During searches carried out at Yaffe's home, police found illegally held weapons which the suspect claimed dated to the Yom Kippur War.
Israel Police arrest a protester who is suspected of harassing a border policewoman during a protest and riot in Jerusalem earlier in the week.
The former president decried double standards against the state of Israel, such as those denying the Jewish state the right to exist.
Israel's emergency response service, Magen David Adom said it had not received reports of injuries.
Police found that the suspect, a 41-year-old resident of al-Eizariya, had a criminal background, was known to security officials, and was Hamas-affiliated.
Archaeologists reveal new evidence of Armenian presence north of Damascus Gate in the 6th–7th centuries CE.
A photographic survey revealed dozens of Bulgarian inscriptions in Greek Orthodox monasteries across Jerusalem’s Old City.
Protests originally broke out last week after Netanyahu announced his intention to advance the firing of Shin Bet head Ronen Bar.
This missile was intercepted by the Israeli Air Force prior to crossing into Israeli territory, the IDF said.
Democrats party head Yair Golan was thrown to the ground by a police officer at a protest outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Aza Street home.