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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 4, 2026

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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)

Sources point to 'colossal security screw-up'

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

A flydubai plane takes off from Ben Gurion airport on September 30, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Reported documents show concerns raised since at least 2021

Despite years of warnings, Transportation Ministry, required to check foreign flights, hasn’t done so

By Ariela Karmel and Lazar Berman

Former top ministry official blames Minister Regev for flydubai incident, but she denies responsibility; regional sources say Israel raised no red flags over crew

Captain Smit Machchhar (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Danny Danon via X, Screenshot/Ma’ayan Toaf/GPO)

Flydubai captain says copilot asked to pray, then struck him from behind; describes exactly how he opened cockpit door

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

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

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)

Australia probing flydubai copilot, who studied at a Melbourne university

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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Flydubai: Luck is not a security policy

A bathroom trip, a wounded captain and a few brave passengers prevented a catastrophe. That should trigger an investigation, not a photo op

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Baseless hatred

The repeated attacks on Reform synagogues should alarm all who care about Israel. Hatred that divides Jew from Jew betrays both Judaism and Zionism.

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

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)

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)

Report: Ex-IDF chief says he suggested dismissing refusing reservists, but Netanyahu said no

'The fact that I’m here is a miracle, but here I am'

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

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)

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)

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Eisenkot, Bennett call for Regev’s ouster over flydubai security failure * UK’s Green Party adopts ‘Zionism is racism’ resolution; calls for Palestinian state in place of Israel

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Israel finishes 1:1 in its second tense UEFA game against Ireland
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Polls close in Brazil election pitting Lula against Flavio Bolsonaro
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Israel bans UK Green Party leader Polanski after party equates Zionism with racism

‘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

Cpl. Noa Marciano, who was killed in Hamas captivity in November after being taken hostage on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

Hamas official Ali al-Amoudi (left) in an undated photo; Maisaa Abu Dawood (right) and her daughter Mary, who were killed in an IDF strike on their home in northern Gaza on October 3, 2026. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF strike on Hamas’s Gaza chief kills 5, including mother and daughter; his fate unclear

By Emanuel Fabian

A demonstrator is taken away under arrest by police officers after a mounted baton charge, in East London, on October 4, 1936, to stop fighting between anti-fascists and Sir Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts. (AP Photo/Worth)

90 years on, why are British Jews being erased from the heroic Battle of Cable Street?

By Robert Philpot

Surging antisemitism and rise of far-right color anniversary, alongside schism with British left that conveniently leaves Jews out of their own historical stand against the police to take on fascism

'It's mind-blowing hypocrisy'

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’

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)

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)

UK Greens to vote on motion declaring ‘Zionism is Racism,’ calling to dismantle Israel

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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)

Ireland abruptly ends presser as Israelis grill coach on flydubai attack, alleged monkey taunts

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Press conference comes day before Israel-Ireland Nations League rematch, after Irish refused to shake hands with Israelis in first game, wore black armbands

Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg (Hadar Institute)

Interview'We have to work together to make it into paradise'

After Oct. 7, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg’s post-Holocaust theology faces its biggest test

In a collection of essays spanning six decades, the 93-year-old thinker argues that Israel’s mission is not simply to thrive, but to wield power without sacrificing human dignity

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)

Settler attacks reported across West Bank as Palestinians begin olive harvest

By Noam Lehmann, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

50-year-old man hospitalized after beating; footage shows vehicle being smashed in Osarin, while attacks and vandalism are reported in several other villages

Displaced children from the Gaza Strip, stand in line as they attend a Palestinian school in the Egyptian city of El-Arish, near the border with the Gaza Strip, on October 1, 2026. (Amr AHMED/AFP)

In Egypt’s Sinai, a Gazan refugee builds a school for children displaced by war

By AFP

El-Arish school provides free education to nearly 400 Palestinian students, aiming to offer a Palestinian curriculum and a sense of normalcy away from home

Iranian army cadets during the opening ceremony of a military training center in downtown Tehran, Iran, October 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran says no military solution to conflict with US as talks remain at dead end

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

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

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)

Iranian rial at new record low, just days after previous nadir

By Agencies and ToI Staff

People of Israel chair Ofer Winter speaks at a party event in Rishon Lezion, September 15, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Winter says he’ll demand ultra-Orthodox IDF service, but would still join coalition with Haredim

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

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

Jewish world, real estate and archaeology reporter Zev Stub appears on the Daily Briefing with host Jessica Steinberg (Flash 90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 4 – In Bnei Brak, poverty, density and religious needs reshape real estate

By Jessica Steinberg and Zev Stub

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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)

At rally, Trump mocks ‘Gays for Palestine’ over abuses in ‘that part of the world’

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is running for reelection, center, accompanied by Senate candidates Benedita da Silva, right, and Pedro Paulo, attends a campaign rally in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Deeply divided Brazil heads to polls in polarized Lula-Bolsonaro race

By Facundo Fernandez Barrio and Fran Blandy

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