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Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a press conference in Jerusalem, March 19, 2026. (Ronen Zvulun, Pool Photo via AP)
Tal Schneider
Op-ed
Tal Schneider
The cost of Netanyahu’s consistent evasion of responsibility is paid in lives
From the 2021 Mount Meron disaster to October 7 and the flydubai hijacking attempt, the prime minister repeatedly ignores warnings and shifts the blame to others, with fatal consequences
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a state memorial ceremony for the October 7, 2023, attack, at the Mount Herzl cemetery, Jerusalem, on October 5, 2026. (Debbie Hill/Pool Photo via AP)
At Oct. 7 ceremonies, PM vows to settle scores. Others urge accountability for massacre
By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Jacob Magid
Book review
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‘You want to call Trump, Bibi?’: How incoming US president’s wrath was leveraged to close hostage deal
Jacob Magid
Hamam al-Hammami, the copilot who tried to bring down a flydubai flight to Israel in a terrorist attack on September 30, 2026, in an undated image from his deleted LinkedIn profile.
Shin Bet agents participating in interrogation of flydubai terrorist in UAE
By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Agencies
Rabbi Dov Lando in Bnei Brak, August 21, 2025. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
October 6, 2026, 1:14 am
Top Haredi rabbi denounces Israeli state, religious soldiers; opposition rebukes him, notes ties to Netanyahu
Rabbi Dov Lando, an influential figure in the United Torah Judaism party, says Zionism ‘made Arabs hate us’ and Arab rule would have been preferable to establishment of state
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Former national security adviser Eyal Hulata speaks at an anti-government protest demanding the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into Hamas's onslaught of October 7, 2023, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, February 21, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 5, 2026, 1:20 pm
Former NSC head pans Netanyahu’s ‘crooked’ flydubai probe, says buck stops with him
Eyal Hulata says Netanyahu should have stepped in after NSC warned in 2024, 2025 of inadequate checks for foreign airlines, says it’s same attitude he has toward Oct. 7 responsibility
By Jeremy Sharon, Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff
Jacob Bardugo, one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's personally selected candidates for Likud's slate in the October 27, 2026, general elections, at an event in Jerusalem where Netanyahu presented the candidates, September 8, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 5, 2026, 8:36 am
Placed on Likud’s slate, pro-Netanyahu pundit Jacob Bardugo amps up political clout to 11
Doggedly loyal Channel 14 firebrand long operated inside the PM’s political orbit from behind the scenes, but is now set to assume real influence with the No. 11 slot on Likud’s electoral slate
By Stav Levaton
Yashar party chief Gadi Eisenkot (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen in a photo montage at separate election events in 2026. (Flash90)
October 5, 2026, 2:56 am
Eisenkot challenges Netanyahu to a televised debate before national election
Yashar party says leadership candidates owe the public ‘full, direct and honest answers’; latest poll shows Eisenkot’s faction predicted to receive 23 seats to Likud’s 21
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister and Likud party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, surrounded by supporters, during an election campaign tour in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, September 29, 2026. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)
October 4, 2026, 9:03 pm
Election panel orders Netanyahu to remove videos that violate propaganda laws
Committee chair says five clips published to social media feature problematic content, including video of a visit to a military base in Lebanon
By Jeremy Sharon
A flydubai plane takes off from Ben Gurion airport on September 30, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)
October 4, 2026, 4:59 pm
Despite years of warnings, Transportation Ministry, required to check foreign flights, hasn’t done so
Former top ministry official blames Minister Regev for flydubai incident, but she denies responsibility; regional sources say Israel raised no red flags over crew
By Ariela Karmel and Lazar Berman
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
October 2, 2026, 8:51 pm
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
By Shaun Tandon
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