You have been told each of these was something else: a reaction to Gaza, a madman, a one-off. On Yom Kippur 2025 a man pledging allegiance to Islamic State attacked a Manchester synagogue. On the eve of Yom Kippur 2026, police in the same city arrested two men over a plot against its Jews. Ten days later a co-pilot tried to fly a plane full of Israelis into Ben Gurion. Laid end to end, it is one year.
This page lists the attacks and foiled plots against Jews and Israelis since October 2025 that were reported by major outlets and investigated by police. Every entry links its sources. Where the official finding is narrower than the headline (a hate crime rather than terrorism, a motive still under investigation) the entry says so. The deaths are also on the roll of the murdered.
You will hear that some of these attackers were mentally ill, or acting alone, or charged with something less than terrorism. Some were. The targets never changed: synagogues during prayer, a Hanukkah party, Jewish ambulances, a Jewish school, Israeli tourists who spoke Hebrew, a flight to Tel Aviv.
Campaigns prosecutors tie to Iran's Revolutionary Guard and its proxies.
30 Sep 2026flydubai FZ1073, Dubai to Tel Aviv
A co-pilot tries to crash a plane of Israelis into Ben Gurion
Captain seriously woundedCrash prevented
On approach to Israel, the first officer of flydubai flight FZ1073 attacked the captain, Smit Machchhar, in the cockpit. The UAE attorney general says he used the cockpit's emergency axe; early reports described a knife. The aircraft dropped about 14,000 feet in under 30 seconds. Machchhar, badly wounded, got the cockpit door open; passengers and two off-duty pilots on board restrained the attacker, took the controls and landed at Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. 174 people were aboard, more than 150 of them Israelis. No passenger was seriously hurt.
The attacker, an Omani national named in reports as Hamam al-Hamami, told UAE interrogators he had planned the attack before flydubai hired him and meant to crash at Ben Gurion Airport. Prime Minister Netanyahu said he had undergone “Islamist radicalization”; Israel's defence minister called it “an attempted jihadist terror attack.” Israel's early assessment is a lone attacker; the investigation, including whether he was sent, is ongoing. flydubai suspended its Israel flights.
A plot against Manchester's Jews, stopped on the eve of Yom Kippur
Foiled
Counter-terrorism police arrested two men in their thirties on Newton Street, Manchester, under the Terrorism Act, over a suspected plot targeting the city's Jewish community. It came days before the first anniversary of the Heaton Park attack. Britain recorded 1,926 antisemitic incidents in the first half of 2026, the second-highest figure the Community Security Trust has ever logged.
During Friday-night services attended by about 375 people, a man stood up shouting, smashed two ceremonial silver candlesticks, punched a woman in the congregation and attacked a Black security guard while being arrested. Prosecutors say he told them afterwards that his actions were religiously and racially motivated.
Larry Montes, 46, of the Bronx, is charged with federal hate crimes and indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney on state hate-crime counts.
Jul to Aug 2026Spain, Montenegro, Mongolia, Thailand
Israelis hunted on holiday
Several wounded
Through the summer, Jewish and Israeli travellers were attacked for being Jewish, saying they were Israeli, or being heard speaking Hebrew:
3 July, Barcelona. Seven French Jewish tourists leaving Shabbat services were pursued and surrounded for about 90 minutes, spat at, and told “Jews are not welcome in Barcelona.”
11 July, Budva, Montenegro. Israeli tourists were beaten, kicked and struck with chairs after saying they were Israeli. One suffered a fractured jaw; another was knocked unconscious.
13 July, northern Mongolia. A man who heard six Israeli campers speaking Hebrew charged them with an axe shouting “Heil Hitler.” One suffered a fractured jaw.
Early August, Koh Phangan, Thailand. An Israeli mother and daughter were severely beaten; the mother was hospitalised.
A man stabbed a 57-year-old Asian man in the back, then, a short distance away near a synagogue, stabbed a 50-year-old Jewish man in the torso with a screwdriver as he left services for Tisha B'Av, the fast that mourns the destruction of the Temples. Witnesses told police the attacker shouted “Allahu Akbar.” Both men survived.
Raul Morales, 51, was arrested after barricading himself in his apartment and is charged with attempted murder as a hate crime.
An Iranian proxy commander charged with targeting American synagogues
Foiled
The US Justice Department charged Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, a commander in the Iran-backed Iraqi militia Kata'ib Hezbollah, with six terrorism offences. Prosecutors say he tried to hire a hitman, in fact an undercover officer, to attack a Manhattan synagogue and Jewish centres in Los Angeles and Scottsdale, sending photographs and maps of the targets and weighing whether to use “an improvised explosive device” or “set the place on fire.”
