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Israel’s Liel Abada passes the ball by Ireland’s Owen Elding during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between the Republic of Ireland and Israel in Backa Topola, Serbia, October 4, 2026. (AP/Darko Vojinovic)
October 5, 2026, 12:48 am
Israel ties Ireland 1:1 as both teams don black armbands for tense UEFA game
Irish captain again refuses to shake hands with Israeli counterpart during match played in Serbia, as opposing team members bow their heads during Israeli anthem
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich signs an order to reduce the excise tax on gasoline to bring down fuel prices at the pump, October 5, 2026. (X/Bezalel Smotrich)
October 4, 2026, 7:46 pm
Government trims price at pump days after it reached record high
Treasury trims a further NIS 0.5 off fuel tax excise surcharge, bringing cost per liter down to NIS 7.7; ministry officials reportedly balk at cost to state coffers
By ToI Staff
Flights take off from Ben Gurion Airport on September 30, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)
October 4, 2026, 7:17 pm
Flydubai terrorist reportedly intended to crash plane into Ben Gurion Airport
Reports say copilot canceled July attack plan at last moment as friends were among crew members, decided to crash plane in desert after passengers gained access to cockpit
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A room imitating an Australian police station is seen at an abandoned scam centre in O’Smach town on the Thai-Cambodian border, on September 7, 2026. (ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP)
October 4, 2026, 4:17 pm
Australia probing flydubai copilot, who studied at a Melbourne university
Hamam al-Hammami reportedly visited radical mosques and browsed extremist websites while in country, with intel services said to hold file on him
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Iranian army cadets during the opening ceremony of a military training center in downtown Tehran, Iran, October 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
October 4, 2026, 2:43 pm
Iran says no military solution to conflict with US as talks remain at dead end
Tehran’s top diplomat insists ‘only negotiations based on justice and fairness’ will end war; Hormuz tanker damaged in attack as Iran vows to keep Strait closed until demands met
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Worshipers celebrate the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah at the site of the Nova music festival, where hundreds of people were murdered by Hamas during the October 7 massacre, near Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel, October 3, 2026. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
October 4, 2026, 1:45 pm
Ground ‘saturated with the blood of our children’: Anger after holiday revelry at Nova site
Bereaved families confront participants at Re’im memorial; KKL-JNF says festivities weren’t approved, organizers cite backing from former hostages and Gaza border residents
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and IDF chief Herzi Halevi at the start of a security cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv, November 16, 2023. (Haim Zach/GPO)
October 4, 2026, 12:52 pm
Report: Ex-IDF chief says he suggested dismissing refusing reservists, but Netanyahu said no
Halevi reportedly tells bereaved families that during 2023 judicial overhaul crisis, he asked Netanyahu to either express support for reservists or let him dismiss them, but PM warned it would ‘spark a bigger wave’
By ToI Staff
Cpl. Noa Marciano, who was killed in Hamas captivity in November after being taken hostage on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)
October 4, 2026, 10:04 am
‘I am in Gaza:’ Recording released of kidnapped, murdered IDF lookout Noa Marciano
Bereaved father Avi Marciano publishes audio of his daughter pleading for Israel to stop bombing Gaza during first days in captivity; he demands state commission of inquiry
By ToI Staff
People of Israel chair Ofer Winter speaks at a party event in Rishon Lezion, September 15, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 4, 2026, 6:57 am
Winter says he’ll demand ultra-Orthodox IDF service, but would still join coalition with Haredim
Right-wing ex-general calls Netanyahu ‘sucker’ but says he’ll support him for PM; Yoseph Haddad, Arab candidate in party, disavows past support for Palestinian state
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Ireland’s head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson speaks during a press conference ahead of the Nations League soccer match between Republic of Ireland and Israel in Backa Topola, Serbia, October 3, 2026. (AP/Darko Vojinovic)
October 4, 2026, 5:47 am
Ireland abruptly ends presser as Israelis grill coach on flydubai attack, alleged monkey taunts
Press conference comes day before Israel-Ireland Nations League rematch, after Irish refused to shake hands with Israelis in first game, wore black armbands
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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 more 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
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, 2:32 am
Eisenkot, Bennett call for Minister Regev’s ouster over flydubai security failure
Netanyahu orders ‘thorough review’ of security procedures for foreign flights to Israel after flydubai attack * UK’s Green Party adopts ‘Zionism is racism’ resolution; calls for Palestinian state in place of Israel
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
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