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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 6, 2021

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Reuven Rivlin announces his decision to name Benjamin Netanyahu to try to form a government on April 6, 2021. (Koby Gideon/GPO)

Rivlin reluctantly taps Netanyahu to form government: ‘Not an easy moral choice’

PM says he’ll make ‘every effort to end cycle of elections’; president acknowledges no candidate seems able to make a coalition, wishes he could let Knesset decide

Screen capture from video of Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett in the Knesset, April 6, 2021. (Kan public broadcaster)

Bennett: Public wants stable, right-wing government; doesn’t want 5th elections

President Reuven Rivlin (L) meets with representatives from the New Hope party for consultations about who should form a new government, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, April 5, 2021. (Mark Neyman.GPO)

Netanyahu secures most nominations for PM; Rivlin to tap candidate Tuesday

The party leaders in the new Knesset pose for a group photo. April 6, 2021 (Knesset spokesperson's office)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu, Bennett to meet Thursday night for coalition talks

Likud leader says establishment of ‘strong, homogenous’ coalition will be difficult, but isn’t ‘impossible’

5:50 pm

Dubai to deport group over nude photo shoot
5:38 pm

Rollout of electronic bracelets for quarantine indefinitely delayed -- TV
5:37 pm

Netanyahu, Bennett to meet Thursday for coalition talks

Party leaders pose for a group picture after the swearing-in ceremony of the 24th Knesset, April 6, 2021. Seated from left are Supreme Court president Esther Hayut, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Analysis

Road to a coalition seems blocked, but Netanyahu is in the driver’s seat, again

None of his options for mustering a majority look promising. But Israel’s longest-serving prime minister has surmounted similar obstacles in the past

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid gives a televised speech on April 5, 2021. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Lapid says he offered Bennett first turn as PM, Netanyahu can still be blocked

Mansour Abbas, head of the Ra'am party, gives a press statement after meeting with President Reuven Rivlin at the President's House in Jerusalem on April 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Potential kingmaker Ra’am declines to endorse candidate for PM

By Aaron Boxerman and Marissa Newman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims he is the victim of an attempted political coup, in remarks after the first day of evidence against him in his corruption trial, April 5, 2021. (GPO)

After day in court, Netanyahu rails at prosecutors, alleging ‘coup attempt’

PM says probe against him was illegally opened with goal of removing him from power, claims cops, prosecutors trying ‘to trample democracy… attempting to annul electorate’s will’

Court official prepare for the second day of the evidentiary stage of the corruption trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Jerusalem District Court on April 6, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Key witness takes stand for 2nd day in Netanyahu trial, claims he was threatened

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This January 15, 2011 file photo shows the heavy water nuclear facility near Arak, Iran. (AP Photo/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan, File)

Iran welcomes ‘promising’ US comments on sanctions ahead of nuclear talks

Washington and Tehran set to begin indirect discussions in Vienna with hopes of salvaging 2015 nuclear deal

Illustrative: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visits the Bushehr nuclear power plant just outside of Bushehr, Iran, January 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Iranian Presidency Office, Mohammad Berno, File)

US set to join talks aimed at salvaging Iran nuclear deal

Demonstrators gathered in the Rose Garden across from the Knesset to protest the government’s lack of policy regarding entry permits for family members to enter Israel, March 6, 2021. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Vaccinated or recovered foreigners permitted to enter Israel to visit relatives

By ToI Staff and Jessica Steinberg

Noncitizens must show documentation of inoculation or COVID recovery and proof of relation to those they are coming to see; protesting immigrants say new rules too little too late

Annabelle Amery, left, with her fiance, Sergey Yanchenko. The two are waiting for Amery's vaccinated parents and sisters to be able to travel to Israel for their wedding (Courtesy Annabelle Amery)

With parents locked out of country, fuming immigrants plan Knesset protest

By Jessica Steinberg

Medical technicians test passengers for the coronavirus at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 8, 2021. (Flash90)

Citing virus, CDC warns against travel to Israel, alongside West Bank and Gaza

By ToI Staff and AFP

The skies reopened. Why can’t Grandma come?

Immigrants in Israel are cut off from the family members they need by their sides at the most critical moments in their lives

Stephen Silverman

Our 5-year fight to imprison Holocaust denier Alison Chabloz

The British far-right activist who claims the Holocaust is a fairytale has long peddled her viscious anti-Semitism to susceptible audiences

Yaish Giat, a Yemen-born Mori and spice shop owner, will serve as the torchbearer for Israel's 73rd Independence Day Ceremony. (Courtesy)

Yemenite spice shop owner, 102, oldest ever to light Independence Day torch

Spiritual mentor Yaish Giat will wish that ‘our nation love one another, that people will respect one another’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, enters a courtroom at the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing in his corruption trial, April 5, 2021. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)

