An Israeli passenger who helped stop a terrorist co-pilot from crashing a Flydubai flight said a Bible verse left him shivering when he visited a synagogue days after returning home.
Asaf Rejuwan, an insurance agent aboard Flight FZ1073, described the experience in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1P3aYr1v5w/">Facebook post</a> over the weekend. Noting that he was not particularly religious, he said he went to the synagogue to give thanks for surviving the attack.
&#8220;I had no doubt that after this great miracle, I would stand on Shabbat morning at the synagogue for the Gomel blessing. I&#8217;m not a religious person. I believe in God in my own way, and I generally don&#8217;t look for signs in everything. But today something happened that managed to amaze me,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/ick_galg/status/2106732932496765023?s=46&amp;t=5nB3R1hthzMlYMrXjZyN8Q">Rejuwan wrote</a>.
The Gomel blessing is a Jewish prayer of thanksgiving recited after surviving danger.
At the synagogue, Rejuwan said, he read a verse from Deuteronomy about God riding through the heavens to help His people. The passage, Deuteronomy 33:26, reads: &#8220;There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, and in His majesty rides the skies.&#8221;
&#8220;I read the verse, stopped, and shivered, and together with me, all the other worshippers who knew the story and heard why I am there with them,&#8221; Rejuwan said.
&#8220;After everything that happened on the flight, after the fear, after the rush, and after the realization of how thin the line was between life and death — finding myself right in front of these words, &#8216;a rider in the sky at your service,&#8217; was a moment that was hard for me to explain. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s providence, coincidence, or just a moment that took on a particularly deep meaning for me.&#8221;
Rejuwan said he and others who helped stop the attack had been asked repeatedly how they succeeded. Reflecting together afterward, he said, they realized how many passengers had taken on different roles during the emergency.
Some helped stabilize the aircraft, assist wounded captain Smit Machchhar, and subdue the attacker. Others shared a mobile hotspot, communicated with Israeli security officials, tracked the aircraft&#8217;s location, recited Psalms, or passed along earphones to bind the terrorist.
He also praised his wife, the parents who cared for their families, and the children who remained composed during the ordeal.
&#8220;I usually don&#8217;t write much online, but today I felt something burning inside me that I need to share with others,&#8221; Rejuwan wrote at the beginning of his post.
&#8220;Thank you. Thank you for life. Thank you for the miracle. And thank you for the opportunity to stand here and tell about it,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;Am Yisrael Chai.&#8221;

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Disgraced former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) has died, a local coroner confirmed. He was 84 years old.
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dennis-hastert-dies-former-house-speaker-illinois/">Hastert</a>, the longest-serving Republican House Speaker, died at his home over the weekend, Kendall County Coroner Jacquie Purcell said Monday.
Hastert later admitted to sexually abusing boys during his years as a high school wrestling coach. He served prison time for illegally structuring bank withdrawals to pay hush money to one of his victims, becoming the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to serve a prison sentence.
Hastert was born in 1942 and earned degrees from Wheaton College and Northern Illinois University. Before entering politics, he worked as a teacher and wrestling coach at Yorkville High School. In 1976, he was named Illinois Coach of the Year.
After years of teaching and coaching, Hastert was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives. He was elected to Congress in 1986.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/obituaries/dennis-hastert-dead.html">Hastert</a> served in the U.S. House from 1987-2007. He was mentored closely by then-House Minority Leader Robert H. Michel (R-IL), and rose through the ranks to serve as chief deputy whip. After House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) announced in 1998 that he would step down, Hastert emerged as his successor when Rep. Bob Livingston (R-LA), the party&#8217;s initial choice, withdrew after revelations about his extramarital affairs.
Referred to by some as the &#8220;accidental speaker,&#8221; Hastert led the House from 1999 until January 2007, after Republicans lost their majority in the 2006 elections. He resigned from Congress in November 2007.
He had been out of Congress for nearly a decade — and was working as a lobbyist — when the FBI and the IRS began investigating him over a series of bank transactions. He was indicted in 2015 for intentionally setting up bank transactions in an effort to avoid reporting requirements. He was also indicted for making false statements to the FBI. That charge was dropped under his plea agreement.
