{"id":1671,"date":"2012-09-03T02:30:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T06:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.inisrael.com\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2012-09-03T02:30:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T06:30:37","slug":"driving-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.inisrael.com\/?p=1671","title":{"rendered":"Driving Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Driving side<\/strong> in Israel is the right side of the road.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seat belts<\/strong> must be worn at all times by both front and back seats passengers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distances<\/strong> and speed limits are marked in kilometers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speed limit:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; 50 Km\/h (31 Miles) in urban areas.<br \/>\n&#8211; 90 Km\/h (56 Miles) on inter-city roads (Unless otherwise stated).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Road signs<\/strong> are normally featured in Hebrew, English and Arabic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Car lights<\/strong> should be on at anytime throughout the day, between November and April.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Children<\/strong> under 12 years old are not allowed on the front seat (unless they are infants in a safety seat).<\/p>\n<p><strong>When hiring a car,<\/strong> drivers should be over 21 years old, holding a valid driving license (for most nationalities there is no need for International Driving License).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crossing the border to<\/strong> Sinai or Jordan with rented cars is not allowed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Before hiring a car<\/strong> check if your credit card company covers insurance, as some rental companies&#8217; rates include insurance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parking<\/strong> Best to use parking lots as blue and white sidewalk marks are not free and red and white sidewalk marks mea that parking is not allowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving side in Israel is the right side of the road. Seat belts must be worn at all times by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.inisrael.com\/?p=1671\"><img src=\"https:\/\/news.inisrael.com\/wp-content\/themes\/inisrael-news\/images\/moor.jpg\" alt=\"read more\" title=\"Israel travel guide - inisrael.com\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[269],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.inisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.inisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.inisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.inisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.inisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.inisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"https:\/\/news.inisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.inisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.inisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.inisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}