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Ron Eliyahu Oved, right, and his father. Oved was killed in an accident during a tryout for the IDF Paratroopers Brigade on April 11, 2019. (Courtesy of the family)

June 20, 2019, 11:44 am

IDF chief calls for policy changes after recruit killed in tryout accident

Ron Eliyahu Oved, 18, was one of 6 teenagers hit by a bus that rolled into his tent during an evaluatory exercise for the Paratroopers Brigade in April

By Judah Ari Gross

The scene after an empty bus rolled and hit a group of young Israelis while they were attending tryouts for a military unit, April 11, 2019, near Kibbutz Shomria (Screen grab via Channel 12)

April 12, 2019, 10:12 am

Ron Oved, 18, named as teen killed when parked bus rolled into army tryout group

Family to donate Oved’s corneas after he was killed Thursday when vehicle hit tents; funeral will take place Friday at 12:30 pm in Palmachim; driver says bus handbrake was on

By TOI staff

Illustrative: Victims of a bus accident are loaded into helicopters in order to get them to hospitals as quickly as possible near Kochav HaShachar in the West Bank on November 26, 2015. (Magen David Adom)

April 11, 2019, 9:45 pm

One killed, 5 injured, as parked bus rolls into teens at army tryouts in south

Vehicle began moving while driver was outside, hit tents used by young men; some of the injured were trapped under vehicle

By TOI staff

A wounded Israeli woman is evacuated from her apartment, which was set ablaze by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on November 12, 2018. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

November 14, 2018, 10:35 pm

As rockets multiplied, racing first responders struggled to keep up

The 400 rockets launched from Gaza posed a challenge not only to the Iron Dome defense system but also to emergency workers, who respond to multiple incidents for every rocket

By Melanie Lidman

Israeli security forces at the scene of car-ramming attack near the train station in the northern city of Acre, on March 4, 2018. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

March 5, 2018, 3:17 pm

Acre car-rammer to remain in custody; family, lawyer deny terrorist motive

Police maintain Arab Israeli man hit 3 troops and a civilian with SUV for ‘nationalistic reasons’; court to keep him under arrest for 10 more days

By Judah Ari Gross

Scene of a suspected car-ramming attack in the northern Israeli city of Acre on March 4, 2018. (United Hatzalah)

March 4, 2018, 3:26 pm

Police say Acre car-ramming a nationalistic terror attack

Authorities say they know identity of driver, reportedly from Arab town of Shfaram, who injured 3 soldiers and a civilian in vehicular rampage

By Michael Bachner

Scene of a suspected car-ramming attack in the northern-Israeli city of Acre on Sunday, March 4, 2018. (United Hatzalah)

March 4, 2018, 12:00 pm

4 hurt in suspected car-ramming attack in northern Israel

Driver of the attacking vehicle shot after he hits 3 troops, 51-year-old man in the city of Acre; police investigating motive

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative photo of an ultra-Orthodox protest against compulsory drafting into the army, in Beit Shemesh on March 1, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

January 16, 2018, 2:09 pm

Ultra-Orthodox man arrested for stoning soldier’s car, causing him to crash

Arrest comes a week after serviceman was injured driving into a lamppost when Beit Shemesh residents pelted him with rocks, garbage

By Judah Ari Gross and Stuart Winer

Rescue and medic personnel, including ultra-Orthodox paramedics, carrying a wounded woman at the scene of where the top floor of a building collapsed after a gas tank exploded in the Gilo neighborhood, Jerusalem, January 20, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 16, 2018, 11:50 am

Major Hasidic sect bans volunteering in paramedics, police

Gur dynasty issues edict prohibiting service in emergency organizations for men under 30, threatens to expel from schools children of those who do

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative. Ultra-Orthodox Israelis take part in a violent protest in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on June 27, 2009. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

January 8, 2018, 2:54 pm

Ultra-Orthodox allegedly stone soldier’s car, causing him to crash

Serviceman sustains light injuries, but vehicle badly damaged as he drives into a lamppost after Beit Shemesh residents pelt him with rocks, garbage

By Judah Ari Gross

Miriam Ballin, holding her baby daughter, at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. (Miriam Ballin via JTA)

August 31, 2017, 8:25 am

Haredi female psychotrauma pioneer heads to Houston with Israeli medics

After spearheading rescue service’s mental health unit, Jerusalem’s Miriam Ballin is going back to her native Texas to help Hurricane Harvey victims cope

By Andrew Tobin

Nedal Sader sitting on his United Hatzalah motor-scooter in the Old City of Jerusalem, July 14, 2017. (Andrew Tobin)

July 18, 2017, 2:27 am

The first medic to respond to the Temple Mount terror attack was Muslim. Here’s his story

When Nedal Sader, a Palestinian volunteer with an Orthodox Jewish ambulance service, heard the crackle of machine-gun fire just outside his apartment, he couldn’t believe it was coming from the holy site

By Andrew Tobin

Scene where a 16-year-old was electrocuted to death in Exodus Street, Ashdod, July 9, 2017. (Magen David Adom)

July 9, 2017, 10:10 pm

Teen electrocuted on roof in Ashdod

16-year-old killed after grasping electric cable and TV antenna while atop 20-story apartment building with two friends

By TOI staff

Israeli police officers clash with ultra-Orthodox Jews during an operation to arrest the attackers of soldiers at the Mea Shearim in Jerusalem on June 4, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

June 11, 2017, 5:04 pm

Ex-MK’s soldier son attacked by ultra-Orthodox mob in Jerusalem

Dov Lipman calls for new legislation to combat uptick in violence against servicemen, says it’s the ‘last gasp of extremism’ as Haredi enlistment grows

By Judah Ari Gross

Ultra-Orthodox Jews return November 19, 2014, to study inside the Jerusalem Har Nof synagogue where two terrorists from East Jerusalem killed five Israelis a day earlier. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

April 19, 2017, 12:24 pm

Synagogues get Shabbat emergency app for phoneless worshipers

Software developer and first responder groups develop panic button on tablet that also collects dues during the week

By Shoshanna Solomon