Two people died and fourteen people were injured in two car crashes that occurred in the span of one hour on Saturday evening.
A 25-year-old resident of northern Israel was detained for questioning following the accident as he is suspected of having driven the truck in question.
A one-year-old child was killed in the car crash on Israel's Highway 40. Six others were hospitalized, two of whom are in serious condition.
The boy was set to celebrate his Bar Mitzvah two months before he was killed.
MDA emergency services reported that they received a call on their 101 hotline about a woman who trapped under a vehicle, unconscious.
The bus driver attributed the accident to a mechanical issue in the bus, according to Army Radio.
Addressing a popular secular Israeli society that was skeptical of calling events miraculous, David Ben-Gurion said, “A Jew who does not believe in miracles is not a realist."
MDA and United Hatzalah paramedics provided medical care at the scene.
The children, aged three, four and eight, died after getting hit by a car on their way to school.
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