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Eva Marie Saint, star of ‘Exodus,’ dies at 102

Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint in 1960's 'Exodus' (screenshot)

Eva Marie Saint, the graceful blonde who starred opposite Paul Newman in “Exodus,” the 1960 film epic about Israel’s founding, has died at the age of 102.

Saint died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles, a statement from her spokesperson says.

Saint won an Oscar in her film debut for her portrayal of the virtuous Edie Doyle in director Elia Kazan’s gritty 1954 drama “On the Waterfront,” then changed direction as the spy Eve Kendall in director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 thriller “North by Northwest.”

“On the Waterfront” won eight Academy Awards, including best picture, with Kazan named best director, Marlon Brando best actor and Saint best supporting actress.

Saint was pregnant when she accepted her Oscar in March 1955. She gingerly walked to the stage, kissed the golden statuette and excitedly told the audience, “I may have the baby right here!” Two days after the ceremony, she gave birth to her first child, Darrell Hayden.

Otto Preminger hired her for “Exodus,” in which she played Kitty Fremont, an American nurse who falls in love with the film’s protagonist, Newman’s Ari Ben Canaan.

John Frankenheimer directed her in both “All Fall Down” (1962) with Warren Beatty and “Grand Prix” (1966) with James Garner.

Vincente Minnelli directed Saint in “The Sandpiper” (1965) with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, while Norman Jewison cast her in the Cold War satire “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming” (1966), an Oscar best picture nominee.

Saint was born on July 4, 1924, in New Jersey. She married veteran TV director Jeffrey Hayden in 1951 – a marriage that lasted until his death in 2016 – and they had two children. She starred in about 20 movies but turned down many roles to devote time to her family.

Jewish NYC officials call for permanent Oct. 7 memorial in Brooklyn

New York University students and Israel supporters demonstrate across the street from a rally of pro-Palestinian students and supporters outside the NYU Stern School of Business building, April 22, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

A coalition of Jewish officials in New York City calls for a permanent memorial to the victims of the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, onslaught in Israel.

The effort has the backing of the city’s two highest-ranking Jewish elected leaders, City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Comptroller Mark Levine, as well as the chair of the council’s Jewish Caucus, Eric Dinowitz, Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, and State Senator Sam Sutton.

“Across the city, New Yorkers were profoundly impacted by the terrorist attacks on 10/7, and this memorial will serve as a testament to the resilience and strength of our relationship with Israel and its people,” Dinowitz says in a statement.

The lawmakers are proposing a 6-foot by 6-foot (1.8 by 1.8 meter) memorial at the Mickey Kairey Garden in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn.

A joint statement says community leaders are “committed to privately raising the funds” for the memorial and its maintenance, while working with city agencies for the necessary approvals.

Flydubai requests OK to resume Israel flights as investigation wraps, but Regev says no — report

A flydubai plane takes off from Ben Gurion airport on September 30, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Flydubai has requested permission to resume its flights to Israel one week after a copilot on one of its planes attempted to carry out a terror attack, saying that an investigation into the attack was concluding and many employees had been fired, Channel 13 reports.

The report says that officials from Israel’s Transportation Ministry have also been invited to tour Dubai next week.

As of now, however, Transportation Minister Miri Regev has declined the airline’s request, the report says.

The Omani copilot, Hamam al-Hammami, attacked the plane’s captain, Smit Machchhar, on the September 30 flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. He allegedly aimed to crash the plane, killing the approximately 180 people on board, the vast majority of them Israeli. Machchhar and several Israelis succeeded in thwarting the attack and subduing al-Hammami.

The attack has sparked outrage in Israel, where the Transportation Ministry and security establishment face accusations of negligence regarding flight crewmembers from hostile states landing in the country.

Channel 13 reports that, according to draft requirements that have been formulated in the wake of the attack, anyone who isn’t an Israeli citizen, including pilots and crew, would have to fill out a form 48 hours ahead of the flight that will be reviewed by government authorities. Citizens of countries flagged as “red” under the new system would also be screened by the Mossad and Shin Bet intelligence agencies.

Vance: Iran must cut enrichment to end war, but ‘not totally clear’ how it makes decisions

US Vice President JD Vance speaks at a campaign rally at Fairbanks International Airport in Fairbanks, Alaska, October 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

US Vice President JD Vance tells Reuters that Iran must make a “meaningful” reduction in its nuclear enrichment capacity to satisfy US demands and end the countries’ seven-month war, even as he says Washington is unsure how Tehran makes decisions in negotiations.

In the interview, conducted on Monday after a campaign trip in Alaska, Vance says any agreement will require Iran to reduce its nuclear enrichment capacity, rather than offer assurances of future nuclear drawdowns.

“If you don’t want a nuclear weapon, then why do you need 60% enriched fuel? And if you want to show commitment to not building a nuclear weapon, don’t build highly enriched fuel. That’s a very basic threshold issue,” Vance says. “I think if they want to show a commitment to not building a nuclear weapon, they would do something meaningful on their enrichment capacity.”

Iran and the US have exchanged proposals in recent weeks aimed at ending the war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a vital global energy shipping route. US President Donald Trump rejected Tehran’s latest offer and has warned that military operations could intensify after the midterms.

Vance says the US remains open to an agreement but will require concrete Iranian nuclear concessions.

“We’re not going to trade words for actions,” Vance said.

Complicating matters, Vance says Washington is uncertain who makes decisions in Tehran.

“One of the things we picked up on is it’s not totally clear how their country makes decisions,” Vance says. Separately, Trump said on Tuesday his “biggest problem” is no one knows who is running Iran.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Sunday that US officials are well aware of who their Iranian counterparts are and how Iran’s decision-making system works.

Vance declines to say if he is leading peace talks, though he is frequently cited as the White House’s top negotiator.

“We’re certainly involved,” he says. “Ultimately, the president of the United States is driving things.”

Houthis launch missiles at Yemen’s Aden airport as fighting intensifies

Two missiles launched by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis targeted the international airport of Yemen’s southern port city of Aden early this morning, but no casualties were reported, the media office of Aden’s security department says.

The attack comes amid renewed fighting after weeks of Houthi advances along Yemen’s Red Sea coast and a Saudi-backed government counteroffensive that has recaptured areas around the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait with coalition air support.

The airport is the main international gateway serving parts of Yemen outside Houthi control.

Earlier, the Saudi-led coalition said it had intercepted and destroyed a Houthi ballistic missile launched towards the southern Saudi city of Khamis Mushait, Saudi state television reports.

The coalition said the missile threats had originated from the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa and the governorates of Saada and Amran.

Following the coalition’s statement, Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV says Saudi forces carried out a strike in an area spanning the central governorates of Ibb and Taiz. There was no immediate confirmation from the Saudi-led coalition.

Israel marks 3 years since October 7 attack, with commemorations starting at 6:29 a.m.

Raz Zarfati, sister of Ron Zarfati who was killed in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, attends a memorial marking the third anniversary of the attack at the Nova music festival site near Kibbutz Re'im, southern Israel, October 7, 2026. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israelis begin to gather nationwide to mark three years since Hamas-led terrorists invaded the country on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and kidnapping 251 in the deadliest single day in Israel’s history.

Ceremonies commemorating the onslaught will begin at 6:29 a.m., the time when the attack began.

Memorial events will take place throughout the day in cities and towns across the country. Some municipalities will fly flags at half-staff.

At noon, the October Council, a group of the onslaught’s survivors and bereaved families, will hold a minute of silence nationwide.

At 6:29 p.m., survivors and bereaved families will come together at Kibbutz Re’im, the site of the Nova music festival, where terrorists massacred 378 people and took 44 hostages to Gaza.

The main ceremony organized by survivors and bereaved families will be held at 9:15 p.m. at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park, staged by the Kumu (“Rise Up”) organization.

Official state ceremonies commemorating the attack took place on Monday, the Hebrew memorial date established by the government.

Jewish communities worldwide will also hold memorial events.

Anti-Israel groups abroad have planned protests and rallies for today.

Police hold ceremonies to honor colleagues killed in fighting on October 7

Police honor colleagues killed on October 7, 2023, in a ceremony at the police station in Sderot, October 7, 2026 (Israel Police)

Police hold ceremonies to honor their colleagues killed on October 7, 2023, with a central ceremony held at the police station in Sderot, the infamous scene of a brutal battle.

Terrorists stormed the station and killed 20 police officers before barricading themselves inside and exchanging heavy fire with security forces. The station was eventually bulldozed by Israeli forces amid gunfire to kill the remaining terrorists inside.

Dozens more police officers were killed in battles across the south on October 7.

“The Israel Police bows its head in memory of its fallen, and continues to carry their memory and legacy. We stand with and support the bereaved families and the police officers who were wounded in the battles defending the State of Israel and its citizens,” the force says in a statement.

Saudi-led coalition says it downed Houthi missile north of Riyadh

The Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis says it shot down a ballistic missile north of Riyadh.

“A ballistic missile launched by the terrorist Houthi militia north of Riyadh was intercepted and destroyed,” the coalition’s spokesman Major General Turki al-Maliki writes on X.

