Thirty-five Jewish National Fund workers and family members were injured, five of them seriously, on Monday morning when their vacation bus crashed near the village of Nes Harim in the Jerusalem hills.
The vacationers, JNF workers from all over the country, were on a trip organized by the JNF at Nes Harim. The crash occurred when the bus brakes failed on one of the steep winding roads near the village. The driver attempted to slow his vehicle down by grazing it against the boulders on the roadside, but he lost control and the bus hit a tree. The driver was thrown through the windshield and seriously hurt.
Nes Harim, a moshav founded in 1950 by Kurdish immigrants, many of whom worked for the JNF in their earlier years in Israel, stands on a ridge overlooking Jerusalem. The area is thickly forested and dotted with popular picnic areas set up by the JNF.
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