Road accidents

Operation Roaring Lion obscures Israel’s worsening traffic toll, road safety statistics

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%. 

|ByUDI ETZION
An illustrative image of slow-moving traffic on Israel's Ayalon Highway.
Israel Police and Magen David Adom respond to a road incident in which one police officer was injured near Tapuah junction in the West Bank on February 23, 2026.

Palestinian crashes truck into police vehicle in West Bank, police officer injured

The driver of the truck attempted to flee the scene of the incident, police said, but was pursued by backup police forces and arrested along with a passenger in the truck.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Members of the Ethiopian community and activists block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv during a protest for justice to 4-year-old Rafael Adana, who was run over and killed in a car accident in Netanya, in Tel Aviv, August 23, 2023

Court sentences driver in Rafael Edna hit-and-run case to one year in prison, bans her from driving

At the defense’s request, the court delayed the start of Pesler’s prison sentence until April 15 to give her time to appeal. She is required to report to Neve Tirza Prison by 9 a.m. that day.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
MDA Ambulance

Death of five-year-old marks seventh dead child in road accidents in 2026, 252 in five years

Additional reports pointed out that there were four other victims at the scene, two injured in moderate condition with injuries to the abdomen and limbs, and two injured in light condition.

|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN

Protesters block Ayalon road after the death of an Ethiopian child

Hundreds of protestors blocked Ayalon road on Monday, in response to authorities' refusal to charge a driver who killed a young Ethiopian boy in a hit-and-run accident.

AUGUST 22, 2023ByMAARIV ONLINE
Members of the Jewish Ethiopian community and overs block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, during a protest demand justice for to 4-year-old Rafael Adana, who was run over and killed in a car accident in Netanya, August 21, 2023.

One killed, 56 injured as bus rolls over near Grand Canyon

One person was killed and 56 were injured in a bus accident near the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

AUGUST 2, 2023ByREUTERS
Three buses parked on a ledge overlooking the Grand Canyon in Arizona, US.

Several injured when tourist bus plunged off mountain road in north Spain

A bus filled with tourists plunged off a mountain road in Spain on Monday, leaving 10 people hospitalized.

JULY 31, 2023ByREUTERS
Emergency services members attend to an injured person after a tourist bus carrying 48 people, including children, crashed on a road in Cangas de Onis, in the northern region of Asturias, Spain, July 31, 2023.

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

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.

How is Israel one of the happiest and angriest countries?

How does one explain the huge gap between an intolerable existence full of tension in Israel of 2022 and the OECD’s ranking of Israel as one of the top ten happiest countries in the world?

JANUARY 16, 2023BySHOSHANA TITA
Traffic on the Ayalon Highway outside Tel Aviv.

3 Israeli teenagers killed, 2 others injured in car crash in Galilee

A preliminary investigation has indicated that the crash occurred because one of the cars made a U-turn on an unlit section of the road, ultimately colliding with another car.

JANUARY 13, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The sight of a car crash in Haifa, Israel, that injured two people, on January 13, 2023.

How can we cope with road rage?

In Israel during the past year, police report, road rage incidents have increased at an alarmingly high rate to almost 1,400 cases, compared to just over 1,100 in 2020.

JANUARY 7, 2023ByDR. MIKE GROPPER
Police at the scene where a man killed after being stabbed during a road rage incident in Holon, on November 23, 2022

Deadly night on Israel's roads as three killed in collisions

JANUARY 6, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The scene of a fatal car crash on Highway 90 which left four dead, May 28, 2022