It’s coming up, 6 days and counting.
When most people will be celebrating Christmas, I will join 11 other bloggers from Israel, to a first of a kind ‘Advanced Driving Course for Bloggers‘ – a joint initiative of Noam Sigal and myself.
The idea to this first automotive social media activity in Israel came to mind after the successful cooperation with the Alfa Romeo folks here in Israel, that resulted in 2 test drives – MiTo and 159. I’ve received lots of props for making this happen, and thought why not bring more people into the action, and making it around an important cause, like fighting road fatalities.
During its 61 years, Israel has lost 30,467 people in fatal road accidents. That’s more than the number of people that died during all of Israel’s wars. In 2006 the Israeli Government decided that the number of people killed on the road will decrease by 6% each year – for 2009 the top barrier is 375 (as of Dec. 17th we’re at 335).
To organize this life saving activity, Noam and I teamed up with Maslulim, a non-profit advanced driving school led by Reem Samuel, and Alfa Romeo Israel, and invited 10 prominent bloggers to attend ‘Round 1’ of the course and spread the word to their readers and followers. The goal of this activity is double:
- Improve the driving skills of Israeli drivers (bloggers included of course)
- Raise awareness to Maslulim courses, which are open to everyone at a symbolic fee, and proved to reduce the risk of being involved in a car accident.
Our drivers will undergo a 3.5 hours course, that will educate them on car safety, handling, driving positions, emergency breaking, avoiding obstacles and more. The practical portion of the course will be done with Alfa Romeo MiTo 1.4 Turbo and Alfa Romeo 159 2.2 JTS.
So, allow me to introduce our drivers:
Tally Netzer
Gal Granov
Ram Bracha
Alon Schwarts
Olivier Amar
Yaki Beja
Ilil Ben Shalom
Maya Shoval
Shira Abel
Dvir Reznik
The course will take place coming Friday, the 25th, at Maslulim training ground in Rosh Ha’yain. You’re welcome to follow our drivers as they share posts, pictures and videos, and hashtag drive2live on twitter.
