Bomb scare

Wave of bomb threats causes emergency landings for several flights across Europe

Among the flights affected were an Aer Lingus route from Dublin to Rome, two Finnair flights from Helsinki to Italy, a Belgian commercial airliner, and three aircraft which landed in Bulgaria.

An ITA Airways Airbus A-320 plane bound for Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci International Airport takes off from the Belgian capital's Zaventem airport on March 08, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium.
Members of the Religious Zionist Party, Minister Orit Strock, Itamar Eitam and Zvika Mor, meet with Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem during consultations with political parties following the elections to the 26th Knesset, November 4, 2026.

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This general view Israeli owned cruise ship MS Crown Iris at the port of Piraeus in Athens on June 3, 2026, during a demonstration against Israeli tourists visiting Greece.

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Yaniv Hayun, who subdued the suspected terrorist aboard Flydubai flight FZ1073, arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, September 30, 2026.

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NYC synagogues, museum receive fake bomb threats, New York officials say

All incidents continue to be investigated by the New York Police Department.

 An NYPD law enforcement official stands guard after establishing a closed perimeter on campus around student protesters at Columbia University during a comprehensive operation to clear campus of protesters in support of Palestinians

Synagogue bomb threat is dramatized in Oscars ad against antisemitism by Robert Kraft

The 60-second Oscars ad depicts what happened in Attleboro, Massachusetts, last fall when Congregation Agudas Achim, a Reconstructionist synagogue, was evacuated because of a bomb threat.

 The "Neighbors" ad depicts a church welcoming in a nearby synagogue after a bar mitzvah service was interrupted by a bomb threat.

Pro-Palestinian protesters block NYPD from addressing bomb threat, official claims

An Uber driver discovered a grenade in the back of his car, but NYPD was unable to arrive at the scene quickly enough because pro-Palestinian protesters were blocking the streets.

 Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest in Times Square on the second day of the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, in Manhattan in New York City, U.S., October 8, 2023

Oklahoma University evacuated over anti-Israel bomb scare

The message left by the suspicious package read "Ignore this like you do genocide. 28,000 and counting. Silence is complicity."

Gould Hall on the campus of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma (United States).

Bomb explodes outside ministry in Athens, no injuries

A Greek newspaper received a phone call by an unknown caller that a bomb had been planted at the ministry and had informed the police who cordoned off the area before the explosion.

 Police officers are seen in Athens, Greece, June 23, 2021

London primary school considers closure over bomb threats amid Palestine flag row

The school was the site of protests in December after parents were asked to speak to their children about inappropriate comments made on school grounds relating to the Israel-Hamas war.

 An empty classroom.

US Jews suffer nearly 200 swatting, false bomb threats throughout weekend

In recent days, law enforcement in Ohio and California have announced the arrest of alleged perpetrators of a high volume of swatting activity and false bomb threats.

 SWAT officers aiming guns (illustrative).

Synagogue bomb threats in Massachusetts heighten concerns in local communities

Weiss mentioned that the email provided a phone number for further information.

 Park East Synagogue

Police evacuate Toronto Jewish day school after bomb threat

The threat claimed bombs had been planted in the school parking lot. Its subject line was “Death by fire.”

 A police officer speaks with security personnel after a shooting incident at the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada August 21, 2023

Shabbat event for NYC officials in San Juan interrupted by protesters amid bomb threats

The following day, an inert grenade was found at Holocaust Memorial Park in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and a false bomb threat was called into Central Synagogue in Midtown Manhattan.

IAC pro Israel rally at the World Trade Center Sunday, May 23