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Oct 9, 2026, 2:06 PM

October 7 at Three: From Kibbutz to Flight FZ1073

Captain Smit Machchhar (left), the Indian pilot who, though badly wounded, unlocked the cockpit door of flydubai flight FZ1073 and saved 174 lives. The Nova festival memorial near Kibbutz Re’im (right), where more than 360 people were murdered on October 7, 2023.

(Photo credit: Nova memorial: Rahul PAWA. Captain Machchhar: via social media.)

Three years after Hamas terrorist attack, the threat to Israelis has followed them from the kibbutz to the embassy, the synagogue, the beach and, last week, the cockpit. On the morning of October 7, 2023, the most important objects in...

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Rahul PAWA is Director of Research at the Centre for Integrated and Holistic Studies, New Delhi, and a former Research Fellow at the Parliament of India. He writes on international law, frontier technologies, AI governance and global security.