Traffic

Annual Maccabiah Night Run to see roads closed to traffic, Jerusalem Municipality announces

The roads will be closed beginning at 5:00 p.m., and will remain closed until around 11:00 p.m. when the event is set to end.

|ByTZVI JASPER
Israeli participants at the 2026 Maccabiah games, Jerusalem, July 1, 2026.
A convoy of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men rally against the military inscription, on road 1 outside of Jerusalem, June 24, 2026.

Israel's gov't must not serve interests of ultra-Orthodox party leaders, opposition heads declare

Leader of the Democrats party, Yair Golan, called to “block every shekel that finances draft evasion,” as well as institutions that incite against service.

|BySHIR PERETS
Vessels at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, June 16, 2026.

Ship traffic plunges after Iran re-closes Strait of Hormuz following Israeli strikes on Lebanon

Five vessels passed the strait on Sunday, from 26 ships spotted a day earlier, data from analytics firm Kpler showed.

|ByREUTERS
An illustrative image of slow-moving traffic on Israel's Ayalon Highway.

Operation Roaring Lion obscures Israel’s worsening traffic toll, road safety statistics

Excluding March, when Israelis were largely at home due to the war, 157 people were killed this year compared with 147 in the same period last year, an increase of nearly 7%. 

|ByUDI ETZION

Traffic is bad for your heart's health – study

According to the WHO, untreated hypertension can lead to a myriad of conditions like Angina, heart attacks, heart failure, irregular heartbeat and sudden death.

MARCH 25, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A traffic jam during the holiday season in Jal el-Dib, Lebanon, on December 22, 2022. Psychologists say traffic congestion may be a contributing factor to road rage.

Grapevine: Emek oops

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

MARCH 10, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Israel Postal Company mailbox

Women involved in just one-tenth of fatal road accidents - CBS

Israeli data shows that women constitute just 11% of victims in fatal road accidents.

MARCH 9, 2023ByMOSHE COHEN/MAARIV
According to the recently-published Central Bureau of Statistics Social Survey for 2019, among Jewish residents of Israel ages 20 and older, about half (49%) think there is sufficient parking in the area where they live

Grapevine: Jerusalem of conferences

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

FEBRUARY 25, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen speaking alongside the leaders of the Conference of Presidents, in Jerusalem, on February 19, 2023.

Miri Regev must not roadblock Israel's transportation needs - editorial

Israelis on the streets feel like they have been continuously abandoned by their government, and this week was just the cherry on top.

FEBRUARY 16, 2023ByJPOST EDITORIAL
A huge crowd of people are seen flooding the Yitzhak Navon train station in Jerusalem as they head as protesters head to demonstrate against Israel's judicial reform, on February 13, 2023.

Two passengers enough for Highway 1 HOV lane, Regev decides

Regev green-lit the pilot project which will start in February and aims to improve traffic on one of the country's most important roads.

JANUARY 30, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Photo of road in Israel

This week in Jerusalem: We are the scouts

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

JANUARY 15, 2023ByPEGGY CIDOR
ABU TOR; Silwan neighborhood in foreground.

Minister Regev, be cooperative and change will come -opinion

We must strive to create sustainable and quick solutions in order to ease the burden on everyone.

JANUARY 15, 2023BySHLOMI VARIAT
PASSENGERS ENTER through the turnstiles at the Yitzhak Navon train station in Jerusalem.

Car falls into sinkhole formed in Israel's Hod Hasharon

The sinkhole may have opened up due to a failure of an underground water pipe.

JANUARY 14, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Sinkhole opens up in Hod Hasharon January 14, 2023.

Give us a solution to driving or leave us alone - opinion

We are currently being inundated with messages encouraging us to take public transportation as much as possible and drive private cars less.

JANUARY 1, 2023ByCOOKIE SCHWAEBER-ISSAN
A BUS STOPS outside the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem.