ToI’s weekly deep dive: Reports from coronavirus frontlines * Israel may have a government, but what about democracy? * Humor and COVID-19 * Way s to find your inner peace

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Weekend Edition Sunday, March 29, 2020 [Young fit UK bicyclist hit hard by COVID-19; Wife says, ‘No one is immune’]( By [Jenni Frazer]( [London-based Anna Schuchman says her fitness-hip family once thought drastic measures unnecessary, but when husband Dani fought for his life, she realized anyone can be at risk]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [Abandoning core vow, doesn’t Gantz risk harming the democracy he said he’d save?]( [The Blue and White leader is laudably espousing unity amid our health and political crises. But at what cost?]( [Analysis / Gantz sees ‘opportunity’ in deal with Netanyahu; ex-allies fume: he’ll regret it]( By [David Horovitz]( [Analysis / Defying ruthless, deadlocked politics, Gantz sacrifices everything for stability]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( Italian epicenter [Israeli doctor in Italy says new, innovative treatments ‘flattening the curve’]( By [Ira Tolchin Immergluck]( [From connecting patients to ventilators via scuba gear to having them lie on their stomach, Carmi Sheffer says COVID-19 is highly unpredictable, hopes to return to Israel to help]( [‘My father died alone and now I can’t even comfort my mother,’ says Italian Jew]( By [Giovanni Vigna]( Analysis [Judah Ari Gross]( [Failure to stop mass funeral reveals social distancing’s fatal flaw: Enforcement]( [Police say they decided to allow hundreds of ultra-Orthodox to attend burial for important rabbi to avoid clashing with participants, tout victory that ‘only 400 people’ took part]( [Anxious Israelis count ventilators, or try to build their own]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [For Israel’s homeless, shelters become a haven from pandemic]( By [Sam Sokol]( From the Frontlines [Nurse in virus isolation ward describes patients’ touching farewell to dying man]( By [Marissa Newman]( [Rachel Gemara details final moments of Israel’s 1st virus fatality Aryeh Even, a Holocaust survivor, who, separated from his family, was comforted to the end in Jerusalem hospital]( [While working remotely, chaplains aim to give COVID-19 patients rare human touch]( By [Cathryn J. Prince]( [Interview / Forensic pathologists beware: COVID-19 lives on in blood after death]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( Ethical dimensions [In Israel, where preserving life is core medical ethos, wrenching dilemmas loom]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [If coronavirus infections spiral, hospitals could find themselves with more patients than life-saving ventilators. Authorities should set criteria, but they won’t, experts say]( [14 Sephardic Orthodox rabbis say Passover Seder can be held via videoconference]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Benjamin Lau]( [Can Kaddish be said in a virtual minyan?]( [Daniel Gordis]( [‘We will guard and protect you’: Our forgotten promise to Israel]( From the Blogs [David brought us all together. In his death, we are isolated and desolate]( By [Yossi Klein Halevi]( Body and soul [In Ukraine, Christian group steps in to feed needy Jews confined by COVID-19]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Dutch-based Christians for Israel planning to deliver more than 300,000 meals on wheels over next two months as country with poor medical infrastructure scrambles to contain virus]( [How to get through the virus lockdown with your marriage and family intact]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Shira Pasternak Be'eri]( [The men in the white suits]( Big brother [How digital surveillance in virus fight watches you more closely than any GPS]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( Startup Israel [As coronavirus strikes, Israeli tech firms gear up to new normal]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Sales reps switch to online demos, development teams work from home and startups hold on to cash, hoping to make it through the storm; some are faring better than others]( [Interview / Keep your workers, Israel chief scientist urges, as virus threatens startups]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [The information SAGE / Israeli app taps the wisdom of elders for those stuck at home]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Hackers exploiting remote workers amid coronavirus crisis, cyber authority warns]( By [Luke Tress]( Times of Israel Podcasts [Heard the one about Hitler killing another Jew? My kid told it during quarantine]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [LISTEN: Only in Israel can a coronavirus patient with a wicked sense of humor become a celeb. Funnymen Jonathan Barak, Asaf Beiser, Benji Lovitt and Yisrael Campbell explain why]( [People of the Pod / LISTEN: Tablet’s Yair Rosenberg talks anti-Semitism during coronavirus crisis]( By [TOI staff]( [Times of Israel Podcasts / LISTEN: Stories to quarantine by — from the WhyWhyWhy! podcast]( By [Miriam Herschlag]( [Solitary assignment / Natan Sharansky gives tips for quarantine based on Soviet gulag]( By [Michael Bachner]( Screen Time [Now streaming, film shows mime Marceau saved kids from unspeakable Nazi horrors]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [‘Resistance,’ starring Jesse Eisenberg, available on-demand from March 27; based on Jewish-French clown’s real-life heroics shepherding kids for the underground during Holocaust]( [Young NY Hasidic woman reboots life in secular Berlin in Netflix’s ‘Unorthodox’]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [Interview / With controversial coming-of-age tale, female director made Frenchest film ever]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( Corona-Culture [As coronavirus coops up many at home, ways to find inner peace indoors]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [A meditation expert, a yoga instructor, a Jewish parenting writer and a mandala artist offers ideas for creating calm during the pandemic]( [The best medicine / Stuck at home, ‘Eretz Nehederet’ TV comics sing about virus closure]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [My soul cries to you / Teens record Mendelssohn on phones after virus cancels gig]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Fashion forward / Prescient Bezalel student designs stylish antiviral mask]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( From the Blogs [Maybe God is angry at us]( By [Francis Nataf]( [The panic corona has created in wealthy countries is an important wake-up call about the worth of human lives, wherever they are]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2020 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved