{"id":542247,"date":"2026-07-15T06:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/542247\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T06:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:33:08","slug":"police-investigating-latest-grenade-attack-on-japanika-restaurant-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/542247\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating latest grenade attack on Japanika restaurant chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another grenade was thrown at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-902422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Japanika<\/a> restaurant in Rosh Pina on Wednesday morning, in the latest of a string of violent incidents against branches in the chain.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-902427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel Police<\/a>, forces arrived at the scene shortly after a report of an explosion, and an investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>In the span of a few hours overnight on Tuesday, police had announced two grenade explosions, a pipe bomb attack, and an attempted arson. Three of the incidents targeted branches of the Japanika restaurant chain, owned by businessman and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/sports\/article-901007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Beitar Jerusalem<\/a> owner Barak Abramov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">None of the incidents had any reported casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Police also arrested Musli <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/israeli-organized-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">crime family<\/a> boss Yossi Musli on Tuesday in connection with the series of attacks against the restaurant chain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Later, the police announced that three more people had been arrested in connection with the Japanika attacks: an 18-year-old man and two men in their 30s, all from central Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Hodaya Ran contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another grenade was thrown at a Japanika restaurant in Rosh Pina on Wednesday morning, in the latest of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[737,10363,63500,85,46,43,102,45389],"class_list":["post-542247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-crime","tag-explosion","tag-grenades","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-police","tag-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542247","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=542247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}