Hastert pleaded guilty in October 2015 to violating banking laws. At his sentencing the following April, he admitted the withdrawals were meant to pay a former wrestler who had accused him of sexual abuse during his time as coach at Yorkville High School. Hastert acknowledged sexually abusing other boys during that time as well, some of whom were as young as 14 at the time.
Because the statute of limitations had expired, Hastert was not charged with any crimes related to the sexual abuse — but U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin called him a &#8220;serial child molester&#8221; and ordered him to participate in a sex offender program before sentencing him to 15 months in prison and a $250,000 fine for the financial crimes. Hastert served 13 months and was released from federal prison in 2017.
&#8220;Mr. Hastert&#8217;s legend and legacy are gone, and in its place are a broken, humiliated man,&#8221; Zachary Fardon, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, said at the time. &#8220;That is as it should be.&#8221;

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A New York City public school teacher praised brutal Hamas terrorist Yahya al-Sinwar in a group chat with other members of a member-owned grocery store in Brooklyn.
Damien Neva, 48, posted &#8220;Long live Yahya al-Sinwar&#8221; in the Signal chat group in November of 2024 — just over one year after Hamas terrorists had crossed the border from Gaza into Israel, slaughtering hundreds and raping and kidnapping dozens more. The group chat in which he posted included other anti-Israel members of the Park Slope Food Coop, a member-owned grocery store in Park Slope.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/10/05/us-news/nyc-teacher-praised-oct-7-mastermind-in-park-slope-food-coop-group-chat-lawsuit/">reported</a> that Neva&#8217;s message was uncovered as part of a lawsuit, brought by Jewish members of the coop, after the board voted to ban the sale of Israeli goods in the store. Neva, who led the campaign within the coop to impose a boycott on Israeli goods, had also reportedly posted in the same group, &#8220;That lot does not have the votes to block our campaign.&#8221; It was clear that he was referring to Jewish and pro-Israel members of the coop at the time, according to the Post.
The Post also noted that Neva was not a public school teacher by choice. He had previously worked as a photographer, videographer, and social-media director at Next Management — an elite modeling and talent agency that has represented major names like Jessica Alba, Lana Del Rey, Pharrell Williams, and celebrity chef Mario Batali. Neva said in a since-deleted social media post that he&#8217;d only become a teacher in the past year because of what he called an &#8220;enforced career change.&#8221;
Neva&#8217;s social media history, according to the Post&#8217;s report, is also problematic. One post showed a Star of David superimposed over the Statue of Liberty, an apparent suggestion that the United States was under Israel&#8217;s thumb. Another post showed a sticker with Israel on it being shredded.
Jewish civil rights group Stop Antisemitism posted the following after Neva was hired to teach in a public school:
<blockquote>Meet Damien Neva, a newly hired teacher at Brooklyn’s PSK77.
Neva reportedly posted &#8220;Long live Yahya al-Sinwar,&#8221; praising the former Hamas leader and architect of the October 7 massacre. His social media also features a crossed-out image of Israel. Roughly 157,000 Jewish children live in Brooklyn. Imagine being one of them in Neva’s classroom</blockquote>
Dov Hikind, former Brooklyn assemblyman and founder of Americans Against Antisemitism, has called on NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Department of Education to enforce another career change, arguing that someone who supported a brutal terrorist like Sinwar should not be allowed anywhere near a classroom — much less one where Jewish students could be in attendance.
