Car accident

At least 17 injured after bus, minibus crash on Ayalon Highway

Tel Aviv District traffic police are responding to the incident, while traffic accident investigators are on their way to the scene.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Police respond to an accident involving a bus and a minibus on the Ayalon Highway near the Halakha interchange. 8 Nov. 2026
The scene of the bus crash on Route 25 near Netivot on Friday, October 30, 2026.

Bus driver killed, dozens wounded in collision with tractor near Netivot

MDA pronounced the bus driver, a man of about 50, dead at the scene. Soroka Medical Center said two women hospitalized there were in serious condition with multiple injuries.

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Transportation Minister Miri Regev attends a state memorial ceremony for civilians murdered in the October 7 massacre, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, October 5, 2026

Miri Regev's unfulfilled promises: Eight transportation reforms that never happened

Deaths on Israel’s roads are at a 20-year high, Europe’s road safety council has suspended Israel, and the national plan Transport Minister Regev hailed as ‘dramatic’ is still unfunded.

|ByUDI ETZION
MDA at the scene of a minibus accident, October 22, 2026.

Nine injured, including one seriously, in minibus accident near Beit Shemesh

A man in his 30s was seriously injured, while an 18-year-old sustained moderate injuries to multiple parts of his body. Seven other passengers sustained light injuries.

|BySHIR PERETS

Motorcyclist, 60, killed after being struck by car fleeing from police

A 60-year-old motorcyclist was killed this evening by being hit by a suspect vehicle that fled from police in Holon. MDA pronounced him dead at the scene.

JUNE 1, 2023ByMAARIV ONLINE, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
The scene of a fatal motorcycle accident in Holon

Four arrested for murdering Israeli teen, disguising it as car accident

A 16-year-old was killed in Tel Aviv in September in what was thought to be a car accident. But Israel Police later suspected it could have been a premeditated killing.

MAY 29, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israel Police officers are seen at the Carmel market in Tel Aviv, on March 28, 2022.

3 dead, 15 injured in car crashes across Israel on Saturday

Two people died and fourteen people were injured in two car crashes that occurred in the span of one hour on Saturday evening.

MAY 27, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The scene of a car crash near Lido junction, May 27, 2023.

Israeli child killed in truck hit and run as wave of violence continues

A 25-year-old resident of northern Israel was detained for questioning following the accident as he is suspected of having driven the truck in question. 

MAY 4, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israel Fire and Rescue Services responded to a call on Highway 4 near Yavne where a truck was on fire on May 4, 2023.

Infant killed, several others injured in Israeli car crash

A one-year-old child was killed in the car crash on Israel's Highway 40. Six others were hospitalized, two of whom are in serious condition.

APRIL 26, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The scene of a serious car crash on Highway 40 in Israel's South that resulted in multiple casualties, on April 26, 2023.

Drunk driver who killed boy on Yom Kippur given 10 years prison

The boy was set to celebrate his Bar Mitzvah two months before he was killed. 

APRIL 24, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
The aftermath of the accident at Urim Junction on Highway 234.

Israeli mother of 11 killed in Ashdod car crash

MDA emergency services reported that they received a call on their 101 hotline about a woman who trapped under a vehicle, unconscious. 

APRIL 16, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Police and rescue forces at the scene where a woman killed after being hit by car in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, April 16, 2023.

Grapevine: Road reminders

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

APRIL 15, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
LGBT flag on Jerusalem's King George Street, July 31, 2018

One Israeli killed, 33 injured in South Korea bus accident

The bus driver attributed the accident to a mechanical issue in the bus, according to Army Radio. 

APRIL 13, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Emergency service workers place a body, recovered from the capsized passenger ship Sewol, into an ambulance at the port in Jindo April 22, 2014.

Miracles are just the norm in Israel - opinion

Addressing a popular secular Israeli society that was skeptical of calling events miraculous, David Ben-Gurion said, “A Jew who does not believe in miracles is not a realist."

APRIL 2, 2023ByURI PILICHOWSKI
YOUTH DEMONSTRATE near the Knesset, last month. The flag reads: ‘For the unity: Youth march together.’ Don’t bet against Israel, it’s been counted out many times, and always bounced back strongly, says the writer.