Teenagers throw stone at bus driver in Netanya, breaking glass and injuring him

Teenagers assail a bus driver with stones in Netanya, pelting him in the head and damaging his vehicle, the latest in a string of attacks on transit workers in recent months.

In a video taken in the aftermath of the attack, the driver says that the teen who threw a rock at him was accompanied by two other boys.

He had seen them a few days ago while working a line, and this time opened the door in order to get a better glimpse of them.

The youths then attacked the driver, throwing stones that shattered a window separating the driver’s cabin from the passengers, and hitting him in the head. He was treated on-site for the injury.

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רק בחודש שעבר נהג אושפז מורדם ומונשם (!) לא רחוק משם.

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— Ofek Tzach אופק צח (@OfekTzach) November 27, 2025

Ofer Sitruk, who chairs the “Extra” transit company’s workers’ organization, denounces the attack and calls on law enforcement to “immediately arrest the attackers and punish them harshly.”

“The blood of drivers must not be cheap,” he says. The organization has shut down line 68, on which the attack took place, until further notice.

“Any line in which violence is used against drivers will be shut down! We must not wake up only after the funeral of the first driver to be murdered by passengers. The writing is already on the wall,” the Histadrut trade federation says in a statement.

The incident is one of many attacks on bus drivers and other transit workers in recent months, many of which have targeted Arab employees.

Earlier in November, a 13-year-old was indicted after allegedly stabbing a 70-year-old minibus driver in Netanya, leaving him with serious injuries. The victim is still sedated and intubated in the hospital as a result of the assault.