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| Medical officials said four of those injured were in a serious condition |
A woman who was killed when a bomb exploded at a crowded bus stop in Jerusalem on Wednesday was British.
The British Embassy said the woman's family in the UK had been informed.
Thirty people were also injured by the bomb, which was left in a bag on a pavement near the central bus station.
Jerusalem suffered a spate of bus bombings by Palestinian militants between 2000 and 2004, but attacks had stopped in recent years. The Palestinian PM condemned the bombing.
Witnesses said the force of the blast shook buildings over a wide area.
Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has pledged to act "aggressively and responsibly" to the attack.
US President Barack Obama condemned it "as well as the rockets and mortars fired from Gaza in recent days".
The bombing comes amid heightened tension in the Gaza Strip.
The BBC's Jon Donnison, in Gaza, says none of the militant factions there has said it was involved in the Jerusalem attack.
But an Islamic Jihad leader said a Palestinian attack would be a "natural response" to this week's Israeli strikes in Gaza.
On Wednesday, Israeli military aircraft launched strikes east of Gaza City after Palestinian militants fired two rockets into southern Israel.
Hamas government spokesman Taher Nono has refused to comment on the explosion.
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad condemned the bombing, calling it "a terrorist attack".
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