Traffic accident

Within two hours: Three bus crashes in southern Israel leave 37 injured, including IDF soldiers

Twenty-one people were injured near Mitzpe Ramon, 11 near the Nevatim junction, and another five near Ruhama.

Bus carrying IDF soldiers to base overturns near Mitzpe Ramon in southern Israel, February 26, 2026.
 Members of the Ethiopian community and activists block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv during a protest for justice to 4-year-old Rafael Adana, who was run over and killed in a car accident in Netanya, in Tel Aviv, August 23, 2023

Court sentences driver in Rafael Edna hit-and-run case to one year in prison, bans her from driving

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Death of five-year-old marks seventh dead child in road accidents in 2026, 252 in five years

A bus overturns on Highway 6 near Kiryat Gat, southern Israel, January 16, 2026.

At least 27 injured as bus overturns on Highway 6 near Kiryat Gat


Court upholds driver’s sentence in deadly 2008 bus accident

Supreme Court rejects appeals against an 8-year jail term for driver Edward Gelfand for accident in which 24 Russian travel agents were killed when a tour bus drove off a cliff on the way to Eilat.

Ambulance

Supreme Court rejects appeal of bus driver's sentence for killing 24

Edward Gelfand was found guilty of manslaughter by the Beersheba District Court in September 2013.

Airport workers carry one of 24 coffins of Russian tour operators, killed in a bus crash north of the Red Sea resort of Eilat, into a Russian airplane at the Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv December 18, 2008.

Speed factor

On Sunday it was a bus driver’s recklessness that resulted in the death of six and the injury of a dozen.

Bus accident on Highway 1 on February 14, 2016

Bus driver suspected of tampering with investigation of fatal crash

The police suspect the driver removed the bus’s tachograph – which records the vehicle’s speed- between the time of the accident and when he was arrested.

Bus accident on Highway 1 on February 14, 2016

At least 6 killed in highway 1 collision between bus and tractor trailer

Deputy Commissioner Yaron Be’eri, the commander of the National Traffic Police said that a special investigative team has been launched to determine what exactly took place.

Bus accident on Highway 1 on February 14, 2016

The near miss

The Jerusalem Post

WATCH: Israeli firefighters rescue child hanging upside down from bridge

10-year-old boy saved after his father's truck rolls over and lands on a bridge at the roadside at Somech Junction in the North.

Child rescued after hanging from overturned truck

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Israel Police recommend new regulations on electric bikes, after uptick in injuries

Proposed rules include requirement that drivers obtain license, and legal age of 16 for vehicle operation.

Electric bike in Tel-Aviv

Security cameras catch fatal Negev crash

The traffic occurred when a passenger bus, which was empty went through a light and collided with a Jeep at the intersection.

Tragic car crash that killed 3 in the Negev‏.