Magen David Adom paramedics were called to several scenes across northern Israel on Friday, December 26, 2025, as a man ramming vehicles and stabbing victims moved between Beit She’an and the road toward Afula. JFeed reported that two people were murdered and one was lightly injured. Authorities are treating it as a terror attack.
In Beit She’an, a man in his 70s was run over and killed on Shomron Street. A 16-year-old Yeshiva student was hit by a vehicle on Yakov Mekhluf Street in the same city. He was taken to HaEmek Hospital in light condition.
The worst of it came on Road 71, near Ein Harod. Paramedics found a young woman of about 20 with penetrating wounds. She was evacuated in critical condition and later died. Open Source Intel reported that the attacker had rammed her car, dragged her out, chased her and killed her in a roadside ditch. A second woman, in her 30s, was found unconscious on the same road and pronounced dead there.
At least five other Israelis were reported wounded at points along the attacker’s route.
The Emek Yizreel Regional Council described the Beit She’an incident as “a security event involving a ramming attack.” It said the attacker continued toward Tel Yosef and was “neutralized” near Afula. The suspect was arrested there after fleeing the scenes.
Traffic backed up on Road 60 in Afula in both directions. The council asked drivers to use alternative routes and follow the instructions of security forces.
