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The entrance to the settlement of Beit El. September 19, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
May 29, 2026, 12:42 pm
IDF troops apparently fire at civilian plane, mistaking it for drone; none hurt
Soldiers deployed to Beit El after locals report several drones overhead; later confirmed to be jetliner whose flight path was shifted eastward; IDF investigating incident
By Emanuel Fabian
Illustrative: A Lufthansa aircraft approaches the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, April 28, 2026. (Michael Probst/AP)
April 29, 2026, 11:26 am
European airlines face biggest crisis since COVID as Iran war drives up fuel costs
Aviation experts warn European carriers may begin rationing jet fuel supplies during summer holiday season, after prices surged nearly 84 percent since start of war
By Joanna Plucinska and Alessandro Parodi
A flash on a Sundor flight departing Batumi, Georgia, on November 13, 2025. (X screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 13, 2025, 10:46 pm
Tel Aviv-bound flight from Georgia aborts takeoff after bird strike — report
Footage shows flashes of light around wing area of plane after impact; passengers reportedly waited in terminal until technicians deemed damage not significant
By Michael Horovitz
The wreckage of Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 on the ground near the airport of Aktau, Kazakhstan, December 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Azamat Sarsenbayev)
December 25, 2024, 4:15 pm
Azerbaijani airliner with 67 onboard crashes in Kazakhstan, leaving 32 survivors
Russian aviation authority says plane crash caused by bird strike; videos show steep descent and fireball upon impact; both pilots believed dead
By Katie Marie Davies and Dasha Litvinova
A screen capture from video filmed on September 4, 2023, shows passengers and crew members restraining an unruly passenger aboard a Wizz Air flight traveling from Tel Aviv to London, leading the plane to make an emergency landing in Serbia. (Screenshot/The Sun, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
September 10, 2023, 10:43 am
Man describes restraining passenger who tried to open door on Tel Aviv-London flight
Victor Tropolini says he put man in headlock before other travelers and crew members tied him up, ahead of emergency landing in Serbia: ‘It was a very scary situation’
By ToI Staff
View of a Wizz Air flight taking off from Ben Gurion International Airport, September 3, 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
September 14, 2022, 2:04 pm
Flight delayed 5 hours at Ben Gurion as passenger demands to smoke weed
Passengers on flight to Romania, including the would-be smoker, rail at airline after announcement that luggage was not coming with them
By ToI Staff
An Aeroflot Airbus A330-200 seen departing from Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on June 17, 2011. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons)
December 5, 2021, 4:47 pm
NATO spy plane forced flight from Tel Aviv to dive to avoid ‘catastrophe’ — Russia
Moscow authorities say Aeroflot plane headed for Russian capital nearly collided with the US air force recon aircraft over Black Sea
By AFP
Palestinian twin brothers Atallah and Khamis al-Sairafi, 60, stand together on the wing of a Boeing 707 aircraft being converted into a restaurant near the city of Nablus in the West Bank on July 5, 2021. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)
July 8, 2021, 9:06 am
Palestinian twins turn Boeing 707 into West Bank restaurant
Ata and Khamis al-Sairafi bought decommissioned plane from Israel in 1999, but intifada, pandemic delayed their dream — until now
By AFP and ToI Staff
Tel Aviv University's Prof. Noam Eliaz with staff in his lab (Greg Solomon/Fulbright)
September 1, 2020, 6:59 pm
Israeli 3D print whizz and visionary of ‘self-healing’ cars gets big US accolade
Noam Eliaz is the first non-American to become a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors, in recognition for his ‘contributions to the innovation ecosystem’
By Nathan Jeffay
Rescue workers search the scene where a Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, on January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
June 15, 2020, 7:23 pm
Iran says pandemic delaying reading of black boxes from Ukraine flight
Government spokesman claims Tehran has ‘nothing on our side to hide’ about accidental shooting down of passenger plane
By AFP
An Israir flight seen taking off from Ben Gurion Airport, on March 24, 2018. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
May 13, 2020, 10:37 am
‘Hotbed of bacteria’: Domestic flights to Eilat said full, flouting virus rules
Passengers in Israir flight from Ben Gurion Airport say 64 people were crammed into aircraft that can hold 72, staff didn’t check them for fever
By ToI Staff
A small plane sits parked after it was crashed into a fence by a 17-year-old girl, December 18, 2019, at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport in Fresno, California (Jim Guy/The Fresno Bee via AP)
December 19, 2019, 3:12 pm
US teen steals small plane, drives it into fence
No one injured in crash at California airport; 17-year-old’s motive remains unclear
By AP
Illustrative: An El Al airline plane at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
November 17, 2019, 11:29 pm
Smoking passenger forces El Al flight to make unscheduled landing
Polish man reportedly caught smoking in plane’s lavatory, curses and yells when confronted by airline staff
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: An Ethiopian Airlines' Boeing 787 Dreamliner prepares to take off from Addis Ababa airport in Ethiopia, April 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Elias Asmare)
November 16, 2019, 10:12 am
Ethiopian Airlines names new Dreamliner plane ‘Tel Aviv’
Aircraft’s moniker said to have been a secret that was to be revealed at Ben Gurion Airport ceremony
By ToI Staff
Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport (CC-BY-SA Cjh1452000/Wikipedia)
November 6, 2019, 10:14 pm
Amsterdam police say passengers ‘safe’ after false hijacking alert
Hijacking protocols were initiated ‘by mistake,’ says Air Europa. ‘We deeply apologize’
By AFP and ToI Staff
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