&#8220;Sinwar designed what happened on Oct. 7 — the massacre, the barbarism, the rapes and cruelty,&#8221; Hikind explained. &#8220;The idea that anyone connected to education — who believes Sinwar is a hero — could be teaching in the classroom is incomprehensible. How would we react if a teacher said Adolf Hitler was a great leader? This teacher needs to lose his job. He needs to be fired — period.&#8221;
Neva&#8217;s campaign to ban Israeli goods at the Park Slope Food Coop was initially successful, but it quickly led to a lawsuit as Jewish and pro-Israel members of the coop pushed back. The coop, which focuses on providing organic and locally sourced foods, <a href="https://www.foodcoop.com/mission/">advertises itself</a> as &#8220;committed to diversity and equality&#8221; and promises to &#8220;oppose discrimination in any form.&#8221;
As The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/america/long-live-yahya-al-sinwar-brooklyns-park-slope-food-coop-slapped-with-discrimination-suit-for-rampant-antisemitism-crushing-dissent-over-israel-boycott/">reported</a>, the lawsuit alleges that the coop has repeatedly violated its own mission statement, and has &#8220;repeatedly singled out &#8216;Zionists,&#8217; Jewish Members, and persons with ties to Israel for criticism and exclusion.&#8221;
In one such case, a member who was working in the coop as part of their membership agreement, wore a shirt that read &#8220;Peace, Love, and Israel.&#8221; Another member accused the first of being a &#8220;racist&#8221; and a &#8220;genocide supporter.&#8221; The person wearing the pro-Israel shirt was suspended, but &#8220;the harasser,&#8221; according to the lawsuit, &#8220;was not disciplined.&#8221;
Things continued to escalate until September of 2025, when the coop&#8217;s &#8220;official publication&#8221; included a letter accusing one Jewish member of associating with an &#8220;extremist Zionist faction and IDF [Israel Defense Forces] apologist.&#8221; The Jewish member was also accused of &#8220;intellectual depravity,&#8221; being &#8220;morally abhorrent,&#8221; and &#8220;spiritually disfigured,&#8221; The Free Beacon reported.
The lawsuit states that anti-Israel members of the coop ignored bylaws and regulations in order to force their agenda through.
&#8220;The Boycott was adopted after Defendants disregarded coop&#8217;s Governing Documents, altered voting procedures and thresholds without the required bylaw amendments, suppressed debate, and treated an advisory General Meeting vote as binding,&#8221; it reads.
The lawsuit is still ongoing.

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An Israeli mother had her four daughters with her aboard Flydubai flight FZ1073 — and when the copilot attempted to hijack the plane, she gave them all one instruction: &#8220;pray.&#8221;
Lital Hirschl-Shahar, 39, was on her way home from a family vacation in Singapore and Thailand with her girls — aged 14, 11, seven, and five — and said that she knew something was wrong when she heard someone close to the front of the plane shouting that the pilot had been attacked.
&#8220;We heard a lady in business class shouting. She sounded so terrified, in a way I’ll never forget,&#8221; Hirschl-Shahar told <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/10/04/world-news/mom-on-hijacked-flydubai-flight-with-four-young-daughters-had-one-instruction-for-them/">The New York Post</a>. &#8220;It all happened so fast, and the plane just started dropping down. It was so scary and crazy … We all thought we were going to die.&#8221;
&#8220;I was talking to God nonstop, believing prayer was the only thing that could save us. I told my daughters to pray, too,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We needed a miracle, and I couldn’t help but think, ‘Is this how you’re going to die? Is this how your girls are going to die?’&#8221;
Indian pilot Smit Machchhar, despite his injuries, was able to get the cockpit door opened — and as soon as he did, several Israeli passengers charged into action. Plumber Yaniv Hayoun, who later told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he&#8217;d learned what to do while watching &#8220;Air Crash Investigations,&#8221; pulled the copilot out of the cockpit as he attempted to disable the aircraft&#8217;s instruments.
While others subdued the resisting terrorist, Hayoun rushed back into the cockpit and pulled the plane out of its downward trajectory. Another man came into the cockpit, saying that he was a pilot, and told Hayoun that he would take over.
Hayoun said that he stayed to watch the replacement pilot because at that point, no one could be certain that others had not been part of the copilot&#8217;s alleged plan to crash the plane in a 9/11-style attack. He said that he felt relieved to hear the pilot speaking to ground control, passing on information about the injured pilot and asking for medical help when they landed.
The plane initially landed in Saudi Arabia, after which another plane carried the passengers the rest of the way to Tel Aviv — their original destination.
&#8220;It was just a miracle wrapped in a miracle wrapped in a miracle,&#8221; Hirschl-Shahar said once they were all safely home.

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A new interview with Yaniv Hayoun, one of the passengers credited with helping to avert disaster aboard Flydubai flight FZ1073 gave new details about the moment he rushed the cockpit and what happened next.
Hayoun explained that he&#8217;d been seated in Row 11 with his wife and daughters, and everything had seemed normal until he heard a woman yelling at the front of the plane that there had been a &#8220;stabbing.&#8221; It was not clear from what she shouted who had been stabbed — but then the plane turned sharply and started shaking, at which point Hayoun realized that the situation is unfolding in the cockpit.
