug graves are seen at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery, amid the new coronavirus pandemic in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. (AP/Emerson Cardoso)

Brazil becoming coronavirus hot spot as testing falters

By David Biller, DIANE JEANTET and Leo Correa

A Palestinian boy riding a donkey near the E1 settlement corridor, with Ma'aleh Adumim in the background (photo credit: (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Jordan said to urge foreign ministers to discourage Israeli West Bank annexation

By Agencies and ToI Staff

FM Ayman Safadi reportedly approaches counterparts in Russia, Germany, Egypt, Japan, Sweden and Norway and others in wake of Netanyahu-Gantz deal that includes potential move

Amir Naji, an 18-year-old Palestinian released by Israel from prison, waves a Palestinian flag while clad in a surgical mask and latex gloves due to the coronavirus pandemic as he is received by his family at a checkpoint near the city of Ramallah in the West Bank on April 14, 2020 (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

Palestinians fear virus risk from Israeli jails

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In this Monday, March 30, 2020 file photo, Palestinians make protective overalls meant to shield people from the coronavirus, to be exported to Israel, at a local factory in Gaza City (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Gaza factories roar back to life to make protective wear — including for Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Singer-songwriter is never mimicking anyone else’s style

Locked down? Open up to… cross-genre singer Laura Nyro

By Jordan Hoffman

Beloved by musicians and with not enough fame of her own, this sleeper was known for penning hits for Streisand and others — but her own performances are exquisite

Bette Midler presents the late Laura Nyro for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Saturday, April 14, 2012, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

From left, Tony Sirico, Steve Van Zandt, James Gandolfini, Michael Imperioli and Vincent Pastore from 'The Sopranos,' (HBO via AP)

Bada bingFrom books to dance lessons to ‘The Sopranos,’ freebies abound online

By Mark Kennedy

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This April 23, 2020, satellite image provided by Planet Labs and annotated by 38 North, a website specializing in North Korea studies, shows the Leadership Railway Station in Wonsan, North Korea (2020 Planet Labs Inc. via AP)

Train likely belonging to North Korea’s Kim spotted at resort amid health rumors

By Hyung-Jin Kim

File: Saudi policemen in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, March 11, 2011 (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Saudi Arabia abolishes flogging amid ongoing reforms

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference, March 31, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

US urges extension of embargo on conventional arms sales to Iran

By AFP

A Magen David Adom ambulance service medic handling coronavirus tests in Jerusalem on April 19, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Permission for Shin Bet to track virus carriers’ phones to be extended – report

A woman listens to music at a park on Roosevelt Island, Tuesday, March 17, 2020, in New York, with a United Nations building in the background. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

After months on sideline, UN Security Council nears resolution on virus

By Philippe RATER

Justin Rohrwasser during an pre-draft workout in a video published on March 31, 2020. (screen capture: YouTube)

New Patriots kicker says tattoo not in support of far-right militia

By AP

A soldier with the 1st US Army shakes hands with a Soviet counterpart, emulating the 'East Meets West' sign in the background, during the historic meeting of Allied fronts, by the river Elbe at Torgau, Germany, April 26, 1945. (AP/William C. Allen)

Trump, Putin hail ‘trust’ and cooperation 75 years after Elbe River meeting

By AFP

Food-tech company InnovoPro's chickpea-based proteins (Courtesy)

Chickpea protein startup InnovoPro raises $15 million from investors

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