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Protesters outside The New York Times offices in New York City, May 14, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
As The New York Times turns 175, the fight over its Israel coverage again heats up
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
This photo shows a general view of the skyline in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on October 2, 2026. (Mohammed HUWAIS/AFP)
Houthis say Saudi Arabia launched dozens of strikes on Yemen capital
By Agencies
Former hostage Shoshan Haran speaks about being taken captive in video for an Open University award on May 29, 2025 (Courtesy)
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Former hostage Shoshan Haran waged peace as Hamas turned plowshares into swords
By Bernard Dichek
Transportation Minister Miri Regev attends a Likud party conference ahead of the party’s primary elections in the northern city of Haifa, August 4, 2026. (Sharon Leibel/Flash90)
October 4, 2026, 4:45 am
Regev passes buck on probing pilots as Israel said ‘racing’ to ID potential threats
As flydubai fallout continues, Transportation Ministry says flights aren’t 100% safe and it doesn’t do background checks on foreign pilots; Report: Omani attacker had flown to Tel Aviv before but Israel knew nothing about him
By ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump speaks during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, September 22, 2026. (AP/Seth Wenig)
October 4, 2026, 2:32 am
2 members of Iranian UN delegation ‘kicked out’ of US — State Department
Trump taps intelligence chief as AI czar * Drunkard who shoved officers arrested; dozens protest, thinking he was nabbed for draft-dodging — police
By ToI Staff
Captain Smit Machchhar (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Danny Danon via X, Screenshot/Ma’ayan Toaf/GPO)
October 4, 2026, 2:11 am
Flydubai captain says copilot asked to pray then struck him from behind; describes exactly how he opened cockpit door
Speaking to PM, Smit Machchhar says terrorist Hamam al-Hammami kept crew outside from using code to enter cockpit; report says pilots from Iran, Syria, Iraq have flown airliners to Israel, and that al-Hammami had done so before
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Demonstrators hold a Palestinian flag with the words, "CEASEFIRE NOW; Gays for Palestine; RIVER - SEA". during a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel rally outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, March 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
October 3, 2026, 11:56 pm
At rally, Trump mocks ‘Gays for Palestine’ over abuses in ‘that part of the world’
US president jokes that members of the movement should be sent over as negotiators: ‘You’ll never see them again’
By ToI Staff
A street money exchanger poses for a photo without showing his face as he counts Iranian banknotes at a commercial district in downtown Tehran, Iran, December 23, 2022. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
October 3, 2026, 11:43 pm
Iranian rial at new record low, just days after previous nadir
Tracking website says currency now sold at 2.688 million to US dollar; Iran central bank injects $2 billion, official blames decline on Washington’s predictions of collapse
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A photo obtained by the IDF that was shared by freed Hamas hostage Emily Damari on October 3, 2026, shows her at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital after she was abducted during the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on southern Israel. (IDF via @emilydamari on Instagram)
October 3, 2026, 11:00 pm
Former hostage shares photos from captivity, as Hamas doctor operates on her injured hand
Emily Damari says pictures were taken just after her Oct. 7 abduction, recalls being surrounded by 10 armed terrorists at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, with corpse lying nearby
By ToI Staff
Israeli soldiers walk with a Palestinian farmer as others try to extinguish fires on their land after Israeli soldiers fired tear gas at them as they harvested their olives, resulting in the dry fields catching fire, in the village of Asira al-Qibliya, south of the city of Nablus, on October 3, 2026. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP)
October 3, 2026, 10:12 pm
Settler attacks reported across West Bank as Palestinians begin olive harvest
50-year-old man hospitalized after beating; footage shows vehicle being smashed in Osarin, while attacks and vandalism are reported in several other villages
By Noam Lehmann, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Tel Nof air base in a picture distributed on September 29, 2026; Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivers his Leader’s Speech during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, England, September 29, 2026. (Ma’ayan Toaf/GPO, AP Photo/Jon Super)
October 3, 2026, 10:06 pm
Netanyahu accuses UK government of acting ‘like a rogue state,’ says Israel saved British lives
PM says Israeli intel helped foil recent terror plot against British airbase, blasts settlement trade ban and Palestinian state recognition as appeasement of ‘Islamist forces’
By ToI Staff
(Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law, Courtesy)
October 3, 2026, 6:22 pm
IDF strike on Hamas’s Gaza chief kills 5, including mother and daughter; his fate unclear
Ali al-Amoudi, former Sinwar confidant, has emerged as a key figure in the terror group amid stalled internal leadership vote
By Emanuel Fabian
Green Party leader Zack Polanski gives a speech in St Pancras Gardens as he continues his campaign ahead of the upcoming Holborn and St Pancras by-election on October 3, 2026, London, England, United Kingdom. (Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters)
October 3, 2026, 5:56 pm
UK Greens to vote on motion declaring ‘Zionism is Racism,’ calling to dismantle Israel
Far-left party’s Jewish, anti-Israel leader says he will support motion if amended to allow possibility of two-state solution, ensure Jewish members who belong to Zionist synagogues are not expelled
By ToI Staff
A sculpture made by India’s sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik depicts India’s pilot Smit Machchhar, the captain of flydubai flight FZ 1073, at a beach in Odisha’s Puri city on October 1, 2026. (AFP)
October 3, 2026, 5:16 pm
UAE says flydubai copilot used cockpit emergency ax to attack captain in ‘terrorist act’
Gulf state’s top prosecutor says probe into Omani attacker ongoing; Dubai’s crown prince visits wounded captain, says he ’embodied highest degrees of courage, care for human life’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Passenger Yaniv Hayun, with bloodstains on his shirt, one of the Israelis who helped subdue a flydubai copilot who allegedly sought to hijack and crash a plane full of Israelis, at Ben Gurion Airport, September 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Tomer Appelbaum)
October 3, 2026, 1:48 pm
‘My kind of guy’: Trump posts video thanking flydubai hero
‘He’s a Trump fan and I’m a fan of his,’ says US president in TikTok clip praising Yaniv Hayun, who helped subdue attacker and then managed to level out the passenger jet as it nosedived
By ToI Staff
PIctures of protesters who were killed by the Iranian state security forces during the nationwide anti-government demonstrations that took place in Iran in January, are seen during a Free Iran Rally outside of the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 2026 in New York City. (Ryan Murphy/Getty Images/AFP)
October 3, 2026, 12:53 pm
Iran executes man regime linked to anti-government protests
Tehran announces execution of Siavash Jamshidi, charged with a range of offenses from targeting security personnel during anti-government protests to ‘fraud’ and ‘theft’
By AFP
In this October 26, 2018 file photo, released by Oman News Agency, Oman’s Sultan Qaboos, left, receives Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Muscat, Oman. (Oman News Agency via AP)
October 3, 2026, 9:32 am
What is Oman’s relationship with Israel – if any?
The Gulf Sultanate has been thrust into the spotlight after an Omani pilot tried to crash a plane full of Israelis on a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv
By Tomer Almagor
FILE; Nitzan Alon attends the Herzliya Conference at the Reichman University in Herzliya, July 1, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 3, 2026, 8:20 am
Ex-hostage point man says Israel could have returned all Oct. 7 captives a year earlier
Nitzan Alon says ‘political and personal considerations’ prevented signing of hostage deal, says Israel ‘could and should have shortened the war,’ prevented deaths on both sides
By ToI Staff
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