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'Empty and Helpless' in India SPOKESMODEL JAZZ, BY BACH KING OF BIG IDEAS NAOMI OSAKA IS KEEPING IT REAL HOW JEFF BEZOS’ IMPULSES IN HIGH DEMAND BY IMPROVISING HAVE SHAPED AMAZON PAGE 7 | STYLE PAGE 14 | CULTURE PAGE 6 | BUSINESS .. INTERNATIONAL EDITION | THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2021 Progressives Extremists won big in in Israel plot Chile’s vote attacks using Ariel Dorfman WhatsApp Scores of new groups OPINION identify Palestinian Over the weekend, the people of Chile targets for violence voted in a historic election to select the members of a body tasked with drafting BY SHEERA FRENKEL a new Constitution to replace the one written in 1980 under the dictatorship of In the middle of last week, a message ap- Augusto Pinochet. peared in a new WhatsApp channel The final tally dealt a severe blow to called “Death to the Arabs.” The mes- the followers of General Pinochet, many sage urged Israelis to join a mass street of whom make up the center-right and brawl against Palestinian citizens of Is- right-wing coalition Chile Vamos, rael. backed by the current president, Se- Within hours, dozens of other new bastián Piñera, which won just 37 of the WhatsApp groups popped up with vari- 155 seats for the Constitutional Conven- ations of the same name and message. tion. Chileans, especially the young, also The groups soon organized a 6 p.m. start rejected the traditional center-left time for a clash in Bat Yam, a town on parties as insufficiently responsive to Israel’s coast. people’s craving for a more egalitarian “Together we organize and together society and overly compromised with we act,” read a message in one of the the status quo. WhatsApp groups. “Tell your friends to The victors were a group of parties of join the group, because here we know a new-left coalition, Apruebo Dignidad how to defend Jewish honor.” (I Approve Dignity), That Wednesday evening — two days A new which elected 28 after violence between Israelis and Pal- Constitution representatives, estinians began escalating — live and numerous scenes aired of black-clad Israelis will be drafted independent candi- smashing car windows and roaming the to replace the dates who had been streets of Bat Yam. The mob pulled one one approved active in the ongo- man they presumed to be Arab from his during the ing protests calling PHOTOGRAPHS BY ATUL LOKE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES car and beat him unconscious. He was dark days of for reforms in edu- Receiving oxygen in Delhi. The coronavirus is killing thousands of people a day in India, where more than 1,000 doctors have died from Covid since the pandemic hit last year. hospitalized in serious condition. the Pinochet cation, health and The episode was one of dozens across dictatorship. pensions, and an Israel that the authorities have linked to end to the neoliberal a surge of activity by Jewish extremists economic model on WhatsApp, the encrypted messaging that has dominated service owned by Facebook. Since May Chile for almost half a century. The 10, at least 100 new WhatsApp groups independent, left and center-left candi- ‘Empty and helpless’ in India have been formed for the express pur- dates secured a combined 101 seats, pose of committing violence against Pal- more than two-thirds of the Constitu- NEW DELHI when 4,468 people died. estinians, according to an analysis by tional Convention. They would have India reported 267,000 new cases on The New York Times and FakeReporter, enough power to propose broad eco- Tuesday, pushing the official case tally an Israeli watchdog group that studies nomic reforms to land and water rights, past 25 million, with more than 280,000 misinformation. the pensions system and the exploita- Medical workers suffer deaths. Many experts say the true num- The WhatsApp groups, with names tion of natural resources. Chile is one of ber of cases is much higher, given the like “The Jewish Guard” and “The Re- the most unequal countries among emotional toll while risking lack of testing in rural areas. venge Troops,” have added hundreds of advanced economies. lives in a crushing outbreak The country’s frontline medical work- new members a day over the past week, All signs indicate that the founda- ers have shared in the deadly cost. The according to The Times’s analysis. The tional document they will draft will BY MUJIB MASHAL Indian Medical Association said more groups, whose messages are in Hebrew, enshrine principles of civic participa- AND SAMEER YASIR than 1,000 doctors have died from Covid have also been featured on email lists tion, justice, gender equality and Indige- since the pandemic hit last year. One and online message boards used by far- nous rights that have long eluded