Traffic 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.
Security and rescue forces at the scene of a bus accident in central Tel Aviv, May 18, 2026.

'A national issue': Police to launch nationwide crackdown on dangerous drivers, road violations

 LIME PR

Electric scooter accidents, fatalities on the rise due to lack of enforcement

 MDA Ambulance

Police officer arrives at crash scene in southern Israel, discovers son was killed


Jeep runs over, kills two-year-old pedestrian in Tel Aviv

Police investigating incident at the city’s port complex.

Police tape.

Calls mount for reining in Beduin camel owners after boy's death in crash

Camel accidents have taken the lives of fifteen people since 2008 and injured 350 others.

 Camels roam in an unrecognized Beduin village, as the southern Israeli city of Beersheba is seen in the background December 17, 2015.

Motorcycle Safety Gear Saves Lives

The Jerusalem Post

Grumpy old man: Road rouge

The fact that traffic accidents kill more people than do wars and terrorist attacks combined. It’s time we faced up to that ugly truth.

TEL AVIV’S congested Ayalon Highway in 2014.

Arab Israeli traffic fatalities increase 24% in 2016

4% increase in deaths for overall population, 74% of traffic fatalities are male.

Cars line a Jerusalem street

The danger of Israel's roads: Who is to blame?

After a decade of a steady decline in traffic fatalities, Israel has experienced a consistent rise for the past five years.

Tel Aviv traffic

Multiple deaths, 18 injured in major car crash in southern Israel

Among the injured one is in critical condition, one mild, and the rest lightly injured.

Traffic accident in South.

Life as Theater

The Jerusalem Post

Barriers to beauty and comfort

While the reason was valid – to protect the public from terrorist acts such as car rammings – the thinking was faulty.

Barriers at a bus stop on Keren Hayesod Street

Sixty-six people have been killed in traffic accidents since January 1

40-year-old killed riding bike near Kfar Shmaryahu

A new road to Jerusalem