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| name = Or Yarok
| native name = אור ירוק
| logo = Or-yarok-logo.svg
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| founded_date = 2010
| location = [[Tel Aviv]],  [[Israel]]
| area_served = Israel
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}}The '''Or Yarok Association for Safer Driving in Israel''', known simply as '''Or Yarok''' ({{Langx|he|אור ירוק}}, “[[traffic light|Green light]]”)), is a [[not-for-profit]] [[traffic safety]] [[lobbyist]] organization dedicated to reducing road accidents in Israel through education, enforcement and improvement of infrastructure.<ref name="Or Yarok Report">{{cite web |url=http://www.oryarok.org.il/webfiles/fck/about%20or%20yarok(2).pdf |title=Or Yarok Report |publisher=Or Yarok |author= Or Yarok |date=2007-03-01 |accessdate=2011-01-07 }}</ref>
Established in 1997 by road-safety activist Avi Naor, Or Yarok made headlines in late-2010 with their radio and billboard campaign which denounced Israeli Transportation Minister [[Yisrael Katz (politician born 1955)|Israel Katz]] for increasing rates of traffic fatalities in Israel.<ref name="Jerusalem Post">{{cite web |url=http://www.jpost.com/Features/FrontLines/Article.aspx?id=201638|title=Road Safety: Or Yarok steps on the gas|publisher=[[Jerusalem Post]] |author=Ron Friedman |date=2010-12-31|accessdate=2011-01-07 }}</ref>
==Programs==
Operating with over 5,000 national volunteers, Or Yarok conducts a series of programs intended to improve Israeli driving culture and traffic-law enforcement.<ref name="Jerusalem Post"/>
Besides general community-outreach activities, Or Yarok maintains a research division that studies and reports on the state of traffic safety in [[Israel]]. One of the more notable reports released by Or Yarok was a scathing critique on local governments after Israel was found to have the highest traffic fatality rate in the modern world for children aged 14 and under.<ref name="Child traffic deaths highest in Israel">{{cite web |url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=195957|title= Child traffic deaths in Israel highest in developed world|publisher=[[Jerusalem Post]] |author=Ron Friedman |date=2010-11-19|accessdate=2011-01-07 }}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Politics of Israel]]
== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://www.oryarok.org.il/?p=320 Official site] {{in lang|he}}
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