Following a manhunt for a suspect who stabbed an Israeli civilian in the area of the Palestinian village of Usarin in the West Bank on Monday, Israeli soldiers located the attacker. “The terrorist attempted to stab the soldiers. An IDF commander responded with fire and eliminated him,” the IDF said. The victim, a man in his 20s, was stabbed multiple times at the Moaz Yehuda settlement farm and was evacuated to a hospital in moderate-to-serious condition, the Magen David Adom emergency service said.

The far-right Alternative for Germany party won Sunday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt by a wide margin over Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union, a victory that could lead to the first far-right government in Germany since the Nazi era. It is unclear whether the party, which fell short of a majority and which Germany’s mainstream parties have refused to govern with, will be able to form a government.

A former campaign speechwriter for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis named Nate Hochman, who was fired after he produced a pro-DeSantis video featuring a Nazi symbol embraced by white supremacists, is now working as a senior aide and speechwriter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, The New York Times found. Even before being hired by the DeSantis campaign, Hochman had drawn controversy for complimenting white nationalist Nick Fuentes in an online chat, calling him “a better influence than Ben Shapiro on young men who might otherwise be conservative.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak at the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 24, Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon announced, with a warning to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to “stay tuned” after the mayor admitted he could not arrest Netanyahu when he visits the city.

Netanyahu said in a Rosh Hashanah toast during Sunday’s government meeting that Israel is determined to topple the Iranian regime, declaring that “its end is near.” He also warned that if Tehran attacks Israel, “it will suffer a blow it cannot even imagine.”

Netanyahu has instructed that unauthorized settler outposts in the West Bank be dismantled, two sources told Reuters on Sunday, amid pressure from the U.S. for Israel to crack down on attacks by settlers against Palestinians.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee held a rare town hall with Palestinian Americans in the West Bank town of Turmus Aya on Saturday where he denounced Israeli settlers who have carried out attacks against Palestinians as “terrorists” and said he would exert “pressure” to “get some resolution” to such issues raised by the attendees.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman warned Huckabee in a post on X on Sunday that using the term “terrorists” to define Israelis — whom Friedman said are only “fight[ing] back” against the “ruthless thugs” who commit violence against Jews in the West Bank — is a “win for the anti-Israel PR machine.”

Delta and United Airlines are restarting direct flights between the U.S. and Israel, with Delta resuming a once daily direct flight from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Ben Gurion on Sunday, and United beginning two daily direct flights from New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport on Monday. Israir is also expected to launch a direct flight from New York next month.

Lebanese authorities said seven people were killed and 20 wounded in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Sunday morning. The IDF said it conducted strikes on Hezbollah terrorists and infrastructure in the area after Hezbollah launched two drones at Israeli soldiers in Israel’s security zone in southern Lebanon.

State Department antisemitism envoy Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun sent a letter to Lithuania’s culture minister opposing the development of a conference center on the Snipiskes Cemetery site in Vilnius, citing its status as sacred Jewish burial ground with 600 years of pre-Nazi history.

The U.S. struck three Iranian crude oil carriers on Saturday after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched ballistic missiles toward two U.S. Navy warships, the U.S. military said. A “U.S. aircraft carrier and guided-missile destroyer successfully evaded multiple unprovoked Iranian attacks. No American personnel were harmed,” CENTCOM said in a statement.

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday, during a visit aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war. On Sunday, the envoys traveled to Kyiv to continue the peace talks with Ukrainian officials.

In Kyiv, Kushner told reporters that the Israeli government “is a little irrational” in regards to Gaza at the moment because it has “crazy elections” coming up, but “we agree with the Israelis on the end state.”

The Trump administration is creating a strategy to execute once the Iran war is completed focused on expanding the Abraham Accords and creating a regional alliance of U.S. allies in the Middle East to contain Tehran, Axios reports.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Friday that the IDF’s operation on Thursday to capture the Ali Taher ridge in southern Lebanon “marks the completion of the phase of establishing control” of Israel’s security zone in the region, even as Israel and Lebanon work to hand over some IDF-controlled areas to the Lebanese Armed Forces under a U.S.-mediated framework.