Prosecutors tie him, as an operative of Kata'ib Hezbollah and Iran's Revolutionary Guard, to nearly 20 attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and the United States.
For three months, London's Jewish community was hit again and again:
23 March, Golders Green. Four Hatzola volunteer ambulances were burned in a synagogue car park; their oxygen cylinders exploded. Four young men have pleaded guilty.
15 to 19 April. A brick and petrol bottles thrown at Finchley Reform Synagogue, an arson attempt at a Jewish charity in Hendon, a firebomb through the window of Kenton United Synagogue, a fire and antisemitic graffiti at a Jewish shop in Watford.
29 April, Golders Green. Two Jewish men, aged 34 and 76, stabbed in the street. Essa Suleiman, 45, is charged with three attempted murders; prosecutors are treating it as a hate crime rather than terrorism.
May and June. A fire at a former synagogue in Tower Hamlets; a pram set alight in the stairwell of a Jewish apartment building in Golders Green.
More than 80 people were arrested by early May. A group calling itself Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia (HAYI) claimed many of the attacks; Britain proscribed it in July as part of a commitment “to protect the Jewish community,” and US prosecutors link it to Iran's Revolutionary Guard through al-Saadi.
Three gunmen fired about two dozen shots outside the Israeli consulate-general in Istanbul. The building was empty. Police killed one attacker and wounded and captured the other two; two officers were lightly hurt.
The three were reported to be affiliated with Islamic State. Israel's foreign ministry called it “Islamic terrorism”; President Erdoğan called it a “heinous terrorist attack.”
A synagogue and a Jewish school bombed in one week
Damage, no injuries
As war with Iran began, explosions hit three Jewish sites in six days: a synagogue in Liège, Belgium, on 9 March, which Belgium's interior minister called a “despicable antisemitic act”; a synagogue in Rotterdam, where police investigated arson after a blast, on 13 March; and the only Orthodox Jewish school in the Netherlands, in Amsterdam, on 14 March, which the city's mayor called “a deliberate attack against the Jewish community.” Belgium deployed soldiers to guard Jewish sites.
A man drove a pickup truck through the front entrance of Temple Israel, struck a security guard and opened fire with an AR-style rifle before killing himself inside the burning vehicle. The guard was hurt and 63 police officers were treated for smoke inhalation. No congregant was killed.
The FBI concluded the attack by Ayman Mohamed Ghazali, 41, was “a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism against the Jewish community.”
A car rammed into Chabad headquarters during prayers
No injuries
A driver cleared snow from the driveway of 770 Eastern Parkway, the world headquarters of the Chabad movement, then rammed his car into its side entrance five times while people were praying inside. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch called the building “a sacred place for many Jews in New York City and around the world.”
Dan Sohail, 36, of New Jersey, faces state hate-crime charges and a federal charge of damaging religious property.
15 killed40 woundedA Hanukkah menorah, lit. The Bondi gunmen struck on the first night of the festival.Photo by Alla Kemelmakher on Unsplash.
A father and son opened fire on “Chanukah by the Sea,” a beachside celebration attended by about a thousand people, killing 15 and wounding 40. It is the deadliest terrorist attack in Australia's history.
New South Wales Police declared it terrorism the same evening and say the gunmen were driven by Islamic State ideology and hatred of Jews. The father was killed by police; the son survived. How Australia got here →
On the holiest day of the Jewish year, a man drove into worshippers outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation and began stabbing them. Rabbi Daniel Walker and congregants barricaded the doors and kept him out. Melvin Cravitz, 66, was stabbed to death. Adrian Daulby, 53, was killed by a police bullet while holding the synagogue door shut against the attacker.
Jihad al-Shamie, 35, pledged allegiance to Islamic State in a call to police and was shot dead wearing what appeared to be a suicide belt. Greater Manchester Police called it an “antisemitic terrorist atrocity.”
The thread. US prosecutors put Kata'ib Hezbollah and Iran's Revolutionary Guard behind both the London campaign and the American synagogue plot, and the FBI found the Temple Israel attacker was inspired by Hezbollah. Two attackers declared for Islamic State. The rest were lone men with a knife, a car or an axe, and the same target. Iran's Ring of Fire →
Why the count is low. This page holds attacks that police investigated and major outlets reported. It leaves out the thousands of assaults, threats and acts of vandalism logged by monitors every month. For the long pattern, see the oldest hatred; for how it is dressed up as politics, see Same Hatred, New Words.
