Earlier in the day, Israel's security cabinet approved a new settlement that was promised by Netanyahu to former residents of Amona.

Citing unnamed US officials, the Times identified the White House official as "Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council."

With the end of the Syrian civil war presumably in sight, Israel and the other countries in the region are facing a serious question.

Wilson Chowdry, chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association, took up Benkald’s cause with the Pakistani High Commission in London.

Lady Sayeeda Warsi says citizens should be treated as foreign fighters and prosecuted upon their return to the UK.

Fresh comments come as former London mayor faces expulsion from Labour.

Stating where settler building can occur and where it cannot would effectively create a gold list and a blacklist of Israeli settlements, a prospect the current government is loathed to consider.

The arrest came after an extensive investigation by the Israeli Police in cooperation with FBI and other international law enforcement agencies.