**All postal services in Israel have been suspended after at least one letter bomb was found in a post office.**Police said it was not immediately clear who was behind the bomb, whether it was Palestinian militants or a criminal gang-related incident.
The bomb was found in the northern town of Migdal Haemek by a woman who had come into the post office to pick up her mail.
The unidentified woman noticed wires sticking out of a package.
“A woman in Migdal Haemek received two envelopes - she opened one and saw some suspicious things in it,” said police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld.
“The police arrived with bomb experts and a preliminary check confirmed this was indeed an explosive envelope.”
This is believed to be the first time such a widespread suspension of post has been ordered.
All of the country’s main post offices will be searched to make sure there are no more bombs.
“We are not distributing any mail at the moment, nor taking in any mail because we want to protect public safety,” Avi Hochman, the director of Israel Postal Services, said.
Palestinian militants sent letter bombs frequently during the 1970s and 1980s.