A soldier in the Nahal Charedi battalion was arrested last Friday over suspicions that he had threatened members of the gay community in Jerusalem.

Shmuel Primark, 20, is suspected of sending threatening messages to gay centres and posting them on internet forums. Police say they do not believe he has any connection to the shooting in Tel Aviv last week in which two members of a gay youth club were killed. Police have yet to make arrests over the shooting and are investigating whether there was a connection to a fight at the club a few days previously.