while you were away
10 stories you missed over the last 48 hours
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Have you been offline celebrating the final days of Passover? If so, here are some stories you might have missed over the past 48 hours.
- Despite a 48-hour extension from President Reuven Rivlin, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were unable to agree on terms for a unity coalition government. The mandate to form the next government has transferred to the Knesset.
- The $350 billion allocated to fund loans through the Small Business Administration has already run out.
- All 12 episodes of the third season of “Fauda” are now streaming on Netflix. There will be a live “Fauda” webcast on Monday April 19 with co-creators Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff, in a live conversation moderated by Dan Senor. More details in tomorrow’s Daily Kickoff.
- The Trump Administration announced it would renew humanitarian aid to the Palestinians in light of the coronavirus crisis, pledging $5 million to hospitals in the West Bank — a small fraction of what the White House once provided.
- Senior White House advisor Ivanka Trump came under fire for traveling to New Jersey from Washington to celebrate Passover last week, violating federal guidelines for self-quarantining.
- A rival, last-minute bid has emerged to purchase the ailing Jewish Chronicle.
- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that New Yorkers must wear face masks in public beginning Friday, and extended stay-at-home orders through May 15.
- A Massachusetts man with white supremacist ties was arrested by the FBI and charged with the attempted arson of a Jewish assisted living facility in the state.
- Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) issued a bipartisan call for an “immediate boost to American-Israel cooperation for treating and curing COVID-19.”
- Jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz died at 92, WWE announcer Howard Finkel died at 69, New York Yankees co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner died at age 63 and furniture icon Bernie Rubin died at age 82.