Israel

Masked settlers attacked a group of European diplomats during a visit to the occupied West Bank on Saturday, Belgium’s foreign minister said, on a second straight day of high-profile assaults on Palestinians and others during the sensitive olive harvest.

The axe-wielding co-pilot who attacked the captain of a FlyDubai flight to Tel Aviv last month intended to seize control of the airplane and fly it into the passenger terminal at Israel’s main international airport, authorities in the United Arab Emirates said Friday.

TEL AVIV — For a few terrifying seconds, Tzvika Manes feared for his family’s lives as the plane plunged thousands of feet.

“We thought about a missile or a cyberattack, but we never thought about algae,” one analyst told NBC News.

TEL AVIV — Showered with adulation abroad for a new documentary on the Israeli military’s killing of civilians in Gaza, two Academy Award-winning filmmakers now face a storm of condemnation at home.

TEL AVIV — Rarely has a local American politician loomed as large over an Israeli election as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose face literally looms over Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway.

TEL AVIV — Palestinian families trapped in their homes by Jewish settlers say that the extremist siege goes on despite Israeli pledges to resolve the impasse in the occupied West Bank and an intervention from the U.S. ambassador.

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich faces a fight for political survival in elections after angering his fellow West Bank settlers.

Israeli far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited ​the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem.

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said he was detained by Israeli settlers armed with U.S.-made rifles during a West Bank visit this week that he cast as an unfiltered look at the human toll of Israeli occupation as he weighs a 2028 presidential run.