74 workers were killed in workplace accidents in Israel throughout 2022. About half of the fatalities were the result of accidents in the construction, renovation and infrastructure sector. As we bring in a new year, we at Davar wish to take a moment to give faces and names to those who went out one morning, as they did every morning, to provide for themselves and their families, and did not return.
January – Eight workers killed:
January 2 – A worker in his 80s from the village of Rama (whose name was not published) was caught in a machine for crushing wood in an olive grove in Wadi Salama and was killed.
January 11 – Afu Diravi, 74, from Jadeidi-Makr, was crushed to death after being trapped in a compressor during his work at the Tambor factory in an industrial area near Akko.
January 12 – Nabil Alkhalis, 24, from the settlement of Yatta in the West Bank, was killed as the result of a fall during work on the railway route next to Route 431 near the Rishonim interchange. Alkhalis was killed two months after his marriage.
January 20 – Lu Tsunohua, about 40 years old, from China, was killed after falling at a construction site near Gabriella Boulevard in Ramat Gan.
January 21 – Oz Hajabi, 60, from Rosh Ha'Ayin was killed after being caught in a machine at a chocolate factory in the Segula industrial area in Petah Tikva.
January 24 – Chen Chainzhong, about 40 years old, from China, fell from a ladder at a construction site in Ramla and suffered a fatal head injury. He died in the hospital a few days later.
January 25 – Adli Adel Beiruti, 50, from the Palestinian village of Qusra near Nablus, was killed after being trapped under a collapsed ceiling in the building where he was doing renovation work on Zerubbabel Street in Tel Aviv.
January 27 – Wang Ze, about 40 years old, from China, was killed after falling from scaffolding at a construction site in Ashkelon.
February – Four workers killed:
February 9 – Gazi Abu Sabitan, 20, and Ahmed Ziad al-Siyad, 26, both from East Jerusalem, fell to their deaths from a mechanical scaffolding about 30 meters (nearly 100 feet) high at the Babylon Park site in Tel Aviv.
February 12 – Saeed Kadah, about 40 years old, from the village of Kabiya in the West Bank near Ramallah, was killed after being hit by an iron rod after a mobile crane was upended at a construction site. He left behind six children.
February 17 – Jamal Khatib, about 40 years old, from Jenin in the West Bank, was killed after falling from the sixth floor of a construction site on Tawfik Ziad Street in Nazareth.
March – Seven workers killed:
March 6 – Samir Abu Essa, 42, from the town of Tel Sheva in the Negev, was run over by a truck driving backwards while dismantling a turkey coop at Kibbutz Revadim.
March 15 – Samer Issa Sarhan, 27, from al-Bira in the West Bank, was killed after falling from a roof during his work at a private water supply company in the Aqab neighborhood of Jerusalem.
March 16 – Ahmed Shaaban, 36, from Majd al-Krum, was killed after suffering a severe head injury when he fell from the roof of a building at a testing institute in the Haifa Bay industrial area.
March 19 – Guy Eyal, 56, from Kfar Vitkin, was killed after being injured when a tractor overturned in an agricultural area near the moshav.
March 21 – Rashid Abdullah Al-Farauna, 23, from Tel Arad in the Negev, drowned in the Tifrah Reservoir after apparently slipping into it during maintenance work in the reservoir. His body was located by divers from the fire brigade.
March 26 – Walid Samaka, 19, from Shfaram, was killed while working when a forklift overturned in a scrap yard between the settlements of Shfaram and I’billin.
March 27 – Yuan Yoshin, 51, from China, was killed after falling from the 18th floor of a construction site in Ramla.
April – Six workers killed:
April 3 – Jezef Abood, 36, from Shfaram, was killed after falling from a height of about 50 meters (164 feet) from a crane during maintenance work in the Haifa Port area.
April 6 – Fadi Dib, 30, from Majd al-Krum, was killed when a tractor overturned in an agricultural area near Karmiel.
April 18 – a 28 year-old agricultural worker, whose name was not published, died after suffering from heatstroke near Ramla.
