In the latest unrest, an Israeli soldier is killed in a shooting at a bus station in the southern city of Beersheba, the first such attack after a day in which violence seemed to somewhat ebb.

Palestinians torched a site revered by Jews in the West Bank overnight, Israeli and Palestinian sources said on Friday.

The Israeli military says Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fire a rocket into southern Israel, amid a sharp increase in tensions.

A Palestinian woman has died of injuries she sustained during an arson attack on her home in the West Bank that killed her husband and infant son.

ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems close to ordering a general mobilization of his country's military, and Republicans in the United States are preparing for a ferocious battle with President Barack Obama's administration, in the wake of the framework nuclear agreement with Iran.

President Barack Obama tells PM Benjamin Netanyahu that Washington would 'reassess' its options on US-Israel relations and Middle East diplomacy after the Israeli PM took position against Palestinian statehood during his re-election campaign, according to a White House official

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party claimes a surprise victory in Israel's election, Israeli media report

Iran should agree to a decade-long freeze on its nuclear activity if deal is to be finally reached, Obama says

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in the US to argue against a possible nuclear deal with Iran

Row between US and Benjamin Netanyahu deepens, with the Israeli leader accusing America and others of "giving up" on trying to stop Iran obtaining nuclear weapons