Seven people were killed, including two tourists from Switzerland, and 24 injured in road accidents during the first two days of the Passover holiday. Four of the dead and 20 of those injured were in a multiple car collision some 12 kilometers north of Beersheba. Four vehicles were involved in the pile-up.
Also on the first day of the holiday, an 83-year-old pedestrian was knocked down and killed while crossing the coastal highway north of Tel Aviv. The two Swiss nationals — identified as Pierre Marcel and Millar Pas, but whose home addresses were not disclosed — and four other Israelis were injured in a three-car pile-up an the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway last evening.
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