Mamdani to attend Oct. 7 vigil, followed by meeting with Palestinian New Yorkers

New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani listens as US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, November 21, 2025. (AP/Evan Vucci)

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to attend a “vigil in remembrance of October 7th” this evening, according to a schedule from his office.

Shortly after, Mamdani plans to meet with Palestinian New Yorkers.

There are no further details.

Last year, Mamdani attended an October 7 vigil for Israeli and Palestinian victims of war hosted by a leftist Israeli group in the city called Israelis for Peace.

Rescue worker with Hamas-run civil defense killed in Gaza strike – reports

Palestinian media outlets in Gaza affiliated with Hamas report that Mohammed Tammous, a member of the Hamas-run Civil Defense rescue and emergency service, was killed in a strike in the northern Gaza Strip.

According to the reports, the man was killed while working to recover bodies.

The IDF confirms that a strike was carried out in the area, but does not provide any further details.

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— وكالة شهاب للأنباء (@ShehabAgency) October 7, 2026

Opposition leaders pay respects in south to mark 3rd anniversary of October 7

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett, left, visits the Nova music festival site, where hundreds of revelers were murdered and abducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023, as Israel marks the third anniversary of the attack, near Kibbutz Reim, southern Israel, October 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Opposition leaders are visiting sites of the October 7 massacre in the south, joining bereaved families and community members to remember the victims.

Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot visits a roadside shelter in Re’im with Shira Shapira, a member of his party’s slate. Shapira’s son, off-duty soldier Staff Sgt. Aner Shapira, was killed as he heroically defended the shelter as it was attacked by terrorists, throwing seven grenades back outside.

B’Yachad leader Naftali Bennett, who stayed overnight at a kibbutz on the border, is at the Nova festival site, where he says he is “surrounded by families and friends” in shared grief and remembrance, while Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman visits Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the hardest-hit communities on that day.

Meanwhile, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir marks the anniversary at the separation barrier near Nitzanei Oz in central Israel where he warns against a similar attack from the West Bank.

“Three years later, we must not repeat the same mistake. October 7 must not happen in Netanya, Kfar Saba and the Sharon region,” the Otzma Yehudit leader says, calling to disarm and dismantle the Palestinian Authority.

Reports: Settlers torch Russian-Israeli activist’s car, spray graffiti against IDF’s West Bank chief and Shin Bet head

Settlers set fire to a vehicle in the village of Deir Nidham, near Ramallah, and spray-painted graffiti attacking top Israeli security officials, Palestinian media reports.

The graffiti reads: “Avi Bluth, watch out” and “Zini, give me administrative detention.”

Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth is the IDF officer with responsibility for the West Bank, while Shin Bet chief David Zini reportedly warned ministers earlier this week that he may seek to reinstate administrative detention for Jewish extremists in the West Bank to tackle settler attacks on Palestinians.

The torched vehicle belongs to Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, a prominent Russian-Israeli pro-Palestinian activist.

No injuries are reported.

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— قناة عودة الفضائية (@AwdehTV) October 7, 2026

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Staging of Oct. 7 play at Northwestern disrupted after someone pulled fire alarm, co-author says

The staging of a play at Northwestern University featuring the testimonies of October 7 survivors was disrupted when someone set off a fire alarm, the play’s co-author says on X.

Ann McElhinney says the theater was evacuated, with the audience eventually allowed to reenter after undergoing security checks.

Last year, the Illinois university and the US Justice Department announced that the school would pay the US federal government $75 million to settle complaints about antisemitism on the campus.

Read more: Despite threats and blacklist, play based on word-for-word Oct. 7 testimony tours US

Breaking. Right now at Northwestern Our play October 7 has been disrupted by someone setting off a fire alarm. The whole theater has to be evacuated. This hits even stronger because it’s already October 7 in Israel. pic.twitter.com/Zs9pvp0eK0

— Ann McElhinney ???? (@annmcelhinney) October 7, 2026

Flydubai attack: Police reportedly probing apparent conflict of interest of 2 senior Transportation Ministry officials

People disembark from a flydubai carrying Israeli passengers who had earlier been aboard another flight that came under an attempted terror attack, Ben Gurion Airport, September 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Police have opened an investigation into two senior Transportation Ministry officials over the security failings surrounding the attack on the flydubai flight to Tel Aviv last week, reports say.

According to Haaretz and Channel 12 news, a probe is underway into an apparent conflict of interest from work done by Dvir Rubinstein and Avri Cohen in addition to their roles at the ministry.

The Transportation Ministry’s security chief Cohen sometimes moonlights as a “reserve security officer” for Israeli airlines at a foreign airport, Haaretz reported Sunday.

Rubinstein, a Transportation Ministry official responsible for security oversight of foreign airlines flying to Israel, has reportedly done paid private consulting and training work for those carriers, including flydubai and Emirates.

Rubinstein, who has served as the ministry’s aviation security director for 19 years, is responsible for granting security approvals and permits to foreign airlines and flights entering Israel, according to a professional biography cited by Channel 12. His responsibilities include oversight of flydubai and its Dubai-Tel Aviv route, on which last week’s terror attack by an Omani copilot took place.

Channel 12 reported Sunday that Rubinstein traveled to the UAE in his private capacity to provide training and consulting to flydubai as well as Emirates. The network noted the apparent conflict of interest in Rubinstein doing private work for airlines he is tasked with overseeing.

Families of Nahal Oz surveillance troops: ‘We will not forgive, we will not forget the abandonment of our daughters’

The torched command center of the Nahal Oz IDF base, overrun by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, during a visit by relatives of slain lookout soldiers on December 19, 2023. (Courtesy/Eyal Eshel)

The families of the 16 surveillance soldiers killed at the Nahal Oz base on October 7 praise the heroism of their daughters on that day.

“At 6:29 a.m. three years ago when the gates of hell were opened, none of us could have imagined that the worst thing possible would occur,” says Dror Ashram, whose daughter Sgt. Shay Ashram was one of 16 surveillance soldiers killed.

“We stand here three years later and there is no forgiveness, and there never will be, for losing our girls. For the hell they went through in their final moments, for the failures, for the abandonment of them and of us. We will not forget and we will not forgive,” he says, as the families gather at a monument to the troops.

Military investigators describe the battle at the Nahal Oz base as one of the IDF’s biggest failures on October 7. In all, 53 soldiers were killed at the base: 31 combat troops and 22 noncombat, including 16 female surveillance soldiers. Another 10 were abducted — seven female surveillance soldiers and three tank soldiers.

Ashram calls for the IDF to recognize the heroism of the soldiers.

“They all, without exception, demonstrated extraordinary courage, camaraderie, determination, and steadfastness in purpose in the face of the enemy,” he says, according to Channel 12 news.

“Heroism in battle is measured in many ways. To be in the midst of hell, in mortal fear, inside a shelter breached from all sides, and to understand that these might be your final moments but still hand your phone to your friends so they can say goodbye to their parents — that is heroism.

“To calm your friends and then even your own parents, when you yourself are in terror, that is heroism.

“To throw back grenades that terrorists hurled into the shelter, when you’re barefoot, in pajamas, with bare hands, that is heroism.

“To see on the cameras the terrorists breaching the fence. And continuing to report over the radio, professionally and with cool-headedness, guiding forces to save others, that is heroism!” Ashram says.

Leading up to the Hamas-led invasion and massacre in 2023, the surveillance soldiers sent alerts about terrorists training for the attack and were infamously ignored. Some of the surveillance soldiers, many of whom are women, said sexism was a factor in their warnings being brushed aside.

Einav Zangauker: Government ‘trying to make us forget what happened on October 7’

Einav Zanguaker at a press conference in Tel Aviv on January 17, 2024 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Einav Zangauker, who became a protest leader when her son Matan was taken hostage to Gaza, assails the government for not taking responsibility for October 7 and for refusing to establish an independent commission of inquiry into the failings.

“They’re trying to make us forget what happened on October 7,” she tells Army Radio.

“We won’t forget, we will demand the truth because that is our legacy. In their memory and for their sake,” she says.

“The fear is engraved in my heart, the tears that don’t stop, the heart that hurts and bleeds until this very moment and is shattered into pieces,” she says.

Matan Zangauker, who was released last year, was kidnapped from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his girlfriend, Ilana Gritzewsky, who was freed in November 2023.

IDF targets suspects accused of backing October 7 attack in West Bank raids

Israeli forces launched several brigade-level operations across the West Bank overnight, arresting and questioning dozens of wanted suspects accused of involvement in terrorism and incitement, including expressing support for Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught, the IDF says.

The operations come as Israel marks three years since Hamas invaded southern Israel, killing more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians.

The official Palestinian news agency WAFA reports that troops raided the village of Beit Duqqu, north of Jerusalem, and the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiyah.

Mathematician who plotted to murder hundreds of Arabs identified as Shahar Nevo

The Bar Ilan University mathematician charged with plotting to murder hundreds of Arabs is named as Shahar Nevo, after the gag order on his identity expired.

