Like many people in crisis-hit Lebanon, Elias Skaff used to wait for hours to withdraw cash at the bank but now prefers money transfer companies as trust in lenders has evaporated.

Anyone who relies on traditional banks to receive their money "will die 100 times before cashing it", said Skaff, 50, who has survived Lebanon's three-year-old economic downturn with the help of US dollar payments from a relative abroad.

The annual Oktoberfest this weekend at Taybeh brewery in the occupied West Bank is a beer festival like no other.

Ever since 1994 it has operated under challenging circumstances. Now the Palestinian brewery is run by a woman, Madees Khoury, adding an extra layer of complication.

Khoury says she is the first, and perhaps the only female brewer in the Middle East, and heads a beer dynasty which has turned the small Christian village of Taybeh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank into a global beer brand.

All summer, Palestinians from the millions-strong diaspora have been flocking to the West Bank, fearful new Israeli rules expected to take effect next week could make future visits hard if not impossible.

Under the regulations, first published in February to a storm of protest, foreign passport holders -- including Palestinians living abroad -- will no longer be able to obtain visas on arrival and instead have to apply for them at least 45 days in advance.

A Palestinian was shot dead Friday after stabbing an Israeli soldier at an army post near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli army and the Palestinian health ministry said.

"An assailant armed with a knife" approached a military post and stabbed a soldier, the army said in a statement, adding that another soldier opened fire and "neutralised" the assailant.

The Palestinian health ministry said it had been informed of the death of a young man near the flashpoint city, but did not immediately identify him.

Israel's armed forces will acquire four Boeing refuelling aircraft in the coming years as part of the aid it receives from ally the United States, the US aviation giant said.

Boeing signed a $927 million contract with the US defense department on Thursday for the four KC-46A aircraft, the manufacturer's Israeli branch said in a statement.

The planes, described by Boeing as the world's most advanced air-to-air refuelling aircraft, are due for delivery between 2025 and 2026.

Eight suspects go on trial Monday over the July 2016 attack in the Mediterranean city of Nice where a radical Islamist killed 86 people by driving a truck into thousands of locals and tourists celebrating France's national day.

The attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, was shot dead by police following the more than four-minute rampage when he zig-zagged down the seaside embankment of the Promenade des Anglais, destroying lives in his wake.

The killing of 11 Israelis at the 1972 Munich Olympics prompted Israel to turn to a strategy which endures to this day: deploying secret operatives abroad to assassinate its enemies.

Ever since the Mossad intelligence service embarked on its Operation "Wrath of God" to hunt down senior militants it blamed for the Munich bloodbath, it has covertly targeted Israel's enemies overseas.

Half a century ago next week, Palestinian gunmen from the Black September militant group broke into the Olympic village and stormed the quarters of the Israeli athletes and their coaches.

One evening in January 2021, Arafe Rajabi, exasperated by yet another night of roaring cars below his window in an east Jerusalem Palestinian suburb, went downstairs to complain.

Fifteen minutes later, he was shot dead, another victim of the chaos in his Kufr Aqab neighbourhood, a no-man's land which is increasingly turning into a local version of the Wild West.

Located around 10 kilometres (six miles) from the centre of Jerusalem, the town is among a handful of locations with a unique status in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Israel and Germany's presidents will jointly commemorate the 1972 Munich Olympics attack that left 11 Israeli athletes dead, after a last-minute compensation deal averted a feared boycott by bereaved relatives.

Around 70 relatives of victims will join in next Monday's solemn 50th-anniversary ceremony, Ankie Spitzer, whose husband Andre Spitzer counted among the dead, told AFP. Separately, the Israel Olympic Committee confirmed a delegation at the event.

The United States said Thursday that a new response from Iran on reviving a landmark nuclear deal was "not constructive," a day after European mediators were hopeful at finally crossing the finish line.

It is the latest in a back and forth between the adversaries via the European Union, which in August broke a deadlock after a year and a half of slow-moving diplomacy.

The European Union put forward on August 8 what it called a final text to restore the 2015 nuclear accord, which was trashed by former US president Donald Trump.