Latest eyewitness reports suggest a total of twenty people were injured this evening in three seperate explosions, apparently in a booby-trapped car in the coastal town of Netanya, about 30 km north of Tel Aviv.
"It was a very serious attack," Mr Gadi Baltiansky, spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Mr Ehud Barak, said.
Witnesses said the explosions happened in Herzl street, in the town centre.
The exits to the resort town were immediately sealed off by the security forces, while police bomb disposal experts were searching the area of the explosion for any other devices.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Mr Ehud Barak has summoned the security cabinet in Jerusalem to discuss the Israeli response to the bomb attack in Netanya.
The Israeli security cabinet, which groups ministers dealing directly with security issues, met at the Knesset building with the chief of staff of the Israeli armed forces, General Shaoul Mofaz, and the head of the Shin Beth internal security service, Mr Avi Dichter.
The last bomb attack in Israel left 13 injured on December 28th, when a device exploded at the back of a bus in the centre of Tel Aviv.
AFP