{"id":801677,"date":"2026-05-16T23:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/801677\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T23:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:57:09","slug":"mysterious-explosion-near-beit-shemesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/801677\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious explosion near Beit Shemesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-753a4075=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">An explosion which occurred on Saturday evening in the Beit Shemesh area and caused great panic in the city was due to a test by a government-owned defense company.<\/p>\n<p data-v-753a4075=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">The explosion occurred on the grounds of Tomer, a government-owned defense industry company that develops engines for a variety of defensive and offensive missiles for the air, sea, land, and space arenas.<\/p>\n<p data-v-753a4075=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">The company claims that it was a test planned in advance and carried out according to plan.<\/p>\n<p data-v-753a4075=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Among other things, the company develops engines for Arrow missiles, Ofek satellite engines, and engines for a variety of rockets, including the Rampage, Bar, and Barak MX rockets. The explosion was heard in the area during the late-night hours.<\/p>\n<p data-v-753a4075=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">According to a company official, it was a controlled and coordinated explosion. Tomer stated, \u201cThis was a preplanned test carried out according to plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An explosion which occurred on Saturday evening in the Beit Shemesh area and caused great panic in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":801678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29101,21885,15582,99,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-801677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-beit-shemesh","9":"tag-explosion","10":"tag-explosions","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116586967748759513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}