Traffic

National Transport Infrastructure Company deploys AI-based adaptive traffic lights across Israel

Netivei Israel's sample comprises 25 junctions presenting different scenarios. The average time saving at those junctions over the course of the day was 25 seconds per vehicle.

 Traffic light displaying green.
The US Air Force Thunderbirds fly up the Hudson River over New York City on August 4, 2026. The Thunderbirds performed at the Air Dot Show New York in Orange County, NY and are next headlining the Rochester International Airshow.

Controlled chaos: Inside Israel's air traffic during unprecedented US-Israel strikes - interview

Navigating American roads requires international travelers to understand local laws, rental car rules, and common driving challenges.

Road-safety lessons every international traveler should know before driving in the U.S.

A vehicle is seen engulfed in flames on Highway 1 near the Shoresh Interchange on August 3, 2026.

Traffic briefly halted on Highway 1 as vehicle goes up in flames amid record-breaking heatwave


Sharing the sky: Urban air mobility and the questions we must answer before we fly-opinion

It's a different kind of traffic, but every hard problem in UAM is a hard problem in defense.

AIR One eVTOL

Israel's noise pollution upsets animals as much as people - but can be reduced, study finds

Researchers at Beersheba’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have pioneered a first-of-its-kind spatial model that maps how road noise disrupts animal behavior.

  Israeli drivers and roads are notorious for being among the worst worldwide.

US intelligence warns Iran unlikely to ease Hormuz Strait chokehold soon, sources say

The Strait of Hormuz, controlled on one side by Iran, carries a fifth of the world's oil trade.

 A map showing the Strait of Hormuz and Iran is seen in this illustration taken June 22, 2025.

Driver speeding to escape sirens gets license suspension in landmark ruling

The court emphasized that speeding in emergency situations may increase, rather than reduce, risk, and suspended the driver’s license for 30 days. 

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

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.

Red traffic light saves stroke victim's life in Rishon Lezion

A passing Magen David Adom paramedic saved the life of 75-year-old Moshe Ami Benita, who suffered a stroke while stopped at a red light in Rishon Lezion during a routine drive home.

A Magen David Adom mobile intensive care unit and paramedic, June 2, 2025; illustrative.

Arab families protest rise in violent crime, murder, blocking Ayalon highway

“This struggle is a fight for life and against the abandonment of an entire society that bleeds every day,” the protesters said.

Members of the Arab community in Israel protest against the violence in their community, in Sakhnin, northern Israel, January 22, 2026.

Ultra-Orthodox rioters throw stones, call police 'Nazis' in protests over dead infants' autopsies

Eleven were arrested before protests began to disperse following the High Court of Justice's blocking of the planned autopsies.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a road and clash with police during a protest against the autopsy of toddlers who died in a daycare, in Jerusalem, January 20, 2026

Two policemen injured at religious youth protest in Jerusalem marking Ahuvia Sandak's death

The protesters, a group of young right-wing nationalists, took to the streets to mark five years since the death of hilltop youth Ahuvia Sandak.

A police officer's bandaged hand is seen during protests in Jerusalem, December 27, 2025

IDF, Israel Police searching for Palestinian vehicle that fled traffic stop in West Bank

The incident was originally reported as a potential terror ramming, but it has since been ruled as a suspect fleeing a traffic violation/

 (Illustrative) Israel police block a road, as rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip, near Ashkelon, southern Israel October 7, 2023.