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Bikers block Tel Aviv highway to protest insurance hikes
By Daniel Schmil and Haaretz Service
Tags: Israel news

Thousands of motorcyclists began completely blocking all traffic in the Dan region on Sunday, in a bid to protest proposed hikes in insurance rates for two-wheeled vehicles.

The bikers traveled slowly in convoys on the roads from Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Be'er Sheva, in order to create a massive blockade in the Ayalon highway.

The convoys departed at 6 A.M. from the Paz gas station at the Sira interchange on the highway near Herzliya, from the Hetzi Hinam parking lot in Rishon Letzion and from Maxim restaurant on the highway near Haifa. A convoy will also depart from the Reim junction in the south, and from Jerusalem.
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The bikers later converged on the Ayalon freeway in Tel Aviv, creating major traffic blockages. "Our protest will not end until the insurance premiums are reasonable and affordable for everyone," the chairman of the bikers campaign against the hikes, Eliko Aljem, said yesterday.

The bikers are protesting the reform in insurance rates proposed by Yadin Antebi, commissioner of capital markets and insurance in the Finance Ministry. The reform sets rates according to the years the biker has had a driver's license and the biker's history of traffic violations. Most bikers are expected to pay as much as 22 percent more for insurance if the reform goes through.

The first aid and rescue organization Zaka, which maintains a fleet of motorcycles, yesterday announced it was joining the protest. The organization said it would not be able to afford the price hikes, and would have to stop using about 40 percent of its motorcycles.


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