Roads

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.
  Israeli drivers and roads are notorious for being among the worst worldwide.

Israel's noise pollution upsets animals as much as people - but can be reduced, study finds

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

Concrete roadblocks placed in Arab neighborhoods in Lod.

Arab neighborhoods in Lod blocked off by police-placed concrete cubes


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?

 Traffic on the Ayalon Highway outside Tel Aviv.

Road rage and aggressive driving is an active threat to Israeli life - opinion

One of Israel's clear and present threats is the plight of aggressive drivers.

 THE FUNERAL of Yuri Volkov, stabbed to death during a road rage incident, takes place at a Holon cemetery last week.

Sinkhole opens up in Tel Aviv, Ayalon highway

 Sinkholes have become an urgent infrastructure problem across Israel.

 Sinkhole opens up on Tel Aviv highway

2,000-year-old Roman road discovered in England, archaeologists believe

The road was found in an area in Worcestershire near where a Roman-era villa complex was found a few years ago.

 Roman road.

Jerusalem march to kick off on Thursday, here's what you should know

During the main celebratory march, several roads throughout the city will be closed to traffic from 13:30 to 18:00.

A general view of the Old City and Walls of Jerusalem taken with a drone on March 22, 2020.

Massive sinkhole opens in middle of busy Israeli highway

Israel's central city of Tel Aviv faced a rather large sinkhole this weekend, and in quite a busy street, too. Somehow, though, no one was hurt!

 Sinkhole opens up on Tel Aviv highway

What are the origins of Tel Aviv street names? New book explains

50 of Tel Aviv’s Most Intriguing Streets – The Lives Behind the Names may not be in the running for the definitively concise publication moniker, although it certainly spells out what you can expect.

 TODAY’S STREET names don’t provide much in the way of biographical information.

Jewish Dubai resident embarks on UAE-Saudi-Israel road trip

Bruce Gurfein and a friend Joe Koen started from his home in Dubai, stopping in Riyadh, Jeddah, Al Ula, Neom, Aqaba and Jerusalem.

 Bruce Gurfein on his road trip from the UAE to Israel.

'Would you close Tel Aviv?' Southern Israel residents lash out at gov't

Shlomi Elkayam, the owner of a toy store in Sderot, spoke with Nissim Mashal and Guy Peleg on 103FM, describing the feeling of the public in the city on Thursday.

 Israeli soldiers block roads near the border with the Gaza Strip on August 2, 2022.

Biden's visit: Not much enthusiasm in Jerusalem for president's trip

Rony Eichner: “I don’t think it’s necessary to close all the streets for all the time they’re closing them; maybe for when the president is coming through, and that’s it.”

 The US and Israeli flags are screened on the walls of Jerusalem's Old City as a welcoming to US president Joe Biden , on July 13, 2022