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Tel Aviv (JTA) — "Our God
and God of our ancestors ... Help
me to drive with care, to keep a
proper distance ... to yield the
right of way; with awareness, to
stop in time."
This prayer is part of an effort
by the Masorti, or Conservative,
movement in Israel to compile a
new prayer book that will better
reflect the realities of daily life in
Israel.
And when it comes to life —
and death — on Israeli roads,
those realities can be grim.
According to figures recently
released by the Central Bureau
of Statistics, someone is injured
in a traffic accident in Israel every
14.5 minutes.
The bureau also provided some
additional, sobering statistics:
Every two hours, a pedestrian is
hit by a car; every two hours, a
child is hurt in a traffic accident;
every 16 hours, a person dies in
a traffic accident.
Over longer periods of time,
these statistics create a particu-
larly troubling picture.
The death toll on Israeli roads
nearly equals the number of dead
from all of Israel's wars: more
than 18,000.
"Most of us go out on the road
in cars, and the roads in Israel
are dangerous," said Conserva-
tive Rabbi Michael Graetz, who
composed the driver's prayer.
Mr. Graetz said he did not see
his new prayer as a replacement
for the traditional Prayer for the
Road, but rather as a relevant ad-
dition.
Israel places human life above
all else, and goes into mourning
over every victim of terrorist at-
tacks and military conflicts. But
the rising death toll caused by
traffic accidents seems to be ac-
cepted as a fact of life.
It is true that every year or so,
a new traffic safety campaign is
launched with big fanfare.
Nevertheless, the number of
road accidents keeps increasing,
and with it the number of dead,
maimed and injured.
Explanations for this tragic sit-
uation vary, yet there seems to
be a consensus that the growing
number of cars and the dismal
conditions of most Israeli roads
are the leading causes of traffic
accidents.
Experts speak about the suici-
dal risk-taking tendencies of
many Israeli drivers, a situation
the experts blame on a number
of disparate factors, including the
effects of Holocaust memories,
wars and terrorist attacks.
A number of rabbis have even
gone so far as to suggest that the
rising toll of road accidents is due
to the lack of proper religious ob-
servances among secular Israelis.
Past safety campaigns have
stationed badly wrecked cars
alongside roads as a warning to
drivers. But it didn't work.
"Singing for Life," a national
safety campaign, yielded simi-
larly disappointing results.
Recently the police tried a new
measure: the use of speed traps.
The traps deterred few Israelis
from speeding, and the approach
failed to lessen accident statistics.
Another widely publicized re-
cent measure called on back seat
passengers to fasten their safety
belts.
Despite this measure, one com-
monly sees passengers, as well as
drivers, riding along with un-
buckled seat belts.
Legislative attempts aimed at
improving road safety have fared
equally poorly.
A recent bill calling for a na-
tional campaign against road ac-
cidents did not pass its first
legislative hurdle in the Knesset.
The bill, with support that
crossed party lines, was signed
by 89 Knesset members. Yet de-
spite its parliamentary popular-
ity, the bill was strongly opposed
by the Finance Ministry, non-gov-
ernmental experts and by a min-
isterial committee on legislation.
"Human life is the
supreme value for all
of us."
Raanan Cohen
The bill called for a beefing up
of the national traffic police force,
periodic tests for advanced dri-
vers and expanding the respon-
sibilities of the Transport
Ministry's Road Safety Adminis-
tration.
Finance Ministry officials, ex-
plaining their opposition, said en-
acting the measures would cost
Israeli taxpayers S400 million an-
nually.
Knesset member Tzachi
Hanegbi said during debate over
the bill, 'This was supposed to be
a day of celebration, a day of uni-
ty, in which the entire Knesset
stands together to save the life of
one Israeli citizen. The war on
road accidents is not a political
issue."
Labor Knesset member
Raanan Cohen, chairman of a
group opposing the bill, coun-
tered: "Human life is the supreme
value for all of us.
"And yet, the bill proposed is
only increasing the bureaucracy
and offers another white elephant