21-year-old dies in car crash into pole in Nof HaGalil
A 21-year-old man was killed when his car struck a pole in Nof HaGalil, Israel. Emergency services declared his death at the scene. Police are investigating the incident.
A 21-year-old man was killed last night (between Saturday and Sunday) after his car crashed into a pole on Ma'ale Yitzhak Boulevard in Nof HaGalil. MDA teams pronounced him dead at the scene. The accident report was received at the MDA emergency center at 00:31. Medics and paramedics who arrived at the scene found the young man without a pulse and not breathing, with multi-system injuries. MDA paramedic Omar Da'if and emergency medics Vered Basharat and Naftali Pesin said: "This is a very difficult scene. When we arrived, the man was trapped in his car, unconscious and suffering from very severe multi-system injuries. We performed medical checks, but his injuries were significant and we had no choice but to pronounce him dead at the scene." In addition, the article mentions another fatal accident that occurred yesterday, in which Dalal Melhem, 59, principal of the Al-Rahma school in Jadeida Makr, was killed in a collision with an armored police jeep at the Akko East junction. According to the National Road Safety Authority data, since the beginning of 2026, 392 people have been killed in road accidents.