Smit Machchhar recalls mid-air disaster after co-pilot’s attack on flydubai flight to Tel Aviv. Published On 2 Oct 20262 Oct 2026 Indian pilot Smit Machchhar, who was stabbed by his co-pilot in an alleged attempt to crash a Flydubai flight to Tel Aviv, has shared a public account of how he managed to open the…

Retired General Nitzan Alon says more captives could have been returned alive and a deal was possible ‘maybe a year earlier’. Published On 2 Oct 20262 Oct 2026 A former Israeli general who was the army’s point person for hostage negotiations at the beginning of the Gaza war says that a deal to return all…