An Egged number 170 bus traveling on Route 60 near Migron was targeted in a drive-by rock-throwing attack on Tuesday, 27 Tishrei. A large stone struck the window next to the driver the daily HaMevaser reports, and B’chasdei Hashem the armor-plated bus designed to withstand gunfire also was able to withstand the large stone.

However, had this been a regular bus or another vehicle, one with window’s that would have exploded on impact, the driver would have lost control of the vehicle. Such was the case in the drive-by rock attack that claimed the lives of Asher Pamer and his infant son Yonatan near Hebron in September 2011.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)