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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

bus drivers

Still image from 'Kavim' bus's security camera footage of youth attacking a bus driver in the West Bank ultra-Orthodox settlement of Modiin Illit, March 24, 2024. (Screen capture: X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 25, 2024, 9:34 am
Arab bus driver stabbed by Jewish teen in Purim night attack in Modiin Illit
Video shows Ahmed Abu al-Hawa attacked ‘for no reason’ in Haredi West Bank settlement; suspect yet to be apprehended
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: View of the inside of a Dan bus in Tel Aviv on February 22, 2022. (Avshalom sassoni/Flash90)
September 1, 2023, 10:26 pm
In latest case of alleged harassment, woman says bus driver told her ‘You’re naked’
22-year-old says Dan driver repeated his comments twice when she boarded with a sleeveless shirt; company says it’s investigating complaint
By ToI Staff
Teenage girls on a bus from Ashdod to Safed who say they were asked by the driver to go to the back of the bus, cover up their summer outfits and put on blankets so as not to offend Haredi passengers on August 13, 2023. (Used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
August 21, 2023, 12:10 am
Bus companies face 3 lawsuits over series of discriminatory incidents against women
Egged, Electra-Afikim and Nateev Express are each being sued after drivers allegedly harassed or discriminated against female passengers
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, July 30, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)
August 14, 2023, 5:51 pm
After cases of discrimination against women on buses, PM calls to punish offenders
Netanyahu says Israel ‘a free country, in which nobody will set limits on who can use public transportation,’ following series of incidents involving drivers and Haredi passengers
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox men board the bus to the Lag B'omer festival in Meron, in Jerusalem, on May 8, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
August 13, 2023, 5:43 pm
Teen girls told to sit in back of bus, cover up because of Haredi passengers
Incident is one of several reports of bus drivers illegally discriminating against women in past week
By ToI Staff
A man attacks a bus driver in the northern city of Yokneam, after the driver refused to let him off at the traffic light, November 22, 2022. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 1, 2022, 5:19 pm
Police arrest road rage suspects amid spate of attacks
Youths said to assault driver in Kiryat Ata for speaking rudely to elderly woman; Rehovot bus driver pushed downstairs by two teens after calling them out for not paying fares
By Michael Horovitz
The scene of a bus crash on Jerusalem's Shamgar Street on August 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 12, 2022, 8:14 pm
Driver blames malfunction for deadly J’lem bus crash that killed mother, 2 daughters
Police interrogate driver on suspicion of negligent manslaughter, release him to five-day house arrest; Egged inspector says suspect has 18-years experience and impeccable record
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Kavim bus drivers demonstrate against violence directed at them, near the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 17, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 26, 2022, 7:48 am
Bus drivers strike in escalating dispute with Transportation Ministry
Hundreds of drivers hold protest between 6 and 9 a.m. in Jerusalem and other major cities
By ToI Staff
Israelis board a Kavim bus on the main street in the central city of Petah Tikva, June 24, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
June 17, 2022, 9:18 am
Bus drivers strike Friday morning, demanding higher wages and greater safety
Action between 10 a.m.-12 p.m comes as union says drivers are working double shifts to earn sufficient pay
By ToI Staff
A bus driver holds a sign in Jerusalem while on strike, demanding better wages for his profession, June 6, 2022. (Screengrab, Twitter)
June 6, 2022, 12:45 pm
Bus drivers from two major companies strike for better conditions, more pay
Workers threaten to strike every Monday until demands met; union says members have no choice but to take action over low salaries, manpower shortages
By Michael Horovitz
Bus driver Muhammad Kak was assaulted near the West Bank town of Shvut Rachel, August 13, 2021. (courtesy)
August 13, 2021, 7:09 pm
Arab bus driver hospitalized after assault by apparent anti-mask settler
Muhammad Kak says he asked man to mask up, but the latter, realizing he was Arab, started swearing at him, then attacked him mid-drive; police arrest 21-year-old suspect
By ToI Staff
Graffiti reading "kill Arab drivers" spray-painted on a wall in the West Bank settlement of Modiin Illit, on January 21, 2021. (Courtesy)
January 21, 2021, 6:31 pm
Graffiti calling to kill Arab bus drivers spray-painted in West Bank settlement
Messages scrawled in Modiin Illit also include warning that ‘the damage won’t stop’ until bus company stops employing ‘terrorists’
By ToI Staff
The scene of a suspected hit-and-run by a bus near Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, December 2, 2020. (Magen David Adom)
December 2, 2020, 8:12 am
Palestinian bus hits 7 Palestinian workers in Bethlehem, killing 2; driver flees
Incident occurs near Rachel’s Tomb; police begin widespread search
By ToI Staff
Alexander Leibman, a bus driver involved in a deadly accident on Highway 40 near Ben Gurion Airport, is escorted by a prison guard as he arrives at a court hearing in Rishon Lezion on December 23, 2019. (Flash90)
March 12, 2020, 11:17 pm
Driver indicted over bus crash near Ben Gurion Airport that killed 4
Alexander Leibman charged with negligent homicide, after steering Egged bus into concrete bus stop on Route 40 in December
By ToI Staff
Hayley (Sevitz) Varenberg, killed in a bus crash near Ben Gurion Airport on December 21, 2019. (Courtesy)
December 24, 2019, 1:21 pm
Israeli bus crash victims include Philadelphia teacher, South African immigrant
Driver in Sunday crash near Ben Gurion airport remanded for 4 days; deceased include Hayley Varenberg from Jerusalem and Berta Schwartz who was in Israel for her grandchild’s birth
By ToI Staff
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