Israel's Police Commissioner Yochanan Danino vowed on Sunday to prosecute those responsible for the mayhem last week when hundreds of Beitar Jerusalem fans ran wild in a shopping mall, chanting anti-Arab songs and allegedly attacking several of the mall's Arab employees.

Mr Danino also admitted that police made some mistakes in how the incident had been handled in the Malha mall, following repo

Politicians from the three main parties in British politics have offered their Chanucah wishes to the Jewish community.

Alistair Burt has had a busy week. After making a speech at the International Atomic Energy Authority in Vienna warning of the continued nuclear threat of Iran, the Middle East minister flew to New York to join David Cameron and William Hague in discussions over the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations.

We should prepare for Islamists in government and even Islamist governments in the wake of the Arab Spring, the minister responsible for the Middle East said this week.

Speaking before next week's Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Alistair Burt said there was a need to distinguish between Islamists who were prepared to support peace within the new democracies and those, such as Hamas

Two high-level government committees are about to change the way Israel's economy functions.

One of the two bodies addressed the issue of cross-ownership in a report issued on Monday. The other, which is due to deliver its initial report next week, will propose new priorities for the government's budget.

Shelly Yachimovich, a former journalist and broadcaster, will be the next leader of Israel's Labour Party, only six years after entering politics.

Ms Yachimovich won the second round of leadership primaries with around 55 per cent of the votes, beating her former political patron, Amir Peretz.