A gunman killed at least 5 people in a Tel Aviv suburb before being fatally shot in the latest in a series of attacks targeting Israel.
According to the TV report, the gunman of Arab origin shot first at apartment balconies in Bnei Brak, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish suburb north-east of Tel Aviv, and then at people on the street.
Last week, an Arab citizen of Israel killed four people in a stabbing and car attack in the southern city of Beersheba before being shot to death by a bystander. Israeli authorities said he was a sympathizer of the Islamic State.
On Sunday, as an Israeli-Arab summit met in southern Israel, an Arab assailant from a city in the north of the country shot and killed two police officers in Hadera, a city about 50km north of Tel Aviv. . Isis claimed responsibility for the attack.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennet has called an extraordinary security meeting on the situation in the country for 10pm (local time). The meeting will be attended by the chief of police, the minister of public security, the chief of staff of the army and the director of Shin Be, the Israeli intelligence agency.