PM ON TRIAL: News site CEO: I skewed coverage in quid pro quo * President ’can’t see’ path to gov’t * Vaccines protect those who don’t get them * Meat for 2 million years

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Monday, April 5, 2021 [Ex-CEO of top news site: Skewed coverage of Netanyahu was part of quid pro quo]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Ilan Yeshua details orders to fire top editor, bury negative stories, smear rivals, all coming from PM’s aides; says Walla owners made clear their business interests were at stake]( [On defendant’s bench, Netanyahu accused of ‘severe governmental corruption’]( By [Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff]( [Political fate in balance, Netanyahu in court at start of trial’s evidence stage]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( Live updates [LIVE: Netanyahu in leading position as president huddles with parties on next PM]( By [TOI staff]( [Final factions to issue recommendations this evening; Likud chief currently has backing of 46 MKs, Lapid 39, and Bennett 7; no single candidate is expected to win 61 endorsements]( Times of Israel Podcast [Daily Briefing Apr. 5 – Split screen: Netanyahu on trial as Rivlin holds court]( By [TOI staff]( [Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today]( [Meeting parties, Rivlin says he ‘can’t currently see a way to form a coalition’]( By [TOI staff]( [President hints at ‘value-based considerations’ in choice, says he may not give 2nd person a chance; reprimands Likud’s Ohana for speaking against PM’s trial: ‘I can’t accept it’]( [Rivlin meets with party representatives to hear their preferred candidate for PM]( By [TOI staff]( [Vaccines shown to protect even those who don’t get them — Israeli study]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Just as doctors hoped, COVID shots aren’t just helping the inoculated, but also providing ‘cross-protection’ to the rest, new research finds]( [2 million students return to schools, not yet fully reopened]( By [TOI staff]( [65 people diagnosed with COVID after attending mass Bedouin wedding]( By [TOI staff]( [For 2 million years, humans ate meat and little else — study]( By [TOI staff]( [Tel Aviv University researchers says Stone Age humans were apex predators, only moved to more plant-based diet 85,000 years ago]( [Despite calls for reform, imports of live animals for meat up 51% this quarter]( By [Sue Surkes]( Top Ops [Jarrod Tanny]( [The Al-Quds Declaration on Antisemitism]( [This one is much better than the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism because, well, the name ’Jerusalem’ is racist. WARNING: SATIRE AHEAD]( [Yakov Nagen]( [It’s time to heal Jewish-Arab relations in Israel]( [MK Mansour Abbas challenged Jewish Israelis to engage with the Arab community, and we must. There are plenty of partners for peace to be found]( [Naomi Chazan]( [Fifth elections will be good for the country]( [If the 4 apparent changes in Israeli society that are apparent from the last election are cultivated between now and the next one, we can expect a healthy outcome, at last]( [Gerard Heumann]( [Work-from-home nation]( [So much of that now empty office space in Israel’s cities could be put to better use… like apartments!]( [CRM]( [Yamina nominates party head Bennett to be next PM, though no one else does]( By [TOI staff and AP]( [Right-wing leader opts not to ally himself with either Netanyahu or Lapid at this stage, appearing to deepen parliamentary deadlock]( [Lapid, Bennett said to reach breakthrough on rotation deal for joint government]( By [Raoul Wootliff]( [Yamina No. 3 Alon Davidi quits incoming Knesset before being sworn in]( By [Raoul Wootliff]( Document [Ra’am’s guiding charter backs Palestinian right of return, calls Zionism racist]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [While Mansour Abbas is being wooed amid post-election deadlock, the Southern Islamic Movement, of which his party is the political wing, takes positions most Jewish Israelis abhor]( [PA President Abbas heads to Germany for ‘routine’ medical treatment]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [No official comment from Ramallah as to leader’s condition, but it would not be the first time Abbas has gone to Germany for a checkup]( [36 Palestinian lists approved to run in May legislative elections]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [No justice minister, no peace (and forget about pardons or proposed laws)]( By [Tal Schneider]( [In Israel, only the justice minister can okay extraditions, allow people out of jail early or approve government legislation. It’s been nearly a week since Israel has had one]( [High Court: Protest limits during 2nd lockdown were unlawful, all fines annulled]( By [TOI staff]( [Defiant Jordanian prince vows he won’t obey house arrest restrictions]( By [AFP]( [Hamzah, accused of plotting against his half-brother the king, says he’ll refuse to abide by orders confining him to palace and barring communicating with others]( [Profile / Who is Jordan’s ex-crown prince Hamzah, accused of destabilizing kingdom?]( By [AFP]( [Israeli offered to send jet to evacuate detained Jordan prince’s family: reports]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Jordan: King’s half-brother was part of ‘malicious plot’ threatening security]( By [AP]( [Students in Arizona, teachers in LA: Jewish high school plans post-COVID future]( By [Asaf Shalev]( [A decade post-Arab Spring, Startup Nation program aims to build ‘Startup Region’]( By [Jake Epstein]( [60 young participants from across the Mideast and North Africa are working in Starting Up Together, an online hub, to develop ideas that can have an social impact]( [Techstars kicks off new startup cohort for accelerator program]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [CRM]( More Headlines [12-year-old boy suspected of murdering homeless man]( By [TOI staff]( [Girl dies as dune buggy overturns; pedestrian killed in Jerusalem 7-car pileup]( By [TOI staff]( [IDF receives new spy plane it says will help gather intel in Iran, Yemen, Iraq]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Ahead of Israeli Holocaust remembrance, Blinken speaks of duty to stop evil]( By [Stuart Winer]( [Israeli scientist looks to genes to predict healthy aging]( By [TOI staff]( [Singing hymns through masks: World’s Christians mark another pandemic Easter]( By [Frances D'Emilio]( [Afghanistan’s last known Jew is leaving for Israel]( By [Gabe Friedman]( [Egypt’s first female ship captain says she was falsely blamed for Suez crisis]( By [TOI staff]( [IDF troops allowed to go maskless outdoors in new pilot program]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Rabbi Robert Marx, pioneering Chicago civil rights activist, dies at 93]( By [Gabe Friedman]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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