One of the injured is a three-year-old child, who was hit by a car.
Two pedestrians, a man in his 30s and a man in his 20s, were hit by a vehicle near the northern city of Tamra.
One child was moderately injured in Beit Shemesh, and another child was severely injured in a north Jerusalem neighborhood.
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Recent years have seen an uptick in serious and fatal accidents, despite a general downward trend in the total number of traffic accidents.
The wounded received first aid from MDA and IDF medical staff and were evacuated to Soroka Hospital.
Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata and Director-General Ronen Cohen visited the injured at several hospitals.
The consortium, which will tackle traffic congestion, road accidents, infrastructure and air pollution across Israel, is being joined by Israeli startups – many of which come from the Technion.
The Palestinian Authority declared a day of mourning for Friday for those killed in the crash.