Bicycle culture is growing in Israel not doubt about it. I was there 5-years ago and it was nearly none, except in the Kibbutzim . Today you see riders fully dressed in matching clothing brand name bicycles and racks for the cars. I is also a dangerous sport and you see often somebody getting hurt. Some weeks ago there was and incident with a bicycle with a motor, scooter which got hit by a car and driven over by a truck in an junction and nobody stop to help him. Cars were just going around and it took a long time before help arrived. The was a camera recording the whole thing and it went to the media and people were very upset afterwards that nobody help him. It even went abroad to the USA. Today it is a big problem here in Israel it has become Americanised were everybody have enough in themselves. Before Israel was founden from the Kibbutzim and a socialistic upbringing, but today the Kibbutz are falling apart and people have changed.