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A plane departs from Ben Gurion Airport, March 16, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
Pilot moved toward extremism as early as 2017 in Australia
UAE confirms flydubai copilot was planning 9/11-style ‘suicide attack’ on Ben Gurion Airport
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Attorney general says Hamam al-Hammami used two previous flights to Tel Aviv to 'familiarize himself with route and airport,' prepared by viewing pro-terror material and taking boxing lessons
This undated file photo provided by the Bell County Sheriff's Department shows suspected Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. (AP/Bell County Sheriff's Department via The Temple Daily Telegram)
October 6, 2026, 7:02 pm
Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan
In first since 1961, US military will enact death penalty against army psychiatrist who walked into building where soldiers were getting checkups and shot dead 13, wounded over 30 in 2009
By AP
Flights take off from Ben Gurion Airport on September 30, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)
October 4, 2026, 7:17 pm
Flydubai terrorist said to tell investigators he intended to crash plane into Ben Gurion Airport
Copilot Hammami then tried to crash airliner in desert after hero pilot opened cockpit door, passengers burst in; also said to reveal he originally planned attack for July, but canceled at last moment as he had a friend among crew members
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
Media witnesses recount the moments before the execution of Christa Pike was halted September 30, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
October 1, 2026, 4:30 pm
Tennessee botches first execution of woman in 200 years; inmate survives two lethal doses
Christa Gail Pike remains alive after attempted execution for 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer; governor orders outside review and halts state’s remaining execution this year
By Kim Chandler and KRISTIN M. HALL
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir seen berating Hassan Salamah, a Hamas terrorist jailed for orchestrating a pair of 1996 Jerusalem bus explosions that killed 45 people, in a video posted to social media on September 27, 2026. (Screenshots/Itamar Ben Gvir via X)
September 28, 2026, 6:59 am
‘I want to kill you’: Ben Gvir films himself berating terrorist behind deadly 1996 bus bombings
Police minister boasts of making Hamas member Hassan Salamah’s life ‘hell,’ amid a series of videos of him bragging about worsening conditions for Palestinian security inmates
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Israeli national Ben Hassin, who was jailed for killing a taxi driver in an unnamed Arab country, where he went to fight Islamic State. (Courtesy)
September 19, 2026, 12:36 am
‘Another chance at life’: Israeli freed from Iraqi Kurdish prison returns home
Ben Hassin, a Kurdish Jew who also holds Canadian citizenship, recalls struggling to maintain hope after initial death sentence for killing cab driver, says he was held in a jail where ‘they can seriously hurt you for being Israeli and Jewish’
By ToI Staff
Israeli national Ben Hassin, who was jailed for killing a taxi driver in an unnamed Arab country, where he went to fight Islamic State. (Courtesy)
September 16, 2026, 9:46 pm
Israeli-Kurdish Jew freed from Iraqi prison after 11 years for killing cab driver
Ben Hassin, also a Canadian citizen, was sentenced to death after killing driver who threatened to hand him to ISIS in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2015; he’s expected to get to Israel in coming days
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
In a video published on August 18, 2026, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir stands in front of a construction site where he says a gallows is being built. (X screenshot)
August 20, 2026, 4:38 am
Ben Gvir announces ground broken on gallows where ‘terrorists will be executed’
Far-right minister says booths being built so families of terror victims can watch executions, days after promising ex-hostage that he’ll work to let him to personally hang his captor
By ToI Staff and Agencies
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on August 3, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 17, 2026, 12:52 am
Ben Gvir: We should kill ’30 to 40′ of Israel’s enemies in Gaza every night, ‘they’re not worthy of life’
In comments made to ex-hostage and shared widely in Arab media, minister says IDF should even kill operatives that don’t pose immediate threat: ‘They shouldn’t live, they’re not even people’
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Lebanese lawmakers attend a parliamentary session to elect a president, in Beirut, on January 9, 2025. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
August 11, 2026, 6:02 pm
Lebanon abolishes death penalty in landmark vote, becoming first Arab nation to do so
Majority of 128-member parliament votes in favor of formalizing a 2004 moratorium on executions, with the exception of the Hezbollah bloc, which opposes the motion
By AP
Then-president Bashar al-Assad, center, waves to his supporters at a polling station during presidential elections in the town of Douma, near the Syrian capital of Damascus, May 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
August 11, 2026, 5:19 pm
Syrian court sentences ex-president Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia for war crimes
Assad’s cousin Atef Najib, present in Damascus court, also given death penalty for overseeing 2011 crackdown that helped trigger uprising against regime
By GHAITH ALSAYED and SAMAR KASSABALLI
Illustrative: Members of Jordanian special forces guard at the airport upon the departure of a US delegation, in Amman, Jordan, October 13, 202. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
June 21, 2026, 7:05 pm
Jordan hangs 6 for killing security personnel after 9-year pause in death penalties
Government says men were involved in terror and drug cases between 2014 and 2022; over 100 remain on death row, Amman says executions to proceed ‘one by one’
By AFP and ToI Staff
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir hoists a bottle of bubbly wine in celebration after lawmakers approved legislation mandating the death penalty for West Bank Palestinians convicted of deadly terrorist acts, March 30, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 17, 2026, 11:22 pm
Death penalty law for West Bank Palestinians convicted of deadly terrorism comes into effect
‘Terrorists who murder Jews will not sit in prison in pleasant conditions… they will pay the heaviest price’ says Defense Minister Katz
By Jeremy Sharon
Abraham Bonowitz, executive director of Death Penalty Action, and other death penalty opponents hold a demonstration outside the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, September 25, 2024, asking the state to call off the scheduled execution of Alan Miller in what would be the nation's second execution using nitrogen gas. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler, File)
April 26, 2026, 5:23 am
US to add firing squad, electrocutions, gas asphyxiation to federal execution methods
Move comes as Justice Department struggles to obtain drugs for lethal injections after Trump rescinded moratorium on federal executions last year
By Jonathan Allen
US President Donald Trump speaks during an event for NCAA national champions in the State Dining Room of the White House, April 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
April 22, 2026, 1:24 pm
Trump says Iran ‘collapsing’ over Hormuz blockade as IRGC attacks ships in key waterway
Iranian minister denies American blockade effective, after US president extended ceasefire indefinitely; Tehran executes man accused of working with Mossad
By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Activists protest against a law passed by the Knesset imposing the death penalty outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 31, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 16, 2026, 4:58 pm
Experts say death penalty law discriminatory and drastic, but not necessarily doomed
Despite constitutional flaws, judges may opt not to strike down entire measure, especially as some surmise its extreme language aims to provoke a fight with the court for political gain
By Ariela Karmel
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