Nevo, 60, is a full professor whose research focuses on complex analysis and operator theory. He was arrested on September 17 and indicted on Monday.

According to the indictment, Nevo sought to coax, then blackmail, far-right-wing former Likud MK Moshe Feiglin into helping find 71 other terrorists to launch simultaneous attacks on Arab population centers with help from hypothetical “subversive elements” in the military.

The goal of the plan was to make Arabs flee en masse from Israel and the West Bank to Gaza, Lebanon and Jordan, according to the indictment. Nevo began developing the plan in February 2023 but failed to recruit anyone, prosecutors said.

Netanyahu, Smotrich to join forces on right-wing vote turnout drive; Ben Gvir left out

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in the Knesset, February 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich are reportedly to hold a joint election conference in Jerusalem tomorrow aimed at boosting turnout among right-wing voters.

The conference, titled “Saving the Right,” will bring together Netanyahu and Smotrich with Religious Zionist rabbis, yeshiva heads, activists and other public figures to prepare for the October 27 election.

The two parties are also reportedly establishing a joint election day operation, headed by Yesha Council chairman Israel Gantz, to increase right-wing turnout, according to Channel 12.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, whose far-right Otzma Yehudit ran on a merged slate with Religious Zionism in the last election but is running separately this time, was not invited to the event and reportedly only learned of it after being contacted by the Kan public broadcaster.

Likud signed a surplus-vote agreement with Religious Zionism yesterday. Ben Gvir’s party accused Netanyahu of seeking to shut Otzma Yehudit out of a future government.

Reports differ, however, on the significance of Ben Gvir’s exclusion, with organizers saying the conference is simply aimed at Religious Zionism’s particular network of rabbis, yeshiva students and activists.

Netanyahu has previously pushed Ben Gvir and Smotrich to run together, publicly warning in August that their failure to unite could cost the right-wing bloc votes, which Ben Gvir rejected.

Iranian pair arrested in Namibia with fake passports reportedly posed as Israelis, were misidentified as Mali and Liel Yahalomi

Two Iranian women detained in Namibia for traveling with fake Hungarian passports reportedly posed as Israelis and were misidentified by law enforcement overnight as Mali and Liel Yahalomi, the mother and daughter who fled Israel in August for personal reasons, sparking an international hunt.

Israel Police sources cited by Hebrew media this morning said Namibian counterparts alerted them that Mali and Liel Yahalomi were arrested in the southwest African nation and had changed their appearances.

Mali’s brother told the Israel Hayom newspaper that the family had not received any official notice of the arrest.

Upon further investigation, an Israel Police representative discovered the women arrested in Namibia were not Israeli at all, according to later reports.

Mali, 50, and Liel, 23, disappeared in Vienna in August, initially sparking concern that they were victims of foul play. Police tracked them to a flight to Argentina and located them on a bus in Buenos Aires, but the women refused to return to Israel.

Palestinian reports: Man killed during West Bank raid by settlers accompanied by IDF troops after apparent clash at outpost

Palestinian media reports that a man was killed and 16 were wounded near the village of Burqa, north of Nablus, during a raid by settlers who were accompanied by soldiers.

According to Israel Hayom, the incident happened after Palestinians attacked settlers from a nearby farm, with one settler taken to hospital with a head injury, and four others treated at the scene.

Settlers apparently then raided a group of Palestinians harvesting olives in the area.

It is unclear how 44-year-old Ali al-Zarari was killed.

The official Palestinian WAFA news agency reports that a group of settlers escorted by soldiers attacked olive harvesters near the village, beating them and opening fire at them.

There is no comment from the IDF.

19-year old charged with insulting religion for spitting at Old City church

Avraham Entman, a 19-year old resident of the Yitzhar settlement, is indicted on a charge of insulting religion for spitting at a church in the Old City of Jerusalem.

According to the indictment filed at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, Entman was doing a walking tour of the Old City gates on July 27, 2025, when he passed by the Prison of Christ church and spat at the church door.

The indictment alleges that Entman spat at the church “due to his hatred of Christians and Arabs.”

Continues the indictment: “The defendant desecrated a place of worship with the intention of insulting the religion of others, or while knowing that they might regard the act as an insult to their religion.”

The maximum sentence for the crime of insulting religion in the Israeli penal code is three years in prison.

Israel has been struggling in recent years to stop a rash of spitting attacks on Christian clergy and vandalism of church property in the Old City.

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai win Nobel Prize in chemistry

Portraits of Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai are shown on the screen as they are awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 7, 2026. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP)

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai win the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.

“Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have provided a solution to a chemical mystery that is over a century old: how homochirality can emerge spontaneously,” Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, says in a news release. “The chemical reactions they have developed are spectacular.”

The duo’s discoveries, the news release says, “have been decisive for chemists who design reactions for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.”

Kagan, born in France, is affiliated with Université Paris-Sud in Orsay, France, and Soai, 95 years old and born in Japan, with the Tokyo University of Science.

The so-called “Soai reaction” is named for the scientist’s experiment.

According to online obituaries for his siblings, the Kagan family hid in a village in the south of France under assumed names during World War II.

US-backed Board of Peace: War ‘unleashed by Hamas’ on Oct. 7 left wounds ‘across region’; Gaza plan must advance

The US-backed Board of Peace issues a statement marking the third anniversary of the Hamas-led October 7 massacre, highlighting the tragedy of the attack as well as the subsequent suffering of both Israelis and Palestinians in the war “unleashed by Hamas,” and stressing its commitment to advancing Washington’s plan for Gaza’s “demilitarization and deradicalization.”

“We remember those murdered and taken from us, and we will not allow their loss to be forgotten,” the Board writes in a lengthy post on X. “We also lament the immense loss of life and profound suffering endured by Israelis and Palestinians in the war unleashed by Hamas on October 7. That suffering has left deep wounds across the region,” it adds.

The international body hails US President Donald Trump’s “commitment to the people of Israel” and success in bringing back the remaining hostages in Gaza last year, adding that it is determined to use its United Nations Security Council mandate to advance the president’s 20-point plan for the Strip.

“Genuine and durable security for Israel is the foundation on which any peace must be built, and it is the surest guarantee that no October 7 will ever happen again,” the Board writes.

Adviser to IRGC says ‘illegal routes’ in Strait of Hormuz to soon be blocked

A motorboat travels past commercial vessels anchored amid haze in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, September 7, 2026. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Transit routes in the Strait of Hormuz deemed illegal by Iran will soon be closed, an adviser to the Revolutionary Guards’ Commander tells semi-official Fars news agency.

Mohammadreza Naqdi says these few routes had been created by blasting and damaging some of the rocky passages in the strategic waterway and were used by small boats smuggling oil, challenging the dominant narrative that Gulf oil flows through the strait are regaining prewar levels.

French FM visits Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 7 anniversary; no planned meetings with Israeli officials

France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot visits a property that was damaged in the October 7 attack by Hamas in 2023, in Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2026. (Ilia YEFIMOVICH/AFP)

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot visits Hostages Square in Tel Aviv and Kibbutz Be’eri as Israel marks three years since the Hamas-led October 7 massacre.

“I am in Israel today to pay tribute to the victims of October 7,” Barrot says in a French-language statement, adding, “On that day, Hamas perpetrated the worst antisemitic massacre since the Holocaust, in which 51 French nationals lost their lives. We will never forget them. Nothing will erase their faces or their names.”

In a video shared by French radio RCJ, Barrot is seen touring the square, which became the gathering place for thousands of Israelis who had demonstrated throughout the war for the release of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.

Barrot does not have any meetings set with senior Israeli officials during his visit, a French official tells The Times of Israel, saying his visit is purely “to pay tribute for October 7.”

The trip comes as ties between Paris and Jerusalem have hit a nadir over the war against Hamas in Gaza and Israeli settlement policy.

Man jailed for 7 years for stealing sound equipment left at Nova site that belonged to man killed while helping save others

The Beersheba Magistrate’s Court sentenced a man today to seven years in jail for stealing sound equipment worth about half a million dollars from the site of the Nova music festival days after Hamas massacred hundreds of people there on October 7, 2023, the Southern District Attorney’s Office says in a statement.

Ram Shaheen stole the equipment and retrieved some of it from police by pretending to be an associate of the owner, Matan Lior, who was killed while helping others flee the festival, according to the statement. Shaheen even visited Lior’s mourning family as the equipment was in his possession, prosecutors said.

Shaheen and an accomplice, Daniel Hasson, twice traveled to the Nova site, once just two days after the massacre, in order to steal equipment, according to the indictment.

Shaheen was convicted of aggravated theft and fraudulent gain. In addition to his prison sentence, he is given 12 months’ probation and ordered to pay a NIS 60,000 ($19,580) fine, as well as NIS 75,000 ($24,475) in damages to Lior’s family and NIS 25,000 ($8160) to Lior’s business partner Amitai Nahum.

Hasson was convicted in a plea deal of attempted fraudulent gain. The court sentences him to 40 months in jail and ordered him to pay a NIS 30,000 ($9,790) fine, as well as NIS 40,000 ($13,015) in damages to Lior’s family and NIS 15,000 ($4,880) to Nahum.

