Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed with Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Friday to assemble a task force to monitor the implementation of a construction freeze in West Bank settlements.

Settler leaders are gearing up for a major demonstration outside Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's official residence next week, having failed at a fraught meeting on Thursday to persuade him to reconsider the 10-month freeze he is implementing on construction of new homes at West Bank settlements.

Israel still has several reservations regarding the proposed prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.

IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi expressed support on Tuesday for a national service system that would draft all Israelis, some of whom the Israel Defense Forces would select to serve in the army.

Heads of West Bank communities said they will prevent Civil Administration officials from entering their communities to enforce a construction freeze.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the Defense Ministry on Sunday to urgently recruit and train construction supervisors to oversee the 10-month construction freeze in West Bank settlements, decreed by the cabinet last week.

The dispute with haredi protesters over Shabbat parking near Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate has been solved, and similar bitter protests over Shabbat operations at the city's Intel plant are also well on the way to resolution, an upbeatJerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said on Saturday night.

Israel's air force bombed a group of terrorists in Gaza as they prepared to launch a rocket at Israel.