VIDEO - Tel Aviv Police arrested Friday night three suspects who apparently planned to carry out a suicide bombing attack in Tel Aviv. They were arrested by the Tel Aviv port, a popular area filled with bars and restaurants, at the corner of Hayarkon and Yordei Hasira streets. Following their arrest, police lifted the state of heightened alert. A few hours earlier police received specific intelligence regarding a female suicide bomber en route to Tel Aviv in a Renault Express commercial vehicle. Police nab suspects After alerts were received, boosted police forces were stationed at the junction of Ibn Gvirol and Rokach streets in central Tel Aviv. At one point, police were alerted by radio that a suspicious vehicle fitting the description in the warning was stopped at the corner of Hayarkon and Yordei Hasirah streets not far from the port. Dozens of patrol vehicle were immediately summoned to the scene. Eyewitnesses started yelling towards the police officers that the occupants had fled the vehicle, and police managed to catch them at gunpoint. Simultaneously, police received a report of a suspicious object at the entrance to the old Exhibition Grounds. A number of officers were dispatched to the site, while others scoured the immediate area. Meanwhile, police caught another suspect, an Arab Israeli man fleeing the scene in a separate vehicle. No explosives or suspicious devices were found in his possession. The suspects were transferred to police headquarters for questioning. 'I feel my work pays off' Sergeant Minor Sharon Telkar from the Yarkon district was the one who identified the suspects’ vehicle leaving the Tel Aviv port area. In accordance with police procedure, he alerted backup forces. Terror suspects nabbed (Photo: Avi Cohen) Following the dramatic arrests, Telkar told Ynet, “We got a message about the suspicious vehicle, we combed the area around the port and at a certain stage I understood the suspects in the car saw me on Habkuk Street and left the port area. I caught up with them and stopped them at the corner. We aimed our weapons at them and arrested the driver, an Arab Israeli, at gunpoint and his female passenger from the West Bank. She tried to say she was Israeli, but when we checked, we found a green ID card indicating she was the person we were searching for." Telkar went home with a great sense of satisfaction. “This arrest is actually the icing on the cake. Until today, we managed to arrest thieves, robbers, but nothing like this – this happens once in your life. It gives great satisfaction, and when I go home today, I’ll feel like my work pays off.” Spate of terror attempts This is not the first time recently that roadblocks were set up in the vicinity of Israel’s coastal cities. On Wednesday alert levels were raised in the Sharon area after intelligence was received that a suicide bomber had infiltrated Israel and planned to blow up in the area. Following a few hours of searches in the area, the terrorist and his driver were nabbed by security forces at two construction sites in Hod Hasharon. Renault Express stopped at TA port (Photo: Avi Cohen) The security establishment has 22 warnings of planned suicide bombings and kidnappings in Israeli territory. Owing to the warnings, a general closure was imposed on the territories until at least Saturday night. Most of the security establishment’s warning were coming from the West Bank areas and were regarding attacks plotted by the Islamic Jihad. A senior security official told Ynet that Israel had intelligence information proving that Hizbullah had specifically turned to Palestinian terror groups in the West Bank asking them to carry out attacks to open a third front in addition to the north and south fronts. Efrat Weiss contributed to the report