<p class="content-excerpt">Almost 1,400 cases of road violence have been recorded in Israel in 2022</p> <div class="components"> <p>The term “road rage” is an international phenomenon, but in Israel -known for its so-called crazy drivers – the number of violent incidents has seen an alarming increase.</p> <p>Although it is not news that&nbsp;<a class="link" title="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/society/1661700604-israel-traffic-deaths-drop-by-4-7-in-decade-compared-to-31-worldwide" href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/society/1661700604-israel-traffic-deaths-drop-by-4-7-in-decade-compared-to-31-worldwide" _mce_href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/society/1661700604-israel-traffic-deaths-drop-by-4-7-in-decade-compared-to-31-worldwide">Israelis can be aggressive on the road</a>, what experts are seeing now is unprecedented. Several stories in the past couple of months caused shockwaves across the country, including the stabbing of Yuri Volkov in November, a 52-year-old father who worked at a hospital.</p> <div class="taboola-wrapper"> <div class=" trc_related_container trc_spotlight_widget trc_elastic trc_elastic_ab_mid-article-thumbnails_abp-mode "></div> </div> <p>A motorcyclist had cut off Yuri’s wife on the road in Holon, central Israel. When Yuri came to her defense, the driver pulled out a knife and stabbed him before driving off. The 22-year-old suspect was charged with murder.&nbsp;</p> <p>Another motorcyclist was caught about a month ago for pummeling another driver with his motorcyclist helmet after an altercation in the middle of rush hour traffic in Tel Aviv. The victim was hospitalized in intensive care with fractures to his skull and intracranial bleeding.</p> </div>