Four people were injured in a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, Israel's emergency services said. Ichilov Hospital said it was treating three of the victims, including one with "a serious condition with a knife wound to the neck". The assailant, a 28-year-old foreign national, was shot dead at the scene, police said.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi, on Tuesday, sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announcing that he would resign on March 6 after two years and two months in office, about 10 months earlier than the standard three-year term.

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center’s Ichilov Hospital announced on Wednesday that two additional victims of the previous night’s terrorist attack in the city had been admitted, with minor injuries. This brings the total number of injured to six, three of whom have already been discharged, according to the hospital.