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


Intercity public transport fares lowered across Israel

The measure is part of a reform by the Ministry of Transport aimed at encouraging the use of public transportation, reducing the cost of living and relieving traffic jams.

Israel train

You think traffic’s bad? You’re absolutely right!

IMF and OECD say Israel’s roads worst in Western world

Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan and Beit Aryeh-Ofarim Regional Council head Avi Naim point to the missing two kilometers of road.

Tel Aviv-Jerusalem high-speed train delayed to September, eve of Sukkot

The new opening date comes after a six-month delay of its expected unveiling.

Transportation Minister Israel Katz inside the electric locomotive that hauled test train on January 15, 2018

Rav-Kav chips in

Transportation Minister Israel Katz said that it is the job of bus drivers to drive, not to deal with cash.

A street card-loading point offers instructions in English (as well as Hebrew and Arabic)

Israeli bus drivers to stop loading Rav Kav fare cards

Rav Kav cards will be loadable online and via machines deployed around towns and cities and at heavily-used bus stops.

An Egged bus in front of the Jerusalem Central Bus Station

Experts: Jerusalem-Tel Aviv railway not safe to operate

"There is no reasonable chance that the project will be completed on time without breaching the safety rules," a senior electrical engineer accompanying the project said.

Deep underground, the construction site for the high speed train.

Jerusalem-Tel Aviv high-speed rail to open on March 30

The soon-to-be unveiled rail link is expected to more than halve the time it takes to travel between the two cities.

Members of the media tour one of the tunnels that will be part of the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem high-speed railway.

The road not taken

Despite having been modernized, stretched and multiplied, Israel’s highways are increasingly clogged, begging a public transportation overhaul that might take decades to mature

Cars come to a standstill as the light rail passes outside the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City

Editor's Notes: Let Uber drive in Israel

Though Uber has been operating in Israel since 2014, it only works with taxis.

A photo illustration shows the Uber app on a mobile telephone, as it is held up for a posed photograph in central London, Britain September 22, 2017.

Berlin probes Kuwait Airways for discrimination against Israelis

A video uploaded to Facebook went viral after an Israeli-Arab was barred from getting on Kuwait Airways flight because of his Israeli passport.

Kuwait Airways