{"id":445404,"date":"2026-05-16T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/445404\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:48:10","slug":"large-blast-near-beit-shemesh-part-of-pre-planned-test-israeli-defense-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/445404\/","title":{"rendered":"Large blast near Beit Shemesh part of pre-planned test: Israeli defense firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anadolu staff<\/p>\n<p>17 May 2026\u2022Update: 17 May 2026<\/p>\n<p>A large explosion near the central Israeli city of Beit Shemesh late Saturday was part of a pre-planned and controlled test, according to a statement by state-owned Tomer defense company that was cited by The Times of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Videos on social media showed flames and a large plume of smoke rising from the area following the blast, which was heard in nearby communities.<\/p>\n<p>The Times of Israel said the explosion occurred at a testing ground belonging to Tomer, a company that develops rocket and missile engines.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the blast was a \u201cpre-planned experiment\u201d that was carried out according to schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anadolu staff 17 May 2026\u2022Update: 17 May 2026 A large explosion near the central Israeli city of Beit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-445404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}