Another accomplice, Sun Tevel, was convicted of assisting theft, also in a plea deal. His sentence will be handed down at a later date after he told the court he couldn’t attend the sentencing today for medical reasons, prosecutors say.

IDF on death of Palestinian in the West Bank: Soldier fired at man running toward him with suspicious object

The IDF responds to reports that a Palestinian man was shot dead near the village of Burqa in the northern West Bank, saying the incident occurred during a confrontation between Palestinians and Israelis.

According to the IDF, troops were dispatched to the area following a report of stones being thrown at an Israeli civilian, who was injured.

“A confrontation subsequently developed, involving a gathering of dozens of Palestinians and Israeli civilians. During the confrontation and the evacuation of the injured Israeli civilian for medical treatment, a security officer and another Israeli civilian opened fire at the scene. A commander operating in the area identified a terrorist running toward him while carrying a suspicious object and neutralized him,” the IDF says.

Palestinian media report that the slain man, 44-year-old Ali al-Bazari, was an officer in the Palestinian Authority’s National Security Forces.

The military adds that several Palestinians were detained on suspicion of throwing stones.

Man sentenced to life behind bars for 2022 murder of woman who rejected his romantic advances

Yelena Greenberg, who was murdered at age 27 in Rehovot on August 24, 2022, by a man whose romantic advances she rejected, is seen in an undated photo. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

The Lod District Court sentences Jason Blaise Odeh to life in prison for stabbing 27-year-old Yelena Greenberg to death in Rehovot on August 24, 2022, after she rejected his repeated romantic advances.

Odeh and Greenberg had been acquainted for about four years before he stabbed her multiple times in his mother’s car and left her body in a field, having doused it with gasoline but decided against burning it, according to the ruling.

Odeh then drove home, and on his way disposed of his and Greenberg’s cellphones and of the victim’s computer, the court said. He was arrested the next day.

Odeh admitted to his actions but denied they were premeditated, arguing instead that he entered a fugue state after Greenberg “provoked” him.

The court rejected Odeh’s account, noting that he had equipped himself with a blade and gasoline and disposed of evidence, which the court said showed Odeh had “made a cold and calculated decision” to kill Greenberg.

Odeh’s accounts of Greenberg’s behavior and of his own mental state were also rejected.

In addition to jail time, Odeh is ordered to pay the victim’s family NIS 258,000 ($84,105), the maximum restitution under the law.

During the trial, the court heard from Greenberg’s mother Tatiana that Yelena was “a child of nature who loved animals and wanted to make the world a better place.”

Yelena received posthumous honors from the Peres Academic Center, where she was a student, the mother said.

The victim’s sister Nadia Aminov told the court that their father passed away two years after Yelena’s murder, and that Yelena now has a niece she will never know.

UN agency: More than 200,000 people displaced by recent Yemen fighting

A displaced Yemeni boy carries water containers at Al-Firdaws camp in Ras Imran, on the western outskirts of Aden, Yemen, September 29, 2026. (AP/Abdulnasser Alseddik)

More than 200,000 people have been displaced in Yemen since fighting resumed between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed internationally recognized government, says a UN agency.

“A total of 201,217 people have been forced from their homes in Yemen since fighting started,” says the International Organization for Migration. Nearly all of them, 197,755, have been displaced since early September, it adds.

1 man said killed in Israeli drone strike on southern Gaza

An Israeli drone strike killed one older man and wounded seven people in southern Gaza today, according to health officials in the Hamas-run enclave.

Dr. Mohamed Saqr, a manager at Nasser Hospital, tells The Associated Press that one of the injured is in critical condition.

The IDF has no immediate comment.

British Jewish org defiant after anti-Israel protests in front of its office

A protester holds a placard to demand an end to Israel's war in Gaza, marking three years since the October 7 attacks on Israel in London, October 7, 2026. (AP/Kin Cheung)

The Board of Deputies of British Jews vows not to back down in the face of an anti-Israel protest outside its headquarters today, marking the three-year anniversary of the Hamas-led onslaught.

Videos show protesters using a megaphone as they wave Palestinian, Irish and Iranian flags, and activists claiming that the organization, which represents Anglo-Jewry, is a “shield for Israel’s crimes” and a “mouthpiece for Israel.”

Metropolitan Police responded quickly to the protest and made arrests on the spot, says Board of Deputies President Phil Rosenberg.

“On the anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, masked protesters demonstrated outside our office today, chanting about ‘intifada’ and harassing our neighbours,” Rosenberg says in a statement.

“We will not be threatened or intimidated by this small and extremist minority of British society,” he continues. “We will continue undeterred to advocate for the Jewish people, here and around the world, and to stand up for peace and security for Israelis, Palestinians and the wider Middle East.”

The Board of Deputies will hold a vigil at 5 p.m. local time to remember the October 7 attack, in which some 1,200 people were killed, thousands were wounded, and 251 people were taken as hostages into Gaza.

Join us at 5pm TODAY for a vigil remembering 7 October 2023 at Richmond Terrace, opposite Downing Street.

Please share widely. pic.twitter.com/PhhF1G807D

— Board of Deputies of British Jews (@BoardofDeputies) October 7, 2026

Hundreds of anti-Israel protests are planned worldwide around the anniversary, the Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Ministry has warned.

IDF says it killed 2 Hamas operatives accused of plotting attacks from Gaza hospital

Two Hamas operatives were killed overnight in an Israeli strike after troops spotted them leaving Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, the IDF says.

According to the military, one of the operatives planted explosive devices brought from inside the hospital near the Yellow Line to target troops. The pair were struck shortly after being identified, the IDF says.

The military identifies one of those killed as Muhammad Tammous, a sniper in Hamas’s military wing who also worked for Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency.

The IDF says the two had recently “advanced terrorist plots from inside the hospital and worked to rebuild Hamas’s capabilities,” reiterating its accusations that the terror group exploits hospitals and other medical facilities for terror activity.

חמאס ממשיך לנצל בתי חולים לפעילות טרור: צה"ל חיסל מחבל שהטמין מטענים שהובאו מבית החולים 'כמאל עדואן'

בתקיפה חוסל מחבל נוסף מהזרוע הצבאית של חמאס שהוצג לעולם כעובד הגנה אזרחית

כוחות צה״ל זיהו במהלך הלילה שני מחבלים מארגון הטרור חמאס שיצאו מבית החולים 'כמאל עדואן' בצפון רצועת… pic.twitter.com/PnRUzDovRd

— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) October 7, 2026

Mladenov: Gaza faces either renewed war or permanent limbo if Trump plan not implemented

Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza under the US-backed 'Board of Peace' tasked with implementing the October 2025 ceasefire plan, speaks at the Hili Forum 2026 in Abu Dhabi on September 7, 2026. (FADEL SENNA/AFP)

On the third anniversary of the Hamas-led October 7 massacre, US-backed Board of Peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov urges Israelis, Palestinians and the international community to support US President Donald Trump’s plan for the Strip, warning that failing to implement it will lead either to renewed war or indefinite military containment rather than a durable solution.

In an article published in the Emirati daily The National, Mladenov says Gaza now faces three possible futures: either a return to recurring war between Israel and Hamas; indefinite and limited humanitarian measures and governance; or, as the plan envisions, a transition based on disarmament of Hamas, deradicalization, Palestinian civilian governance and reconstruction.

The message comes as Trump’s plan is mostly stalled amid disagreements between the Board, Hamas and Israel over the conditions for and sequencing of Hamas disarmament and Israeli withdrawals. Israeli leaders have repeatedly stressed that no reconstruction of Gaza can begin before the terror group disarms.

The first scenario, Mladenov writes, would see Hamas rebuild its military capabilities and Israel prepare for another round of war, while the second would leave Gaza “suspended in a state of permanent uncertainty,” with reconstruction barely advancing.

“Despair is a poor foundation for peace and an excellent recruiting tool for extremism,” he warns, arguing that the only viable alternative is one based on “verified decommissioning of weapons, deradicalisation, accountable Palestinian civilian governance, phased Israeli withdrawal and reconstruction.”

“No serious observer should expect Israelis to think about the future as though [October 7] never happened,” the envoy adds. Addressing Israeli concerns over withdrawal, especially in light of its 2005 disengagement from Gaza, he says “security arrangements must be verified and enforced,” but adds that “walls, buffer zones and recurring military operations cannot deliver lasting security if Gaza remains permanently unstable and under the control of armed factions.”

He also argues that Gaza cannot build a different future “without confronting the ideologies and narratives that have normalised violence and extremism.”

Vance: Iran needs to show ‘meaningful’ reduction in nuclear enrichment for a deal

US Vice President JD Vance speaks during an event at Webco Manufacturing, September 14, 2026, in Olathe, Kansas. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

US Vice President JD Vance says in an exclusive interview with Reuters that Iran must make a “meaningful” reduction in its nuclear enrichment capacity to satisfy US demands and end the countries’ seven-month war, even as Washington remains unsure how Tehran makes decisions in negotiations.

