Thursday was one of the deadliest days the State of Israel has seen on its roads.
A total of six people died in three separate traffic accidents across the country, three of them motorcyclists in the northern and central regions, and 130 others were injured.
According to the Magen David Adom emergency medical service, paramedics had responded to 155 traffic accidents by late Thursday afternoon.
But the first fatality occurred before dawn, when a car went up on to a sidewalk, hitting a 60-year-old pedestrian in the Negev Bedouin city of Rahat.
Two motorists in their 20's were killed in a head-on crash between a tractor-trailer and car on Route 31 near the Nevatim army base, located between Be'er Sheva and Arad, in the northern Negev. The two were identified as Awad al-Atrash and Rassem Eldada, both residents of nearby Bedouin villages.
In between those two accidents, three motorcyclists also met their deaths further to the north.
The first, a 28-year-old biker from Tzfat was killed when his motorcycle slammed into a car near the Rosh Pina junction in the Upper Galilee. The other driver was taken to the hospital in Tzfat with light injuries.
The deceased was identified as Yossi Suissa.
Paramedics pronounced a 21-year-old driver of a motorcycle dead at the scene of an accident in the Golan Heights. Initial police reports said the driver, whose bike flipped over in the Druze town of Majd El-Shams, was allegedly unlicensed.
A 22-year-old motorcyclist from Modi'in also lost his life after losing control of his bike while traveling on Route 443 between Jerusalem and his hometown. He, too, was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics who arrived promptly but were unable to bring him back to life.
A seven-year-old girl was also seriously injured after being struck by a car Thursday evening in Ashkelon.