As part of a public awareness campaign aimed at lowering traffic casualties, 10 Knesset members this week attended a refresher course on road safety.
Israel has sobering traffic statistics: In 1995, about 600 people were killed on the nation’s roads.
The secretary general of the Labor Party, Nissim Zvilli, said he planned to leave a slot open in the schedule for the weekly sessions.
“We are here to learn and try to understand what the dangers are of driving the wrong way,” he said.
Likud Knesset member Silvan Shalom, who admitted that he had been ticketed for speeding, said he thought that traffic accidents were caused by a combination of bad driving and bad roads.
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