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Likud leader gets presidential mandate, calls for ‘joint leadership’ with Blue and White; Rivlin lays out proposed electoral reforms
- President Reuven Rivlin, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for a press conference to give Netanyahu the mandate to form a new government, held at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on September 25, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
- President Reuven Rivlin, right tasks Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with forming a new government, during a press conference at the President's Residence, in Jerusalem on September 25, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
- Blue and White leader Benny Gantz (L), President Reuven Rivlin (C) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meet at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on September 25, 2019 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
- International Space Station (ISS) crew member, NASA's US astronaut Jessica Meir waves as she boards the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft before its blasts off for the ISS, on September 25, 2019 at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (Maxim Shipenkov/Pool/AFP)
- Members of the main crew to the International Space Station (ISS), United Arab Emirates' astronaut Hazza Al Mansouri (left), Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and US astronaut Jessica Meir pose during a press conference at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 24, 2019. (Vyacheslav OSELEDKO / AFP)
- Screen capture from video of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaking at the 73rd United Nations General Assembly, September 27, 2018. (United Nations)
- Central Election Committee chairman Hanan Meltzer presents the official results of the elections to the 22nd Knesset to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, at the President's residence in Jerusalem, on September 25, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
- The scene of a stabbing at the Maccabim Junction along Route 443 on September 25, 2019. (United Hatzalah)
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