Yelling at the other passengers to &#8220;buckle up,&#8221; Hayoun said he rushed toward the cockpit and was almost to the door when the plane nosedived, tossing him around as the dive cut their altitude in by 40% in just 30 seconds.
&#8220;I kept trying my hardest to get up off the ground. At some point, I was finally able to, when the plane leveled off a little,&#8221; Hayoun said, adding that he believed the plane had stabilized because some automated system had engaged.
At the cockpit, a man who looked like a crew member had his hands on the outside of the door — but Hayoun could not tell if he was trying to get the door opened or hold it closed. ”I get to him, I move him away, he doesn&#8217;t resist. I open the cockpit door — it was a little difficult because the pilot was lying down on the floor behind it, the one who was attacked &#8230; I went in. The terrorist was crouching with his knees on the instruments between the two pilots&#8217; seats. There was no one in the pilots&#8217; seats. He was hitting the instrument panel, trying to break the equipment.&#8221;
Hayoun called back to other Israelis in the aisle to &#8220;come help&#8221; and attempted to pull the terrorist away fro the controls — and despite the terrorist fighting back, Hayoun was able to get him out of the cockpit. Several others waiting just outside took over and held the attacker.
Returning to the controls, Hayoun realized that the plane was still angled downward and that he could see the ground through the windshield. He grabbed the yoke and pulled upward, bringing up the nose of the aircraft.
Another man, who was not Israeli, came in and said he was a pilot: &#8220;Release the controls. I&#8217;ll take it.&#8221;
Hayoun said he planned to keep a close eye on the pilot because he didn&#8217;t know whether he could be trusted — but the still-resisting terrorist had required his attention. The passengers eventually subdued him, tying him up with headphone cables.
After helping to remove the wounded Indian pilot, Smit Machchhar, Hayoun remained in the cockpit with the replacement pilot and one other crew member — largely, he said, to ensure that they were taking action to land the plane safely.
He said that he did not understand much English, but he knew that the pilot was talking to ground control and requesting help for the injured pilot once they land.
Still, he said, other Israelis on the plane guarded the remaining members of the flight crew until they were safely on the ground out of fear that some of them could have been working with the terrorist co-pilot.
Hayoun said that once it was over, he did not worry about boarding another Flydubai flight from Saudi Arabia to Tel Aviv — and he said he would certainly fly again in the future.
&#8220;Even being in this situation once was like winning the lottery,&#8221; he said, arguing that the odds were against something similar happening on another flight with him onboard.

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The narrowly averted disaster aboard Flydubai flight FZ1073 has sparked concerns that the Iranian regime may be looking to a new tactic to inflict terror around the world.
Former Israel Defense Forces colonel and intelligence officer Miri Eisin — who now heads Reichman University&#8217;s International Institute for Counter-Terrorism and once served as a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert — warned that a radicalized pilot could be a harbinger of things to come. Using a pilot for such a scheme, Eisin noted, guaranteed the attacker access to the cockpit — access that hijackers in the past have had to take by force.
&#8220;An individual doesn’t get the idea on his own to crash a plane full of people including himself. Somebody told him that if you do that you get your 72 virgins,&#8221; Eisin told <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/10/03/world-news/irans-terrifying-new-terror-tactic-may-be-turning-airline-pilots-into-9-11-style-attackers-former-idf-colonel-warns/">The New York Post</a>. &#8220;If you think back to past plane hijackings, including 9/11, the hijacker was never the pilot of the plane &#8230; This could be a new kind of suicide bomber.&#8221;
Eisin also said that, although the official investigation is still ongoing, she had believed from the beginning that it was possible Iran was behind the Flydubai attempt.
&#8220;This to me is very much something that could have come from Hezbollah or the IRGC Quds Force, this is the kind of things that they think of,” she said. &#8220;Just because someone’s a pilot doesn’t mean they can’t be radicalized, people from all walks of life could be radicalized. [Former Syrian dictator] Bashar al-Assad was a doctor, Josef Mengele was a doctor &#8230; And if you kill Israelis, the whole world applauds you.&#8221;
President Donald Trump has also suggested that Iran could be responsible for the near miss, but did not give details.
