The Police Department's Traffic Wing reports a steep drop in fatal traffic accidents in Israel. In the first five months of 2003, 176 people were killed on Israel's roads - compared to 208 deaths during the same period last year. The decrease is thus 15%. In May alone, 27 people were killed, compared to 46 in May 2002. Two Darchei Noam Company buses carrying several classes of girls on a day trip collided today near Beit Shemesh, after sliding on an oil slick on the road; some 50 girls were evacuated to nearby hospitals with light injuries...
The 35 workers of the Reshef Technologies plant in Sderot received their lay-off letters this morning. The plant, which manufactured fuses and other equipment for the defense network, has not received orders from the Defense Ministry for a long while. Attempts to renew the orders failed...
A memorial is being held this afternoon at the Dolphinarium plaza in Tel Aviv today, marking two years since a suicide bomber murdered 21 people - almost all of them teenagers who had recently immigrated from the former Soviet Union - at that spot...
The 35 workers of the Reshef Technologies plant in Sderot received their lay-off letters this morning. The plant, which manufactured fuses and other equipment for the defense network, has not received orders from the Defense Ministry for a long while. Attempts to renew the orders failed...
A memorial is being held this afternoon at the Dolphinarium plaza in Tel Aviv today, marking two years since a suicide bomber murdered 21 people - almost all of them teenagers who had recently immigrated from the former Soviet Union - at that spot...