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Regev passes buck on probing pilots, as Israel said ‘racing’ to ID more potential threats
By ToI Staff
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
 
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
 
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
 
Australia probing flydubai copilot, who studied at a Melbourne university
By Reuters and ToI Staff
 
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Shimon Sheves
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
 
Peter Buchsbaum
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.
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Ground ‘saturated with the blood of our children’: Anger after holiday revelry at Nova site
By ToI Staff
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
 
Report: Ex-IDF chief says he suggested dismissing refusing reservists, but Netanyahu said no
By ToI Staff
 
Former hostage shares photos from captivity, as Hamas doctor operates on her injured hand
By ToI Staff
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
 
Live updates
LIVE: Yemen’s presidency announces military drive to retake all Houthi territory
By ToI Staff
Netanyahu orders ‘thorough review’ of security procedures for foreign flights to Israel after flydubai attack * UK’s Green Party adopts ‘Zionism is racism’ resolution; calls for Palestinian state in place of Israel
 
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‘I am in Gaza:’ Recording released of kidnapped, murdered IDF lookout Noa Marciano
By ToI Staff
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
 
IDF strike on Hamas’s Gaza chief kills 5, including mother and daughter; his fate unclear
By Emanuel Fabian
 
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
 
Netanyahu accuses UK government of acting ‘like a rogue state,’ says Israel saved British lives
By ToI Staff
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’
 
UK Greens to vote on motion declaring ‘Zionism is Racism,’ calling to dismantle Israel
By ToI Staff
 
ToI Events / Election 2026
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By ToI Staff
We’re holding a series of diverse and compelling English-language evenings in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, with candidates, commentators and our own journalists. Join us!
 
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
 
Interview
After Oct. 7, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg’s post-Holocaust theology faces its biggest test
By Zev Stub
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
 
Those We Have Lost
 

Those We Have Lost

Civilians and soldiers who have fallen since Oct. 7

 
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
Houthis say Saudi Arabia launched dozens of strikes on Yemen capital
By Agencies
 
Iranian rial at new record low, just days after previous nadir
By Agencies and ToI Staff
 
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
 
ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Oct. 4 – In Bnei Brak, poverty, density and religious needs reshape real estate
By Jessica Steinberg and Zev Stub
 
 

In Bnei Brak, poverty, density and religious needs reshape real estate

 
 
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At rally, Trump mocks ‘Gays for Palestine’ over abuses in ‘that part of the world’
By ToI Staff
 
Deeply divided Brazil heads to polls in polarized Lula-Bolsonaro race
By Facundo Fernandez Barrio and Fran Blandy
 
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