Israel banned Muslim men under the age of 50 from a contested Jerusalem shrine on Friday and deployed about 3,000 police nearby, ahead of expected Muslim protests over the installation of metal detectors at the holy site.

A bitter and unrepentant Mordechai Vanunu spent his first night of freedom in a Jerusalem church after serving an 18-year prison term for disclosing Israel’s nuclear secrets.

Mordechai Vanunu was released from prison today after serving 18 years for spilling Israel’s nuclear secrets, saying he was proud of his actions and complaining he was treated cruelly by his jailers.

Israeli soldiers have shot and killed two suspected Palestinian militants after they detonated an explosion near a road leading to the Ganei Tal Jewish settlement.