Using trained and radicalized pilots to carry out 9/11-style attacks speaks to a long-term terror strategy — one that was not missed by Oded Ailam, a former deputy head of global operations for Mossad.
&#8220;Recruiting and convincing a pilot to do something like that, it’s not the same as telling a 15-year-old to strap on a bomb and walk into a promenade and explode himself. This is a very sophisticated and long operation,&#8221; he said.
He went on to note that it was far more likely to see &#8220;lone wolf&#8221; style attacks from pilots who were radicalized by the people around them.
&#8220;He’s influenced by jihadists, by extremists in mosques, he’s influenced by prominent Iranians calling for death to Israel,&#8221; he said, &#8220;Terror combined with mental disturbances in the pilot, when you combine it together the outcome is horrific. There are a lot of people who are being radicalized who are airline pilots.&#8221;
Ailam suggested a technological solution — something that would allow crew members to access the cockpit in the event of a similar attack — might be the best way to prevent future instances.
An Israeli television report found that pilots from Iran, Syria, and Iraq, among other enemy states, have flown foreign airliners into and out of Israel in recent years. Those pilots, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-israel-rushing-to-check-whether-other-pilots-from-enemy-states-are-flying-the-israel-route-iranian-syrian-and-iraqi-pilots-have-done-so/">according</a> to the report, hold dual citizenship — likely carrying a second passport from a country that would not raise red flags.

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Omani co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami, 29, reportedly made a series of disturbing social media posts while studying aviation management remotely at the U.K.&#8217;s Buckinghamshire New University.
According to a <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/10/04/world-news/accused-flydubai-hijacker-celebrated-beating-women-sharia-law-on-social-media/">report</a> published Sunday by The New York Post, al-Hammami fired off a number of X posts that were misogynistic — and brutally so, often advocating for violence against women — as well as some that were clearly antisemitic.
In one exchange, first <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/03/flydubai-hijackers-hateful-rants-while-at-uk-university/">reported</a> by The Telegraph, al-Hammami told a woman, &#8220;God forbid I should be in his position, but if I were in his place, I’d stomp on your head, wipe the floor with you, make you an example to others, and then divorce you.&#8221;
In another post, replying to a post about a man beating a woman, he reportedly wrote, &#8220;Neither you nor she is going to slap someone lik​e this. I swear, if she so much as breathed around him, he’d stomp on her head. He isn’t some simp who waits until she brings some disaster into the home. He gave her a preemptive slap so she would redefine her boundaries, just as Russia slapped Ukraine to adjust its borders.&#8221;
The outlet also said he referred to a man who&#8217;d failed to beat his wife — for talking to another man — as a &#8220;coward and a scoundrel.&#8221;
In yet another post, he reportedly advised a man who&#8217;d caught his wife talking &#8220;badly&#8221; about him to her boss to file a complaint — but &#8220;first you have to stomp on her head, make her life miserable and make her taste the bitterness of what she did.&#8221;
The Telegraph reportedly reviewed more than 2,000 posts tied to an account  under the name &#8220;Pilot Hamam al-Hammami,&#8221; with a username of @PilotHamam. The account bio describes the user as a civilian pilot from Oman, and &#8220;gives biographical details matching Hammami, including that his mother was Syrian.&#8221;
Other posts, according to an Israeli official, expressed hatred for Jews: &#8220;His social media accounts [say] clearly that he has been radicalized into jihadist ideology. He talks about killing Jews.&#8221;
Al-Hammami had been pulled from flight duties at Oman&#8217;s national airline over concerns about his extremist views, The Wall Street Journal reported, yet Flydubai later hired him to fly its route to Israel. On Wednesday, he allegedly stabbed the flight&#8217;s captain, Indian national Smit Machchhar, on a flight bound for Tel Aviv, apparently intending to bring down a plane that Netanyahu said was carrying almost entirely Israeli passengers. He was stopped by Machchhar, who fought back despite his wounds, along with several passengers who stormed the cockpit and off-duty crew who took over the controls.

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One of the men named in the &#8220;Cornell 7&#8221; case is suing the prestigious university to have his academic record cleared and allegations against him withdrawn.
