This week, the chairman of the Constitution Committee, MK Gilad Karib, announced the cancellation of the state of emergency announced following the outbreak of the corona.
It seems we have not yet begun to understand what these two years have changed in our lives, and research on the subject is going to shed light on the upheavals that have occurred in so many areas: public and personal, economic and welfare, social and mental.
Still, the value dispute that accompanies us from the day the first restrictions were imposed (up to ten people in a room, remember?) Has long been resolved: the Israeli public, with the exception of sleepy and loud margins, is willing to take far-reaching steps if it is convinced it protects human life.
He indicated with his feet (and covering his nose and mouth) that he was unwilling to accept death from Corona as a destiny.
And now that the Corona is officially behind us, it's time to remember that there are several other phenomena in the world, no less deadly and terrible, that can be prevented through a little attention and adherence to rules, chief among them: carnage on the roads.
The painful statistics of one killed almost every day - which is also very costly to the state coffers - are completely transparent.
Carnage on the roads gains significant public engagement only when an unusual event occurs that manages to tickle our high sensitivity threshold a bit.
Hundreds of families a year are going to experience a horrific loss;
Thousands of people a year are going to get injured and lose for life some of their daily functions;
More than 30 children a year - a whole class!
Going to die.
And unlike the public mobilization to fight the Corona - as far as road accidents are concerned, we throw our jab at the government, the infrastructure, the police - and keep chirping when the radio announces another fatal accident.
There is no doubt that there are serious problems on some of the roads, everything is true.
The state of the transportation infrastructure in the country does not arouse pride.
But forgive me all, the main reason for the first places we pick in all the metrics killed and injured in accidents is the human factor, or in less beautiful words: we travel like donkeys.
The Israeli driving culture is aggressive, selfish and dangerous, leaving very few margins of error.
It's true that in Arab society people behave worse than Jewish society, and also die more, but the problem is completely collective: we overtake and honk, cling and beep, act as if the road is meant to serve only us and the other cars that happen to be careful not to disturb - and that's before we start talking The scooters.
For two years I lived in the second largest city in Sweden, in the city center.
At the intersection above my house, a bicycle lane, a light rail lane, a public transportation lane, a car lane and a pedestrian path met.
I never had to honk there and I was never honked there, I had almost no accidents there and I did not have an almost accidental front.
The formula for a calm junction is not a magic formula, but a simple combination: patience, slowness and consideration.
Now that we have freed ourselves from caring for Corona patients, it can be decided that life is still important to us, even in grayer areas, and that we are willing to put in a little more effort to save so much death and suffering.
Those who want transportation like in Europe, should start driving like in Europe.
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