electric scooter

Danger on the streets

MK Asher: 'Human life is at stake, there's no enforcement'

MK Yaakov Asher warns failure to enforce laws on electric bicycle and scooter use risks human lives, points to lack of coordination between government ministries.

11-year-old girl injured in hit and run in Or Yehudah

Two minors struck the girl with an electric scooter before driving away. Despite her injuries, they did not even call for medical assistance.

Tel Aviv Mayor:

'I'd give up every shekel of fines for a legal driving culture'

The Tel Aviv municipality reported more than 55,000 fines issued to electric vehicle riders in 2025, alongside widespread confiscation of the offending vehicles.

Ashdod:

Assaulted yeshiva students are afraid to file a complaint

Scooter-riding youths continue attacking haredi passersby in Ashdod, punching their victims before vanishing.

Electric bikes & scooters to be required to have license plates?

Knesset committee approves regulations requiring license plates for electric bicycle and scooter riders.

In Israel, electric scooters may soon need license plates

Bill requiring electric scooters and bicycles to carry license plates approved in preliminary reading.

Man killed in electric scooter accident was a new father

Rabbi Yitzhak Biton, 25-year-old father of two and kashrut supervisor, named as man killed in electric scooter accident in northern Israel.

Man riding electric scooter killed in traffic accident

Two men suffer head injuries while riding electric scooters, paramedics declare the death of one of them.

Leading rabbi slams electric scooters: 'Murder machines'

'Those who ride electric scooters are considered as if they committed suicide,' Rabbi Ben Zion Mutzafi says.

Haredi rabbis come out against electric scooters

'The rules are not kept at all, the government doesn't take it seriously and doesn't enforce them,' rabbis write in letter to followers.

Electric scooter was put to charge - and started a fire

'The battery exploded and white smoke filled the house,' family says.

'This morning my world fell apart; my son Roi was killed'

Ichilov Hospital posts letter written by mother who lost her son while he rode electric scooter.

Tel Aviv takes a ride to scooter 'paradise'

Israel's economic capital struggles to balance the benefits of electric scooters with their dangers and downsides.

Model Shlomit Malka injured in electric scooter wreck

23-year-old model seriously injured after fall from electric scooter on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv.