OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — A car exploded near a bus in Tel Aviv Thursday, injuring several people in what police suspect was an attempt to kill an alleged criminal kingpin. Israel Radio said the car belonged to the head of an alleged organized crime family. “The main direction of suspicion is it was criminal,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. The ambulance service said several people were injured in the blast on Menachem Begin Street, a main thoroughfare. “There was a fire and I heard an explosion,” a witness said on Israel Radio as ambulance and police vehicle sirens screamed in the background. — Reuters
