Police have received a report of a man who has holed himself up in an office in a hotel near the Dead Sea after a financial dispute, holding the hotel's manpower manager "hostage" with an item appearing to be a gun in his other hand.

Police arrived at the scene and after negotiating with the man, they managed to overpower him and arrest him. The man turned out to be a 42-year-old resident of Dimona and the suspicious item he was holding turned out to be a toy gun.