Israel Railways has decided to move its freight division vice president, Israel Marco, into another company role after two recent safety-related incidents. The latest came last week, when huge pipes fell from a freight train onto the tracks in the Haifa area, disrupting train traffic.
According to the company’s filing to the stock exchange, acting CEO Avner Flor also ordered the creation of a special investigative committee to examine that incident. The filing said the move was also linked to another event in August 2025, when critical power-cable infrastructure was damaged during a train run from Ashdod toward Haifa.
In that August case, Marco was at the scene and instructed the train to continue moving, which caused additional tearing of the cables and worsened the damage. Israel Railways said the announcement was not meant to determine responsibility for either incident, but the sequence of events appears to have prompted management to seek a change.
Marco earned an annual salary of 861,000 shekels in 2025, not including a 159,000 shekel bonus. His reassignment comes amid a broader wave of senior departures at Israel Railways over the past year. In February, safety, security and environmental vice president Yossi Ben Shimon left the company, and infrastructure vice president Shnir Shoshani resigned after being summoned to a disciplinary hearing.
