The Israel Police on Monday arrested a 65-year-old woman suspected of sending death threats with bullets to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's family last month.
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A statement from the police only identified the woman as a resident of southern Israel. The police said further details of the case remained under a gag order.
Bennett's family received two death threats in the mail, along with the bullets. The first was sent to the prime minister's wife Gilat, and the second was addressed to his eldest son, Yonatan. In response, the Magen Unit responsible for protecting elected officials stepped up security around the premier and his family, and the police and Israel Security Agency opened an investigation.
Bennett, who leads a small nationalist party, has come under intense criticism from Israeli hard-liners who accuse him of abandoning his ideology. In 1995, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish ultranationalist opposed to his peacemaking attempts with the Palestinians.
Bennett leads a narrow coalition of eight parties ranging from a small Islamist party to Jewish ultra-nationalists that have little in common beyond their opposition to former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Bennett's government was formed after four inconclusive parliamentary elections that highlighted deep divisions in Israeli society over relations with the Palestinians, religion and state, and Netanyahu's fitness to rule while on trial for corruption.
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