Egged Bus Cooperative: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Egged Bus Cooperative is the largest bus company in Israel - and - the world's second largest (second only to London Transport). A cooperative owned by its members, Egged employs more than 6,300 workers and has more than 3,500 buses running on 1,050 regular lines. Egged's bus routes reach every settlement, kibbutz and city in Israel. Egged is also running internal-city bus network in most Israeli cities and towns.

Egged was created in 1933 by a merger of four smaller bus cooperatives. In 1951 Egged merged with the northern Shahar bus company and the southern Drom Yehuda bus company, creating a cross-country public transportation network. The name Egged (lit. Union) was given to the cooperative by the Israeli poet Chaim Nachman Bialik. After the Six Day War Egged merged with the Hamekasher bus company of Jerusalem.

During the wars of 1956, 1967 and 1973, Egged buses and drivers helped to reinforce the logistics system of the IDF and drove soldiers and food to the battlefields.

Egged's bus fleet include the latest bus models of Mercedes-Benz, Volvo and MAN