How Many People Are Killed on Israel’s Roads? 439 in 2024
The Central Bureau of Statistics recorded 439 people killed in road accidents in Israel in 2024, its final data for the year.
439 people were killed in road accidents in Israel in 2024, the Central Bureau of Statistics recorded in its final data for the year, published on 24 July 2025. The Bureau states that this is the highest number of road accident fatalities in the last 17 years. The same release counts 8,315 road accidents with casualties reported to the Israel Police, 14,450 people injured in them, and a rate of 4.5 fatalities per 100,000 residents.
| Figure | What it counts | Period |
|---|---|---|
| 439 | People killed in road accidents, final data | 2024 |
| 8,315 | Road accidents with casualties reported to the Israel Police, classified by the Bureau as “extended” accidents | 2024 |
| 14,450 | People injured in those accidents | 2024 |
| 4.5 per 100,000 residents | Fatality rate the Bureau publishes for the year | 2024 |
| 33,434 | People killed in road accidents cumulatively since the founding of the State | 1948 to end of 2024 |
| 14.7% and 62.2% | Increases in fatalities among Jews and among Arabs, each against that group’s own 2023 count | 2023 to 2024 |
Source: Central Bureau of Statistics, media release 230/2025, Road Accidents with Casualties, 2024, Final Data, 24 July 2025.
Road Accidents with Casualties, 2024, Final Data carries the count
The Central Bureau of Statistics published the 439 figure as final data for calendar year 2024, not as a preliminary estimate, in media release 230/2025 of 24 July 2025. The Bureau reports it alongside a cumulative total of 33,434 people killed in road accidents from the founding of the State to the end of 2024. Both figures sit in the table above with the periods they cover.
Which deaths does the Bureau count as road accident fatalities?
The Central Bureau of Statistics builds this file from administrative records it receives monthly from the Israel Police, covering accidents reported to the Police for which an accident file was opened. The count is therefore a count of reported accidents and their casualties, which is the Police’s own recording of what came to it, rather than a count of every collision on the road.
- The universe is accidents with casualties, meaning accidents in which at least one person was killed or injured.
- The 8,315 accidents carry the Bureau’s own classification as “extended” accidents, and that label travels with the figure.
- The 439 killed and the 14,450 injured are the two casualty outcomes the Bureau reports for those accidents.
- The data are final for 2024, which is the status the Bureau attaches to this release.
How does the Bureau break the toll down within the release?
The Central Bureau of Statistics reports the 2024 fatalities against the previous year by population group, recording an increase of 14.7% in fatalities among Jews and 62.2% among Arabs. Each percentage is a change in that group’s own count against its 2023 count, not a rate and not a share of the 439. The Bureau also publishes the year’s fatality rate as 4.5 per 100,000 residents.
The Bureau’s final data for 2024 carries no 2025 toll
The reference year of this release is 2024, and the Central Bureau of Statistics publishes no figure for 2025 in it. The Bureau issued the final 2024 data on 24 July 2025, after the year it covers had closed. Counts for 2025 circulating before the Bureau closes that year come from bodies other than the Bureau and from records other than this release, and this page records that absence rather than filling it.
Which figures on this page may not be added together?
The Central Bureau of Statistics counts accidents reported to the Israel Police and recorded in a Police file, so the 8,315 accidents are a count of reported accidents rather than of all collisions. The 33,434 is cumulative from 1948 to the end of 2024 and is never an annual figure. The 439 killed and the 14,450 injured are separate casualty outcomes reported for the same accidents and are not summed into a death toll. The 14.7% and the 62.2% are increases in counts within each population group against its own 2023 base, so they may not be compared with each other or read as shares of the 439. The 4.5 per 100,000 is the Bureau’s own published rate for 2024, and it should not be recomputed against the Bureau’s population estimates, which are published for different reference dates: 9.900 million on the eve of the 76th Independence Day in May 2024 and 10.094 million, preliminary, on the eve of the 77th in 2025.
Questions readers ask
How many people were killed on Israel’s roads in 2024?
The Central Bureau of Statistics recorded 439 people killed in road accidents in Israel in 2024, in its final data published on 24 July 2025.
Is that the highest figure in recent years?
The Central Bureau of Statistics states that the 439 fatalities in 2024 are the highest number of road accident deaths in the last 17 years.
How many people were injured?
The Central Bureau of Statistics counted 14,450 people injured in road accidents with casualties in 2024.
How many accidents were there?
The Central Bureau of Statistics recorded 8,315 road accidents with casualties in 2024, classified in the release as “extended” accidents.
What is the fatality rate per head of population?
The Central Bureau of Statistics published a rate of 4.5 road accident fatalities per 100,000 residents for 2024.
How many people have been killed on Israel’s roads since 1948?
The Central Bureau of Statistics counted 33,434 people killed in road accidents from the founding of the State to the end of 2024.
Where do these data come from?
The Central Bureau of Statistics states that it receives the records monthly from the Israel Police, covering accidents reported to the Police for which an accident file was opened, which is the Police’s own administrative record of reported accidents.
Are the 2024 figures final or preliminary?
The Central Bureau of Statistics published the 2024 figures as final data, in media release 230/2025 of 24 July 2025.
Does the release give a figure for 2025?
The Central Bureau of Statistics publishes no 2025 figure in this release, whose reference year is 2024.
Did fatalities rise among both Jews and Arabs?
The Central Bureau of Statistics reported an increase of 14.7% in fatalities among Jews and 62.2% among Arabs in 2024, each measured against that group’s own 2023 count.
Can the killed and the injured figures be added together?
They are reported by the Central Bureau of Statistics as two separate casualty outcomes of the same accidents, so the 439 and the 14,450 are not summed into one total on this page.
Does the count include collisions that were never reported?
The Central Bureau of Statistics builds the file from accidents reported to the Israel Police for which a file was opened, so the 8,315 accidents are the reported ones.
Sources
- Central Bureau of Statistics, 2024. Israel’s Independence Day 2024. Media release. cbs.gov.il. Official or primary record.
- Central Bureau of Statistics, 2025. Israel’s Independence Day 2025. Media release. cbs.gov.il. Official or primary record.
- Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, 2025. Road Accidents with Casualties, 2024, Final Data. Media release 230/2025, 24 July 2025. cbs.gov.il. Official or primary record.
