Tunisia's Jewish community has raised fears for its security with the interim government after Islamists held anti-Jewish protests outside the main synagogue on the Avenue de la Liberte in central Tunis last Friday.

During the construction of the world biggest menorah complex the workers have found rusty remnats of small arms of pre-World War II style.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Tuesday said the international community still sought to achieve a peace deal and a Palestinian state by September, despite the region's political turmoil.

The European Jewish Congress (EJC) called on European leaders to press unequivocally for democracy and freedom for the Iranian people and express concern about the situation in Iran.

A moderate Islamist thinker has been chosen by Egypt's Supreme Military Council to head a panel commissioned to consider the constitutional amendments called for during Egypt's recent popular protests.

Jordan's newly elected justice minister called for release of Ahmed Deqamseh, who killed seven when he opened fire at Israeli schoolchildren near the border in 1997.

Leaders of Gamaa Islamiya (the Islamic Group) made their first appearance in 20 years in a Monday meeting at a mosque in Assiut, Upper Egypt.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told visiting EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton that ''the real threat and problem to the region and the world is Iran.''

European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton arrived in Tunisia Monday for talks on EU’s aid to the country's democratic transition after a popular revolt ousted President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali last month.

The Muslim Brotherhood will be the only group in Egypt ready for a parliamentary election unless others are given a year or more to recover from years of oppression, said a former Brotherhood politician seeking to found his own party.