Ministry of transport

40 million passengers a year: Ben Gurion Airport launches major expansion of Terminal 3

The expansion of Terminal 3 will include a new 63,000-square-meter wing, 86 additional check-in counters, advanced baggage screening and sorting systems, and new retail and passenger service areas.

Expansion of Terminal 3 at Ben Gurion Airport.
A person rides on a scooter as smoke rises in the Fujairah oil industry zone following a fire caused by debris after interception of a drone by air defenses, in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, March 3, 2026

National Security Council issues warning for Israelis in UAE amid Iranian threat

Passengers at the Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv on September 18, 2025.

Israel to build new international airport in Negev, PMO announces

AN EL AL flight takes off, 14 July, 2025,

Israel’s aviation rebounds in 2025 with 33% increase in passengers


The road not taken

Despite having been modernized, stretched and multiplied, Israel’s highways are increasingly clogged, begging a public transportation overhaul that might take decades to mature

Cars come to a standstill as the light rail passes outside the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City

Editor's Notes: Let Uber drive in Israel

Though Uber has been operating in Israel since 2014, it only works with taxis.

A photo illustration shows the Uber app on a mobile telephone, as it is held up for a posed photograph in central London, Britain September 22, 2017.

Berlin probes Kuwait Airways for discrimination against Israelis

A video uploaded to Facebook went viral after an Israeli-Arab was barred from getting on Kuwait Airways flight because of his Israeli passport.

Kuwait Airways

Green light for olim: Experienced drivers no longer need to retake test

Any immigrants with at least a 5-year-old license will be automatically eligible for an Israeli one.

Vehicles drive on a highway in the central Israeli city of Tel Aviv December 17, 2013.

Health Ministry to launch ‘Post’ campaign to save kids from hot cars

The stickers, to be designed by the State Advertising Authority, will be distributed at well-baby centers, health fund clinics, petrol stations and elsewhere to all vehicle owners around the country.

THE VEHICLE in Ashdod where a baby died of heat stroke after being left for hours in the sun.

Routes mortelles

Après dix années consécutives de baisse, Israël connaît une recrudescence des accidents de voiture. A qui la faute ? Les principaux acteurs de la sécurité routière se renvoient la balle

Collision entre deux véhicules

The Jerusalem track

Jerusalem-Tel Aviv in half an hour by 2017 – this is the jewel in the crown of Israel Railways expansion activities.

Jerusalem Tel Aviv Rail 521

El Al’s Sun D’Or loses operating license

Cancellation of license follows complaints from European authorities that Sun D’Or was in practice not an independent company and makes use of El Al planes and crews.

The Jerusalem Post