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Ra’am chief Mansour Abbas, whose Islamist party’s support will almost surely be needed to swear in the “change government,” says he is optimistic a coalition can be formed and that he will be part of it, but stresses it’s still not finalized. “You can’t say it’s over until it’s over,” he tells the Kan public broadcaster as he arrives at a hotel in Ramat Gan where party chiefs are trying to hammer out the last kinks in the prospective government that will replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. I'm proud to work at The Times of Israel

Israir will launch direct flights between Israel and Morocco’s Marrakesh in July, the Israeli carrier announces, six months after the two countries reached a US-backed normalization deal. “The first flight will take place on July 19 from Tel Aviv to Marrakesh,” says a spokeswoman for Israel’s second-biggest airline, adding there would be five flights a week. “We believe that demand will be high, and that hundreds of thousands of Israelis will want to take advantage of these direct flights to Morocco,” Gil Stav, Israir’s deputy sales director, says in a statement. Israir says the...

The Yisrael Beytenu party, which is part of the “change bloc” of anti-Netanyahu parties, says it has received a number of threatening calls in the past few hours as negotiations to form a government that will replace Israel’s premier appear to near the finish line. Yisrael Beytenu says some of these calls included “harsh threats of murder” toward staff at the right-wing secularist party’s headquarters and against its leader, Avigdor Liberman. It adds that a complaint has been filed with the Knesset Guard. Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman speaks during a Knesset faction meet...

BEIJING — A man in eastern China has contracted what might be the world’s first human case of the H10N3 strain of bird flu, but the risk of large-scale spread is low, the government says. The 41-year-old man in Jiangsu province, northwest of Shanghai, was hospitalized April 28 and is in stable condition, the National Health Commission says on its website. No human case of H10N3 has been reported elsewhere, the commission says. “This infection is an accidental cross-species transmission,” its statement says. “The risk of large-scale transmission is low.” Slaughtered chickens are di...

Tel Aviv University announces the establishment of a joint water research institute with the United Arab Emirates that will be set up in Abu Dhabi. Meanwhile, the Economy Ministry says it will establish an office in the UAE capital that will promote economic ties between the countries. I'm proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll tell you the truth: Life here in Israel isn’t always easy. But it's full of beauty and meaning. I'm proud to work at The Times of Israel alongside colleagues who pour their hearts into their work day in, day out, to capture the complexity of this extraord...