Referenced only as &#8220;John Doe&#8221; in the <a href="https://cnycentral.com/news/local/cornell-student-named-in-sex-assault-case-sues-to-have-his-allegations-removed">filing</a>, the man is a former fraternity member who has admitted to being present at the Chi Phi house on the night that the woman known as Jane Doe now says that she was raped — but he says that Cornell University violated its own policy during the investigation.
In court documents filed in Tompkins County, Doe alleges that the university ultimately &#8220;found him responsible&#8221; for an offense for which he was neither charged nor given a chance to defend himself — which he said was a violation of policy.
Cornell&#8217;s hearing panel found Doe not responsible for sexual assault or sexual exploitation — the only two offenses he was charged with — but they found him responsible for Attempted Sexual Exploitation, concluding that he entered the room where the alleged assault was taking place intending to watch. Doe says he built his entire defense, including statements, evidence, and testimony, around the two charges he actually faced, and never got the chance to answer the third.
Doe also alleges that one member of the hearing panel joined by Zoom while driving a car as testimony was being taken, and argues that the hearing was &#8220;irreparably compromised by the repeated inattention of [a] panel member.&#8221; Cornell&#8217;s appeal panel rejected that argument, finding the panelist was in the vehicle for only a minimal portion of the multi-day hearing, and denied his appeal in January.
He claimed in the documents that the university had effectively pulled a &#8220;bait and switch&#8221; by charging him with a separate offense after forcing him to defend himself against others.
The lawsuit says that after an initial investigation into the October 2024 incident, Cornell charged Doe under Policy 6.4, its Title IX policy, with one count of Sexual Assault and one count of Sexual Exploitation. The university claimed that in addition to viewing the alleged victim naked, Doe had &#8220;touched his nose to her naked torso while inhaling Ketamine off her body.&#8221;
Doe said that he submitted evidence — including a hair follicle test proving that he was negative for ketamine — along with a statement asserting that he had not used any illicit substances. He further denied having any physical contact with the alleged victim.
Doe has conceded that he was alerted to the situation at the Chi Phi house during a party via a Snapchat message, and when he went to see what was happening, he had seen Jane Doe &#8220;sitting on a bed and speaking with a member of the fraternity, Roe was fully covered with sheets and Doe asked them if they were okay, and after both said they were, Doe left the room.&#8221;
Doe&#8217;s suit overall claims that &#8220;Sexual Exploitation and Attempted Sexual Exploitation are distinct offenses because they are separately defined in Policy 6.4, and argues that &#8216;Cornell cannot simply add on lesser included offenses after the hearing is concluded.'&#8221;
Doe is asking the court to declare that Cornell misapplied its policies and acted arbitrarily, annul the panel&#8217;s decision, vacate all penalties against him, and expunge every reference to the charges from his academic record.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Indian pilot Smit Machchhar during a phone conversation on Saturday, hailing him as a &#8220;true hero,&#8221; not just to India and Israel, but to the whole world.
The two spoke by phone, and Netanyahu <a href="https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/2106457393832112460/video/1">shared video</a> of his end of the conversation — Machchhar could be heard on the speaker — and he invited the pilot to come to Israel and light a flame during the nation&#8217;s next Independence Day celebration.
&#8220;I want to invite you and my dear friend, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to light a celebratory flame on our next Independence Day,&#8221; Netanyahu said. &#8220;You are a true hero of the brave peoples of India and Israel, and you are a hero of the entire world.&#8221;
After wishing Machchhar a &#8220;speedy recovery,&#8221; Netanyahu asked to hear some of the details of what had happened onboard Flydubai Flight FZ1073.
&#8220;It just was a normal flight, and the the co-pilot offered, I mean, he demand, not demanded, but he wanted to pray, which a lot of locals – they do pray, and which is not out of the ordinary,&#8221; Machchhar explained. &#8220;But while he was praying, out of respect, I was just looking at the front and not at the back. And suddenly, after I think I would say about four or five minutes, there was a big blow to the back of my head.&#8221;
Machchhar said that he had thought at first that something had gone wrong with the plane — but quickly came to understand that something much worse was taking place.