April 22 – Rasan Abu Dauf, 57, from the Bedouin village of Dmeide in northern Israel, was killed when a tractor overturned in an agricultural area in the settlement.
April 22 – Tarek Elanjami, 59, from I’billin, fell from the third floor of a construction site near the settlement.
April 25 – Alexander Fisher, 69, fell from a height of ten meters (33 feet) from a crane, apparently while climbing the ladder, on Sderot Menachem Begin in Ashdod.
May – Six workers killed:
May 6 – A worker, whose name was not published, was killed as the result of a fall at a metal company warehouse in central Israel.
May 11 – a hotel maintenance worker in Jerusalem, a resident of Pisgat Ze'ev whose name was not published, was killed after being hit by a freight elevator.
May 11 – A tractor driver, whose name was not published, was killed after he lost consciousness due to medical reasons and collided with a beehive outside of Moshav Ahituv in central Israel.
May 17 – Haim Demari, 64, from Moshav Shalva in southern Israel, was killed after being hit by a bulldozer at a construction site on HaRimon Street in Kiryat Gat.
May 20 – Ido Amar, 36, from Moshav Odem in the Golan Heights, was killed after being hit by a lawnmower while working in a vineyard in the moshav.
May 22 – Milad Afu Abu Akel, 44, from Haifa, was killed after falling from a roof during renovation work at the Strauss factory in Nof HaGalil.
June – Four workers killed:
June 22 – A 60-year-old worker, whose name was not published, was killed after suffering a fall at the Keter plant in the Alon Tavor industrial area.
June 24 – Hadi Hussein Dabus, 29, from Ein Kaniya in the Golan, was killed after being electrocuted during his work at a cardboard factory in the Majdal Shams industrial area.
June 26 – Salman Muhammad Yunis Rabaa, 40, from Dahariya in the Hebron district of the West Bank, was killed after falling from a roof at a construction site in Ramat Gan.
June 30 – Yaakov Ohayon, 60, from Moshav Luzit in central Israel, was killed when a tractor overturned at the moshav.
July – Three workers killed:
July 18 – Yehuda Yashar, 22, from Beit Shemesh, was killed when a wall collapsed at a renovation site in Herzliya.
July 18 – Erez Eliyahu, 40, from Haifa, was killed after being caught in a conveyor belt at a factory at Kibbutz Ravid in northern Israel.
July 25 – Ashraf Nachala, 55, from Egypt, was killed after falling from a ladder during renovation work on a building on the Shlomo Bay Promenade in Jaffa.
August – Ten workers killed:
August 1 – Hussein Abu Elhija, 40, from Tulkarm in the West Bank, was killed as a result of a fall at a construction site in Tayibe.
August 2 – A 60-year-old worker, whose name was not published, was killed after falling from a height of eight meters (26 feet) at a construction site on Tzanchanim Street in Ra'anana.
August 3 – A worker, whose name was not published, was killed after falling down a flight of stairs at a construction site on Moshav Ya'ara in northern Israel.
August 10 – Musa Farouk Ahmed Al-Trash, 26, from the West Bank, died in a West Bank hospital after apparently being hit in the head while working at a butcher shop in the Sharon region of Israel.
August 13 – Yahya Nasasara, 18, from Tayibe, was killed after being electrocuted at a car wash business in the settlement.
August 21 – Diab Vatad, 21, and Hasan Vatad, 30, from the town of Jatt, were killed after a freight elevator fell onto the office warehouse where they were staying at a construction site in Tirat Carmel.
August 21 – Bilal Muhammad Asad Jabarin, 56, from the village of Musheirifa, was killed after falling into a pit about seven meters (23 feet) deep while laying sewer lines in the settlement of Gadish.
August 23 – Ghassan Dahvor, 50, from Izun near Qalqilya in the West Bank, was killed by a concrete block that fell on him from the fourth floor of a construction site in Rishon Lezion.
August 24 – Ziad Rabaieh, 42, from Ubidiya in the West Bank, suffered a fall at a construction site in Ma'ale Adumim and died of his injuries eleven days later on September 4.