Vance, a longtime skeptic of US involvement in foreign wars, has taken a leading role in negotiating a settlement to the conflict and brokered a provisional peace agreement in June that quickly fell apart.

Vance says any agreement will require Iran to reduce its nuclear enrichment capacity, rather than offer assurances of future nuclear drawdowns.

“If you don’t want a nuclear weapon, then why do you need 60% enriched fuel? And if you want to show commitment to not building a nuclear weapon, don’t build highly enriched fuel. That’s a very basic threshold issue,” Vance says.

“I think if they want to show a commitment to not building a nuclear weapon, they would do something meaningful on their enrichment capacity.”

Washington’s “requests and ideas” about Iran’s nuclear program are at odds with Tehran’s demands, a senior Iranian official tells Reuters when asked about Vance’s comment that Tehran must cut enrichment to end the war.

Iran and the US have exchanged proposals in recent weeks aimed at ending the war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a vital global energy shipping route. US President Donald Trump rejected Tehran’s latest offer and has warned that military operations could intensify after the midterms.

Vance says the US remains open to an agreement but will require concrete Iranian nuclear concessions.

“We’re not going to trade words for actions,” Vance says.

Repatriation flights from Dubai canceled after UAE landing permit revoked for Israeli carriers

A flydubai plane takes off from Ben Gurion airport on September 30, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Repatriation flights operated by Israeli carriers to bring citizens back safely from Dubai to Tel Aviv have been canceled after their UAE landing permit was revoked.

“Arkia has engaged with all relevant parties to regain authorization and operate the flights,” the airline says in a statement. “Unfortunately, these efforts have so far been unsuccessful, and we are therefore forced to cancel the flights.”

Arkia says passengers will receive a full refund for their tickets. Additionally, passengers who independently reach a destination from which Arkia operates flights to Israel will receive a 10% discount on the purchase of a ticket to Israel.

El Al and Israir have also canceled their planned flights from Dubai to Tel Aviv through tomorrow. Israel expected the effort of repatriation flights operated by Israeli carriers to conclude tomorrow.

The first flights from Dubai operated by Israeli airlines landed at Ben Gurion Airport late on Friday following last week’s attempted terror attack on a flydubai flight en route from Dubai to Tel Aviv. At least 7,415 passengers have returned to Israel from Dubai on special flights operated by Israeli airlines and via Abu Dhabi on commercial flights by Etihad Airways, the Transportation Ministry said yesterday.

Sources: Hezbollah gets $200 million from Iran to help displaced Lebanese

Displaced people pack their belongings as they prepare to return to their village following the announcement of an initial ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, June 15, 2026. (AP/Mohammed Zaatari)

Hezbollah has received $200 million from Iran to help Lebanese people displaced by this year’s war with Israel, say two people with direct knowledge of the transfer, the first significant aid from the group to supporters who bore the brunt of the conflict.

Hezbollah received the cash last month despite a tightening US economic chokehold on Iran and increasing difficulties in getting funds to Tehran’s Lebanese ally, the people say.

Intermediaries who moved the money charged a 20% fee, reflecting the risks of dealing with the group, they say. One said this was four times the normal fee.

Asked for comment, a Hezbollah official says an amount has been secured and a plan for distributing it will be announced in the coming days, without elaborating on the source of the funds.

The Iranian foreign ministry, Iran’s permanent mission in Geneva, the US Treasury and the Lebanese government do not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Iran has maintained financial support to Hezbollah through years of crippling US sanctions: it transferred $1 ​billion to the group in the first 10 months of 2025, according to the US Treasury Department.

Tehran has never acknowledged financing Hezbollah. Iran’s policy of funding regional proxies has stirred domestic protester anger against the clerical rulers in the past and could prove particularly sensitive at a time of worsening hardship in Iran.

Mali and Liel Yahalomi arrive back in Israel for 1st time since widely covered disappearance

Mali Yahalomi and her daughter Liel Yahalomi leave Ben Gurion Airport after returning to Israel, October 7, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Mali and Liel Yahalomi, an Israeli mother and daughter whose disappearance in August set off a global search, have landed back in Israel.

The pair are photographed at Ben Gurion Airport, but do not give any comment to waiting reporters.

A family member told the Ynet news site that the pair are returning to Israel “in order to rehabilitate.”

The Yahalomis disappeared in Vienna in August, initially sparking concern that they were victims of foul play. Police tracked them to a flight to Argentina and located them on a bus in Buenos Aires, but the women refused to return to Israel.

It was not immediately clear why the two cut contact with their family, or why they flew to Argentina without telling anyone. Hebrew media reports quoted police sources as saying they had left Israel and made their way to Argentina to disappear and “start a new life.”

Attacks on tankers in Hormuz at peak since start of Iran war, say tracking sources

Commercial vessels lie anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, September 4, 2026. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Attacks on tankers sailing through the Strait of Hormuz hit their highest last week of any week since the Iran war began, according to maritime security sources tracking incidents, amid a bigger export push by Gulf producers.

Attacks, attempted attacks and harassment activity including drone overflights, surveillance and hailing using VHF radio by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have persisted in the strait, the US Navy-led Joint Maritime Information Center (JMIC) says in a note on Sunday.

“These actions continue to demonstrate Iran’s intent to assert presence along key transit lanes and maintain pressure on transiting vessels,” the JMIC says.

In the week of September 28-October 5, there had been at least 12 attacks on oil, liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas tankers around the Strait of Hormuz, according to data from three maritime security sources who analyzed incidents based on information received from the area.

That was the highest number of attacks in a single week since the US war with Iran began on February 28, the sources say.

British Airways planning to resume flights to Tel Aviv on October 25

A British Airways flight departs Ben Gurion Airport, February 25, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

British Airways plans to resume flight services to and from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport on October 25, when it will begin operating a reduced schedule.

The UK carrier will operate one daily flight on the London-Tel Aviv route down from its previous double-daily service.

British Airways has repeatedly pushed back the resumption of the Tel Aviv route since March following the outbreak of the US-Israel war with Iran.

Saudi Arabia launches its own probe into flydubai flight attack, say sources

In this handout picture taken and obtained on September 30, 2026, passengers of the flydubai flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv are seen inside the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Airport in Tabuk, after their plane was forced to land in Saudi Arabia due to an alleged attempt to crash the plane by the first officer. (Courtesy Of An Anonymous Source/AFP)

Saudi Arabia has launched an air accident probe following last week’s cockpit stabbing on a flydubai jet, as experts examine any fallout for aviation safety alongside a separate UAE-led criminal investigation, say three people close to the matter.

Safety probes designed to keep flights safe are normal after accidents but are not mandatory when a deliberate act is involved, such as the suspected attempt by a copilot to bring down the Israel-bound flydubai jet on September 30.

People close to the matter say Saudi Arabia has notified specialist aviation agencies abroad that it will carry out a safety investigation under international rules into flight FZ1073, which was in Saudi airspace when the copilot attacked the captain with an axe.

Saudi Arabia’s National Transport Safety Center, which has responsibility for accident investigations, does not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Saudi government and the country’s regulator also do not answer requests for comment.

The US National Transportation Safety Board, which would be closely involved in any probe because the Boeing 737 MAX jet that survived a steep plunge was designed and built in the United States, can not immediately be reached for comment.

Officials in the UAE do not respond to requests for comment. Under international rules, the UAE will also automatically be involved because the jet is registered there and the airline is based in Dubai.

The UAE has already opened a separate criminal investigation into the incident, which its prosecutor general has called a “terrorist attack.”

Israel, whose citizens made up nearly all the 172 people on board, has offered to take part in any Saudi-led safety investigation but has not so far been invited to take part, the head of the country’s air accident agency tells Reuters.

“We are still waiting for a notification from Saudi Arabia to invite us to take a part in the investigation,” says Ofer Vaknin, director of the Aircraft Safety Investigation Authority.

Saudi Arabia and Israel do not have diplomatic relations, though experts say the decades-old system of cooperation on preventing accidents, which is widely credited with a sharp reduction in the accident rate, can cross political lines.

October 7 memorial ceremony begins at site of Nova music festival

A woman stands at the memorial to the victims of the 2023 Hamas attacks at the Nova festival site in Re'im, southern Israel, on October 7, 2026. (JOHN WESSELS/AFP)

The memorial ceremony for those killed at the Nova and Psyduck raves on October 7, 2023, begins with a moment of silence at 6:29 p.m., echoing the start of the 6:29 a.m. Hamas attack.

Former hostage Elkhana Bohbot recites the prayer for the bereaved in front of the field of memorials for those killed at the Nova rave.

He is followed by a bereaved father who recites the Mourner’s Kaddish.

After the two light a memorial candle, Nova survivor Yuval Raphael — who represented Israel at the Eurovision — sings.

