How do you get a large black burlap bag out of a tree – by calling the bomb squad?

That was the scene on Jaffe Street near the Davidka in Yerushalayim on Wednesday late afternoon. Someone detected a large black garbage bag size burlap bag in a tree at about second story level.

Police determined it could be a bomb and the street leading to the Machane Yehuda shuk was closed off and the fire department and bomb squad were summoned.

A bomb demolition technician was lifted in a cherry picker to the appropriate height and he was able to determine the bag was not a threat, throwing it to the ground below and giving the ‘all-clear’ signal.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)