Police are sweeping the city of Kiryat Gat to try and apprehend the attacker.
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In a similar operation conducted earlier this month, Israeli military forces operating in the Palestinian areas of the West Bank shut down a Fatah-affiliated radio station alleged to have broadcast incitement-filled content.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) released a statement saying that more than 450 violations of media freedoms had taken place by the Israeli regime since the start of the year.
Since mid-September, Palestinian attacks have killed 17 Israelis, mostly in stabbings, while 84 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire.
On Thursday, a pair of stabbing and shooting attacks by Palestinians killed three Israelis, a Palestinian and an American teenager.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians with permits travel into Israel daily.
In the Tel Aviv attack, a police spokeswoman said the assailant who had attacked worshippers gathered for afternoon prayers in a shop that sells Jewish religious items in the building was apprehended and a third person was wounded.
The last significant attack dates back to Friday, when an Israeli rabbi and his son were shot dead in an ambush as they drove near Hebron, the focus of much of the unrest. He appeared to have no criminal record and it was not clear why he was in Tel Aviv.
Kerry at the time stressed that the Obama administration would keep pushing for an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement in its remaining 16 months in office.
There can be no justification for a spate of deliberate deadly attacks by Palestinians on civilians over the past week in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories which displayed a clear contempt for human life, said Amnesty worldwide.
It was one of two attacks to happen in Israel on Thursday.
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But when Palestinian terrorists killed five people yesterday in Tel Aviv and the West Bank, CNN.com seemingly decided its reporting, and its readers, don’t need such detail.