IDF demolishes West Bank home of terrorist behind deadly shooting attack near Neve Tzuf

Israeli security forces demolish the home of the Palestinian terrorist who killed Netanel Shukrun in a shooting attack near the West Bank settlement of Neve Tzuf, October 7, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Security forces demolish the home of the Palestinian terrorist who killed Netanel Shukrun in a shooting attack near the West Bank settlement of Neve Tzuf last month, the IDF says.

Shukrun, a father of six, had gone to a nearby natural spring with his eldest son to immerse in the water before Yom Kippur in accordance with Jewish tradition. While he was there, the shooter opened fire toward the spring from a vehicle, hitting Shukrun, who was inside his own car at the time.

IDF troops, Border Police officers and combat engineers demolished the terrorist’s home in the West Bank town of Biddu, the military says.

Israeli security forces demolish the home of the Palestinian terrorist who killed Netanel Shukrun in a shooting attack near the West Bank settlement of Neve Tzuf, October 7, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

As a matter of policy, Israel demolishes the homes of Palestinians accused of carrying out deadly terror attacks.

Israeli officials have said the policy is intended to dissuade Palestinians from planning terror attacks, as doing so will harm their extended families’ livelihoods. Critics have called it collective punishment.

At the same time, forces in the West Bank also raid alleged terror targets and searched for weapons, while demolishing Palestinian monuments that the military says “incited terrorism and glorified terrorists.”

In sole statement on Oct. 7 anniversary, Likud attacks Channel 12, absolves Netanyahu

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)

In its only statement of the day as Israel marks three years since the October 7, 2023, onslaught, Likud accuses the Channel 12 news outlet of broadcasting “false political propaganda” against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and seeks to absolve him of responsibility for the failures surrounding the Hamas-led attack.

After briefly saying that “we all bow our heads” in memory of those killed, the party claims Netanyahu received no advance warning of an attack, contrary to widespread reporting, and was first informed at 6:29 a.m. on October 7.

Likud cites intelligence assessments before the massacre that Hamas was deterred and seeking calm, while accusing unnamed security officials of seeing warning signs in the hours leading to the attack but failing to alert Netanyahu, the police, border communities, local security teams, troops or attendees of the Nova music festival.

“Had Prime Minister Netanyahu been informed in real time, everything would have looked different,” the party says.

The statement goes on to credit Netanyahu with Israel’s military achievements during the ensuing war and accuses Channel 12 of attempting to “bring down the right-wing government” and “install a government of the left and Arab parties” that would establish a Palestinian state.

Netanyahu has not taken part in any of the memorial ceremonies marking the anniversary today, but did so on Monday, on the official Hebrew date set by the government to mark the atrocity. Today’s ceremonies are largely organized by family members of victims and survivors of the attack.

Illegal West Bank settlement outpost evacuated by security forces, 6 arrested, says group

Security forces evacuate an illegal West Bank settlement outpost close to the settlement of Susya in the South Hebron Hills region of the territory, according to the Honenu legal aid organization.

The group says that six people are arrested during the operation, and claims that police fired rubber bullets to control protesters, injuring several of them.

A video of the incident sent out by Honenu shows Border Police personnel forcibly restraining activists during the evacuation, with one officer seen shoving one of the protesters to the ground.

The police and the Civil Administration, responsible for illegal construction demolitions in the West Bank, do not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Security forces evacuate an illegal West Bank settlement near Hebron on October 7, 2026. (Honenu)

Following allegations by Honenu yesterday of police violence during the evacuation of two other illegal settlement outposts however, the police stated that settler activists and protesters used violent means to halt the evacuation, injuring three police officers.

The nearby Palestinian hamlet of Khirbet Susya has repeatedly been attacked by local settler extremists. In February this year, extremists raided the dwelling, pelting homes with stones and setting fire to tents, and vehicles, and chicken coops.

New York State lowers flags to half-mast for October 7

New York Governor Kathy Hochul at LaGuardia Airport, March 23, 2026. (AP/Seth Wenig)

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul orders flags at state buildings lowered to half-mast “in mourning and honor of the victims of the Hamas attack on Israel three years ago,” according to a statement from Hochul’s office.

“It’s hard to fathom that it has been three years since the October 7 Hamas massacre. Three years since the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust,” Hochul says. “The pain of that dark day has not faded. But neither has the strength, resilience and enduring hope of the Jewish people. Today, we remember the innocent lives stolen, stand with the survivors and the families forever changed, and pray for a lasting peace.”

Locations where flags will be lowered include One World Trade Center, Grand Central Terminal, Moynihan Train Hall in Manhattan, and several state facilities in the capital, Albany.

Putin tells Tehran he is ready to help mediate Middle East war

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian pose for a photo during their meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on September 1, 2026. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russian President Vladimir Putin tells his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian in a phone call that Moscow is ready to help efforts to mediate the Middle East war, Iranian state media reports, with the monthslong conflict locked in a stalemate.

Russia and Iran — two of the most sanctioned countries in the world — have significantly deepened their military and trade ties during Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, becoming increasingly reliant on each other.

The Russian leader and Pezeshkian in their call spoke of the “positive and expanding trajectory of relations” between the two allies, stressing the need to further deepen ties, state news agency IRNA reports.

On the war, Putin “referred to efforts by some countries to mediate and help reduce tensions, saying that Russia supports” them, the agency adds.

Putin says that Iran “can be assured that Moscow is also ready to play a role and provide assistance in this regard,” according to IRNA.

‘Good commanders take the threat seriously’: Maj. Gen. Bar Kalifa pays tribute to slain Col. Asaf Hamami

IDF Personnel Directorate chief Maj. Gen. Dado Bar Kalifa says that “good commanders take the threat seriously and work all day and all night in preparation for war,” during a memorial ceremony for Col. Asaf Hamami, who commanded the Gaza Division’s Southern Brigade during Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught and was killed while fighting alongside his soldiers.

“‘Be good, be Hamami’ was the guiding phrase of Asaf’s life – a sentence that, by my estimation, he would never have said about himself,” Bar Kalifa says. “He was humble, the most modest of men.”

“Good commanders regard every position as their last – free to speak their minds and to do wholeheartedly what they believe in,” he adds. “Every position is the role of their lives, with only the mission and their people before their eyes.”

National family-run October 7 memorial ceremony set to begin in Tel Aviv

The stage ahead of the national October 7 memorial in Tel Aviv, October 7, 2026. (Matan Siegel/Times of Israel)

The main national ceremony marking the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks is set to begin at 9:15 p.m. at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park, with some 50,000 people expected to attend.

Organized by Kumu (“Rise Up”), the large-scale ceremony was founded by survivors and bereaved families, including relatives of fallen soldiers, people killed in the kibbutzes and hostages who were slain in captivity.

It has stood in place of an official state ceremony for the past two years and is being broadcast live on most of Israel’s main television channels.

One of this year’s hosts is former hostage Eli Sharabi, whose wife and two daughters were killed in their home in Kibbutz Be’eri, and whose brother was kidnapped and killed in captivity.

The state held its official anniversary ceremony on Monday, the date set according to the Hebrew calendar, at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl military cemetery.

The separate ceremonies reflects the deep divide between many survivors and bereaved families and the government, which has refused to establish a state commission of inquiry into the October 7 failures. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also refused to accept direct responsibility for the disaster.

‘This place was soaked with their music and their blood,’ says bereaved father at Nova site

Raz Zarfati, sister of Ron Zarfati who was killed in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, attends a memorial marking the third anniversary of the attack at the Nova music festival site near Kibbutz Re'im, southern Israel, October 7, 2026. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Speaking at the October 7 Nova memorial ceremony at Re’im, KKL-JNF Chairman Eyal Ostrinsky says that the site — which is cared for by KKL — has become a holy place for the bereaved families.

“For hours, this place was a valley of death, and the families did this wonderful thing, they chose life, with KKL, they’re always caring for this space,” says Ostrinsky. “I promise that your memorial stories are only yours, no one can take that from you, that is our commitment to you and it’s forever.”

Meir Zohar, whose daughter Bar Zohar was killed at the rave, and who was one of the organizers of the ceremony, says: “This place was soaked with their dances and music and their blood.”

Zohar says that after destruction, one must pick up the pieces, a lesson taught by those killed at Nova, who tried to rescue one another that day.

“They saw people, they saw each other as sister and brother, they saw humans,” says Zohar, and asks everyone at the ceremony to look at someone different from them, look them in the eye.”

“Learn how to talk to someone else,” he says. “Our unity is stronger than what separates us.”

Saudi Arabia says 3 killed in attacks on its airports

One person was killed and eight injured in an attack on King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh, and two were killed and 28 injured in an attack on facilities at Abha airport, Saudi civil aviation authorities say in a statement issued today.

One of the attacks was today and the other yesterday, it says, without saying which attack had occurred on which day.

IDF says it fired interceptor at ‘false target’ in southern Lebanon

The IDF says it fired an interceptor missile a short while ago at a “false target” in an area of southern Lebanon where troops are operating.

No sirens sounded “according to protocol,” the military says.

