The security forces on Sunday night arrested a Palestinian suspected of stabbing an Israel Defense Forces soldier on a bus in Ramat Gan. The man, whose identity has been placed under a gag order, was turned over to the Shin Bet for questioning.

The suspect was seized near the place where the soldier was stabbed.

The incident took place Sunday on a Dan number 67 bus – a double articulated bus – in central Ramat Gan, at around 5:45 pm. According to eyewitness accounts the assailant, "who looked like an Arab," fled the scene on foot and a manhunt was subsequently launched by security forces.

Police officials said Sunday night that investigators were increasingly convinced that the attack was nationalistically motivated due to the fact that the soldier did not have a criminal background.

'We received a call about a stabbing and were dispatched to the scene," a MDA paramedic told Ynet. "We found a 20-year-old soldier with a jugular stab wound, stretching all the way to his ear. He was fully conscious. We stopped the bleeding and took him to the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv."

Dr. Pini Halperin, head of emergency medicine at Sourasky, said Sunday night that the soldier was "doing well" and that his life was not in danger.