Road safety

Israel's municipalities are failing on nearly every possible front, government probe reveals

Matanyahu Englman's annual report finds that local authorities and government ministries are failing to implement key urban safety measures and business licensing requirements.

Israeli State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, February 16, 2026.
 An illustrative image of slow-moving traffic on Israel's Ayalon Highway.

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

A BOTTLE of vodka, found in the glove compartment of a speech therapist by police in Tel Aviv, December 29, 2025.

Speech therapist with bottle of vodka in glove compartment arrested for DUI

Israel Police vehicles; illustrative.

Israel Police admit concern over increasing number of officers driving under the influence - N12


Why do Israeli drivers, pedestrians have right-of-way at the same time?

We challenge the new government to pass a law – in memory of the many casualties on Israel’s roads – to put a stop to the extremely dangerous “double green light” situation.

 Naomi Nathan

Massive sinkhole opens in middle of busy Israeli highway

Israel's central city of Tel Aviv faced a rather large sinkhole this weekend, and in quite a busy street, too. Somehow, though, no one was hurt!

 Sinkhole opens up on Tel Aviv highway

Victims of Jerusalem bus accident laid to rest

"It's a terrible loss. God sometimes takes a rose to atone for a generation," said the deputy mayor of Ofakim, Rabbi Avraham Deutsch.

The funeral of the victims killed yesterday a bus lost control and plowed into a bus station in central Jerusalem on August 12, 2022.

Two killed overnight in Israel's deadly car crash wave

2 pedestrians crossed a highway to help 2 people injured in a different car crash and were hit by passing cars.

 Road accident on Highway 4, August 12, 2022.

IDF road closures extended for 3rd time amid Gaza tensions

The IDF has reinforced the Gaza Division with additional troops as tensions remain high in southern Israel.

 IDF Chief of Staff to visit Gaza Division as tensions remain high.

US oleh fights to improve Israel's road safety, driving culture

Dr. Michael Goldenhersh: “The Israeli mentality is that ‘the rules of the road are for everyone else, but they have nothing to do with me.’”

 POLICE AT the scene of a bus run off the road at Anava Junction, Road 1, July 18.

Ruthie, Modi'in's favorite hyena, killed by passing car on Route 443

The hyena became a social media sensation after she was sighted rummaging through garbage all across the city in 2017.

 A striped hyena

Grapevine June 10, 2022: ‘God Save the Queen’

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 MERAV MICHAELI greets Mansour Abbas at the Quantum Leap conference in Nazareth.

This week in Jerusalem: Expanding the city limits

A weekly roundup of city affairs.

 TRAFFIC SLOWS on Begin Road.

Four dead in fatal car accident in Israel's south

A 65-year-old man, a 40-year-old woman, a 13-year-old girl and a four-year-old boy were all killed in a car accident on Highway 90 on Saturday afternoon.

The scene of a fatal car crash on Highway 90 which left four dead, May 28, 2022