This week, a 60-year-old electric bicycle rider was killed in a hit-and-run accident near Tel Aviv's Holtz junction. This is the 11th fatality so far this year among e-bike riders in the country – a nearly threefold jump, compared with four riders killed in the same period last year.
According to police data, fewer police officers – less enforcement: it turns out that over the past four years there has been a sharp and consistent decline in the number of police tickets to these riders.