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After almost a half a year of waiting I finally took my Israeli driving test last week. At one point in time new immigrants could merely present their foreign licenses and receive an Israeli license automatically, but in recent years waves of poorly driving immigrants (mostly from countries not named America) caused a change in policy so that new immigrants now must be tested. My exam went pretty smoothly. I provided witty and insightful conversation (in Hebrew) and among other things related the story behind Murphy's law. I also didn't hit any pedestrians. In Israeli driving test math these things add up to me having a brand spanking new license. An interesting note on the licensing procedure: In Israel, you don't find out if you passed your test until much later in the day. Apparently, driving testers were being shot at an overly high rate after informing people that they had failed their tests. It's like a pre-road rage thing.