"What I was really targeted for by the Mueller team and these individuals has nothing to with Russia, it has to do with my work in Israel," he told Army Radio.

An Israeli military spokesman noted that there had been "significantly less violence" during Saturday's protest, which organizers had billed a "million person march," than in past weekly demonstrations.

The romantic novel catapulted the Lithuania-born Dinezon, a one-time tutor and little-known writer, to become an influential leader in the Yiddish literary scene of Warsaw.

Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said on Saturday Arab ministers had expressed support for a proposal to declare that the US move violated the U.N. charter against acquiring land by force.

Police said they warned a 38-year-old man over the incident, which was unrelated to the Christchurch attack, but could not say if it was part of a pattern.

The wages of Arab citizens were significantly lower than other population groups, with men earning NIS 7,723 and women earning NIS 5,370 on average.

Israel’s Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau eulogized Landau calling him a “righteous person who devoted his whole life to the public.”