The president of the Beersheba District Court Judge Benny Sagi was killed on Sunday after a vehicle crashed into his motorcycle while he was traveling on Route 6.

According to police, a vehicle that was driving off-road came up onto the highway and hit Sagi’s motorbike.

Magen David Adom said medics and paramedics who arrived at the scene described the accident as “shocking.”

They said they found Sagi lying on the road with multiple injuries and no vital signs, and declared him dead at the scene.

Police have opened an investigation into the accident, which took place close to the Kfar Menachem kibbutz east of Ashdod, with police officers from the Kiryat Malachi station and road accident investigators examining the circumstances of the crash.

Sagi was appointed acting president of the Beersheba District Court in June 2024, and took up the position on a permanent basis in April 2025.

He was born in 1971, performed military service from 1989 to 1993, and after completing a law degree served in the State Attorney’s Central District Office from 2001 to 2007. Sagi’s first judicial appointment was to the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court in 2007.

He became a lecturer in law at several colleges, before being........

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