Nigeria must draw on foreign military and intelligence expertise to tackle the threat from Islamist sect Boko Haram, a former deputy chief of Israel's secret intelligence service said Wednesday.

The comments came as France announced a security summit in Paris on Saturday to address the situation in west Africa, focusing on the radical group that has abducted more than 200 schoolgirls.

A young Arab Israeli who joined rebel forces in Syria and underwent military training with jihadist fighters law went on trial Wednesday charged with violating Israeli law, legal and security officials said.

Ahmad Shurbaji, 23, from Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel, along with three other Arab Israelis on January 16 left for Turkey, from where they crossed into Syria, the prosecution said.

Israeli military forces began demolishing structures in an illegal West Bank settler outpost on Wednesday, the army said, after attempts at a voluntary evacuation failed.

Soldiers at the Maale Rehavam outpost, southeast of the West Bank town of Bethlehem, helped demolish 11 structures, five of which had been inhabited, a defence ministry spokesman told Agence France Presse.

Arab Israelis are increasingly voicing a Palestinian identity and national demands, as hate attacks by Jewish extremists and laws perceived as discriminatory have multiplied.

Some 10,000 Arab Israelis rallied in northern Israel earlier this month for the right of return for Palestinian refugees who fled or were driven from their homes during the war that led to the creation of the Jewish state in 1948.

Iran is sharing nuclear technology with North Korea, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview published Wednesday, as Tehran and world powers hold talks aimed at ending a decade-old standoff.

Netanyahu, who is in Japan this week for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, said Iran "would share whatever technology it acquired with North Korea," the Mainichi Shimbun reported in a front-page piece.

Hizbullah will remain silent regarding Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi's expected visit to the Holy Land to avert any war of words with Bkirki at the critical political stage that the country is passing through.

Al-Liwaa newspaper quoted Hizbullah sources as saying on Wednesday that the party “decided to remain mum at this stage and refused to comment negatively or positively” on the matter.

The Israeli parliament paid tribute to recently canonized pope John XXIII on Tuesday, less than two weeks before a visit to the Holy Land by Pope Francis.

Lawmakers also marked the Turkish mass killings of Armenians in 1915, even as the Jewish state and Ankara seek to patch up ties. 

Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Tuesday the impasse in peace talks with the Palestinians was likely to continue, two weeks after U.S.-backed negotiations collapsed.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry dragged the Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table last July, ending a three-year hiatus in talks.

The Palestinians have written to foreign governments urging them to list Jewish extremist groups behind a spate of hate attacks as terrorist organizations, the foreign minister said on Tuesday.

Those receiving the letters include Canada, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, as well as the Arab League and the Islamic Cooperation Organization, Riyad al-Malki told Palestinian radio.

Ehud Olmert was once described as "probably the best" politician Israel had ever produced, but a major graft scandal has tarred him as the first ex-premier to face prison for bribery.

Like many of his predecessors, the 68-year-old's reputation has been dragged through the mud by his links to a string of corruption allegations.