A hand grenade failed to explode Monday evening after it was thrown from a passing car into a crowded pizzeria on Dizengoff Street, Tel Aviv’s main shopping and socializing center.
Its failure averted probable fatalities and many injuries.
The speeding white Mercedes from which the device was hurled was already out of sight by the time police arrived and cordoned off the area.
Sappers buried the grenade under sandbags and detonated it harmlessly.
They said it was not the type used by the Israel Defense Force.
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