"I have just been told of the arrest of a suspect," Binyamin Horgan, the wife of Esther, said today. "I was confident that this would happen sooner or later, and I support our security forces in all their endeavors and in the wonderful work that they do.

"We are now hoping that the criminal will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and as for us, we will continue in our own task, that of spreading light."