The Omani co-pilot who tried to bring down Flydubai Flight 1073 had already been grounded once over jihadist views. Nobody in Dubai or Jerusalem caught it.
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Netanyahu says Israeli intelligence helped stop the RAF Fairford plot. London hasn’t confirmed that, but its own prime minister has already named the likely culprit.
“We feel that we made one huge achievement and that is to move the conversation from whether these crimes happened to what are their consequences,” Israeli legal scholar Cochav Elkayam-Levy told JNS.
170 Gaza “journalists” turn out to have had a second job, and the watchdogs who mourned them as martyred reporters have some recounting to do.
From Masada to the Warsaw Ghetto to the modern State of Israel, a bitter lesson runs through Jewish history: sympathy after a catastrophe can honor the dead – but only self-defense can save lives.
A wounded captain, an Israeli plumber and pilots who happened to be in the cabin. How a chain of ordinary people stopped the attack on Flight FZ1073.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog plans to recommend that all receive the Presidential Award for Civilian Heroism, Israel’s highest civilian honor.
An averted catastrophe in the air shows how the Jewish state chooses life, while Britain and the West are embracing a culture of death.
Thoughts for Shabbat
Shemini Atzeret. After weeks full of movement, from Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur to the days of Sukkot, filled with guests, joy and visible symbols, there finally comes a single, almost silent day: Shemini Atzeret, the eighth day of assembly.