&#8220;My first thought was that there was a catastrophic damage to the aircraft, and something is not right. But then, after that, the blows kept coming, one after the other, and that&#8217;s when I realised that it&#8217;s not the aircraft; it&#8217;s the other guy who was in the cockpit with me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I did try to stop him, but because of his initial blows, my vision was almost like nothing, and I was my I was completely blurred out, and at that point, the next thought I, the next feeling that I had was that the aircraft was sharply going down.&#8221;
Machchhar said that he had tried to get the cockpit door open, but that the copilot had quickly closed it again. By then, he&#8217;d been stabbed several times and was lying on the floor, but he told Netanyahu, &#8220;I had that one last fight left in me.&#8221;
&#8220;Call it personal or call it for people, but let&#8217;s say I did it. That if I don&#8217;t do it, I&#8217;m going to die,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And that&#8217;s when I pushed against everything. I gave everything that I had, and just went for the door and opened the door. And thankfully, people were waiting to pounce back, took over the control, and the rest is what you know.&#8221;
Among those on the other side of that door was Israeli citizen Yaniv Hayoun, who helped to subdue the co-pilot before grabbing the controls himself and pulling the plane out of its dangerous dive.

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While prosecutors mull whether to retry Lindsay Clancy for the murders of her three children, her attorney Kevin Reddington has returned to another client.
Kelsie Cote, 30, is accused of killing her grandmother, Doris Cote, in 2022 to inherit an estate worth more than $1 million. Her case was delayed for months while Reddington defended Clancy. After Clancy&#8217;s trial ended in a hung jury and mistrial, Reddington returned to Berkshire County Superior Court on Monday.
Monday&#8217;s hearing, as <a href="https://www.berkshireeagle.com/crime/after-months-of-delays-kevin-reddington-returns-to-berkshire-court-for-motion-in-doris-cote-murder-case/4920890">reported</a> by local outlet The Berkshire Eagle, was initially scheduled to review a motion to suppress statements Cote made to law enforcement officers after the killing, but because Reddington had not yet filed that motion, the court instead used the time to assess the status of the case. A new hearing on the motion to suppress Cote&#8217;s statements has been scheduled for November 30 and December 1, 2026.
Reddington argued that Cote&#8217;s statements should be suppressed because police did not advise her of her Miranda rights — specifically her right to remain silent while being interrogated by police.
Assistant District Attorney Marianne Shelvey asked the court to impound the defense, restricting public access. She argued that Reddington&#8217;s newfound notoriety would likely bring increased public interest to Cote&#8217;s case, which she said was &#8220;one of a serious and sensitive nature, and the public disclosure of the information contained in the documents may be harmful to the orderly and thorough prosecution of the case.&#8221;
Superior Court Judge Maureen Hogan granted the request.
Reddington has also told the court he intends to seek suppression of evidence police found while executing a search warrant, claiming they lacked probable cause to obtain it.
Doris Cote was found dead in her home on November 1, 2022, with blunt force and sharp force injuries.
Prosecutors allege that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/who-is-lindsay-clancys-attorney-defending-next">Kelsie Cote</a> had used her close relationship with her grandmother to convince the elderly woman to name her as the beneficiary of her estate — and then killed her to support her drug addiction. They have accused her of stabbing her grandmother with scissors and hitting her with a paperweight before dragging her through the house and staging the scene to make it appear as though she&#8217;d fallen down the stairs.
Cote, as The Daily Wire previously reported, initially <a href="https://www.berkshireeagle.com/breaking/kelsie-cote-north-adams--pleads-not-guilty-to-killing-her-grandmother-on-halloween/article_43d25dcc-5ea9-11ed-9836-1ba2e36516c8.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told authorities</a> that she discovered her grandmother’s body around 10 a.m. on November 1. Six hours later, she called her father for help — and he was the first to dial 911 when he arrived.
Investigators found injuries inconsistent with a fall, including sharp force injuries to the back of Doris Cote&#8217;s head and at least one cut on her thumb that appeared to be defensive in nature. They also found evidence suggesting that Doris had been killed in her office and dragged to the stairs.
Police found bloody towels and cleaning solution near where they believed Doris was killed — and Kelsie explained that she’d tried to clean up because she believed her grandmother was a “clean freak” and would be mad about the mess.
