(July 22, 2026 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n
The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem issued a warning on Wednesday advising American citizens in Israel of increased violence linked to organized crime activity, primarily affecting areas of Tel Aviv, Jaffa and Herzliya.<\/p>\n
The security alert said recent attacks have included hand grenades or stun grenades thrown at private residences, vehicles and businesses, often by assailants riding motorcycles.<\/p>\n
\u201cStay alert, especially in commercial areas during evening and overnight hours,\u201d the embassy advised. \u201cAvoid locations with police activity and follow instructions from local authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Such warnings are generally issued in Israel in conjunction with terror attacks or active international conflicts.<\/p>\n
The warning comes after a series of grenade and shooting attacks across central Israel, many targeting branches of the Japanika sushi chain. Two residential buildings in central Israel were also targeted with grenades this week.<\/p>\n
Additional Israeli police patrols have been deployed near restaurant locations as authorities investigate the attacks.<\/p>\n
Police suspect the violence is linked to an escalating feud between the Jarushi and Musli organized crime families. Yossi Musli, identified by Israeli authorities as a senior figure in the Musli crime organization, was recently arrested in connection with the attacks but later released to house arrest along with three other suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(July 22, 2026 \/ JNS) The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem issued a warning on Wednesday advising American citizens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-554432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554432","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=554432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}