在本雅明·内塔尼亚胡总理即将举行的选举活动中，人们主要讨论的是2023年10月7日哈马斯发动袭击前在政策、军事及情报方面所出现的失误。
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign for a coming election was already dominated by discussion of the policy, military and intelligence failures leading up to the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.
随着全国大选的临近，内塔尼亚胡总理面临着激烈的竞争。他的支持者和反对者迅速抓住了周三发生在飞往特拉维夫的FlyDubai航班上那次险些酿成灾难的事件，将其作为讨论的焦点。
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is in a tight race with a national election approaching, and his supporters and opponents quickly seized on Wednesday’s narrowly averted disaster on a FlyDubai flight to Tel Aviv.
在从迪拜起飞的1073号航班上的乘客（其中大部分为以色列人）安全返回以色列之前数小时，内塔尼亚胡的国防部长暗示他和内塔尼亚胡曾试图警告可能会发生的袭击。
Hours before the mostly Israeli passengers on the plane, Flight 1073 from Dubai, had even made it home, Mr. Netanyahu’s defense minister hinted that he and Mr. Netanyahu had tried to warn of some kind of attack.
“当总理和我根据情报发出警告或安全提示时，”国防部长以色列·卡茨在一份声明中表示，“我们的外部敌人以及那些被排除在决策之外的内部人士，都应该认真倾听并予以重视。”
“When the prime minister and I sound warnings and security alerts based on intelligence,” the minister, Israel Katz, said in a statement, “it is worth you — our outside enemies and out-of-the-loop formers from within — listening and taking them seriously.”
在危机发生的周二，内塔尼亚胡曾在以色列空军基地表示：“我们有迹象表明，在大选前夕，我们的敌人会试图发动攻击。”然而，内塔尼亚胡和卡茨都没有提供任何具体的威胁细节，因此反对者将这些警告视为选举宣传或制造恐慌的手段。
On Tuesday, a day before the crisis aboard the FlyDubai flight, Mr. Netanyahu was filmed at an Israeli Air Force base saying, “We have indications that, ahead of the elections, our enemies will try to attack us.”But neither Mr. Netanyahu or Mr. Katz provided any specifics with their warnings, leading opponents to dismiss the admonitions as election spinning and fear mongering.
内塔尼亚胡的政治对手纳夫塔利·贝内特批评了内塔尼亚胡的这种笼统的警告。他在以色列电视台上表示，自己也可以通过手机应用程序收到类似的安全警报，并质疑内塔尼亚胡究竟采取了哪些措施来应对这些威胁。
Naftali Bennett, a political rival, had criticized Mr. Netanyahu’s broad warning. On Tuesday, he said on Israeli television that he could get alerts from a phone app and asked what the prime minister was doing to thwart the threats.
据目击者和官员称，在周三的航班上，多名乘客和机组人员成功制服了正在刺杀机长的副驾驶。飞机一度陷入急速俯冲状态，但机上的两名备用飞行员最终成功将飞机安全降落在沙特阿拉伯。目前，调查人员正在试图查明这起袭击的动机。
On Wednesday’s flight, several passengers and crew members overcame the co-pilot, who was stabbing the captain, according to witnesses and officials. The plane was sent into a nosedive, but two reserve pilots on board the flight have been credited with landing it safely in Saudi Arabia. Investigators have been seeking to determine a motive for the attack.
中间派反对党领袖亚伊尔·拉皮德周四表示，他于周二深夜听取了总理提供的安全简报。拉皮德先生没有透露这份机密简报的具体内容，但他称，根据当时听到的情况，“没有理由感到恐慌”，并补充说，内塔尼亚胡先生列举的威胁并不新鲜。
Yair Lapid, a centrist opposition leader, said on Thursday that he had received a security briefing from the prime minister late on Tuesday night. Without going into details about the classified briefing, Mr. Lapid said that from what he heard then, “There was no reason for panic,” adding that the threats Mr. Netanyahu had laid out were nothing new.
“简报中没有提到劫持飞机这种情况，”拉皮德先生说，“完全没有类似内容。什么都没有。”以色列任期最长的总理内塔尼亚胡一直努力维持其“国家安全掌门人”的声誉。此前有报道称，在2023年10月7日哈马斯对以色列发动致命袭击之前，政策、军事和情报层面接连受挫；这场袭击引发了加沙的毁灭性战争以及中东各地的冲突。
“There was no mention of a scenario of a plane hijacking,” Mr. Lapid said. “Not anything like it. Nothing.”Mr. Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving prime minister, has been struggling to maintain his reputation as the country’s national security czar, amid reports of the policy, military and intelligence failures leading up to the ahead of the deadly Hamas assault on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which ignited a devastating war in Gaza and conflicts across the Middle East. .
10月27日大选竞选活动的大部分时间都聚焦于内塔尼亚胡先生知道什么以及何时知道的问题，许多以色列人和外部观察人士认为，此次投票将是以色列历史上后果最重大的选举。
Much of the campaign for the Oct. 27 general election, which many Israelis and outside observers consider to be the most consequential vote in the country’s history, has focused on what Mr. Netanyahu knew and when.
周三入夜后，内塔尼亚胡先生前往特拉维夫的本-古里安国际机场，迎接1073号航班抵达的乘客。他接受镜头采访，并与其中一名制服袭击者的以色列人交谈，称赞乘客和机组人员的英勇行动扭转了危局。
After nightfall on Wednesday, Mr. Netanyahu went to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport to greet the passengers of Flight 1073 when they landed. He spoke on camera with one of the Israelis who had subdued the attacker and credited the courageous actions of passengers and crew members for saving the day.
《泰晤士报》驻耶路撒冷高级记者伊莎贝尔·克什纳自1990年起一直报道以色列和巴勒斯坦事务。
Isabel Kershner, a senior correspondent for The Times in Jerusalem, has been reporting on Israeli and Palestinian affairs since 1990.