In late October, a video spread on social media with claims it showed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu being attacked and seriously injured in Tel Aviv.
"Breaking A very dangerous attack on Netanyahu in Tel Aviv it appears he has sustained severe injuries, and an aircraft is being dispatched to transport him to the United States. This is clearly evident from the footage," one X post (archived) captioned the footage.
Other X users also shared the video. Snopes readers searched our website for information about the alleged attack.
The video is authentic, meaning not generated with artificial intelligence or digitally edited. However, it does not show Netanyahu. It shows an attempted attack on Bulgarian politician Ahmed Dogan during a party conference in January 2013. We have therefore rated the claim miscaptioned.
We found no credible reports of such an attack on Netanyahu. He remained politically active following Israel's Oct. 27 election and delivered a speech in Jerusalem the following day.
On Jan. 19, 2013, Dogan, then the leader of Bulgaria's Movement for Rights and Freedoms party, was giving a speech in Sofia when a man came onto the stage and pointed a gas pistol at his head. The gun did not fire, and Dogan was not injured. Security guards and other people at the conference then stopped the attacker, according to reporting by the BBC and bTV, a Bulgarian broadcaster. The Guardian also shared footage of the incident.
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