Four large explosions were heard over the skies of Haifa on Sunday night at about 9:30pm, enough to send many residents to the bomb shelters while others called the police emergency phone dispatcher, ‘100’.

Veterans of the Second Lebanon War, the residents of the northern port city are well-attuned to the sound of missiles impacting in their city, many fearing it has begun again. Police quickly began investigating, probing with high-level military officials. Baruch Hashem, it was determined that the feared missile attacks were sonic booms, the result of IAF fighter planes breaking the sound barrier over the city, flying at too low an altitude.

Generally, pilots are under strict guidelines, prohibited from such actions below a certain altitude over urban areas. What exactly occurred on Sunday night and why is not something the air force makes a habit of reporting, but what it known is that Baruch Hashem, it was not a missile attack.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)