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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 3, 2026

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First repatriation flight from UAE lands at Ben Gurion Airport

Flydubai terrorist named as Hamam al-Hammami; was banned from flying by Oman for suspected extremism

By ToI Staff and Agencies

ABC says Omani copilot who stabbed captain has indicated to investigators he intended to crash the plane in Israel; CNN says social media accounts in his name posted videos after the attack showing Israeli planes filmed from other cockpits and including al-Qaeda figures

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)

Emirati official: No tolerance or leniency toward extremism

UAE says flydubai copilot used cockpit emergency ax to attack captain in ‘terrorist act’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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’

Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to the UAE president, speaks at the Hili Forum 2026 in Abu Dhabi on September 7, 2026. (FADEL SENNA/AFP)

In first, senior UAE official calls flydubai plane attack an ‘act of terrorism’

By Nurit Yohanan, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

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)

ExplainerWhat is Oman’s relationship with Israel – if any?

By Tomer Almagor

Gadi Eisenkot, leader of Yashar party and a former IDF chief of staff, speaks during an election campaign rally in Nordiya, Israel, August 31, 2026. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 3: Eisenkot links PM’s rejection of state inquiry into Oct. 7 to flydubai near disaster

‘Had one last fight left in me’: Smit Machchhar tells Netanyahu that copilot got up to pray before attacking him, explains how he succeed in opening door * TV report says terrorist flew Dubai-Tel Aviv route several times but Israel knew ‘nothing about him’

8:53 pm

Eisenkot links Netanyahu's rejection of state inquiry into Oct. 7 to near disaster on flydubai flight
8:47 pm

Winter says he will demand ultra-Orthodox serve in IDF, but will still join coalition with non-Zionist Haredi party
7:57 pm

Firefighters battle blaze at waste dump near northern Druze town of Isfiya

Illustrative: A flydubai Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft prepares for landing at Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, on September 30, 2026. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Jewish communities worldwide on heightened alert after flydubai terror attack

By Tomer Almagor

Netanyahu spokesman says Israel ’employing additional procedures’ in light of ‘intelligence about threats against Israelis and Jews in Israel and around the world’

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)

Ode to a plumber‘My kind of guy’: Trump posts video thanking flydubai hero

2 Iranians accused of chlorine bomb plot against same Manchester synagogue attacked last year

Suspects arrested at start of Yom Kippur; police say they obtained materials to make an IED, scouted targets; interior minister says the pair arrived in UK on a small boat, one was granted asylum

British police near the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, on October 2, 2025, following a terror attack targeting the synagogue during Yom Kippur services. (Oli Scarff/AFP)

Ben Gvir fined, must remove clip of him taunting Hamas inmate

Supreme Court unanimously overturns election panel’s ban on Arab parties

By Jeremy Sharon and Noam Lehmann

After rejecting Balad chief, judges say Ra’am, Joint List, its MK Ofer Cassif don’t meet criteria on racist incitement, support for armed conflict against Israel to warrant ban

From left: Balad chairman Sami Abou Shehadeh, MK Ahmad Tibi and MK Ofer Cassif arrive at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem for a hearing on the Central Elections Committee’s decision to disqualify candidates and parties from running in the upcoming Knesset elections, October 1, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US says it’s ‘dismantling’ multimillion-dollar Hamas finance network

By AFP and Luke Tress

Treasury Department sanctions 3 people along with 2 France-based charities accused of funneling over $2 million in donations to terror group; alleged Gaza-based ringleader indicted

A giant American flag is unfurled on Lisner Hall on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, May 3, 2024, as demonstrators protest the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Palestinians mourn around the body of Hamas militant Izz al-Din al-Bik, draped in the group’s flag with a rifle placed on top, during his funeral after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, September 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

IDF says Hamas Northern Brigade chief killed this week held 15 hostages during war

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and AFP

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

Hometown paper for largest Jewish community outside Israel, NYT has long, tumultuous relationship with Israel and Jews; that’s been sharply back in focus since Hamas invasion of Oct. 7, 2023

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My son didn’t walk away from Judaism. I walked away from him

His intermarriage awakened my fears about betraying our Jewish ancestors. It took 10 years to understand that the living were waiting for my love

Jonathan Jacoby

An open letter to Jonathan Greenblatt: This time, choose engagement

The ADL praised Trump while criticizing parts of his antisemitism policy. Why not take the same approach to Mamdani’s new plan for safeguarding Jewish New Yorkers?

