Prime Minister Yair Lapid condemned in a tweet Saturday night the attack on novelist Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed during a lecture in New York the previous day.
"The attack on Salman Rushdie is an attack on our freedoms and values. It is the result of decades of incitement led by the extremist regime in Tehran," he wrote.
"On behalf of the people of Israel, we wish him a full and speedy recovery."
Rushdie, a vocal critic of Islam, spent years in hiding after he was ordered killed by Iran in 1989 because of his writing.