Former Bat Yam mayor reportedly hurt by car bomb

9 March 2025, 4:23 pm

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FILE: Shlomo Lahiani, former mayor of Bat Yam, appeals to the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 26, 2015, against an 8-month prison sentence for bribery, fraud, breach of public trust and perjury. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Several reports in Hebrew-language media claim one of the victims of the Tel Aviv car bombing was Shlomo Lahiani, the former mayor of Bat Yam, a suburb directly south of the city.

According to the reports, Lahiani, who led the city from 2003 to 2014, was lightly injured when his car exploded on the Ayalon highway.

Lahiani, 58, was jailed in 2015 after pleading guilty to tax offenses and for accepting bribes of some NIS 900,000 (around $250,000).

Lahiani was targeted with car bombs in 2024 and in 2021, both of which were discovered before they went off, according to a Kan report last year.

Police have concluded that the explosion was not terror-related, according to Channel 12 news.