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Recounting cockpit struggle on FlyDubai flight, Israeli passengers return home

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By Ilan Ben Zion
| The Christian Science Monitor Verified
A pilot aboard a FlyDubai flight from the United Arab Emirates to Israel stabbed his co-pilot and attempted to crash the plane, forcing the commercial aircraft to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, Israel’s prime minister said Wednesday. “During the flight, when they approached Israel, one of the pilots stabbed the other and apparently tried to crash the plane,” Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video statement.
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This Israeli rabbi is calling on religious Jews to condemn settler violence

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By Ilan Ben Zion
| The Christian Science Monitor Verified
Jerusalem | Sept. 29, 2026, 1:31 p.m. ET | 4 min read Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein felt compelled to deliver a message to students during his weekly lecture at the West Bank seminary he helps lead. It was early September, just before Rosh Hashana – the Jewish New Year and, traditionally, the Day of Judgment. The theme of his talk would be the prayers for forgiveness – selichot, in Hebrew – that religious Jews recite in the run-up to the High Holidays.
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‘We’re going to win,’ Netanyahu tells UN summit – and voters back home

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By Ilan Ben Zion, Dina Kraft Verified
| The Christian Science Monitor Verified
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a defiant speech to a largely empty U.N. General Assembly Thursday, dismissing accusations of genocide against the Palestinians, trumpeting Israel’s success in defeating Iran and its allies, and vowing that Israel “will continue to win” against those who seek its destruction. Most of the delegates in the U.N. chamber got up and walked out as Mr. Netanyahu took his place on the gold and green marble podium to scattered jeers.
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