Nokia Stadium in Tel Aviv perhaps was never as quiet as it was on Tuesday, when the non-profit Ohr Yarok organization held an event seeking to focus attention on the alarming number of road deaths in Israel.
Seated in the audience were 11,000 carton figures, symbolizing those who lost their lives, motorists and pedestrians unable to speak up on their own. Under the banner “30,000 fatalities – a number we cannot live with,” Ohr Yarok officials began address the fact that more people have been killed on Israel’s roadways since the state was founded in 1948 than there are deaths among IDF soldiers and other security agencies during the same time period.
Avi Na’or, the organization’s director was on hand along with a number of parents whose children were killed in accidents, as well as MK Gilad Erdan. They explained that while ‘human error’ is indeed a major contributory factor in accidents, it is not the only one and the government must begin addressing the need for improved roadways, lighting and other measures that can significantly reduce the number of accidents with serious injuries and fatalities.
In addition to the Nokia Stadium (Yad Eliyahu) event, other rallies and functions were held during the day in Ashdod and Cholon, as well at major intersections around the country.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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An old JOKE. If the Arabs were to announce that if they took over Eretz Yisrael, they would not allow Jews to drive (similar to laws in the past under which Jews could only ride on what were considered inferior animals, such as donkeys rather than horses), PIKUACH NEFECH would dictate that Israel surrenders immediately.
The joke can also be said using abortion, but it is less funny.
how about telling those drivers to slow down, and not to always try to pass
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1) Israel’s population is growing faster, and has been much less in the past relative to the US.
2) The United States is much bigger, and Americans drive much more, and a factor is accident per mile driven. Indeed, the more territory the Israelis give back, the less they’ll need to drive.
A majority of the accidents that occur involve Arab drivers.