Israel’s late-night traffic nightmare is about to get worse-here's why

It is already past midnight. You are making your way home after a grueling workday that dragged on for far too many hours. Or, in the best-case scenario, after a night out that ran late. Your eyes are half-closed, daydreaming about the moment you will dive between the sheets. “Five more minutes and it happens,” you think happily. Then suddenly, flashing lights appear from the vehicle ahead of you. You brake sharply. A huge traffic jam. You, too, have become part of the new national phenomenon: roadwork carried out at night. And there is so much of it that it feels impossible to avoid. A dead-end road. This is the map of nighttime traffic jams. In recent months, there has been a sharp increase in the scope of infrastructure work on roads across Israel.