The United States is preparing to send additional military reinforcements to Israel in the coming weeks, including ground forces and fighter jets, to raise readiness against a possible escalation with Iran, while the current U.S. presence in Israel includes about 3,000 soldiers in air-defense and logistical support missions. The Israeli army continues preparations for a possible direct confrontation with Iran, as Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi expressed Tehran's readiness for dialogue, but U.S. President Donald Trump rejected the Iranian conditions. In this context, Yossi Yehoshua's page said Israel is maintaining a high level of alert until the elections, fearing Iran may exploit this period to carry out hostile acts.
On the security front, Israeli Channel 14 quoted sources familiar with the investigation with a new account of the Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, saying Omani co-pilot Hammam Al-Hamami planned to seize the plane and deliberately crash it into the passenger terminal at Ben Gurion Airport, and that he chose to attack the Indian captain with an axe while the plane was in Jordanian airspace near the border with Israel, before the captain managed to thwart the plot despite being injured. The Australian Federal Police confirmed that the Victoria counter-terrorism team is investigating Al-Hamami's links to Australia. In southern Syria, the Israeli army announced that its forces spotted a suspect trying to infiltrate an Israeli army position in the security zone, opened fire and killed him, with no injuries among the forces. In northern Gaza, the army announced the assassination of Mahmoud Ibrahim Deeb Alyan, a member of Hamas's surveillance unit, in an airstrike, describing it as a systematic violation of the ceasefire agreement.
Politically, Hebrew Channel i24 said the Eisenkot bloc is considering offering the National Security Council chairman post to Benny Gantz in exchange for his withdrawal from the election race. The Israeli prime minister also announced that he instructed the head of the National Security Council to appoint an observer specialized in foreign aviation security, a step included in a 2024 recommendation. In London, Ariel Kahana's Hebrew page said Matan Bar Noy, representative of the World Zionist Organization, tore up before the British Parliament a Green Party resolution defining Zionism as racism, saying the end of this resolution is in the dustbin of history.
Economically and defensively, Doren Biskin's Hebrew page considered that Turkey has become a defense export power, something that should interest Israel, as Turkish defense and aerospace exports reached $10.94 billion in the last twelve months, an increase of about 30%, compared with record Israeli defense export deals worth $19.2 billion signed in 2025, noting that the comparison is not fully accounting because Turkey announces actual exports while Israel announces new contracts, but the gap is narrowing. In Israel, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich signed an order lowering the price per liter of gasoline starting tonight from about $2.70 to $2.54, saving about $3.27 per 20-liter canister, at a cost of nearly $49 million in tax revenues despite objections from professional bodies in the Finance Ministry and its warning of a budget deficit, raising in Lebanon a question about the government's plan to confront high prices.