The Israeli ministry of construction issued tenders for the building of 85 new housing units in the Givat Zeev settlement, settlement watchdog Peace Now said on Thursday.

The tenders for the settlement, which lies immediately south of the West Bank city of Ramallah, had been issued last year but received no bids from contractors so were issued again, Peace Now and the construction ministry said.

A Palestinian car hit three Israeli teenagers in the southern West Bank on Thursday, with the driver later arrested in what police said they were treating as a deliberate attack. 

The incident, which involved a black car, took place on a road near Alon Shvut settlement in Gush Etzion, a large West Bank settlement bloc.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set on Thursday to present his proposed government for the approval of parliament, where his coalition commands a razor-thin majority.

Netanyahu's new administration marks a shift to the right by giving increased prominence to Naftali Bennett's far-right Jewish Home, which opposes a Palestinian state and strongly backs settlement activity.

Israeli prosecutors on Wednesday charged seven people with international organ trafficking and organizing illegal transplants, the justice ministry said.

The Israeli suspects organized or performed transplants in Azerbaijan, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Kosovo, using paid local donors for Israeli recipients, it said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to submit his new government list to parliament on Thursday for a vote of confidence, a parliamentary spokesman said.

The spokesman said Netanyahu, at a session opening at 7 pm (1600 GMT), would deliver his government program and the presentation would be followed by a vote and the swearing in of ministers.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition stressed its desire Wednesday to achieve peace with the Palestinians and other Arab states as he prepared to present his new government.

"The Jewish people have the indisputable right to a sovereign state in the Land of Israel, its national and historic homeland," read the coalition guidelines presented to parliament.

Israel warned of a new conflict with Hizbullah, vowing to strike the party's strongholds which could result in a large number of civilian casualties.

“The civilians are living in a military compound,” The New York Times quoted a senior Israeli military official as saying.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced alleged resurgence in anti-Semitism both in the Middle East and in the West, in a speech on Tuesday at a forum about the problem.

"Today there is no doubt that we are living in an age of resurgent anti-Semitism," Netanyahu said at the opening of the fifth Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism.

Hundreds of Israeli Ethiopian Jews joined activists in the northern coastal city of Haifa on Tuesday to protest against alleged racism, a police spokeswoman said.

The demonstration passed peacefully under the watch of dozens of police officers, according to the spokeswoman. 

An Israeli court sentenced an influential rabbi to a year in prison on Tuesday for trying to bribe a senior policeman who heads the national fraud squad, court documents read.

Last month, Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto admitted to giving 100,000 Swiss francs ($108,514/96,208 euros) to assistant police commissioner Ephraim Bracha.