Reporter's notebookPM watched prosecutor with a dull stare, scribbling notes

Fighting on two fronts: His leadership wobbling, Netanyahu faces his prosecutors

By Judah Ari Gross

While his allies were across town battling to get him first crack at building the next coalition, PM appears in court for the opening of the evidence stage of his corruption trial

Israeli soldiers set up a roadblock as part of a search effort to find terrorists who set off a bomb near the Israeli settlement of Dolev in the West Bank on August 23, 2019, killing an Israeli teenage girl and seriously injuring two other people. (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldiers shoot, kill Palestinian man, injure wife; IDF: They tried to ram troops

Palestinian media identify the man as Osama Mahmoud Mansour, 42; IDF says couple attempted to commit a car-ramming attack, but wife says they left home to run an errand

Screen capture from video of convicted terrorist Rushdi Hamdan Abu Mukh being welcome at his home town of Baqa al-Gharbiyye after his release from prison, April 5, 2021. (Twitter)

Released Arab Israeli who killed IDF soldier gets hero’s welcome in hometown

A Clalit vaccination center in Jerusalem, on February 25, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Pfizer says working on a new deal to supply more vaccines to Israel

Drug company says it has fulfilled initial agreement with Jerusalem for inoculations, working to update it to ship more doses, as Israel prepares to vaccinate children

An Israeli laboratory worker is pictured as she checks serological tests at the Leumit Health Care Services laboratory in Or Yehuda, near Tel Aviv on June 29, 2020. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Serology tests scaled down to encourage vaccination – report

Israelis, some wearing protective face masks and some not, at Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Square on April 4, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Virus czar predicts outdoor mask mandate will be dropped next week

A work by Israeli photographer Angelica Sher, to be shown at the Mediterranean Biennale, opening April 6, 2021 (Courtesy Angelica Sher)

After Abraham Accords, Jewish-Arab art show tries to transcend historic conflict

By Jessica Steinberg

Prince Hamzah Bin Al-Hussein, right, and Prince Hashem Bin Al-Hussein, left, half brothers of King Abdullah II of Jordan, attend the opening of the parliament in Amman, Jordan, November 28, 2006. (AP Photo/Mohammad abu Ghosh, File)

New recording signals Jordanians tried to silence prince, no mention of coup

By AP

Jordanian army chief heard saying Hamzah is being punished because of meetings he had with individuals who ‘started talking more than they should’

Jordan's King Abdullah II and Crown Prince Hussein (R) arrive for the opening parliamentary session in the capital Amman on November 10, 2019, as Jordan reasserted its control over land enclaves on the border with Israel. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)

Jordan orders media ban, reframes ‘wicked plot’ as family feud

By AFP

Jordan's King Abdullah II (left) laughs with his brother, then-crown prince Hamzah (right), on April 2, 2001, shortly before the Jordanian monarch embarked on a tour of the United States. (AP Photo/Yousef Allan/File)

Jordan says Prince Hamzah affirms loyalty, king accepts mediation

By AFP

Illustrative image: Susan Foster, left, listens as her 7-year-old daughter Amelia plays on a Zebulon Baird Vance Statue at the Capitol as teachers and concerned citizens attend a Get Your Facts Straight! Rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, August 15, 2013. High school teacher Matthew Caggia, right, and others rallied to criticize the Republican legislature for public school policies approved this year and accuse them of misleading the public about their effects on the classroom. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Monument to Confederate governor who loved Jews is coming down in Asheville, NC

By Andrea Cooper

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of a Magen David Adom ambulance outside an Israeli hospital (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

16-year-old girl hospitalized in Beersheba with suspected rabies

Medical technicians test passengers for COVID-19 at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on March 8, 2021. (Flash90)

Ministers extend COVID test requirement for travelers entering Israel

Governor of the Bank of Israel Amir Yaron, left, presents the central bank's annual report to President Reuven Rivlin, April 6, 2021 (Mark Neyman, GPO)

Stable government, budget needed for Israel to exit crisis – central bank chief

By Shoshanna Solomon

Soon to be a rare sight in Israel? (illustrative picture credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Beersheba residents find tens of thousands of shekels scattered on city street

Rain in the northern coastal city of Netanya, February 19 2021. (Flash90)

Winter carved country into two regions: Above-average rain, and drought

Photographic portraits of Holocaust survivors, part of The Lonka Project exhibit in Safra Square in Jerusalem, opening April 8, 2021, Yom HaShaoh, Heroes and Martyrs Remembrance Day (Courtesy The Lonka Project)

Photographic memoryImages of Holocaust survivors displayed at Jerusalem city hall

By Jessica Steinberg

A 3D illustrative image of rod-shaped bacteria and cocci in the human microbiome (Dr_Microbe; iStock by Getty Images)

MyBiotics, Hadassah to study impact of microbiome on cancer therapies

By Shoshanna Solomon

Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan court as jury deliberations continue in his rape trial, on February 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Harvey Weinstein appeals rape conviction, blaming ‘cavalier’ judge

By Michael R. Sisak

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