MK Boaz Toporovski in the Committee for the Rights of the Child/Knesset Channel
Since the beginning of the year, 41 Israelis have been killed in traffic accidents, an increase of 5%, which is added to the increase of 2% last year.
Despite this, the budget of the National Road Safety Authority (Haralbad) was cut by 10% to only 62.5 million shekels.
Although many government bodies suffered cuts in their 2024 budget because of the war, the Ministry of Transportation's budget, for example, increased from 500 to 515 million shekels, An increase of 3%. The budgets of other bodies under the Ministry's responsibility were cut, but at a lower rate than that of the Harald: the budget of the Civil Aviation Authority is reduced by 7.5%.
The budget of the public transport authority was cut by 8%.
Transport Minister Miri Regev/Reuven Castro
Even for the discussion that took place yesterday in the Knesset, in the special committee for the rights of the child, which dealt with a 30% jump in the number of children killed in traffic accidents in the past year, the ministry only sent a junior representative from the development budgets department, who read a message sheet.
In 2023, 35 children were killed in road accidents in Israel.
Although Minister of Transportation Miri Regev, who flew to India and Sri Lanka in the middle of the war, appointed a new chairman of the RLB, retired chief Yoram Halevi in place of Avi Naor who resigned, she has not yet appointed a CEO in place of Erez Kita who also resigned. MM CEO Haralbad, Yaakov Zakaria also participated in the discussion.
Compared to most OECD countries, Israeli children are at high risk of being harmed.
The number of child pedestrians injured in traffic accidents in Israel, for example, is 2.4 times the average number in the organization's member countries.
According to a position paper of the Green Or Association, Israel ranks fourth and worst among all European countries in the index of change in the number of children killed.
The number of children killed in road accidents remained unchanged for a decade, while in most European countries they managed to reduce and reduce the number of children killed.
MK Boaz Toporovski (Yesh Atid) said in the discussion that: "The people here are great people who are the same in their souls and they care, but people will continue to die in car accidents because the Israeli government and people in this building don't care either.
There are clear plans for their children, as well as for the education system, but they are not budgeted.
The government chose not to decide.
The matter is handled in a scandalous way."
MK Boaz Toporovsky/Knesset Speaker, Dani Shem-Tov
Toporovski, the chairman of the sub-committee for road safety, who participated in the discussion, attacked Regev: "The treatment of road accidents, especially children - a scandal!
Scandal!
neglect!
No one from the Ministry of Transport can say that they do not know this, including the minister.
Did Regev meet with the new chairman? With MM the CEO? Did she meet with the previous chairman who resigned?
With the CEO who left? There are children who were killed in 2023, and children who will be killed shortly, while the people responsible for this could have prevented their deaths. On the day there is a commission of inquiry, and I will make sure there is, I will bring all the protocols, it will show to everyone that the writing was on the wall" .
Toporovsky referred to the cuts in the Harlbud budget: "The costs to the Israeli economy to deal with traffic accidents, on average, are about NIS 17 billion a year.
Despite the hundreds of deaths in road accidents every year, and a worrying increase in the number of deaths in 2023, the state has once again neglected the main recommendations of the Shinin Commission, to improve the road safety situation.
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MK Eli Dellal, chairman of the committee/Reuven Castro
The chairman of the committee, MK Eli Dellal (Likud), concluded: "The data of 2023 must disturb the rest of every parent and disturb the rest of all elected officials and professionals. In fact, this phenomenon should disturb everyone. In the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of Education, and the authorities Others are increasing the ever-increasing awareness of the risks on the road, but unfortunately, the amount of road accidents in which children are injured remains very high. It is our ability and our duty to eradicate the phenomenon of children being injured in road accidents."
The Ministry of Transportation stated in response that "the reference is puzzling since there is no unique budget cut for RLBAD.
As part of the budget cuts in favor of the war effort, horizontal cuts were made to all government ministries and authorities.
It should be noted that the Ministry of Transportation and Road Safety decided on a series of changes in the activities of the RLABD and recently appointed a new chairman who will lead the reform and the activity with the goal of marching the RLABD forward and bringing about a decrease in the number of traffic accidents in Israel."
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