Volume 13, Issue 44:

This quote by Alex de Tocqueville has never been truer that it is today:
"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the functions performed by private citizens.'"

----- Alex de Tocqueville

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Love and Hatred in the Days of COVID-19

By Sarah Stern / March 25, 2020 / JNS

If you were to take a wider perspective on this current pandemic, you would immediately realize that the earth is like one giant petri dish facing a universal contagion, where we are all in this together. In this dish, both the best and the worst microbes are virulently reproducing.

Among the best qualities: a renewal of looking inward; a quest for understanding and for spirituality; time to reach out to family and friends; compassion for the most vulnerable; an awareness of the fragility of life, and that our time here is limited, for all of us; and a renewed awareness of how we are inextricably linked in a chain that effects one another.

Unfortunately, we also see that there many who are predisposed to hatred and paranoia, and who seek a scapegoat. And the time-proven victims have been the Jews.

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Israel

Whirlwind week ends with unity government in Israel, Netanyahu remaining at the helm - Jewish News Syndicate 

Blue and White splits as unity deal with Likud approaches - The Jerusalem Post

Joint Arab List gets chairmanship of Committee dealing with compensating terror victims - Jewish Press 

IDF shoots down drone from Lebanon, says it was flown by Hezbollah - The Times of Israel 

Iran's new guided rocket kit is certain to raise tensions with Israel - The National Interest

Israel's critics distort the country's coronavirus response - The Algemeiner

Pandemic's impact on Israel's national security cannot be ignored - Israel Hayom

First coronavirus death in Israel: an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor - The Jerusalem Post

Middle East

Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who vanished in 2007, died in Iranian custody, his family says - The Washington Post

Turkish-occupied Syria cuts off water to 400,000 during pandemic - The Jerusalem Post

Is Tehran exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to continue its nuclear pursuit? - Israel Hayom

Iran rejects international humanitarian aid despite coronavirus death toll - Fox News

Hit Ayatollah Khamenei in his pocketbook - The Wall Street Journal

Power struggle hampers Iran's coronavirus response - NY Times

Imam in Hamas TV Friday sermon a day before coronavirus cases confirmed in Gaza: this virus is a soldier of Allah; Muslims are the least - Memri

In long letter to Americans Iran's Rouhani blames sanctions for coronavirus deaths - Radio Farda 

Egyptian major general dies due to coronavirus, cases rise to 327 - Egyptian Streets

Don't fall for Hezbollah's coronavirus con - Schanzer Pundicity 

Anti-Semitism

Turkey and coronavirus: devout Muslims will defeat the "Jewish Plot" - BESA 

Classic antisemitic allegations arise over coronavirus, says gov't report - The Jerusalem Post 

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