Five people were killed in car crashes across Israel on Thursday, including a cyclist hit by a vehicle that was allegedly stolen by a Palestinian who was in Israel illegally, according to first responders.

The cyclist, a roughly 50-year-old man, was hit when the car overturned between Tel Aviv and Herzliya Thursday morning, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said. He was pronounced dead at the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv. Police identified the driver as a 24-year-old man from the Nablus area in the northern West Bank, and said he was taken into custody.

Later Thursday morning, a pair of roughly 30-year-old men were killed in a collision between two cars on Route 310, near the southern community of Giv’ot Bar, MDA said. They were pronounced dead on the scene.

The victims were identified as Ameen and Aboud Tarabin, both from the nearby Bedouin community of Tarabin al-Sana. The Ynet news site reported that each of them was in a different vehicle.

In the early afternoon, a roughly 70-year-old man was killed in a........

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