Tel Aviv- Israel Tuesday confirmed its first case of the lethal swine flu, with a 26-year-old man who recently returned from Mexico and has been in quarantine in a hospital in the coastal city of Netanya tested diagnosed as having the lethal virus. Another Israeli, who also recently returned from Mexico is in quarantine in a hospital in Kfar Saba, north-east of Tel Aviv, after displaying flu-like symptoms.

Israel's health ministry raised its alert level to 4 on a scale of 1 to 6 in the wake of the virus.(dpa)