Food poisoning occurs when a person ingests food contaminated with either a chemical or a natural toxin. Most foodborne illnesses are caused by a variety of pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites. Such contamination usually arises from improper handling, preparation, or food storage.
Symptoms typically begin several hours to several days after ingestion and can include one or more of the following: nausea, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, headache, or fatigue. In most cases the body is able to permanently recover after a short period of acute discomfort and illness. However, foodborne illness can result in permanent health problems or even death, especially in babies, young children, pregnant women (and their fetuses), elderly people, sick people and others with weak immune systems.
Businesses typically want to keep their customers healthy, but this time the people who eat at the Grill Express restaurant, near the Diamond Exchange in Ramat Gan, were lucky.
On March 19, 2008, Israeli Intelligence foiled a Terrorist Poison Plot in Ramat Gan.
Two Palestinian Authority Arab workers, illegally employed at a restaurant in Ramat Gan, had, unbeknownst to their employer quietly been recruited by Hizbullah operatives and were planning to carry out a terrorist attack. The two residents of the PA-controlled Samarian city of Shechem worked at the "Grill Express" restaurant on HaYarkon Street in Ramat Gan.
Both 21-year-olds, identified as Ahmed Abu Riyal and Mustafa Salum, were arrested only days before they could execute the plot. They confessed during their interrogations to plotting to poison food at the restaurant. The plan was to use a white, odorless and tasteless poison that they were to receive from two fugitive PA terrorists, Hani Ka'abi and Hosni Tzalag.
The two said they had been recruited into the Aksa Martyrs Brigades in Nablus - which the Shin Bet said was financed by Hizbullah - after they had begun working at the restaurant. The two had asked their handlers to provide them with an odorless and tasteless poison that would take effect only four hours after it was digested. In addition to plotting the poison attack, the two were also asked by the Nablus infrastructure to find ways to help smuggle a suicide bomber into Israel. During their interrogation, the Nablus pair also confessed that the wanted militants leading the cell had examined the possibility of using them to infiltrate a suicide bomber deep into Israel.
The poison itself was to have been a white, odorless and tasteless powder with a slow-release component which would have been undetectable when slipped into the food, thus allowing for harm to the maximum number of diners, according to security officials. The poison was supposed to take effect about four hours after ingestion, during which window of time the pair planned to kill as many restaurant-goers as possible.
According to officials, the restaurant owner was aware that the two Palestinians were in the country illegally and did not have work permits. A Tel Aviv Police spokeswoman said the owner was subsequently arrested for employing Palestinians who had entered illegally, and would be charged in the near future.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians are living and working in Israel without permits, according to estimates made in recent years by the Knesset Interior Committee.
Police regularly arrest these Palestinians and send them back to the West Bank, but a demand for cheap labor continues to provide them with jobs, luring them back into Israel.
Symptoms typically begin several hours to several days after ingestion and can include one or more of the following: nausea, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, headache, or fatigue. In most cases the body is able to permanently recover after a short period of acute discomfort and illness. However, foodborne illness can result in permanent health problems or even death, especially in babies, young children, pregnant women (and their fetuses), elderly people, sick people and others with weak immune systems.
Businesses typically want to keep their customers healthy, but this time the people who eat at the Grill Express restaurant, near the Diamond Exchange in Ramat Gan, were lucky.
On March 19, 2008, Israeli Intelligence foiled a Terrorist Poison Plot in Ramat Gan.
Two Palestinian Authority Arab workers, illegally employed at a restaurant in Ramat Gan, had, unbeknownst to their employer quietly been recruited by Hizbullah operatives and were planning to carry out a terrorist attack. The two residents of the PA-controlled Samarian city of Shechem worked at the "Grill Express" restaurant on HaYarkon Street in Ramat Gan.
Both 21-year-olds, identified as Ahmed Abu Riyal and Mustafa Salum, were arrested only days before they could execute the plot. They confessed during their interrogations to plotting to poison food at the restaurant. The plan was to use a white, odorless and tasteless poison that they were to receive from two fugitive PA terrorists, Hani Ka'abi and Hosni Tzalag.
The two said they had been recruited into the Aksa Martyrs Brigades in Nablus - which the Shin Bet said was financed by Hizbullah - after they had begun working at the restaurant. The two had asked their handlers to provide them with an odorless and tasteless poison that would take effect only four hours after it was digested. In addition to plotting the poison attack, the two were also asked by the Nablus infrastructure to find ways to help smuggle a suicide bomber into Israel. During their interrogation, the Nablus pair also confessed that the wanted militants leading the cell had examined the possibility of using them to infiltrate a suicide bomber deep into Israel.
The poison itself was to have been a white, odorless and tasteless powder with a slow-release component which would have been undetectable when slipped into the food, thus allowing for harm to the maximum number of diners, according to security officials. The poison was supposed to take effect about four hours after ingestion, during which window of time the pair planned to kill as many restaurant-goers as possible.
According to officials, the restaurant owner was aware that the two Palestinians were in the country illegally and did not have work permits. A Tel Aviv Police spokeswoman said the owner was subsequently arrested for employing Palestinians who had entered illegally, and would be charged in the near future.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians are living and working in Israel without permits, according to estimates made in recent years by the Knesset Interior Committee.
Police regularly arrest these Palestinians and send them back to the West Bank, but a demand for cheap labor continues to provide them with jobs, luring them back into Israel.
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