Israeli police have said that a car bomb near the city of Tel Aviv, which killed one and injured six others, was not a political act.
Police said the explosion in the town of Rishon le-Tsiyon, about 10km south of Tel Aviv, was a criminal act and was not a politically motivated bombing.
A police spokesman said: ‘I can confirm the background to the attack was criminal.'
Security has been sharply stepped up throughout the country and in the occupied West Bank in recent days, in the run up to the Yom Kippur holiday, which falls on 1 October.
Two killed in Israeli missile strike on Gaza
Two people have reportedly been killed in an Israeli missile strike in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military has confirmed it had targeted men suspected of involvement in firing rockets into Israel.
Witnesses said the two were teenage boys who were passing by on bicycles and were hit after stopping to look at the rocket launcher out of curiosity.
Israel launched its latest offensive in Gaza in late June, after Palestinian militants based there captured an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid. The soldier, Gilad Shalit, is still being held.
Around 220 Palestinians have been killed in the offensive, around half of them civilians, according to Palestinian medics and research groups.