this The shifts are long, the wards full, the quarter of those have died since the be- right extremists in Israel. South American nation. demand so urgent that medical students ginning of April, said Dr. J.A. Jayalal, the While social media and messaging The election results represent a and interns have been coaxed to fill in. organization’s president. He estimated apps have been used in the past to stunning outcome that nobody could Hundreds of workers have died. Family at least 40 percent of doctors have been spread hate speech and inspire violence, have predicted when a huge protest members at home have fallen ill. infected. Recent data on other medical these WhatsApp groups go further, re- movement rocked the conservative India’s doctors and other medical re- personnel was not available. searchers said. That’s because the government of Mr. Piñera in October sponders find themselves short-handed The country’s health care providers groups are explicitly planning and exe- 2019. and underfunded as they battle the work in an inadequate and deeply un- cuting violent acts against Palestinian As the 2019 uprising grew larger and world’s worst coronavirus outbreak. Be- equal medical system. According to the citizens of Israel, who make up roughly more adamant, there was one major yond the physical danger they face, they World Bank, India’s health care spend- 20 percent of the population and live demand that united its heterogeneous have been forced by the devastating size A hospital in Mumbai. In a sign of the outbreak’s toll on medics, India has called on the ing, public and out of pocket, totals largely integrated lives with Jewish participants: the need to replace the of the outbreak and the government’s country’s final-year medical students and medical interns to report for Covid duty. about 3.5 percent of its gross domestic neighbors. Constitution that had been fraudulently mismanagement of the crisis into cruel product, less than half of the global aver- That is far more specific than mob at- approved during General Pinochet’s routines of helplessness, making deci- age. tacks previously fueled by WhatsApp in lethal dictatorship — a need that re- sions day after day that could determine exhaust every option to save a patient, India recorded 4,529 Covid-19 deaths They also face intimidation and vio- India, where calls for violence were sponded to a deeper existential crisis whether patients live or die. but imagine when you have to pri- on Tuesday, the pandemic’s highest sin- lence, with videos circulating of angry vague and generally not aimed at indi- over inequality in Chilean society that As beds fill up, they have to choose oritize?” said Dr. Mradul Kumar Daga, a gle daily death toll in any country so far, family members thrashing medical staff viduals or businesses, the researchers DORFMAN, PAGE 12 who among the throngs outside the hos- professor of medicine at the largest the authorities said on Wednesday, as members in hospital halls covered in WHATSAPP, PAGE 4 pital gates to allow inside for treatment. Covid-designated hospital in New Delhi. lockdowns in some major cities helped blood, or local strongmen bullying and The New York Times publishes opinion As the oxygen runs out, they have to “Those are the most heartbreaking deci- push the virus into the country’s vast scolding them. THE BIDEN AND BIBI SHOW from a wide range of perspectives in choose who gets precious supplies. The sions as a doctor you have to make. And hinterlands. “Everybody who comes is tense, and The U.S. president is said to have hopes of promoting constructive debate emotional toll is mounting. that is what has happened in the last The previous deadliest day was re- even a small issue sparks a big fight and sharpened his tone with his longtime about consequential questions. “All your life you prepare yourself to three weeks of my life.” corded in the United States in January, INDIA, PAGE 2 acquaintance in private. PAGE 4 Raw emotion exposed on life’s runway “You’re not there to have fun. You’re DIOR.COM Paulina Porizkova talks on display,” she said once back in the New York apartment that has become a of loss and renewal, and, familiar setting for her Instagram com- yes, her supermodel days muniqués. She was wearing a tank top and workout tights, with her hair BY KATHERINE ROSMAN twisted into two tight buns, sipping cof- fee with oat milk and a vegan smoothie When the writer and model Paulina while considering samples of do-it-your- Porizkova was asked by Aaron Sorkin to self wallpaper and an 18-month roller join him at the Oscars for what would be coaster ride of loss and renewal. their second real date, she hesitated. It began in September 2019, when her The first had gone well.
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