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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

Egged

Illustrative: An Egged bus (Jose HERNANDEZ Camera 51 / Shutterstock.com)
February 26, 2024, 8:09 pm
16 injured, several seriously, as bus overturns en route to Beersheba
MDA paramedics, ambulances, IDF helicopters rush to evacuate victims from Route 90 in southern Israel
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
A line of Egged electric buses seen at their charging station in Jerusalem during the launching ceremony, on September 3, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
May 7, 2023, 9:13 am
Protesting violence, Egged drivers stage 3-hour strike in Jerusalem, Haifa, Rehovot
Action taken at regional offices servicing lines where assaults on drivers had occurred recently; transport company condemns move as ‘reckless’; union: ‘Cannot remain indifferent’
By Canaan Lidor
The Chabad movement's annual convention in Edison, New Jersey, November 20, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
November 22, 2022, 1:06 pm
Daily Briefing Nov. 22: Self-driving buses on the road; Chabad emissaries convene
US reporter Luke Tress discusses an attack thwarted at Penn Station and a Lubavitch convention, as Tech Israel editor Ricky Ben-David looks at self-driving buses and UAE business
By ToI Staff
A screen grab from a video showing a simulation of a self-driving bus. (Screenshot/ Adastec, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 8, 2022, 11:00 am
Israel to test self-driving public bus systems in two-year national pilot
Innovation Authority taps four consortiums made up of Israeli bus companies as well as local and global tech startups for trial of autonomous public transport
By Ricky Ben-David
Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion, center, seen during an opening ceremony of Route 16 at the entrance to Jerusalem on August 31, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 31, 2022, 5:11 pm
New entrance to Jerusalem opens, spurring hopes for eased congestion
Route 16 connects Route 1 directly to the south and west of the city; Egged announces new high-frequency line between southern Jerusalem and central Tel Aviv
By Ash Obel
An Israeli bus is seen damaged following a shooting attack in the West Bank near Silwad, August 20, 2022. (Courtesy)
August 21, 2022, 10:53 am
‘I’m still shaking’: Bus driver recounts West Bank shooting attack
Driver hailed for ‘resourcefulness’ that prevented a tragedy; ‘It’s a dark area and there are no soldiers stationed there, so my goal was to get as far away as possible,’ he says
By ToI Staff
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
A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews attacked by a mob on their way to the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 17, 2022. (Screenshot)
April 17, 2022, 6:06 pm
Video shows Orthodox Jews assaulted in Old City while on way to the Western Wall
Driver of bus attacked by Palestinian stone-throwers in separate incident says it could have ended in tragedy, calls on transportation minister to protect drivers
By ToI Staff
Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli (L) and Public Security Minister Omer Barlev (R) (Flash90)
December 1, 2021, 12:10 pm
Amid spate of attacks in south, ministers say throwing rocks at vehicles is ‘terror’
Transportation and public security ministers issue joint statement after bus driver was tear-gassed
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of smashed glass on the floor of a bus that was stoned as it traveled from Tel Aviv to Eilat, November 30, 2021. (Twitter)
November 30, 2021, 2:13 pm
Rocks hurled at bus heading to Eilat, smashing window
No injuries reported in incident in Negev; Egged bus company blames Bedouin, says its vehicles are attacked because they symbolize the Zionist regime
By Stuart Winer
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
An Egged bus is seen on fire in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya after being attacked by rioters (video screenshot)
April 10, 2021, 10:50 pm
Jewish family in bus pelted with stones in East Jerusalem, vehicle set alight
Police say driver headed into Issawiya to make a shortcut, before residents attacked the vehicle; none hurt; 3 suspects arrested including 2 minors
By ToI Staff
A digitized photo of what Barmon, a cooperative bar set up in a refitted bus, will look like if it opens as hoped in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of Jerusalem in August 2020 (Courtesy Shomi Bar-Cohen)
July 16, 2020, 5:49 am
If you build a (cooperative) bar in a bus, the neighbors will come
A communal effort in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv raises money to refit a bus as a local hangout
By Jessica Steinberg
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
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