Former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres "feels well" after the 92-year-old was rushed to hospital with chest pains and an irregular heartbeat, his office said Monday.

Peres is expected to remain at the Sheba Medical Centre near Tel Aviv for another day after being taken there on Sunday.

Israeli security forces evicted dozens of Jewish settlers from two homes in the heart of the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, a day after they had moved in.

Dozens of settlers left the house on Friday morning, carrying their possessions and accompanied by Israeli border police, an Agence France Presse photographer on the scene said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday that his country will need more U.S. military aid because of the nuclear deal with Iran.

Israel is currently negotiating a new 10-year military aid package with Washington that it says will need to grow beyond the $3.1 billion yearly currently provided by the United States.

Israeli authorities have dropped a probe into ex-military chief Gabi Ashkenazi over an alleged smear campaign, opening a path into politics for the potential challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reports said Thursday.

Ashkenazi is a popular former Israeli military chief of staff who held the post during the three-week war in the Gaza Strip from December 2008 to January 2009.

Former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres left hospital on Tuesday, five days after surgery for heart trouble, saying he was keen to get back to work.

"I'm so happy to return to work, that was the whole purpose of this operation," he told reporters at Sheba hospital near Tel Aviv.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that the home of a Palestinian teen accused of stabbing a Jewish woman to death in the occupied West Bank would be demolished as a deterrent.

"We are going to destroy the terrorist's house," Netanyahu said as he visited the Otniel settlement in the West Bank, where Sunday's fatal stabbing occurred, according to his office.

U.S. ambassador Dan Shapiro on Monday charged that Israel seems to apply separate "standards" of justice for Israelis and Palestinians, drawing a rebuke from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"Too much (Jewish) vigilantism goes unchecked, and at times there seems to be two standards of adherence to the rule of law, one for Israelis, and another for Palestinians," Shapiro said in a speech at the annual meeting of the Institute for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin called on Monday for the government to push through new funding for Israeli Arab communities to help counter the influence of Islamic State group extremism.

Warning Israelis that the "Islamic State is already here," Rivlin told a conference in Tel Aviv that more support was needed for Arab communities.

Israeli former prime minister Ehud Olmert, who begins serving a prison sentence in February for corruption, struck a deal Monday with the prosecution to avoid another jail term, radio said.

Public radio said Olmert's lawyer reached the agreement on behalf of the 70-year-old with the prosecutor general who had accused Olmert of obstructing justice.

EU foreign ministers on Monday agreed a statement on the stalled Middle East peace process and Israeli settlements after resolving differences over wording which some felt was too critical of Israel.

"We unanimously approved (the statement), it is a good and common basis for our common position and our engagement in the region," EU external affairs head Federica Mogherini said after a meeting of bloc foreign ministers in Brussels.