| Newsletter Monday, March 9, 2020 |
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| ‘Tens of thousands of Israelis will be infected with coronavirus’ |
| „Not all patients will need to be hospitalized – 80%-90% of them will experience very mild symptoms and all they will have to do is observe quarantine until the illness passes,” says Prof. Itamar Grotto, director of Public Health Services in the Health Ministry. |
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| Opinions |
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| Between the Joint Arab List and joint nationalism |
| by Prof. Asher Cohen |
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| Time to stabilize the democratic game |
| by Ron Harris |
| March 9, 2020 |
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| Personal legislation violates the rule of law |
| by Prof. Aviad Hacohen |
| March 9, 2020 |
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| The Shiite crescent and the coronavirus |
| by Hillel Frisch |
| March 9, 2020 |
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Top Stories |
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| Spike in contraction rate sees 14 new coronavirus cases in span of hours |
| by Maytal Yasur Beit-Or, Noam Dvir, Israel Hayom Staff |
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March 9, 2020 |
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| Another 14 people were diagnosed on Sunday, bringing the total number of infected Israelis to 39, the Health Ministry announces. |
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| Time to abolish Law of Return, Arab MK says |
| by Israel Hayom Staff |
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March 9, 2020 |
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| Joint Arab List MK Aida Touma-Suleiman: The law is unnecessary. At the time, it greatly wronged my people, but now it’s time to rethink it – and many other things. |
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| Rabbi blames corona outbreak on gay pride parades |
| by Eliyahu Galil, Israel Hayom Staff |
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March 9, 2020 |
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| Rabbi Meir Mazuz, a leading Sephardi rabbi, says „The Pride Parade is a parade against nature, and whoever acts against nature, He who created nature will avenge him.” |
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More News |
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| Gantz gets extra security after death threats deemed credible |
| by AP, Israel Hayom Staff |
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March 9, 2020 |
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| Gantz revealed that a man tried to assault him Saturday evening as he arrived at a speaking engagement, and that supporters of PM Benjamin Netanyahu have been threatening him online. One post called for Gantz to be murdered just like former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. |
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| Coronavirus outbreak will take a toll on national resilience, experts warn |
| by Ariel Kahana |
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March 9, 2020 |
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| The global pandemic has direct implications for Israel’s economic, political, and governmental resilience and therefore it can impact national security, too, former National Security Adviser Jacob Nagel and author Jonathan Schanzer argue. |
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| ‘Israeli tourism industry on the brink of collapse’ |
| by Shimon Yaish, Reuters, Israel Hayom Staff |
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March 9, 2020 |
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| The massive plummet in demand for airline tickets, as well as Israel’s strict travel advisories, has seen multiple international airlines suspend their flights to and from Israel. |
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| Did the Palestinian Authority push up voter turnout for Arab Israelis? |
| by Nadav Shragai |
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March 9, 2020 |
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| The unusually high voter turnout in east Jerusalem neighborhoods, together with a meeting three and a half weeks prior to the March 2 election between Joint List members, Islamic Waqf representatives and PA officials, indicates possible coordination. |
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| N. Korea fires weapons after threatening ‘momentous’ action |
| by AP, Israel Hayom Staff |
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March 9, 2020 |
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| In the past 10 days, North Korea has said leader Kim Jong Un supervised two rounds of live-fire artillery exercises in its first weapons tests since late November. |
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| Pentagon cancels plans to purchase Iron Dome, citing integration issues |
| by JNS, Israel Hayom Staff |
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March 9, 2020 |
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| US defense officials say the network is incompatible; the Israeli-made system poses „cyber challenges and other challenges.” |
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