An Austrian Airlines Airbus A320-200 flying from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport (TLV) to Vienna International Airport (VIE) was forced to divert to Vasil Levski Sofia Airport (SOF) in Bulgaria Sunday night due to a bomb threat. The Bulgarian Air Force dispatched MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jets to escort the airliner to Sofia Airport.

On the ground in Bulgaria authorities carried out a search of the aircraft as well as its passengers and crew. No bomb was found. The flight was able to continue to Vienna as planned after a lengthy delay.

Austrian Airlines flight OS82 is a regularly scheduled service from Tel Aviv to Vienna. According to Flightradar24, it currently operates twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays. Sunday’s flight was a 13-year-old Airbus A320-200 bearing the registration OE-LZE. The flight took off late at 7:04 P.M. instead of the planned 6:40 P.M. take-off.

by Geoff Vasil

One of the only things independent Lithuania didn’t reject from the Soviet Union was the name of the country as the Republic of Lithuania. Of course the pre-war Lithuania was also a republic, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was as well. All in name at least.

In truth, though, a republic is supposed to serve its people. Specifically, a republic is supposed to serve and protect the minority. This was the major concern of the founders of the United States of America: they wanted democracy, but limited democracy, not mob rule. They wanted to protect minority opinion, minority religions, ethnic minorities and so on. This is why the idea of a state religion was poisonous to them. As was a state-controlled media, the press, and no one until recently even wanted America to have an official language.

by Zev Stub, October 14, 2026

Dublin’s Herbert Park Hotel nixed reservations for 70 guests after learning the conference they were holding would focus on combating anti-Semitism

The hotel canceled a reservation for 70 rooms for delegates attending an international conference on combating anti-Semitism after learning the purpose of their visit, according to a senior representative of Ireland’s Jewish community.

Chairman of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland Maurice Cohen spoke of the incident at a reception at the Irish Foreign Ministry Tuesday night marking the opening of a meeting of the Special Envoys and Coordinators Combating Antisemitism (SECCA), a group supported by the World Jewish Congress and the European Commission.

The Nobel Prize Committee awarded South African Indian Navanethem aka Navi Pillay the Nobel Peace Prize for 2026. She served as UN high commissioner for refugees, was a jurist on the International Criminal Court and has special guest-judge status on the UN’s International Court of Justice.

Israel National News wrote the following:

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in Oslo on Friday to South African jurist Navi Pillay, known for her anti-Israel positions. Pillay served as the UN’s fifth High Commissioner for Human Rights and held senior positions in the international judicial system over the course of her career.

Pillay also served as president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and as a judge at the International Criminal Court. She is known in Israel for her radical positions against the Jewish state.

The Šiauliai Jewish Community marked the third anniversary of Hamas’s attack against the Jewish people in southern Israel in the central square in the northern Lithuanian city with Israeli flags, candles, flowers and lights representing the colors of the Israeli flag.

On October 3, 2023, Hamas murdered 1.221 people and took 251 hostage. Almost all of the hostages were tortured and the IDF says less than half made it out alive. CNN reported only 206 people were taken alive, the remaining 45 taken as corpses into Gaza, and that 40 of those 206 were killed in captivity.

The Šiauliai Jewish Community remembers all the victims with their whole heart and mourns with the families and loved ones of those murdered. Memory and light will always prevail over darkness, members of the Community said. The Šiauliai Jewish Community thanks the city for making the square available for the commemoration and for expressing support and solidarity.

In a meeting of members Sunday in the UK the Green Party voted 54% in favor of designating support for the state of Israel as racism. Party leader Zack Polanski, who is Jewish, avoided that part of the party congress and didn’t vote. Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar declared Zack Polanski persona non grata in Israel anyway. The Israeli Government issued a statement calling the Green Party’s declaration anti-Semitic under IHRA’s definition because it denied the Jewish people the right to self-determination.

The Board of Deputies of British Jews issued a statement on the Green Party’s decision:

“This motion passed by the Green Party is an attack on the Jewish community. It is an antisemitic platform based on a grossly offensive distortion and erasure of Jewish experience and identity.”

Protests against and in favor of the declaration took place outside the party conference, as well a more general call for the Green Party to return to its roots, with signs reading “Less Hamas, more trees.”

Jews and Arabs are not considered a race anymore but ethno-linguistic groupings. In archaic race theory both groups are considered the offspring of Shem, the son of Noah, which gave rise to the word anti-Semitism, Shem represented as -Sem-.

Photo: PA

Update: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Omani perpetrator was indoctrinated by radical Islamist ideology,

A flight from Abu Dabai to Tel Aviv was diverted to a Saudi Arabian airport after the co-pilot stabbed the pilot with a knife or axe and attempted to crash the airplane with a rapid descent of over 300 MPH with tail-spin towards the ground. The mostly Israeli passengers stormed the cockpit and with the help of additional air crew righted the plane and made an emergency landing in Tabuk in NW Saudi Arabia.

Passenger Miryam Shira Ohayon said the plane was “pretty much out of control” when the stabbing took place over Jordan.

“The co-pilot tried to murder the pilot and basically carry out a suicide attack on the plane,” she told reporters by speakerphone held up by her mother, who was waiting at Ben-Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv. “It was really on the way to crashing, and it was simply the resourcefulness of many people who took control of the co-pilot and neutralized him.”

“There was also a doctor who gave first aid, and people who treated both of them. Other than the pilot, there were no injuries, but the bigger fear was really a crash, which is exactly what he was trying to do,” Ohayon said.

Another passenger told the Jerusalem Post that intervening passengers shouted at two off-duty pilots at the back of the plane “to run and take control” of it, and one of them did so after the passengers managed to remove the attacker from the cockpit.

Israeli sources told the Post the would-be hijacker was an Omani national. There was no immediate confirmation of the details from Israeli or Saudi officials.

The airline confirmed said “all passengers and crew are safe and accounted for,” and it confirmed that two replacement aircraft had been deployed to Tabuk to “relieve the passengers and crew,” though many Israeli passengers told media outlets they would not reboard a FlyDubai plane. There were 174 people on board.

Full story here.