Ben Gvir touts arrest of motorcyclist waving Ra’am party flag on highway and ‘frightening residents’

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, leader of Otzma Yehudit, arrives for a hearing at the Central Elections Committee at the Knesset in Jerusalem, September 23, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir posts a picture of a bound motorcyclist on the ground who the minister claims was part of a convoy that was “driving illegally” in the Negev with flags of the Arab party Ra’am, “frightening Negev residents” and “calling up the scenes of October 7.”

“You must have seen the footage of the motorcyclists who drove on Negev roads with green flags of the Islamist movement Ra’am,” Ben Gvir writes on X, without specifying what was illegal about the motorcyclists’ driving.

“They forgot one little detail: The national security minister is Itamar Ben Gvir, and the policy has changed,” he says, adding that police forces “shut down their ‘party,’ took action, made arrests, handed out citations and sent a message — next time, be very careful.”

בטח ראיתם את התיעוד של האופנוענים שנסעו בכבישי הנגב עם דגלים ירוקים של התנועה האיסלאמית רע״מ, נוסעים בניגוד לחוק, מבהילים את תושבי הנגב, ולרגע התמונות הזכירו את מראות ה-7.10 בכבישי הנגב.

אז זהו, שהם שכחו רק פרט אחד קטן: השר לביטחון לאומי הוא איתמר בן גביר, והמדיניות השתנתה.… pic.twitter.com/BQqGLs2LYS

— איתמר בן גביר (@itamarbengvir) October 7, 2026

Police don’t respond to a request for comment, including on how many people were arrested and what crime they are suspected of. Ra’am does not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Ben Gvir posted the picture hours after extremist former Likud MK Moshe Feiglin, who is running in the October 27 election with Ben Gvir’s erstwhile ally Bezalel Smotrich, shared footage of motorcyclists driving on a highway and waving the Ra’am flag as Arabic music plays.

“The gall” of the Ra’am supporters to wave their party’s flag was “the result of spinelessness, institutional fear and complete loss of righteousness,” Feiglin said, undercutting Ben Gvir’s claim to have restored Israeli “sovereignty” to the Negev

Ra’am’s “aim is the same aim, ideology the same ideology and flag the same flag” as Hamas, Feiglin claims, days after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously against a motion to disqualify the party over purported support for armed struggle against Israel.

חרפה שאין לה מחילה. טירוף מערכות מוחלט.
יהודים נוסעים בכביש בנגב, רועדים מאימה בתוך הרכבים שלהם, בטוחים לחלוטין שהנוח'בה שוב פושטת על הדרום.
שיירות של אופנועים מנופפות בדגלים אסלאמיים ירוקים, מפגינות אדונות וכוחניות בלב כבישי ישראל, והאזרח היהודי – בארצו שלו! – נאלץ לבלוע את… pic.twitter.com/NhT5Z2Sc4L

— משה פייגלין Moshe Feiglin (@moshefeiglin) October 7, 2026

Ra’am is historically affiliated with the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel and has a green flag emblazoned with the party’s name in Arabic, though its party chief, Mansour Abbas, has vowed to sever its ties with the Islamic Movement.

Trump says he spoke with Netanyahu, ‘other side’ is paying ‘very big price’ for Oct. 7

US President Donald Trump talks to reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, October 7, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

US President Donald Trump tells reporters he spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the third anniversary of the Hamas-led October 7 massacre, offering his well wishes to the premier and saying those responsible for the attack are “paying a very big price.”

“I spoke with Bibi Netanyahu, and I wished him well, and I wished the people of Israel well. That was a horrible day, a horrible tragedy – horrible,” Trump tells reporters, using the premier’s nickname.

“And the other side is paying a very big price for what they did on October 7, believe me,” he adds, apparently referring to the subsequent war against Hamas in Gaza.

.@POTUS on the anniversary of October 7, 2023: "I spoke with Bibi Netanyahu and I wished him well and I wished the people of Israel well. That was a horrible day, a horrible tragedy — and the other side is paying a very big price for what they did on October 7th, believe me." pic.twitter.com/USOFVomfRq

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 7, 2026

Memorial ceremony highlights sacrifices of those who ‘sprang into action’

Families and attendees take part in the national memorial ceremony marking three years since the October 7 massacre, at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv, October 7, 2026. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

The national ceremony commemorating the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks highlights the heroism and sacrifice of those who fell defending in battle, including soldiers, reservists, members of local security teams and ordinary citizens.

Hosts Eli Sharabi and Shani Cohen pay tribute to those who “left their homes, leaving their families locked inside safe rooms, and sprang into action from operations rooms, police stations, and shelters.”

They speak about Maj. Ido Shani, deputy commander of the Nahal Reconnaissance Unit, who went to assist his soldiers outside Kibbutz Sufa, but was killed in an ambush.

Another heroic figure, Cpt. Sahar Saudyan, a commander of an Iron Dome team, was “notified that one of the teams stationed at the border fence had run out of interceptors, and knew she must bring them ammunition.”

And finally, security guard Israel Chana of Ofakim, who left his family to go fight.

“Armed with a pistol and a single magazine, Israel fought a heroic battle alone against dozens of terrorists, until he was shot and fell. The battle he waged prevented the terrorists from entering homes and saved many residents of Ofakim. Israel was murdered on his 30th birthday,” Sharabi says.

Envoy Leiter says wounded son shows ‘encouraging signs,’ but is not out of danger

Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter arrives to give a statement to the media at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, after his son Neria, an IDF reservist, was hospitalized in critical condition due to a car-ramming attack the previous day, September 24, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter says his son, Neria — an IDF reservist who was seriously wounded in a ramming attack in the West Bank last month — has shown some promising signs but remains in serious condition.

A statement from the Israeli Embassy, citing Leiter, says that alongside “some encouraging signs, his son Neria is still in very serious condition and is not out of danger.”

Neria is receiving “the best possible care,” and the family thanks the Shaare Zedek hospital staff as well as the public for their support and prayers, the statement adds.

Bereaved family member demands Oct. 7 state inquiry: ‘State failed to function’

Families and attendees at the national memorial ceremony marking three years since the October 7 massacre, at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv, October 7, 2026. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

The crowd of 50,000 attending the national October 7 memorial ceremony breaks into loud applause for the first time after Omri Shifroni, one of the founders of the Kumu movement that organized the event, calls for a state commission of inquiry for the first time in the evening.

“To rebuild trust, we also need the truth. We must know what happened. Without investigating the truth, we cannot fix things, and we cannot make sure it never happens again,” he says.

Shifroni’s niece and nephew, Liel and Yanai, and aunt and uncle Ayala and Aviya Hetzroni, were murdered at Kibbutz Be’eri.

“My beloved family, you should not have been murdered. Not one of you. You were alone, defenseless. And I, too, could not help,” he says tearfully.

“That morning, the systems collapsed and the state failed to function. In the long hours in the safe room, the trust we had as an anchor shattered into pieces,” he continues.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has resisted forming a state commission of inquiry, the highest investigative body in Israel, despite demands from bereaved families and survivors, and the majority of the country. He also did not attend any of the memorial ceremonies held today, instead only taking part in the official state ceremonies held Monday.

Protesters chant for intifada outside Columbia University at Oct. 7 rally

Protesters outside Columbia University in New York City, October 7, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Anti-Zionist protesters gather outside Columbia University in New York City at a rally marking the October 7, 2023, massacres in Israel.

The rally takes place outside Columbia’s gates on a public sidewalk.

Around 100 protesters chant, “Globalize the intifada,” “No peace on stolen land,” and “Every fascist state will fall,” to the beat of a drum.

In Arabic, they chant, “Palestine is Arab.”

Protesters deride police as “pigs” and ask officers to remove “Zionist” students who are watching.

Speakers repeatedly accuse the university of repression.

“There is something uniquely painful about being Palestinian at Columbia at this moment,” a Palestinian student tells the crowd.

“We are simply not allowed to breathe,” she says, accusing the school of bowing to “Zionist” concerns.

“Long live the student intifada,” she says. “Glory to our martyrs, glory to the people of Palestine and glory to the resistance.”

Report: Hezbollah seeking to reestablish presence in southern Lebanon pilot zones

Residents inspect the damage after an overnight airstrike by the Israeli military that targeted Hezbollah in the southern Lebanese village of Mayfadoun on September 5, 2026. (ammar ammar/AFP)

Hezbollah is carrying out limited activity in southern Lebanon’s three pilot zones after the IDF withdrew and allowed the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) to deploy there, the Kan public broadcaster reports.

Israeli troops began withdrawing from the pilot zones in July under a US-brokered plan, which envisioned Lebanese army troops confiscating weapons from Hezbollah in parts of southern Lebanon and phased withdrawals of Israeli troops, who are eventually meant to leave Lebanon.

Hezbollah, which was forced north of the Litani River, is now reportedly seeking to reestablish its presence in the towns of Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh, Froun and Srifa, using local actors and gathering intelligence.

A Lebanese political figure opposed to Hezbollah tells Kan that the government is failing to do its job, adding that disarming the group is at least as critical as Israel’s withdrawal.

“If Hezbollah enters every place Israel leaves, that is also a critical point,” he says.

The IDF does not immediately comment on the report.

