Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited to Israel as a guest of honour the Indian captain of a Tel Aviv-bound flydubai flight, Smit Machchhar, and said he wanted him and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to light a flame at a national ceremony for Israel’s Independence Day next May, a role usually reserved for Israeli citizens.

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers and soldiers attacked and blocked Palestinian farmers from harvesting olives, according to Al Jazeera; more than 80,000 Palestinian families rely on the olive harvest as a source of income.