**🇮🇱 Israel – Sunday, 4 October 2026**
**Eisenkot ties flydubai scare to no-inquiry stance**
Opposition leader and former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot said on October 3 that Netanyahu's refusal to impanel a state commission of inquiry into October 7 left Israel exposed to disasters like the flydubai attack, writing that "180 Israelis were saved thanks to...heroism" despite government failures he says persist.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/eisenkot-links-netanyahus-rejection-of-state-inquiry-into-oct-7-to-near-disaster-on-flydubai-flight/
**Previously:**
**🇮🇱 Israel – Saturday, 3 October 2026**
**Flydubai co-pilot named, vetting lapse exposed**
Sources named the co-pilot as Hamam al-Hamami; Omani surveillance had flagged him visiting radical websites, but flydubai hired him without clearing it with Oman first, Al Jazeera reports, as Abu Dhabi investigators probe possible accomplices.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/1/how-was-the-flydubai-pilot-who-attacked-his-co-pilot-cleared-to-fly
**Arab Israeli indicted for spying**
Israel indicted a 25-year-old Arab Israeli today on suspicion of spying for Iran, one more case in a string of Iran-linked espionage arrests during the war, as campaigning intensifies ahead of the October 27 Knesset election.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-october-02-2026/
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