Netanyahu gets 28 days to form coalition * Knesset sworn in * Vaccinated foreigners allowed in to visit relatives * Spice shop owner, 102, oldest to light Indep Day torch

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Tuesday, April 6, 2021 [Rivlin reluctantly taps Netanyahu to form government: ‘Not an easy moral choice’]( By [TOI staff]( [President acknowledges no candidate seems able to make a coalition, says he wishes he could let Knesset decide in light of PM’s corruption trial]( [Bennett: Public wants stable, right-wing government; doesn’t want 5th elections]( By [TOI staff]( [Netanyahu secures most nominations for PM; Rivlin to tap candidate Tuesday]( By [TOI staff]( Live updates [LIVE: Opening 24th Knesset, Rivlin pleads with politicians to end political deadlock]( By [TOI staff]( [At swearing-in ceremony, president urges MKs to display leadership, overcome ideological differences and end 2-year crisis]( Analysis [David Horovitz]( [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]( [Lapid says he offered Bennett first turn as PM, Netanyahu can still be blocked]( By [TOI staff]( [Potential kingmaker Ra’am declines to endorse candidate for PM]( By [Aaron Boxerman and Marissa Newman]( [After day in court, Netanyahu rails at prosecutors, alleging ‘coup attempt’]( By [TOI staff]( [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’]( [Key witness takes stand for 2nd day in Netanyahu trial, claims he was threatened]( By [TOI staff]( Times of Israel Podcast [Daily Briefing Apr. 6 — Bibi trial postmortem: From the room where it happened]( By [TOI staff]( [Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today]( [Iran welcomes ‘promising’ US comments on sanctions ahead of nuclear talks]( By [Agencies]( [Washington and Tehran set to begin indirect discussions in Vienna with hopes of salvaging 2015 nuclear deal]( [US set to join talks aimed at salvaging Iran nuclear deal]( By [Anne BEADE]( [Vaccinated or recovered foreigners permitted to enter Israel to visit relatives]( By [TOI staff]( [Noncitizens seeking to enter Israel must submit request, show documentation of inoculation or COVID recovery and proof of relation to those they are coming to see]( [With parents locked out of country, fuming immigrants plan Knesset protest]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Citing virus, CDC warns against travel to Israel, alongside West Bank and Gaza]( By [TOI staff and AFP]( Top Ops [Elana Lubka]( [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]( [Not only does she claim that the Holocaust is a fairytale, but she also aims to nurture a loathing of Jewish people as liars and thieves in anyone susceptible to believing it]( [Yemenite spice shop owner, 102, oldest ever to light Independence Day torch]( By [TOI staff]( [Spiritual mentor Yaish Giat will wish that ‘our nation love one another, that people will respect one another’]( Reporter's notebook [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]( [CRM]( [Soldiers shoot, kill Palestinian man, injure wife; IDF: They tried to ram troops]( By [TOI staff]( [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]( [Released Arab Israeli who killed IDF soldier gets hero’s welcome in hometown]( By [TOI staff]( [Pfizer says working on a new deal to supply more vaccines to Israel]( By [TOI staff]( [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]( [Serology tests scaled down to encourage vaccination – report]( By [TOI staff]( [Virus czar predicts outdoor mask mandate will be dropped next week]( By [TOI staff]( [After Abraham Accords, Jewish-Arab art show tries to transcend historic conflict]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [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 orders media ban, reframes ‘wicked plot’ as family feud]( By [AFP]( [Jordan says Prince Hamzah affirms loyalty, king accepts mediation]( By [AFP]( [Monument to Confederate governor who loved Jews is coming down in Asheville, NC]( By [Andrea Cooper]( [CRM]( More Headlines [16-year-old girl hospitalized in Beersheba with suspected rabies]( By [TOI staff]( [Ministers extend COVID test requirement for travelers entering Israel]( By [TOI staff]( [Stable government, budget needed for Israel to exit crisis – central bank chief]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Beersheba residents find tens of thousands of shekels scattered on city street]( By [TOI staff]( [Winter carved country into two regions: Above-average rain, and drought]( By [Aviv Lavie]( [Photographic memory / Images of Holocaust survivors displayed at Jerusalem city hall]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [MyBiotics, Hadassah to study impact of microbiome on cancer therapies]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Harvey Weinstein appeals rape conviction, blaming ‘cavalier’ judge]( By [Michael R. 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