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Likud chief delivers conciliatory message to rivals during Knesset session marking Rabin assassination, as he begins work on forming new government with right-religious allies
- Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a special plenum session to mark 27 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at the Knesset, November 6, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
- Prime Minister Yair Lapid speaks during the official memorial service for assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, held at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, November 6, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
- Likud head Benjamin Netanyahu (center) speaks with Religious Zionism chief Bezalel Smotrich (second from left) during informal coalition talks in Jerusalem on November 6, 2022. (Courtesy)
- Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu arrives coalition talks with his political allies, in Jerusalem, November 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
- President Isaac Herzog speaks during an official memorial ceremony for assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, November 6, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)
- Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich arrives for coalition talks with Likud chief Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem, November 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
- United Torah Judaism leader Rabbi Yitzhak Goldknopf arrives for coalition talks with Likud chief Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on November 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
- In this handout photo, United Torah Judaism No. 2 Moshe Gafni (R) and Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich meet at the Knesset, November 6, 2022. (Courtesy)
- President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal lay stones during the official memorial service for assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, held at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, November 6, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
- Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to supporters as the exit polls of the Israeli elections are announced, at the party's campaign headquarters in Jerusalem, November 1, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)