Gunman kills five in Santa Monica, shot dead by police

Published on June 7, 2013

A gunman dressed in black killed at least six people in a string of shootings through the seaside California town of Santa Monica on Friday before he was shot dead by police in a community college library, law authorities said.

Burgas bombing investigator dismissed for leaking info to media

Published on January 7, 2013

An investigator in the deadly July bombing in Burgas was dismissed for leaking classified information to the media.

Tel Aviv bus bomb mastermind indicted

Published on January 2, 2013

Israel's military prosecutor filed an indictment against the head of a Palestinian terrorist cell who organized the bombing of a bus in Tel Aviv.

Hamas leader calls for third intifada

Published on December 26, 2012

A senior Hamas leader called for a third intifada, including suicide bus bombings in Israel.

Alleged Tel Aviv bus bomber charged

Published on December 19, 2012

An 18-year-old Palestinian man was indicted for allegedly leaving a bomb on a Tel Aviv bus that left more than 20 Israelis wounded when it detonated.

Eager to widen fight beyond missiles, terrorists bomb Tel Aviv bus

Published on November 21, 2012

They all thought it was a missile at first. In the split second between the sudden explosion and the smoke that enveloped their bodies and faces, they figured that a Hamas rocket, after a week of strikes and misses, had hit the center of Tel Aviv. Then they realized that the bus had been bombed.

Bus explodes in Tel Aviv in apparent terror attack; Hamas celebrates

Published on November 21, 2012

A bomb exploded on a bus in central Tel Aviv on Wednesday, wounding 15 people in what Israeli officials said was a terrorist attack that could complicate efforts to secure a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

A Wonderful Weekend in San Francisco

By Ilana Angel
Published on August 28, 2012

Thou shall not have images ... on buses ... neither men nor women

Published on August 28, 2012

Fearing costly vandalism aimed at buses carrying advertisements that include images of women; to avoid legal issues of discrimination if only images of men appear; and to side-step head-on collisions with Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox community; Egged, Israel's public bus cooperative has ordered the company handling its on-bus advertising to stop running ads with pictures or representations of either men or women. As of August 1, a "faceless" policy was put into effect.

Bulgarian police release photo of bomb attack accomplice

Published on August 16, 2012

Bulgarian police released a computer-generated image and a fake driver's license photo of a man believed to be an accomplice in the bombing of an Israeli tour bus in Burgas that killed six.

Planes with wounded return to Israel; Peres: ‘Israel will act against terror’

Published on July 19, 2012

President Shimon Peres said in response to the deadly attack in Bulgaria that Israel will "locate and act against terror all over the world," as the wounded and dead arrived in Israel.

Netanyahu on deadly Bulgaria bombing: ‘All signs point to Iran’

Published on July 18, 2012

A Black Sea coast town in Bulgaria became the scene of carnage when a bus carrying Israeli tourists exploded, killing at least five people and injuring at least 33. Nine people reportedly were missing.

Obama condemns deadly bus attack on Israelis in Bulgaria

Published on July 18, 2012

President Barack Obama strongly condemned an attack on Wednesday that killed at least four Israeli tourists in an explosion on a bus outside a Bulgarian airport.

At least 7 Israelis reported killed, dozens injured in Bulgarian terror attack

By JewishJournal
Published on July 18, 2012

Three people were killed and over 20 injured by an explosion on a bus carrying Israeli tourists outside the airport of the coastal city of Burgas on Wednesday, Bulgarian authorities said.

Tel Aviv seeks approval to run buses on Shabbat

Published on February 21, 2012

The Tel Aviv City Council approved a resolution to allow public transportation to run on Shabbat. The measure was approved Monday evening by a vote of 13-7.

Palestinian children killed in West Bank bus accident

Published on February 16, 2012

At least eight Palestinian schoolchildren on a field trip were killed when a truck collided with their bus on a rain-soaked road in the West Bank.

