March 28, 2013

(JTA) — Six Israelis died and dozens were wounded in car accidents during the Passover holiday. 

Israel Police recorded 160 car accidents from Tuesday to Thursday. Magen David Adom emergency services treated nine people with serious injuries, as well as 13 with medium injuries and 146 people who were lightly wounded. 

One accident in southern Israel claimed the lives of two women, both of them mothers, who were killed in a collision.

Outside Dalyat al Carmel in the Haifa area, a 19-year-old man was killed when his car slammed into an electricity pole.

Near Tel Aviv, a young man was killed after his car collided with a tractor.

Another man was killed in a fatal collision near Beit Zarzir east of Haifa and another woman died in an accident near the south-central city of Kiryat Gat. 

Among the critically injured was a 13-year-old boy who was riding an all-terrain vehicle in Yavne, a city situated south of Rishon Letzion near Tel Aviv.

The boy was being filmed for a video clip ahead of his bar mitzvah celebration, Army Radio reported. 

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