In other news from Israel, a masked gunman shot dead two people Saturday night at a center for gay and lesbian teenagers in Tel Aviv. The dead were identified as a twenty-six-year-old counselor at the center and a seventeen-year-old girl. Eleven people were wounded, four of them critically. The center was meant to be a safe place where gay and lesbian teens could meet with counselors and other teenagers. The shooting is believed to be the worst attack ever against the gay and lesbian community in Israel. But tension between the country’s gay community and ultra-Orthodox Jews has been growing. Last year a lawmaker from the ultra-Orthodox Shas party suggested in Parliament that earthquakes were divine punishment for homosexual activity. In 2005, an ultra-Orthodox Jew stabbed three participants of a gay pride parade in Jerusalem.