Road safety

The crash follows an accident on Wednesday involving a jeep, which overturned in the West Bank, severely wounding a 17-year-old girl.

Matanyahu Englman's annual report finds that local authorities and government ministries are failing to implement key urban safety measures and business licensing requirements.

Excluding March, when Israelis were largely at home due to the war, 157 people were killed this year compared with 147 in the same period last year, an increase of nearly 7%. 

The doctor was pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving, when a breathalyzer test found an unusually high level of 1,066 micrograms of alcohol per liter of exhaled air in his body.

All officers were sent a letter on the matter, which stated that anyone working for the police caught driving under the influence could likely be fired.

The Israeli cabinet approved new roads in Ma'aleh Adumim to improve traffic and security, but Palestinians remain skeptical.

At the corner of Aza and Metudela, just 200 meters from the apartment Benjamin Netanyahu has owned for several decades, is the epicenter of the action.

Lime invites families to a creative helmet design workshop to promote safety while riding scooters and bikes - participation is free.

“Israel’s roads are a ticking time bomb… Behind every dead person and every injured person is a family whose life has been destroyed," State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman wrote last week.

While the number of people killed as a result of road accidents is minor in European countries, in Israel it has increased by considerable percentages, the State Comptroller revealed.