Israel
Part 1: Driving with a Disability
Are there any laws or regulations in your country that restrict whether people with disabilities can obtain a driving licence?
Yes,
medical exam adapted equipment
Are there any restrictions on the type of vehicle or adaptation to controls that can be driven by a person with a disability?
Yes,
adapted vehicle by the medical indication
If you have answered yes to Question 4 above, do the same restrictions apply to a person with a disability visiting your country in their own or a rented vehicle? Please give details
No
Please give details of the section responsible in your Ministry for driver licensing and vehicle adaptations for people with disabilities. Please also include any websites which give details of the official national policy.
Name of Department/Ministry: ministrey of transport and road safety
Name of section responsible: Licensing Authority
email address for queries: https://govforms.gov.il/mw/forms/[email protected]
Phone number for queries: 0097226663062
website (s): https://www.gov.il/he/departments/ministry_of_transport_and_road_safety
Part 2: Parking Cards for people with a disability
Does your country have a national scheme of parking concessions for people with a disability?
Yes
Which categories of people with a disability are eligible for the parking card? Please tick all that apply
Wheelchair users,
People with walking difficulty,
People with vision impairment,
People with mental health issues, learning disabilities or other hidden disabilities (please describe) Other (please specify):
Lung and respiratory diseases Heart disease of high severity Gastroenterological diseases of high severity
Are there parking spaces reserved for people with a disability?
Yes
If you have answered yes, where are the reserved parking spaces? (Please tick all that apply)
On street,
In municipal car parks
What concessions does the parking card give people with a disability? (Please tick all that apply)
Free parking on-street,
Free parking in municipal car parks
Are there any regions or cities in your country that do not recognise the parking card, or which have their own, different system?
No
Are the same concessions available to individuals with a disability visiting your country?
No
If you have answered yes to Question 13 above, please tell us if there is a formal system of reciprocal recognition of parking cards from other countries?
No
If you have answered yes to Question 14 above please tell us
N/A
Are there minimum dimensions for the size of a parking space reserved for a person with a disability?
Yes
Please give details of the section in your ministry responsible for parking concessions for people with a disability
Name of Department/Ministry: Licensing Authority
Name of section responsible: Unit for people with reduced mobility
email address for queries: https://www.gov.il/he/service/disability_parking_badge
phone number for queries: 97235027540
Please include a link to any websites which give details of the official national policy on parking concessions for people with a disability.
https://www.nevo.co.il/law_html/law01/310_113.htm
Part 3: HIring a car if you have a disability
Does your country have any laws which require hire car companies to make adapted vehicles available for people with disabilities to rent?
Yes
Where are such vehicles available? Please tick all that apply
At major airports,
At city centre hire car outlets
Please give details of the section responsible in your ministry for laws/policies on adapted hire cars.
N/A
Part 4: Follow up
Please give contact details (email, phone, weblinks) for any sections or organisations which have supplied information for your response to this survey if they are not already listed.
Name(s) of sections/organisations: Unit for people with reduced mobility
email(s): [email protected]
phone(s): 97235027540