Israel said on Saturday its ambassador to Egypt, Yitzhak Levanon, will return to Cairo when security of the embassy of the Jewish state is guaranteed by the Arab nation.

Levanon will take his post again "as as soon as the security of the embassy is provided by Egypt," government spokesman Ron Sofer told army radio after Levanon and other diplomats returned home following an attack on their mission in Cairo Friday.

International institutions agreed Saturday to raise their financial support to Arab nations in transition to democracy to $38 billion, France's finance minister said.

Nine international institutions agreed at a G8 meeting in Marseille to "bring the financial aid available to $38 billion in the period 2011-2013 to Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Jordan", Francois Baroin said.

Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces rejected on Saturday the resignation of Prime Minister Essam Sharaf over protestors’ attack against the Israeli Embassy in Egypt, reported al-Arabiya television.

Three people were killed in clashes overnight between police and protesters outside the embassy in Cairo, and a fourth died of a heart attack, Egyptian hospital sources said on Saturday.

Israel's ambassador to Egypt left the country on board an airplane bound to Israel on Saturday after protesters raided a building housing the embassy in Cairo and dumped its documents from a balcony, airport sources said.

Ambassador Yitzhak Levanon boarded the plane with his security detail and five bags of luggage, the sources said.

An Egyptian protester on Friday took down the flag at the Israeli embassy atop a Cairo high-rise after protesters destroyed a protective wall outside the building.

He threw the flag, only recently hung after a protester clambered up the building last month and tore it off, down to the street as thousands of protesters cheered him on.

Thousands of protesters flocked to Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square on Friday for a rally to demand reforms as the ruling military warned it would respond harshly to any violence by activists.

Organizers called the gathering to press Egypt's military rulers to keep their promises of reform after a revolt ousted president Hosni Mubarak in February.

Protesters began arriving at Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square on Friday for a planned mass rally calling for reforms as the ruling military warned it would respond harshly to any violence by activists.

Organizers called the rally, which is expected to branch out into a march to the nearby cabinet offices, to press Egypt's military rulers to keep their promises of reform after a revolt ousted president Hosni Mubarak in February.

Egypt's military rulers have frozen new licenses for private satellite TV stations, in a restriction that activists say harkens back to the crackdown on freedom of expression under ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

Human rights lawyer Gamal Eid says Wednesday's decision is vague and has an open-ended timeframe, giving the transitional leadership illegal powers to rein in potential media criticism in the run-up to November's parliamentary election.

The Arab League said its secretary general, Nabil al-Arabi, will visit Syria on Saturday, three days later than originally planned amid a deadly crackdown on an anti-regime protests in the country.

"It was decided that the Arab League secretary general will visit Syria on Saturday during a telephone conversation between (Arabi), Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem and Syria's envoy at the League," the pan-Arab group's deputy leader, Ahmed Ben Helli, told reporters in Cairo.

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is planning to embark on a tour of Arab Spring countries next week including Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, a government official said.

"The prime minister had already planned a visit to Egypt but negotiations and preparations are under way for this trip to include Tunisia and Libya as well," the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Agence France Presse on Wednesday.