By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, September 30, 2026

Ninety minutes out of Dubai, somewhere over Jordan, the cockpit of a flydubai jet carrying 174 passengers to Tel Aviv erupted into violence. The Boeing 737 sent a hijacking alert, Israeli fighter jets scrambled, and the plane turned back and landed in Saudi Arabia, a country with no diplomatic relations with Israel. Among the passengers were 27 children.