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Sunday, November 30, 2025
‘I survived by miracle,’ says Israeli woman who was in car hit with metal rod in West Bank
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An Israeli woman who was in the car that was struck with a metal object this evening in the West Bank says she survived “by miracle.”
The car was hit while driving on the Route 5 highway, near the Palestinian village of Mas’ha. Photos showed the metal object, apparently thrown by Palestinian assailants, embedded in the windshield.
“We headed out from [the settlement of] Kedumim toward Petah Tikva [in central Israel]… and we heard a boom,” Merav Ben Avraham, 23, is quoted as saying by Hebrew media outlets. “We saw the rod in the car, we really panicked and thought it was a terror attack.”
Ben Avraham, who was not driving, says the car had two women as well as a female hitchhiker when it was hit.
“We continued the drive and kept our cool, and called the emergency hotline. We were afraid to stop. Now I feel like I survived by miracle and like it could have easily ended differently,” she says.
Ben Avraham, who like the driver was treated at the scene for acute anxiety but did not require hospitalization, voices hope that the perpetrators and any accomplices will be caught.
The IDF has sent troops to search for suspects behind the attack.
Emanuel Fabian contributed to this report.
The Times of Israel Community.