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%. 

 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

 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

 MDA Ambulance

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


At least 6 killed in highway 1 collision between bus and tractor trailer

Deputy Commissioner Yaron Be’eri, the commander of the National Traffic Police said that a special investigative team has been launched to determine what exactly took place.

Bus accident on Highway 1 on February 14, 2016

November 5, 2015: Virtually silent

Readers respond to the latest Jerusalem Post articles.

Envelope

Speed kills

"Over the past few years there has been a gradual rise in the number of road deaths in Israel."

Scene of car accident in Jerusalem, April 15 , 2015

November 4: A real fox

Readers respond to the latest Jerusalem Post articles.

Envelope

NGO: One person killed every day on roads

Or Yarok released the data on the occasion of National Road Safety Day, which occurs on Tuesday.

Traffic on the Ayalon Freeway is backed up as police seal off Hashalom interchange‏ in Tel Aviv

City Notes: Kinneret’s Shikmim Beach becomes disabled-friendly

Immigration and Absorption Minister Ze’ev Elkin at The Jazz Festival in Eilat

What's shorter than a nano second? Answer - the Israeli drivers fuse at a traffic light!

The Jerusalem Post

Driving with ‘wrong’ type of music can be dangerous, says BGU psychologist

"The car is the only place in the world you can die just because you’re listening to the wrong kind of music.”

The scene of a traffic accident on Road 31 near Arad

Psychology: Car accident therapy

Steps to avoid accidents and set a good example for children and teens while driving.

Car accident

Traffic-related fatalities on rise for second year in a row

Over the last 12 months alone, 345 people – including 129 pedestrians – have died in car accidents on Israeli roads.

Aerial picture of chain accident at Lehavim Junction in Negev