Following a serious car accident at the Rahlim intersection in which a 30-year-old woman was killed and several other people were injured, Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council, instructed the professionals in the council to provide an initial response according to the needs and arrived at the scene.
Dagan: “A serious accident for the people of Israel and for the settlements in Samaria as a whole, the social services teams of the Samaria Regional Council are accompanying the relevant settlements in the actions that are required at the moment. This serious accident could have been prevented. For years we shouted and worked for this place to be defined as a risk center, with transportation investment that would prevent accidents that happened here and the accident that happened here now.
When Minister of Transportation Merav Michaeli took office as Minister of Transportation, she stopped the budgeting of many projects, including the project to regulate the intersection, and after over a year of effort, we were able to get work started. This accident should not have happened.
The government treats Judea and Samaria as second-class citizens in the State of Israel, there are not enough police officers here for enforcement, certainly due to the barbaric behavior of many in the “Palestinian Authority”. There is an under-budgeting of projects in which both Jews and Arabs travel.
This accident could have been avoided. This government does not count Yosh, this government hurts us and it costs us in blood, in traffic accidents, it costs us the blood of people killed in terrorist attacks, this accident could have been prevented, this is the lawlessness that the Minister of Transportation and the entire surrounding echelon could have prevented. We will support the The settlements and the families, in these difficult times, we will pray for the healing of the wounded and cry out against this injustice.”