Israel's leadership wants a crackdown on crime and youth violence, after six unconnected killings since Friday wracked the tiny country.

Police investigators said gang and organized crimes, family disputes and teen drinking were among the likely motives for the recent killings.

Street crime rate per capita among Israel's 7.8 million residents is relatively low in comparison to other countries, with terrorism and nationalistic violence more often leading the headlines.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his ministers Monday at the weekly cabinet session that although statistics showed a 30-percent drop in murders in Israel, the latest deaths were "very, very difficult scenes and we know that everything must be done in order to eradicate them."

"These extreme and brutal incidents underscore the recognition that must act with all strength against this wildness, this violence, these murders -- and we will do so," Netanyahu said.

Israeli Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch and Police Inspector-General Yohanan Danino then briefed the ministers on developments in the separate investigations into the spate of murders. They offered statistics on comparative crime rates in 2011, and discussed the need to boost budgeting for police personnel and equipment.

The prime minister said that despite the upcoming dissolution of the Knesset (parliament) and September elections, he planned to call on the cabinet to boost police recruitment, particularly "in the north and the Arab sector," within two weeks.

He added that thanks to the pending legislation to end indefinite military and national service deferments for full-time religious students, he would also back channeling more national service enlistees towards roles with the Israel Police, according to the Prime Minister's Office.

In parallel, Israeli Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar instructed schools countrywide to open discussions including suggestions on anger-management and personal responsibility among fifth to twelfth graders, according to the Ma'ariv daily.

"We cannot be passive in the face of what is going on," Sa'ar said.

"A little bit of personal responsibility, community involvement and caring will enable all of us to have an influence on the way things should be," he said.

Meanwhile, he said that a pilot "Safe Cities" program currently operating in 13 cities would be expanded nationwide, including police-monitored closed-circuit cameras, according to The Jerusalem Post.

"We are at war, a war over the character of, and some would say the future of, Israeli society," Danino said of the rash of violence, adding that "It can be compared to every other war fought by Israel, and it is no less important."

"We all need to join forces to combat the plague of violence in our midst," he said.