A brawl took place on a 422 bus traveling on Highway 443 from Jerusalem to Bnei Brak on Tuesday, 19 Menachem Av between the Arab bus driver and passengers. It remains unclear what led to the brawl but what was reported is that the bus was compelled to stop near Beit Choron and police responded.

The event does not mark the first incident between an Arab driver of the Afikim Company and passengers, as a number of months ago a driver assaulted a number of passengers. In that case, boarding passengers accused the driver of taking too much money from their prepaid smart card and the driver refused to return the difference.

There is no additional information available on this latest incident at the time of this report.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)