Traffic laws, regulations and road signs
This domain tests the legal rules that order movement on Israeli roads and the signs that communicate them. Questions mix sign recognition with priority, speed, traffic-light and crosswalk rules, so you must link a sign or marking to the action it requires.
Core rules
- Traffic keeps right. Use the right lane; overtake on the left when safe and permitted.
- Default urban speed is 50 km/h and default non-urban speed is 80 km/h unless a sign sets another limit. Always obey the posted limit.
- A red light means stop before the stop line. A yellow light means stop unless stopping safely is impossible; it is not an invitation to accelerate.
- Sign shape and colour carry meaning: red triangle = warning; red circle = prohibition; blue circle = mandatory instruction; rectangle = information; octagon = stop; inverted triangle = give way.
- At an unmarked junction, give way to traffic approaching from the right. A priority-road sign changes this only for the road it controls.
- When turning, give way to pedestrians crossing the road you enter and to oncoming traffic. Never overtake a vehicle stopped at a marked crosswalk.
Worked example
You approach an unmarked T-junction. A car is coming from the right, and a pedestrian waits at a marked crosswalk on the road you want to enter. You slow, signal, stop for the pedestrian, then wait for the car from the right before turning. Reasoning: the pedestrian has crosswalk priority; the unmarked junction gives the right-hand car priority; signalling does not create priority.
Traps
Treating yellow as “go faster”; reading only the symbol and ignoring the sign’s shape; assuming a priority road removes the duty to yield to pedestrians; stopping after the stop line at a red light.