MOSCOW, March 23. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin offered his condolences to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in their telephone conversation over a terrorist attack in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. 

"The Russian president offered his condolences over yesterday’s act of terror in Israel, which claimed human lives," the statement says.

At the end of the conversation, the leaders agreed to continue contacts.

On Tuesday, four Israelis were stabbed to death by an Israeli Arab at a shopping mall in Beersheba. Following the attack, Bennett said that the Israeli security services had been placed on the highest alert level.