August 29 – Abdel-Aziz Aldagama, 47, from Khan Yunis in Gaza, was killed after being hit by a tractor in the course of his work at a recycling plant in Rishon Lezion.
September – Eight workers killed:
September 11 – A 60 year-old worker, a resident of northern Israel whose name was not published, was killed after being hit by a concrete block that fell on him while carrying out maintenance work on a section of highway 444.
September 16 – Said Kamal Said Kadah, 18, from Kfar Manda and Hossein Ahmed Tzvilat, 28, from Abu Sanan, were electrocuted after the arm of a self-loading crane they were working with hit a power line while unloading asbestos waste from the roofs of chicken coops in Moshav Herut.
September 19 – Muhammad Khalil Kamal Kwaks, 50, from Beit Omer near Hebron in the West Bank, was killed after falling from a height of eight meters (26 feet) from a roof during the construction of a warehouse in Moshav Beit Nekofa.
September 20 – Adham Muhammad Jamil Natsha, 35, from Hebron, fell from scaffolding on the sixth floor of a construction site in Beitar Illit.
September 20 – A worker, whose name was not published, was killed after being injured while working at a drilling site in Ashkelon.
September 27 – Shaul Tzabari, 77, from Nes Tziyona, was killed after being trapped under a forklift while unloading goods at the wholesale market in Rehovot.
September 29 – A 90-year-old dairy farmer, whose name was not published, was injured by a calf's kick at the Moshav Nir Banim dairy farm, and died a few days later from his injuries.
September 29 – Ayman Ebrahim Barkhat, 44, from Shfaram, fell from a height of about 10 meters (33 feet) during sealing work at a factory in Haifa. He was taken to Rambam Hospital where he died about a week later.
October – Four workers killed:
October 9 – An 84 year-old farmer, whose name was not published, fell from the roof of a barn during repair work at Moshav Be'er Tuvia.
October 12 – a 60 year-old sanitation worker, whose name was not published, was killed after he was hit by a garbage truck that apparently drove backwards on Meltzer Street in Rehovot.
October 14 – Yahya Tayser Abdel-Eni, about 20 years old, fell from a roof near the town of Nahf and was taken to the Galilee Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
October 14 – Fouad Al-Shalbi, 34, from Jenin in the West Bank, died in a hospital in Ramallah about a week after being injured in an unreported work accident in Zarzir. Al-Shalbi went to the hospital independently.
November – Six workers killed:
November 2 – Chen Jun, 30, from China, was killed after falling from a height of 15 stories while clearing waste from a construction site in Ashkelon.
November 7 – Albert Strumtza, 76, groundskeeper of Kibbutz Ein Dor, was killed by a tractor while working in the yard of the kibbutz.
November 10 – Nir Glick, about 50 years old, from Ashkelon, was killed by an electric jack in a convenience store near Netivot.
November 13 – Issa Muhammad Khatib, 47, from I’billin, was killed by a garbage truck he was working on in Kfar Yasif.
November 17 – Khader Sulman Bani, 64, from the settlement of Tamon near Nablus in the West Bank, was killed after falling from a height of three meters (10 feet) at a construction site in Bat Yam.
November 18 – Roey Klinger, 60, from Kfar Bilu, was killed after being hit by marble slabs in a warehouse on Sderot Ben Zvi in Rishon LeZion.
December – Six workers killed:
December 4 – Lu Tsung, 35, from China, was killed as the result of a fall at a construction site on Kaplan Street in Petah Tikva.
December 9 – Two workers in their 40s from Spain, whose names were not published, were killed after being hit by a vehicle during infrastructure work on the Minharot Road (Route 60) near Gush Etzion.
December 12 – Mahmoud Hammara, from the village of Hussan, and Ibrahim al-Kaisi, from the village of Batir, both in their 30s from the West Bank, were killed as a result of the collapse of 12-meter (39 foot) high scaffolding in Givat Ze'ev.
December 27 – Khaled Kamal Al-Ajala, 35, from Gaza City, was killed when he fell into a poultry cleaning machine.
This article was translated from Hebrew by Matt Levy.