Berkshire District Attorney Timothy Shugrue told The Eagle that Cote had made several damning internet searches prior to her grandmother’s death — including one detailing the anatomy of the human skull. Bloody clothes — along with the scissors and paperweight Cote was accused of using to kill her grandmother — were reportedly found in the younger woman’s 2014 Chevrolet Malibu.
Cote&#8217;s trial is set for May 2027 and is expected to last two weeks.

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War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Friday that the War Department — &#8220;at every level&#8221; — would hold a one-day stand-down from training operations so that every service member would have the opportunity to vote.
&#8220;I am directing all commanders and supervisors at all levels across this department to conduct a one-day stand-down during the month of October — beginning this year and continuing every election year,&#8221; Hegseth said, noting that this year&#8217;s stand-down would occur no later than October 15.
Hegseth explained that he believed — as most Americans do — that voting is important, and said that for too long, service members had encountered obstacles when they attempted to exercise that all-important right. Many, he noted, live far away from their home states and have to go through the process of locating and completing absentee ballots. Others might find that training schedules made it difficult for them to find a time to cast a vote, either in person or by mail.
The War Department&#8217;s solution is the one-day stand-down — wherein active-duty service members, unit commanders, and supervisors will put their routine duties on pause for a day in order to ensure that all service members have the chance to vote. Typically, stand-downs are used to conduct emergency training, make time for important and timely discussions, or address specific institutional issues.
Hegseth referenced one recent stand-down — directed by then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin shortly after former President Joe Biden was inaugurated — that was used to address the threat of &#8220;patriot extremism&#8221; after the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
&#8220;In February of 2021, under the Biden administration, then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin mandated an urgent training stand-down,&#8221; Hegseth recalled. &#8220;He paused training operations and exercises to address a vaguely defined but &#8216;urgent&#8217; extremism problem. I remember it, &#8216;patriot extremism.&#8217; Well, as I&#8217;ve stated before, this is a new and apolitical War Department.&#8221;
He went on to say that he had no intention of telling service members who they should vote for, saying that his only interest was in making sure that they had every opportunity to choose their own elected leadership.
&#8220;So take that day to fill out your absentee ballot, help your family members do the same, or go to the polling place yourself and exercise your right to vote,&#8221; Hegseth concluded. &#8220;It&#8217;s about time we prioritize that in this department, and we&#8217;re fixing it right here, right now.&#8221;

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Officials in the United Kingdom arrested a dual U.K.-Iranian national Thursday in connection with a suspected terror plot involving an air base used by American warplanes carrying out strikes against Iran.
Counterterrorism police said the 25-year-old man was arrested in Westminster, London, &#8220;on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts&#8221; as part of the investigation into Sunday&#8217;s incident near the Royal Air Force (RAF) Fairford air base, The New York Post reported. The alleged attack was directed at RAF Fairford — ostensibly because the United States is using that location to launch attacks against Iran.
The suspected terror plot was uncovered by a local resident who noticed something amiss, and five British men were arrested on Sunday and later released on bail without being charged. Counterterrorism officials said at the time they were investigating the possibility that a foreign state was involved.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Wednesday that investigators had found indications of Iranian involvement.
&#8220;There are strong indications that Iran played a part in what happened over the weekend at RAF Fairford,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We can confirm our belief that we believe Iran to have played a part.&#8221;
He also said British officials were working closely with their American counterparts and defended the decision to release the five suspects on bail.
&#8220;When it says ‘released,’ that isn’t as people might think. It’s obviously with the strictest possible bail conditions,&#8221; he added.
Fairford, <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/09/30/world-news/iran-is-behind-terror-plot-at-us-bomber-base-in-in-uk-british-leader-says/">according to The Pos</a>t, is the air base of choice from which to launch U.S. missions against Iran, mainly because it has an extended runway — which stretches out for two miles — that has been reinforced so that it can handle the weight of B-1 and B-52 bombers.
Thus far, Iranian officials have strongly denied any involvement in the planned attack — which was reportedly foiled when a local farmer called authorities after observing Middle Eastern men running away from utility vans that did not have proper phone numbers on them.
Another report from <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/suspect-foiled-raf-fairford-bomb-plot-by-ringing-police-himself-m9gqlzz9v">The Times of London</a> suggested that one of the suspects had called police, leading to the initial five arrests. None of the suspects have yet been publicly identified.

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