Iran’s state media said Monday that the unveiling of an improved ballistic missile, the Qassem Basir, marks a “turning point” in Tehran’s defense strategy under a new doctrine of taking preemptive action against threats.

Attacks by Yemen’s Houthis on Tuesday disrupted some energy facilities in Saudi Arabia and wounded more than 70 people, Saudi authorities said.

UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a week and a half before the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks that Hamas was planning a major operation against Israel, Haaretz journalists Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval report, citing three sources familiar with the reported 45-minute-long conversation. According to the research, conducted as part of their new book, Hostages: 843 Days of Abandonment, Netanyahu did not update Israeli security leaders on the warning. Netanyahu’s office called the investigation an “absolute lie,” saying “Prime Minister Netanyahu didn’t speak to the president of the UAE during the period in question and received no warning from him.”

The U.K. is set to announce sanctions banning trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank as soon as Tuesday, The New York Times reports, potentially including sanctions on companies involved in building the settlements as well. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said last week that Israel would retaliate against such new measures, without specifying how.

The Israeli National Security Council released its assessment of threats to Israelis and Jews traveling abroad ahead of the High Holy Days, naming as continued threats Iran and its proxies, including Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, as well as ISIS and al-Qaida. The NSC advised Israelis to avoid countries neighboring Iran, including Azerbaijan, Turkey and the UAE, as well as Jordan, Qatar, Somaliland and Egypt, and to avoid displaying Jewish symbols or speaking Hebrew in public.

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.”

Haifa-based startup HydroSight, an AI-powered marine technology company, emerged from stealth with $5 million in seed funding led by StageOne Ventures, CTech reported on Monday. The company, founded last year by Tomer Adler, Haitham Ezzy and Chen Megera, serves ports, energy companies and telecom cable operators.

Israeli investors have become entangled in the long-running dispute between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands, after Argentine President Javier Milei last week announced sanctions on companies drilling for oil off the British-held territory. Tel Aviv-listed Navitas Petroleum operates the Sea Lion project Milei singled out, and Israel-based groups are among the largest shareholders in its London-listed partner, Rockhopper Exploration, Reuters reports. Argentine Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno said the move “does not harm the Argentine-Israeli relationship in the slightest.”

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.

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.”

Board of Peace head Nickolay Mladenov similarly said at the Hili Forum in Abu Dhabi on Monday that the upcoming Israeli elections are “making things perhaps a bit complicated for domestic political reasons” in regards to implementing the peace plan for Gaza and said if the plan does not move forward a two-state solution “will become practically impossible.”

The Republic of Kosovo formally signed a Participating Country Agreement on Monday to join the U.S.-backed International Stabilization Force for Gaza, the Board of Peace announced, after Kosovo Security Force members deployed to ISF headquarters in the spring to lead planning on logistics, civil affairs and unexploded-ordnance clearing.

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.