{"id":571360,"date":"2026-08-02T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/571360\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:11:08","slug":"police-open-probe-into-grenade-attack-on-under-construction-japanika-in-hadera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/571360\/","title":{"rendered":"Police open probe into grenade attack on under-construction Japanika in Hadera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police opened an investigation early Sunday morning into a flash grenade thrown at a building under-construction in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/hadera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hadera<\/a>, reported to be a new location of the sushi restaurant chain Japanika, according to Israeli media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">No injuries have been reported, police said, adding that the incident is criminal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">At around 4:20 a.m., a flash grenade was thrown at the commercial part of the new Aura residential complex on Herbert Samuel Street in Hadera. While the residential complex is mostly inhabited, businesses have yet to open and are mostly still under construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In the northwestern section of the complex, damage was caused to a storefront that is under construction bearing Japanika signs. Notably, a second storefront with Japanika signs is located in the northeastern part of the complex and was not damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is the most recent in a string of attacks against branches of the Japanika chain, owned by businessman and Beitar Jerusalem owner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-903235\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barak Abramov.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the course of several days, grenades were thrown, a pipe bomb was set off, and shots were fired at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-902944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">chain&#8217;s branches<\/a> in Netanya, Afula, Herzliya, Givatayim, Kiryat Ono, and Ramat Gan, with only property damage reported.<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating a suspicion that the attacks are part of an escalation in the conflict between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-902422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Musli<\/a> and Jarushi criminal organizations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to sources familiar with the matter, Abramov, who is not a suspect in the case, is currently perceived as being affiliated with elements in the Jarushi\u00a0family, and therefore the chain&#8217;s branches have become targets of elements affiliated with the Musli organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The background to the conflict is, according to estimates, a dispute over tens of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Miriam Sela-Eitam contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police opened an investigation early Sunday morning into a flash grenade thrown at a building under-construction in Hadera,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[737,63500,63844,85,46,121902,258301,43,66615],"class_list":["post-571360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-crime","tag-grenades","tag-hadera","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israeli-organized-crime","tag-japanika","tag-news","tag-sushi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571360","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=571360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}