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


Israel’s public transportation is about to get a facelift - Michaeli

'Public transportation is a wonderful thing, but we've started to see the gap between where it's useful and where it's wildly inconvenient,' Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli said on Monday.

Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli at a briefing to reporters, October 11, 2021.

Prosecution oversight czar report: Increase in justified complaints

Justice Ministry oversight czar David Rozen issued his annual report on Monday, stating that the number of justified complaints against prosecutors and police had increased.

Israeli police officers guard at the entrance to a neighborhood in the northern Israeli city of Tiberias, June 24, 2020, during a closure on some neighborhood in the city following the spread of the Coronavirus.

'It will cost lives,' says child rights group on car seat reform delay

The new regulations, demanding the installation of a safety system against forgetting children in cars, were set to come into effect on August 1 but were postponed to June 2022.

Modi'in Illit infant in car

Sustainable transportation: NIS 6.5 m. electric transit system coming to Israel

The venture to improve Israel’s carbon footprint with cleaner methods of transportation will be a joint project shared between the Transportation, Environmental Protection, and Energy Ministries.

Minister of Transportation, Merav Michaeli seen during a visit at a train station in Tel Aviv on June 16, 2021

Michaeli outlines five point plan for Israel's Transportation Ministry

Transferring certain authorities to local councils would allow municipilities to individually conclude whether they would prefer to run public transportation services during Shabbat.

Labor leader Merav Michaeli.

Rav Kav travel cards to be reinstated for east Jerusalem residents

Residents of east Jerusalem have not been able to use Rav Kav cards since the beginning of 2020 after then-transportation minister Bezalel Smotrich announced an expected year-long pause.

Rav Kav 521

New safety system will prevent children from being forgotten in cars

Police will begin enforcing the new reform in January next year, in order to allow drivers to prepare in advance.

The ImprisWay device used in driving

Train stations, including Jerusalem, to close for infrastructure work

From January 12 through February 3, All stations south of the Tel Aviv Haganah station will be temporarily closed for service.

CREWS WORK on expanding the Tel Aviv Railway Station on Shabbat.

After months of delays, new public transport payment apps released

At the end of each month, the app calculates the best discounts based on the user's usage tendencies.

Bus driver works during the coronavirus outbreak, 2020

Two children killed in car crash near Jerusalem

On Saturday evening, Hadassah announced that Yair, the 10-year-old who was critically injured is in stable condition and fully conscious. The 25-year-old uncle is intubated and sedated.

Scene of the car crash near Jerusalem that led to the deaths of a 5-year-old and a 7-year-old on Friday, December 11, 2020.