Overnight talk of the cabinet's scrapped WW/WIA cuts faded, with only the FD still leading on the box 3 capital-gains levy.
Morning papers then converged on a FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv that sent a hijack signal and dived before an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. Early reports of a cockpit fight hardened into witness accounts of blood and screaming, a five-kilometre drop in two minutes, passenger intervention and landing by two off-duty pilots. By afternoon Netanyahu confirmed a stabbing by the co-pilot, whom ministers called a jihadist trying to crash the plane with 150 Israelis aboard.
Attention shifted mid-afternoon to writer and cabaret performer Paulien Cornelisse, 50, who died of cancer in Amsterdam, remembered for her observations on language and behaviour.