Grenade attack on Kafr Manda restaurant wounds 4, woman aged 60 critical

Four people were wounded on Saturday, November 14, 2026, when a grenade exploded at a business in Kafr Manda, a town in northern Israel. Among them was a woman aged 60 who was in critical condition, according to a joint statement from Israel Police and the Magen David Adom ambulance service cited by The Times of Israel. Police said officers were investigating.

Magen David Adom (MDA) said two of the other casualties were in mild condition and the remaining one was lightly hurt. The wounded were taken to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa and to the Italian Hospital in Nazareth. Initial alerts from N12 and Ynet said that resuscitation was under way on one of those hurt, before N12 later reported the four wounded and described the woman's condition as critical.

What the reports say about the target

Ynet reported that the business was a restaurant. According to assessments cited by the Hebrew news site, unidentified assailants could not locate the person they were looking for and instead threw the grenade toward a restaurant belonging to a relative of that person. Ynet did not say who had made that assessment, and neither the police nor any other outlet has publicly confirmed the account. The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post described the location only as a business.

Ynet also reported that a large police presence was deployed at the scene. People who were at the site told the outlet that the blast shook the whole area and that at first they believed a missile had struck.

Where Kafr Manda is

Kafr Manda is an Arab town in the Lower Galilee in northern Israel, lying between the cities of Haifa and Nazareth. The two hospitals that received the wounded serve this region: Rambam is the main hospital in Haifa, Israel's largest northern city, and the Italian Hospital is one of the medical centres in Nazareth.

The organisations involved

Magen David Adom, whose name means Red Star of David, is Israel's national emergency medical and ambulance service, and its paramedics typically issue the first public account of casualties at a scene. Israel Police is the national civilian police force, responsible for criminal investigations such as this one. Hebrew-language outlets often describe a patient's condition using the term anush, which corresponds to critical, the most serious category in Israeli medical reporting short of death.

How this fits a wider pattern

Grenade and explosive attacks on homes and businesses have become a recurring form of violence in Arab towns in Israel, often linked by police and local leaders to feuds and criminal organisations. Attacks aimed at relatives of an intended target, as Ynet's account describes here, are a feature that community leaders in Arab localities have repeatedly raised when calling for greater police action. None of the reports on this incident, however, attributed it to a specific group or described a motive beyond the assessment Ynet relayed.

What the reports do not say

• No arrests or suspects have been reported, and police have not said publicly whether they consider the attack criminal in nature.
• The identity of the person Ynet says was the original target, and of the relative who owns the restaurant, has not been published.
• The reports do not say which of the wounded was taken to which hospital, or give any later update on the critically injured woman.
• Police have not confirmed the account that the grenade was thrown at the restaurant after the attackers failed to find their intended target.