Former hostage Shoshan Haran speaks about being taken captive in video for an Open University award on May 29, 2025 (Courtesy)

Interview'They were taught that we are the Satan'

Former hostage Shoshan Haran waged peace as Hamas turned plowshares into swords

By Bernard Dichek

Written from the perspective of a pre-Oct. 7 left-wing activist, ‘Mission in Captivity’ chronicles her captors’ psyche after 20 years of terrorist rule — and lists two conditions that may save Gazans

Ex-hostage point man says Israel could have returned all Oct. 7 captives a year earlier

Saudi military personnel and visitors gather near armored vehicles on display before the start of an air show and military parade marking Saudi National Day in Malham, north of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Baraa Anwer)

Saudis planning offensive to break grip of Houthis on Red Sea chokehold

By Timour Azhari and Mubasher Bukhari

Regional and Western officials say campaign will be led by Yemeni ground forces overseen by Riyadh, which will provide air support; Pakistan yet to decide whether to send troops

Built by Israel with funds deducted from Palestinian tax revenues, this plant at the Meitar crossing on the Green Line filters rock dust from wastewater before the latter reaches the Shoket wastewater treatment plant in Israel, July 14, 2026. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Suspected arson shuts Negev sewage plant, sending raw wastewater into streams

By Sue Surkes and ToI Staff

Some 30,000 cubic meters a day expected to flow through waterways for weeks; plant officials reportedly link attack to refusal to pay protection money, citing past incidents

2004's 'Ushpizin' is the featured film for this week's The Reel Schmooze podcast. (courtesy)

The Reel Schmooze podcast

‘Ushpizin’: An unforgettable homage to the most beautiful etrog of all

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor step into a sukkah in Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim for this week’s adventure

Greg Kirkpatrick shows how large he grows some etrogs during a pre-Sukkot delivery to Renewal synagogue Chochmat HaLev in Berkeley, California, Sept. 22, 2026. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff/Report For America via JTA)

America’s only major etrog grower is in survival mode as global competition heats up

Electoral posters of National Rally (Rassemblement National) party with the pictures of Marine Le Pen (L) and Jordan Bardella are seen pasted on in Henin-Beaumont on June 10, 2024, a day after the European elections. (Denis Charlet/AFP)

Analysis

Israel courts Europe’s far right, finding friends but also unease

Netanyahu government embraces parties once kept at arm’s length over antisemitism; former diplomats warn ties may damage Israel’s standing, harm local Jewish communities

The site of a small plane crash near Kafr Qara, southeast of Haifa, on October 2, 2026. (Magen David Adom)

Small plane crashes in northern Israel, killing 1 and injuring another

Aircraft was reportedly on training flight with instructor and trainee aboard; blaze spreads to nearby forest but is stopped by firefighters before reaching homes

Jews on ice: These are the Jewish NHL stars to watch this hockey season

By jacob gurvis

Headlined by the gold-medal winning Hughes brothers, all-star Adam Fox and son of Israeli parents Zeev Buium, at least 11 Jewish players are on NHL rosters to start the year

Vancouver Canucks defenseman Zeev Buium (24) skates with the puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game April 2, 2026, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Matt Krohn)

A street scene from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish town of Bnei Brak, July 15, 2026. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

In the Haredi city of Bnei Brak, real estate follows a different set of rules

In Israel’s densely packed ultra-Orthodox metropolis, sukkah balconies are essential, lower floors can cost more, and buyers often choose homes based on the community next door

More Headlines

Mohammed Abed, 36, a Palestinian systems engineer who arrived in Mexico in 2025 with 17 family members after losing his daughter in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, prepares Palestinian food at an open-air market in the Condesa neighbourhood of Mexico City, Mexico, September 22, 2026. (Fred Ramos/Reuters)

Palestinians from Gaza rebuild in Mexico City through food

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)

Iran executes man regime linked to anti-government protests

By AFP

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