Trial and Error: New Tax Could Cost Israeli Families Up to 1,800 Shekels a Month

A new tax – which the treasury claims will get rid of traffic jams – will cost Israelis 15 shekels a day to drive from Kfar Sava to Herzliya or 22.5 shekels from Ramle to Holon. It now turns out, however, that the Knesset approved the new tax based on inaccurate, problematic, and manipulated statistics. These included successful but unrealistic results from a pilot scheme that examined the effectiveness of the tax and a survey that allegedly proved that poor people do not travel to the center of Israel. So, where did the treasury get its data from? Mainly from Google Traffic. One transportation expert says that, at best, the impact on congestion will be marginal. A Shomrim investigation in cooperation with TheMarker

June 10, 2022