Opposition figures attend Oct. 7 memorial ceremony while ministers all stay away

The Democrats party chairman Yair Golan attends the national memorial ceremony marking three years since the October 7 massacre, at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv, October 7, 2026. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Opposition leaders are in attendance at the national October 7 memorial ceremony held in Tel Aviv, though no members of the government can be found.

Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot, B’Yachad leaders Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, Democrats leader Yair Golan, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz are all in attendance together.

“I am here tonight in Yarkon Park, together with tens of thousands of Israelis,” says Golan in a post on X. “The people have shown up. The government has not. And this is no accident.”

“There is no government at this ceremony. There hasn’t been a government for a long time in the place where Israel’s citizens are: with the bereaved families, with the wounded communities, with those who served, who fought, rescued, and were injured, and with those who volunteered and held the country together in its hardest moments,” he continues.

The government held a separate state ceremony on Monday — the Hebrew calendar date of the October 7 attacks.

UNIFIL says post in south Lebanon targeted by gunfire

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon says one of its posts was targeted today near the border with Israel by small-arms fire, but there were no casualties.

“This morning, several rounds of small arms fire impacted a UNIFIL position near Kfar Shouba along the Blue Line in Sector East,” the UN force says in a statement, referring to the de facto border between Israel and Lebanon.

The blue helmets describe the shooting as “unacceptable.”

“Such deliberate attacks gravely endanger the lives of peacekeepers,” it says, adding that it is investigating the incident.

UNIFIL does not say who it suspects of targeting the post. The IDF does not issue any immediate comment on the claim.

Report: PM repeatedly warned before Oct. 7 by Halevi, Bar, Gallant that internal rift was emboldening enemies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second from right) attends a security briefing during an IDF operation in Jenin on July 3, 2023. At left is IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, and next to him is Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet is at center. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received repeated strategic warnings from senior security officials in the seven months before the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, massacre that Israel’s internal divisions were eroding deterrence, emboldening Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, and increasing the danger of a multi-front war, according to a lengthy Channel 12 expose marking the third anniversary of the attack.

The report reveals what it says are previously unpublished portions of letters, documents and communications delivered to Netanyahu between March and September 2023 by senior defense officials, including then-IDF chief Herzi Halevi, then-defense minister Yoav Gallant, then-Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and Military Intelligence officials.

None of the warnings cited by the network specifically predicted the October 7 Hamas attack, but rather warned of a growing strategic danger of escalation as Israel’s enemies perceived it to be weakening, especially due to the societal rift over the government’s planned judicial reform.

According to the report, on March 19, then-Military Intelligence Research Division chief Amit Saar warned Netanyahu that Israel’s enemies were debating whether to “sit on the fence and allow Israel to continue weakening itself” or to take action to further worsen the situation.

Two days later, Halevi allegedly sent Netanyahu what Channel 12 describes as his first strategic warning letter, writing that Israel’s internal crisis had become “a central factor” in its enemies’ assessments and was leading them to consider “advancing offensive measures.” Halevi offered to further brief Netanyahu and other officials, but a source familiar with the letter says no such discussion was held.

(Also that month, Gallant publicly warned that the internal rifts over the coalition’s judicial overhaul had come to constitute a tangible threat to the security of the state. Netanyahu fired him, but later reinstated him amid large nationwide protests.)

The warnings intensified in the following months. On April 12, Military Intelligence reportedly told Netanyahu the likelihood of multi-front military escalation had reached its highest level since the Second Lebanon War. On July 16, Amit Saar reportedly warned that the political and social crisis was encouraging Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas. Days later, Halevi sent another letter warning that Israel’s enemies sensed erosion in three pillars of its deterrence: IDF strength, societal cohesion and ties with the US.

Netanyahu reacted angrily to the letter, according to Channel 12, suggesting those protesting against the reform were to blame: “It’s not us. They should talk to those people [protesting] on Kaplan [Street in Tel Aviv].”

The network says Bar also told Netanyahu directly by secure phone: “Mr. Prime Minister, I am giving you a strategic warning of war,” warning that Israel was losing its ability to predict developments across the various fronts and that “something serious could happen.”

Further warnings followed in August, according to Channel 12, which says Bar warned lawmakers that Israel was approaching a “perfect storm.”

Gadi Eisenkot, a former IDF chief now Netanyahu’s top rival in the upcoming election, separately wrote Netanyahu warning of significant deterioration in parts of the IDF’s readiness, particularly the Air Force, the network adds, saying the Prime Minister’s Office replied that “the matter is being handled.”

On September 7, exactly one month before the Hamas attack, Gallant sent Netanyahu a seven-page letter, portions of which Channel 12 says it is revealing for the first time. Citing Military Intelligence assessments, Gallant reportedly warned that the worsening internal crisis was eroding Israel’s image among its enemies, damaging deterrence and increasing the likelihood of escalation.

Sharabi ends ceremony with plea to investigate Oct. 7; mom of hostage slain in Gaza laments how daughter ‘held on for weeks in darkness’

Families and attendees at the national memorial ceremony marking three years since the October 7 massacre, at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv, October 7, 2026. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

The national October 7 memorial ceremony in Tel Aviv highlights the 46 hostages who were taken alive to Gaza on October 7 but murdered in captivity, mainly by their captors but some inadvertently by IDF strikes.

Adi Marciano, whose daughter Noa was kidnapped alive from her military base at Nahal Oz and killed in captivity, says, “They held on for weeks and months in the darkness, in fear, clinging to life, waiting for someone to come and save them.”

“We didn’t get our loved ones back; we received them for their final rest. And we gained a new family too — the family of the bereaved.”

In their closing remarks, the hosts of the national memorial ceremony — former hostage Eli Sharabi and Shani Cohen — echo the previous plea for an investigation into the failures surrounding October 7.

“We must remember those who were murdered, those who fell, who left home and never returned,” Sharabi says.

“Not just because we owe them the memory. But rather because we owe the truth to ourselves. To remember what happened. To investigate how it happened. Not to cut corners. Not to let time blur the truth, not to rewrite history, and not to let history repeat itself,” says Sharabi.

“Only if we learn can we mend, and only if we mend, can we build a safer, more worthy, better place here. That is our hope, after everything, and despite everything, there will yet be a better life here,” says Cohen.

Tanker off Qatar reports hits from multiple projectiles, says maritime agency

A tanker sailing off the north coast of Qatar reports being struck “by multiple projectiles,” causing an unspecified number of casualties, the UKMTO maritime agency says.

The incident took place 51 nautical miles (94 kilometers) off the coast of the tiny Gulf state, the British agency says, adding that authorities are investigating. It does not specify the origin of the ship.

Groups demand boycott of Andrea Bocelli’s Jordan concert over his Israel support

Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli performs in front of Pope Leo XIV during a concert in Borgo Laudato Si, a 55-hectare educational and environmental center, at Castel Gandolfo on July 29, 2026. (Isabella BONOTTO/AFP)

Pro-Palestinian groups call for a boycott of Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli’s concert next month in the ancient Jordanian city of Petra over his public support of Israel.

Bocelli, who has been blind since age 12, performed in 2022 at a stadium in Tel Aviv before an audience that included Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with the tenor ignoring pro-Palestinian activists’ longstanding calls for a boycott of Israel.

Bocelli, 68, also sang in Los Angeles at a fundraiser for a group supporting the IDF in 2010. In recent years, Bocelli has also been a rare internationally known musician to perform for US President Donald Trump. In 2023, he sent a letter to free hostage Yaffa Adar.

“We call on you to boycott Andrea Bocelli’s concert because of his long-standing public support for the Israeli enemy… Do not buy tickets! Demand… the cancellation of the concert,” says the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement in Jordan, one of the joint signatories.

“It is unacceptable for Petra — one of the most iconic sites in Jordan and the Arab world — to become a platform for someone who has raised funds for the occupation army,” BDS Jordan adds.

Pentagon chief visits carrier returning from tough Iran war deployment

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth seen before walking to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 6, 2026. (Alex WROBLEWSKI/AFP)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hails the USS Abraham Lincoln’s crew while visiting the ship as it returned from a lengthy, difficult Iran war deployment in which multiple service members in the carrier strike group reportedly attempted suicide.

The massive nuclear-powered warship left California in November 2025 for duty in the South China Sea and was rerouted to the Middle East before US-Israeli attacks on Iran that began in late February, staying at sea until a Thailand port call in early September.

“What the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group did, no other carrier strike group has ever done,” Hegseth says in remarks to service members on the ship while it was at sea in the Pacific.

“Ten thousand sorties, 23,000 combat flight hours, almost 4,000 combat sorties,” he says, later announcing the award of a presidential unit citation to the strike group for “extraordinary heroism against enemy forces.”

Hegseth takes aim at press coverage of the carrier, claiming: “There were a few folks in the media who tried to turn the USS Abraham Lincoln into some sort of a symbol — a symbol of dysfunction, or a symbol of low morale, or a symbol of a failed mission.”

“It’s the exact opposite,” he says. “The only reaction the American people and the American media should have is pride.”