Israeli women’s rights moving to front of bus

Published on January 25, 2012

Anat Hoffman, the progressive Israeli activist who made headlines two summers ago when she was arrested for carrying a Torah at the Western Wall, comes to California next week with a clear message for American Jews: What’s happening in Beit Shemesh is as big a threat to Israel as what’s happening in Tehran.

Opinion: The back of the bus

By Susan Freudenheim
Published on January 11, 2012

If Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy teaches us one thing, it’s that the fight for civil rights is not particular to a time, a place, a people or a gender. It’s still shocking to watch vintage 1960s TV footage and see moms and dads yelling at someone else’s children for simply walking up the steps of a high school.

Opinion: Will Beit Shemesh lead to erosion on Capitol Hill?

By Douglas Bloomfield
Published on January 3, 2012

A compelling threat to the survival of a democratic Jewish state does not come from the Arabs or the Iranians but from within. Its repercussions threaten to reach far beyond the gender segregated sidewalks and buses of some Israeli cities to the heart of the Diaspora.

Females sit in the front to protest gender-segregated buses

Published on January 2, 2012

Dozens of female demonstrators in Israel sat near the driver at the front of gender-segregated buses to protest the separation of men and women.

Haredi man indicted for harrasment after insulting female Israeli soldier on bus

Published on December 29, 2011

A haredi Orthodox man who insulted a female soldier after she refused to sit in the back of a city bus was charged with sexual harassment.

Israel will take action against haredi extremists, Netanyahu says

Published on December 28, 2011

Israel will take action against haredi Orthodox extremists who harass women in the public sphere, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned.

Man arrested for insulting female Israeli soldier on bus

Published on December 28, 2011

Israel detained an Orthodox man on Wednesday on suspicion of calling a woman soldier a "whore" on a public bus for refusing his appeals that she move to the back of the vehicle, a police spokesman said.

Egged must pay woman forced to sit in back of bus

Published on December 9, 2011

Israel's largest bus company, Egged, was fined for forcing a woman to sit in the back of a bus, a small claims court ruled.

Bus ad for Third Temple yanked

Published on April 6, 2010

A bus advertisement campaign by an extreme right-wing group calling for the building of the Third Temple has been removed.

The Our Land of Israel party had put posters on 200 Jerusalem city buses shortly before Passover showing an artist's rendition of the Third Temple on the site now occupied by the Al Aksa Mosque and the slogan "May the Temple be built in our lifetime."

We need public transit—why can’t we get it?

Published on June 19, 2008

Israel Buries Beersheba Bombing Victims

By Dina Kraft
Published on September 2, 2004

Again Israel turns to mourning the dead, but this time the list of those killed has been slow in coming. As the bombs used in suicide bombings become more sophisticated, producing deadlier and deadlier blasts, it takes more time to identify the remains of the dead.

Suicide bomb in Jerusalem kills 10

By Dina Kraft
Published on January 29, 2004

"How will I find anyone alive?" the 21-year-old
security guard asked as he broke down the door and climbed onto the charred
ruins of bus no. 19, stepping over body parts and choking on the smell of
burned flesh.

Menorah Lights Our Way

By Marisa N. Pickar
Published on December 5, 2002

For three years, I lived in an apartment in Jerusalem next to a bus stop. The rhythm of my life quickly adapted to the bus schedule. Just by looking out my bedroom window, I knew exactly when to leave the house in order to catch the bus.

When I returned to California, I assumed my life's association with buses would end. But this was not to be. I live in a neighborhood where buses abound. And they're just as loud as those of Jerusalem. But the associations couldn't be more different.

Back of the Bus

Published on July 31, 1997

True story. Last week at the Westside Pavilion, just
outside Nordstrom, six women, dressed in the garb of
Islam, were standing by the mall's ATM. Four wore
colorful scarves, exposing the face and a bit of hair; two
were completely in black, with only small slits, 1 inch by
4 inches, revealing huge, dark eyes. From a distance, the
human form disguised, they looked like a gathering of
wrens.