Explosion, fire awakens Rehovot streets three blocks away from the Weizmann Institute and Melzer Street Synagogue

A fire by an antiterrorist special operation group at Rehovot's Melzer Street corner of Herzog Street (Menuha Venahala) jolted residents awake early Wednesday. This happened shortly after the Police closed a section of Herzog and Melzer Streets (hundred meters from the Weizmann Institute and tens of meters from Melzer Street Synagogue) early morning (about 7 AM) today after a suspicious item, later discovered to be "quite a good student bag with educational materials", was left unattended at a street sidewalk. Because of the morning rush hours, police urged residents to remain in their apartments until further notice is given.

Police Special Operations Group officer by using a remote control bomb-disposal robot inspected the bag and made a control explosive fire. Luckily, there were no bomb. "It was a student bag left unattended at a sidewalk,'' Melzer St. resident told MyRehovot while rushing to reach his office in time.

Additional 20 minutes of the disassembly of the mini-van based bomb disposal setup temporarily blocked the traffic at Melzer street, that become one way just a week ago.

My Rehovot would like to repeat once again, that it is very important Rehovot residents take greater responsibility of disposing old items to a designated garbage-collectors only, so, that valuable time and money of the Police would be directed for issues of greater security importance, not faulty security threat alerts.

Also see: Rehovot's Weizmann Street Reopens After Bomb Scares. www.MyRehovot.info (19 March 2006) [FullText]

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