“I very much appreciate the warm attitude of the Saudi authorities toward the Israeli passengers whose plane was in distress and had to make an emergency landing,” Netanyahu said.

Air Seychelles was en route to Tel Aviv with a reported 128 Israelis on board when it experienced what the airline said was an unspecified technical issue.

“Rockslides, a lack of roads, we crossed over streams and collapsed bridges. In every village where we arrived, we saw that the situation was worse."

Some 500 citizens had been unreachable.

At least 49 people have died in India since the weekend amid flash floods triggered by monsoon rains.

Israeli-Ukrainian 'Alex' expresses a deep faith in God after rushing to Ukraine to confront Russian forces.

The five-year-old Israeli boy lost his entire family when the cable car they were riding in plunged down a mountainside in northern Italy.

Eitan Biran woke up in an Italian hospital three days after the cable car crash that killed the other members of his family.

Hundreds of Israelis returned home from abroad as the coronavirus pandemic continued to threaten populations across the globe.