Eliav Gelman, 30, an army reservist from Karmei Tzur, was stabbed Wednesday morning at the Gush Etzion junction and then struck by bullets fired by Israeli security forces attempting to thwart the attack, the Israel Defense Forces said.
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The assailant was also shot and sustained moderate injuries.
Capt Gelman was taken to the Shaare Zedek Medical Centre in Jerusalem in a critical condition, but he succumbed to his wounds two hours after the attack.
The Etzion bloc of Israeli settlements, in the southern West Bank between Bethlehem and the flashpoint city of Hebron, has been a focal point of the unrest.
A wave of Palestinian knife, gun and car-ramming assaults that erupted in early October has claimed the lives of 28 Israelis, as well as an American, a Sudanese and an Eritrean.
Iran announced it will pay thousands of dollars to families of Palestinians killed while carrying out terror attacks against Israelis.
Israeli security forces have killed at least 168 Palestinians, 111 of whom Israel says were assailants, while most others were shot dead during violent anti-Israeli protests.
According to the Israel Police and Shin Bet, the alleged attacker was arrested after a four-day manhunt.
B’Tselem and HaMoked presented accounts by 116 Palestinian detainees in a report detailing conditions at the Shikma interrogation facility, run by the Israeli Shin Bet internal security agency.
The paper said that preliminary findings indicated that a Palestinian man walked up to the Israeli and tried to stab him.
Also on Wednesday, two Israeli human rights groups released a report in which they said dozens of Palestinian detainees being held at an Israeli detention facility had been subjected to mistreatment, and in some cases torture.
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“Conditions at the Shikma facility are an inherent part of interrogations there: they serve to weaken both mind and body, complementing the actual interrogation of detainees in the interrogation room”, the report said.
