Netanyahu cast doubt on accounts of Jewish attacks on diplomats, priests and journalists over the weekend. With the election a week away, coalition calculations are taking precedence

Rare police action against settlers follows days of international pressure over high-profile assaults; meanwhile, new attacks by Jewish extremists reported

From her hospital bed, Heidi Levine says PM's suggestion that settlers were trying to help her up is 'such a lie and the biggest insult'; Huckabee decries 'despicable act of terror'

Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villages across the occupied West Bank on Friday, setting fire to cars and trees and beating residents and a Washington Post photographer, in the latest violence to disrupt the territory's annual olive harvest this month.