Wouldn't it be better to enforce international standards on garbage disposal and a moratory on the salvage burning of it that poisons our holy air and soil? Try to drive from Petach Tikvah to Ariel on Route 5 one evening, any evening, and you'll understand the scope of the problem. Why does the police, ministry of environment inspectors or IDF do nothing against this form of environmental terrorism?

The powers that be, support by MK Shelly Yacimovich and others, a FOR removing the regulation which compels bicycle riders in the city to wear helmets! Kid falls off his bike. No helmet. Brain damage. Another statistic! The reason: the police don't enforce the law. This was stated by Knesset member Yacimovich on Shesh with Oded ben Ami, a few days ago! Let's cancel all the laws because the police don't enforce any of them and then the Treasury, who are the de facto dictators of the State of Israel, will be happy because then we won't need a police force and they can give themselves higher salaries! Ahhh, the State of Israel! What do you prefer, Live kid whining or dead kid without a helmet?

It would be wonderful if we had bicycle lanes all over Israel,instead of having to dodge traffic that drives to close to us all the time. Drivers are the biggest danger to us riders, they open their doors without looking,pull out without looking and drive dangerously close to us no matter how close we ride to the curb. Helmets are good, and should be required for all riders no matter of their age, but when a car is going 30 or 40 kilometers an hour down a local street the helmet isn't going to do much should one get hit! We need seperate bike lanes that go to the malls, on all main streets for our safety!

I am a big fan of cycling, and I spent all of 2007 in Israel. It is by far the most shocking country for cyclists I have ever seen. The streets are narrow, the drivers push the boundaries and have constant road fits. Hell our madrich was such a bad driver that after the first time I literally refused to ride with him, even though it was needed for getting to parts of our program. Of course Israel had it tough, building up their country amid war and a lack of land. So I can't put full blame on them. But its the 21st century now, and they have a long way to go until they catch up. At least they have one day (Yom kippur) when everyone leaves their cars and get on their bicycles (well the kids at least, none of the adults even have bicycles). Of course then they leave them rotting until the next year comes around.

The do all they can to weaken Israel. Look at what they did to the army.Cut the budget for training and supplies. Even for bicycles to cut traffic congestion,pollution and help people to stay in shape,they are against it. Time to fire at least half of the ministry.We cannot afford them!

Problem is the Basic Law gives them the autonomous power of the defining the budget! Two thirds majority to change it. So we're stuck! Whose ever heard of a licence to ride a bike? Maybe in the UK?

I agree with #6, but we need to take it one step further , get rid of all the excess baggage sitting in the knesset! Fire more than half of all the ministers,in both the opposition and the gov.! WE don't need so much dead weight. just eating up our taxes and giving us zero in return! By the way when are we the citizens of Israel going to get back our gas masks that were handed in over a year ago, we know that the entire knesset and their families have already received theirs!

Millicent #4 mentioned that cars sometimes pass dangerously close, even when the bicycle is at the very edge of the road. The cyclist can do several things, such as get a rear view mirror, wear a reflective vest, or ride further out in the road, so he or she can be seen, and have room to move over. It might be a good idea to widen the roads, too. I know that Israel has a number of Caterpillar Bulldozers, which would be good for the job.

Jerusalem is the most unfriendly bike city in Israel, there are no bike lanes to be found, nor are there places to lock them up. I hope this bill would look specifically at changing Jerusalem's infrastructure to be more bike friendly.

i enjoy my bicycle and would love to have the road to myself so much that i hope that the price of fuel gets so high that the government has to take all the cars off the road and spare the fuel for electric power/agriculture/food and military transport only. we all need a job close to home so we don't need to drive a car and waste our money on it , fuel,insurance and losing peace of mind

neither begins nor ends with a spending bill. It succeeds if govt. authorities, transport companies, and important employers buy into the cause and coordinate their policies to make it work. See how Denmark -- a rainy, chilly country that didn't have a big bike culture until the 1990s -- did it.

I try to be support of cyclists, but I have just had too many close calls with them on the sidewalks. Including sidewalks where a cyclist lane has been set aside -- some of them seen to think it is a joke to swerve between the pedestrians. If you have a beef with cars, don't take it out on us!

The biking is great in Israel, Mountain Biking that is. The way Israeli's drive I don't think it would be a good idea.

The way people drive in Israel and they way motorcycles go through traffic. I would predict many more biking injuries. Nice idea, but not too practical in Israel.

Cycling is good for your health!

We pay a tax for everything else!

perhaps if MKs were restricted to bicycle transportation....

across major urban areas, on the side of freeways (protected by barriers )and such. This is the only way it would become attractive.

Shhh. They'll hear you!

Denmark has always had a bike culture. The first thing Danish children learn after walking, is how to ride a bike; the second is how to obey all the traffic laws that apply to bike riders as well as cars and pedestrians. The problem here is a lack of respect of the law. I won't get on a bike here; its even more dangerous than being a pedestrian.

bicycle bill can't be worst than olmert so I'll vote for him, yea bicycle bill for prime minister.