http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2007-05-08T212017Z_01_L07317596_RTRUKOC_0_US-ISRAEL-ACCIDENT.xml&src=rssJERUSALEM (Reuters) - More than two dozen Israeli motorists maneuvered around the dead body of a road accident victim lying in the middle of a busy intersection, failing to stop to help in an incident captured by a traffic camera.
In footage broadcast by Israeli television stations on Monday and in a series of photographs on newspaper front pages, motorcyclist Moshe Yisraeli was seen trying to squeeze between two trucks at a junction on a highway near Tel Aviv Sunday.
He never made it. The camera captured his body lying near the centre of the four-way intersection, his motorcycle meters away on its side.
Some 30 cars and trucks slowed down and then carefully drove around the prone motorcylist in a stream of traffic that continued for nearly two minutes before a driver stopped his vehicle and approached the body.
An ambulance crew later pronounced Yisraeli, 63, dead at the scene.
Israelis have a reputation for rushing to the scene of accidents or Palestinian bombings to help victims, and the apparent apathy shown in Yisraeli's case touched off a public debate over whether Israeli society has become uncaring.
"It's hard for me to think that no one helped him. I prefer to believe that people were in shock and didn't understand what had happened," Yisraeli's daughter, Tali, told reporters.
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