Ministry of transport

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

Ben Gurion Airport led the resurgence, recording roughly 134,000 takeoffs and landings, up 32 percent from the previous year.

AN EL AL flight takes off, 14 July, 2025,
A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture

WATCH: Hackers hijack digital bus stop screens in several Israeli cities, play Arabic audio

Haifa Airport.

Israel's oldest airport upgraded with a NIS 25 million investment

View of the Israel Railways train near the southern Israeli city of Sderot, July 21, 2025.

Damage to electrical infrastructure in Tel Aviv area disrupts train traffic


CEO of NTA estimates: The metro will only open in 2040

The Transport Ministry promotes the underground railway, but Haim Glick revealed a 6-year delay in the project during a lecture at the Technion. NTA is working on more precise timelines.


Israel does not promote electric vehicle transition, causing suffocation

Limited truck pollution enforcement and electric vehicle incentives, inadequate charging stations. Transportation Ministry addressing issues, Environmental Protection Ministry not responding.


Building a 130-meter pedestrian tunnel in Jerusalem will take 3 years

The Transportation Ministry will fund a 73 million shekel tunnel to connect Shaare Zedek Hospital to the nearby light rail station, preventing visitors from crossing a busy intersection.


Transportation Ministry to permit import of trikes

Israel's trike imports approved by Ministry of Transportation. Originating from the USA, pricing info awaited.


New decree: Approval of electric car license fee in thousands of shekels

Electric car discounts were canceled by committee chairman Moshe Gafni, effective from January 2025. Tesla Israel CEO anticipates Model 3 prices to rise to NIS 300,000 due to future tax increases.


The reform of public transport discounts will be launched in two weeks

Despite the budget hole created by the war and the government budget cuts, the Transportation Ministry is preparing to launch the "Transportation Justice" reform on March 25.

  Passengers board the bus. The reform will be reduced from the planned

Transportation Min. to pay hundreds of thousands to provide buses to ultra-Orthodox wedding

The report clarified that it is a large event, and the request would include dozens of busses, which is estimated to cost the state hundreds of thousands of shekels.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish family takes part in the Tashlikh ritual, to symbolically cast away sins, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, in Ashdod, Israel, October 3, 2022.

Israel's trains to receive improved cellular reception, WiFi access

The Communication and Transportation Ministries are working together on a joint experiment in order to improve cellular reception onboard trains.

 Israelis use the train transportation system after a long weekend on a very crowded Sunday, Karmiel and Beer Sheva stations, on May 28, 2023.

'Criminal with blood on her hands' - minister's visit to Be'eri blocked by members

During her visit, Transportation Minister Miri Regev was supposed to visit the Be'eri Printing Press but her entrance to the kibbutz was halted by angry members.

 Miri Regev, Minister of Transport and Road Safety  attends an unveiling ceremony of a 50-meter long mural made by Mexican artist Julio Carrasco Breton, depicting the millennia of Jewish history, at the Ben Gurion International Airport, June 20, 2023

Transportation Ministry announces change to public transport amid Israel's war with Hamas

While Israeli residents are advised to avoid all non-essential travel, Israel's Transportation Ministry posted further information regarding traffic operation schedules.

 EVERY PASSENGER is a story on the Jerusalem light rail.