During a Knesset panel, Labor MK Naama Lazimi questioned the government's intention to continue funding Yair Netanyahu's extended U.S. stay 'because he assaulted the prime minister ... desecrating a symbol of state authority?' Netanyahu's Likud party: 'an absolute, repugnant lie'

During an address to graduates of an IDF officers course, Netanyahu also raised a picture of Shiri Bibas and her two young children, Kfir and Ariel and spoke about Israel's commitment to the hostages, to which someone from the crowd shouted 'so why didn't you bring them back?'

The AfD is steadily gaining ground in Germany's political establishment. One of its leaders told Haaretz that concerns over the party's antisemitic undertones were mistaken, warning that Jews are threatened only by Muslim immigrants: 'We have to stop this flow into our country, specifically to protect Jews'

Chancellor-elect Freidrich Merz's must learn from the mistake conservatives have made throughout German history: don't underestimate the far right

While the world's attention will be on the shock of a fifth of Germans supporting the far-right AfD, the Netanyahu government's focus will be on who they'll be doing business with: the center-right Christian Democrats